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Suggest ways in which the court system can help reduce or eliminate these causes.
a. Eyewitness misidentification
b. Bad lawyering
c. False confessions

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In reference to a miscarriage of justice, this solution explores strategies in which the court system can use to reduce or eliminate eyewitness misidentification, bad lawyering and false confessions.

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a. Eyewitness misidentification could be reduced through requiring more than one witness to confirm the information. This would greatly reduce forgetting or memories of the event being influenced by past events. Also, there should be confirming physical evidence to support the eyewitness testimony. Also do not use witnesses who have something to gain e.g. get out of prison earlier or as ...

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