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1.) How do the experts say how and why Jennifer get it wrong? The experts said when Jennifer was brought in to see the lineup of men that could have been her rapist, it wasn't correctly conducted, but they said that was normal because they didn't know they were forcing a decision out of the victim. The Detective on the case said how they weren't taught how to handle such things memories because during the time there was so such thing taught at the academy. Experts said how he should have not even been around the victim to begin with so the victim would have confused to have picked Ronald Cotton. But due to the pressure to find the perp the detective put pressure without meaning to, which lead Jennifer in her to reconstruct her moment of horror with Ronald’s face. In the end, the real criminal wasn't there, so the …show more content…
Jennifer picked Cotton from the photo lineup and the original lineup, so that showed the detective and Jennifer that she wasn't wrong in who she picked. If the detective had shown each person one at a time things could have ended differently. Experts said that was some of the problems, but there were many other factors due to the real perp not being in the lineup the victim Jennifer tricked herself into thinking that the wrong person was the prep which in another trial lead her to compare Ronald next to the real perp still thinking Ronald was the rapist, this, in fact, shows how easy a person could be mistaken and to blame someone entirely innocent for doing such an evil act like rape. As said by the experts a person's memory should be treated as a crime scene because of its venerability of being changed and or confused,

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