An eyewitness identifies John as the perpetrator of a crime that he did not commit. The eyewitness saw John's picture in a local advertisement and has mistakenly replaced the face of the actual perpetrator with John's face when recalling the crime. This demonstrates a phenomenon called:

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Unconscious transference occurs when an eyewitness mistakenly identifies a familiar but innocent person as the perpetrator of a crime, often because they have seen the person's face in another context and their memory has incorrectly placed that face at the scene of the crime.

An Eyewitness Identifies John as the Perpetrator of a Crime