Multiple Choice
Which statement about eyewitness testimony is FALSE?
A) In 2012 the Canadian Judicial Council explained that wrongful convictions happen when eyewitnesses are biased or pressured to convict.
B) In the United States, mistaken identification played a role in 72 percent of the 307 cases of DNA exoneration.
C) Evidence in the form of mistaken eyewitness identification is the number one source of wrongful convictions.
D) In a study that looked at 347 cases where eyewitness testimony was the only evidence, about half of the convictions had only one eyewitness.
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