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burchfield96

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Why have so many people been convicted of crimes they didn't commit based on eyewitness identification?
 
  A) No one has ever been convicted of a crime based on faulty eyewitness identification.
  B) Eyewitnesses are often paid off by the prosecution or threatened by police to help gain a conviction.
  C) Eyewitnesses can overlook facial features of people of different races, transfer memories of people from different settings, or have poor recall due to stress.
  D) Judges allow prosecutors to find people with a grudge against a defendant to serve as eyewitnesses.

Question 2

Government interest groups are organized for the purpose of _________.
 
  A) limiting the size and scope of the federal government
  B) representing a broad ideological approach on how government should deal with a host of issues
  C) lobbying on behalf of small businesses
  D) representing the interests of cities and states across the nation
  E) providing citizens with representation in legal affairs



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dmurph1496

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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

D




burchfield96

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Reply 2 on: Jul 8, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


flexer1n1

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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