On April 21, 2014, Jeff Rossen and Avni Patel published an article titled Mistaken for a Criminal: Eyewitness Identifications Are Often Wrong on Today.com. These journalists raise awareness about the effects of disinformation created by witnesses that harms innocent accused criminals. To raise awareness of this problem, this article outlines some of the recent changes some states have made to help reduce the number of eyewitness misidentifications. Jennifer Dysart, a criminal justice professor at John Jay College, said, “A lot of things really influence our memory. There are many outside influences that can come in and actually create a problem. That being said, the lives of the accused suspects are entrusted to eyewitnesses. This means that if eyewitnesses provide false information, it could actually harm the suspect, even if he or she is innocent. In the article, Rossen and Patel had also shared the two types of lineups that police like to hand out to eyewitnesses. One of the two lineups is called “simultaneous” and this is when there is a line of people and witnesses must choose a suspect. On the other hand, there is the “sequential” range. In the sequential sequence, the authorities will show some photos to the witnesses themselves. According to Rossen and Patel's paper, researchers found that people make fewer errors following sequential programming compared to concurrent programming. Therefore, advocates have attempted to push police departments to use more sequential lineups rather than simultaneous lineups. Beyond studying which composition has the fewest errors, the authors also gave advice on what to do to be a more reliable witness. Some of the tips listed are to get to safety, ...... middle of paper ...... ts sit in their cells and remember the freedom they once had. Another thought that came to mind while reading the articles was the fact that so many of the convicts were so close to death row. And that got me thinking, “How many people have actually died on death row who were actually innocent?” » I really thought about questions like this and it really made me think about how good our legal system is and if the legal system had realized it had made a mistake but just brushed it under the carpet. carpet. Besides similar questions to this one, I thought this was a wonderful topic and really enjoyed working on this article. This led me to read more articles on this topic and realize how cruel some people are. This topic really made me want to learn more about the legal system and how we can use the legal system to protect ourselves and those around us..