Using eyewitness confidence to judge the reliability of an eyewitness identification.

What is it about?

Eyewitness identification is a common and compelling form of evidence. It is also prone to error. A properly-collected confidence rating can be informative about the reliability of an eyewitness's identification decision. In this paper, however, we argue that it is not appropriate to make strong claims about the likely accuracy of an identification made with a given level of confidence.

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