Nothing could be more disturbing to oneself than having someone tell you that your memory was wrong. A memory could be of a good time or it can be one of a horrible experience in which you witnessed a stranger killing someone. That horrible memory of seeing the killer allows you to identify them later for police. As the years go by you learn that DNA testing has exonerated the person you identified as the killer. How could that be possible?
In her article The End of Eyewitness Testimonies, author Erika Hayasaki describes many such criminal cases in which eye witness testimony was used to convict people who were later cleared by other evidence. Memory, as experts have been trying to teach judges and jurors, does not function like an iPhone camera