Running Head: WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT WEEK 5 21. Response: According to Samaha (2011), eyewitness misidentification of can carry grave consequences and seventy percent of wrongful conviction is a result of misidentification. Samaha discussed three separate memory phases: Acquisition of memory; this accounts the initial memory recall of information know as the perception of an event . Next there is Retention of memory; this process of storing information during the period of time between an event and the “eventual recollection of a specific bit of information” and there is Retrieval of memory; this is the time when a person recalls the stored information about a particular event for the purpose of identifying a person in an event (p. 13).2. Response:The risk of Photo identifications is high and unreliable because the photos shown to eyewitnesses does not accurately reflect the scene of the crime; additionally, the eyewitness is often under stress to select a suspect and this too contributes for the high volume of error in photo identification. 3. Response: It goes without saying that the role of the government is to maintain law and order and to punish the guilty. But you cannot do this at the expense of the violation of the laws of the
