This article discusses research which shows that eyewitness&#x27; confidence in an identification when they first make it is reasonably predictive of whether the identified suspect is guilty, but confidence later at trial is not.<p>Given how structured the pick-person-from-lineup ritual is, it would be trivially easy to record a witness&#x27; reactions and level of initial confidence. If the US criminal justice system cared at all about truth, it would be doing this and would have been doing it decades ago.<p>But they don&#x27;t care. This is one more facet of an extensive pattern of corruption, including dropping the number of trials-per-arrest to near zero and faking an entire field of forensic science (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;news_and_politics&#x2F;jurisprudence&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;fbi_s_flawed_forensics_expert_testimony_hair_analysis_bite_marks_fingerprints.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;news_and_politics&#x2F;jurisprudenc...</a>).