Miles Mercer examines how eyewitness testimony—the leading cause of wrongful convictions—sends innocent people to prison despite witnesses' sincere certainty. Drawing on cognitive science and cases like Ronald Cotton and Kirk Bloodsworth, this episode reveals memory's shocking fragility, the limits of cross-examination, and why confident testimony can be catastrophically wrong.

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