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24 JUROR'S COMPARABLE EXPERIENCE 3. THE CLASSIC "HAVE YOU EVER WALKED UP TO A PERSON YOU WERE SURE YOU RECOGNIZED, ONLY TO REALIZE YOU HAD MISTAKEN THIS PERSON FOR SOMEONE YOU KNEW" IS AN "IMPERFECT ANALOGUE" FOR THE MISTAKEN EYEWITNESS CASE 4. UNLIKE THE JUROR'S PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH A MISTAKEN IDENTIFICATION, THE PROSECUTION EYEWITNESS HAS NEVER LOOKED YOUR CLIENT IN THE FACE AND SAID, "SORRY, I THOUGHT YOU WERE SOMEONE ELSE" 5. THE JUROR'S PAST EXPERIENCE OF MISTAKING A STRANGER FOR SOMEONE THE JUROR KNOWS WELL IS QUITE DIFFERENT IN CIRCUMSTANCE FROM THE WITNESS WHO SEES A STRANGER BRIEFLY IN A TRAUMATIC OR STRESSFUL SITUATION AND THEN LATER IS REQUIRED TO SELECT THE STRANGER'S FACE FROM A