In 1984, Kirk Bloodsworth was convicted of the rape and murder of a nine year old girl by a jury of his peers, an outcome which relied heavily on accounts given by five eyewitnesses (Bloodsworth v. State, 1986). At first, Bloodsworth was sentenced to execution via gas chamber but DNA evidence proved him to be innocent. As a result, many countries and states within the United States are attempting to make changes in how eyewitness testimony is evaluated in court (Connors, 1996). Eyewitness testimony is an account of what that person allegedly observed during an incident under investigation to a jury and this account is used as evidence to show what happened from a witness' perspective. Preferably, this recollection of events should be detailed