What exactly is eyewitness identification? Well, according to the English dictionary eyewitness identification is a person who actually sees an act, event or thing and can give a first-hand account of it: Eyewitness identification is also known as eyewitness ID. With this in mind, ordinary people are accused of crimes, whether they are wrongly accused or not, people still end up facing time. For example, people may be accused because their actions were misleading, someone may have imagined someone there or something that never happened, but also someone's lack of memory could cause them to lose track of what happened that day or that night. For example, automatic coding is also known as automatic processing, where this term means “the coding of details such as time, space, frequency and meaning of words”. According to the Psychology book, an example of256, Spielman). Inaccurate eyewitness identifications can confuse investigations early on. Critical time is wasted while the police are distracted from the real culprit, focusing instead on building the case against an innocent person” (Sheck, InnocenceProject.com). The question then arises: “how reliable would you predict eyewitness testimony to a crime would be”? Well, the eyewitness may have several factors that indicate his decisions. These factors include misinformation, imagination, and things like amnesia. That said, misinformation can be very misleading, meaning that an eyewitness can identify a potential suspect with the incorrect information. The eyewitness may have a complete description of the potential suspect, however, some of the information they have may be misunderstood or ultimately incorrect. What I mean by this is that in the beginning they could have said that the suspect was “different height, weight, age range, hair color, etc.” (Hell,