Assertion: eyewitness | /r/CapableOf | choose the person
Facets:
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: from the lineup
type: OTHER
value: in a line-up
type: OTHER
value: according to this account
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Plus, when an eyewitness is shown several photographs or persons, he or she may tend to choose the person who most looks like the person witnessed at the crime scene, rather than a comparison based on his or her memory of the crime.
text: According to this account, eyewitnesses tend to select the person from the lineup who most closely resembles the perpetrator relative to the other members of the lineup.
text: Eyewitnesses have picked people in a line-up that had an r marked next to the suspect, and nothing on the other photos.
text: For example some eyewitnesses may choose a person who looks like a perpetrator rather than one who looks like an upstanding citizen.
text: Also, when the alleged perpetrator is not in the picture set, the eyewitness will often pick the person who looks most like the perpetrator he or she remembers, instead of stating that nobody in the lineup fits the bill.
text: If the appearance of a person stands out amongst the otherwise indistinctive crowd, then an eyewitness is more likely to select that person regardless of their own recollection of the criminal.
text: Plus, when an eyewitness is shown several photographs or persons, he or she may tend to choose the person who most looks like the person witnessed at the crime scene, rather than a comparison based on his or her memory of the crime.
text: , eyewitnesses may assume that their task is to pick SOMEONE, so they choose the person who looks most like the perpetrator -"Best Guess" problem in lineup identification •When witnesses choose the person in a lineup who most resembles the criminal, even if the resemblance is not very strong, they make their "best guess"
text: Research shows that eyewitnesses tend to select the person who looks most like the perpetrator relative to the other lineup members.