The questions the police ask witnesses also have an effect on them.

　　Many people believe that police officers are more reliable than ordinary people.Psychologists decided to test this idea, and they discovered that it is not true. Two psychologists showed a film of crimes to both police officers and civilians（百姓）. The psychologists found no difference between the police and the civilians in correctly remembering the details of the crimes.

　　Despite all the possibilities for inaccuracy,

　　courts cannot refuse eyewitness testimony from a trial.

　　American courts depend almost completely on eyewitness testimony to resolve court cases. Sometimes it is the only evidence to a crime, such as rape. Furthermore, eyewitness testimony is often correct. Although people do sometimes make mistakes, many times they really do identify individuals correctly.

　　American courts depend on the ability of the twelve jurors（陪审员）, and not the judges, to determine the accuracy of the witness' testimony. It is their responsibility to decide if a certain witness could actually see, hear, and remember what occurred.

　　In a few cases the testimony of eyewitnesses has convicted innocent people.More importantly,

　　it has rightly convicted a larger number of guilty people；consequently, it continues to be of great value in the American judicial system.

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