leVieux
TSRA/NRA Life Member
,Yes I agree, I think I essentially mentioned they often depend on it as the end all be all of their case but that is usually when they have little else to present as evidence. Even though they depend upon eyewitness testimony too much in some cases that does not necessarily mean they would not rather have physical evidence like DNA, fingerprints, blood or other physical things that bolster the case. Of course, eyewitness testimony can be among the best evidence if the eyewitness is both accurate and reliable; then it pretty much is as good as gold. The thing is proving that the witness is both accurate and reliable is not often easy unless that person has given given accurate testimony in past cases (or has a history of being able to accuratley report things he/she has seen in other types of situations) and that witness was deemed reliable because of past experience as an eyewitness or because physical evidence - in even only one case - backs up the witness' testimony.
But, it wasn't an "Eyeitness ID".
IIRC, it was a local who simply told that he had seen "a man carrying a small girl child away" from the resort.
leVieux
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