No more vexing issue confronts the court in a criminal or juvenile delinquency proceeding than the reliability of eyewitness identification. "The vagaries of eyewitness identification are well known; the annals of criminal law are rife with instances of mistaken identification", the Supreme Court observed in United States v Wade (
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