Julie is a white female and is testifying at a trial as the victim in an armed robbery. The suspect is African-American. Julie has just identified the suspect as the person who held the gun during the robbery that occurred in an unlit parking lot late at night
What may the court allow an expert witness to tell the jury in this situation?
A) Eyewitness testimony is almost always reliable in cases of traumatic events.
B) Eyewitness identifications are sometimes more convincing than they are reliable especially when certain problematic factors exist.
C) Eyewitness testimony varies greatly but in cases of different races between a witness and the suspect, the witness is almost always wrong.
D) Mistakes are less likely when the witness and suspect are of different races, especially when the witness is white and the suspect is black.
Answer: B
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