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The Eyewitness Con Game: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
A current debate over the handling of eyewitness evidence illuminates the influence that a “downstream” inspection screen (here, the prosecutors) can exercise over “upstream” practices (here, police evidence evaluation).