You are a defense attorney in a murder case involving a carjacking. An eyewitness identifies the accused as the murderer. However, there is solid evidence that the eyewitness filled his gas tank at the same gas station at the same time as the accused, two weeks earlier. What arguments might you make to the jury to discredit the eyewitness's account and help your client?

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The Answer is The answer should provide the following information: (1) Memory misattributions often cause eyewitness misidentifications; (2) Source memory: It is common to recognize a person but misattribute the source of this knowledge. In other words, the eyewitness may have seen the defendant at the gas station, not at the scene of the crime; (3) False recognition: A feeling of familiarity about something that hasn't been encountered before. The eyewitness may feel confident of his identification because he recognized the suspect from an earlier time.

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