Vision. It is something that many of us take for granted each day and it is something that others have never known. It enables us to see all that the world has to offer, some good and some bad, but it is all available for us to process due to the ability to see. But it is not always what we see that is important but more so what we remember, and our interpretation of the details as to what we saw. Ten people can look at the same picture and you could easily have ten different stories about what was in the picture. That is just a matter of us processing the things that are of interest to us and minimizing those things in the picture that are not.<br />
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The subject of vision, as it relates to what one may or may not have seen as it relates to crime, and how that visual experience gets translated orally is a hot topic right now. Eye witness identification has always been a foundational tool in the evidence used to solve crimes. What better evidence could there be than having a witness testify that they saw John or Jane Doe commit the crime and then point them out in the courtroom as the perpetrator? Pretty convincing evidence