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“I think this is the guy”—The complicated confidence of eyewitness memory

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Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton have every reason to be enemies.

In 1984, an intruder broke into Thompson’s apartment and raped her. She identified Cotton as the rapist in both a photo array and a live lineup. Although Cotton proclaimed his innocence, he was arrested, tried, and convicted. The prosecution’s case...

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