Sandra is a witness to a bank robbery.When asked to identify the culprit in a lineup,she brings her friend Tom with her.After Sandra identified the culprit,Tom says the guy she identified really stood out;he looked meaner and tougher than the rest of the people in the lineup.It seems,perhaps,that Sandra's identification could have been tainted by

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The inadequate functional size of the lineup suggests that the lineup was not composed well enough to prevent the suspect from standing out, which could lead to biased identification. If the culprit looked significantly different (meaner and tougher) than the others in the lineup, it indicates that the lineup did not have a sufficient number of similar-looking individuals, making the identification potentially unreliable.

Sandra Is a Witness to a Bank Robbery