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Make everything fit it. thats how we end up with wrongful convictions by the way from criminal cases. but i think they have that going on. theyve got belief persistence. they think it has to be the pilot. and by the way, on the four planes on september 11th, 2001, it took weeks in some cases months to figure out there were 19 people aboard, many of whom had flight training. we didnt find that out for weeks. finally that evidence came out. >> michael schmidt, this 122 pieces of debris that have b...

Relation to the pilot and copilot potentially? >> i think the investigators are making a big mistake, and making a big mistake in police information work. i was a federal prosecutor before i was an inspector general. among the many things i learned doing that is that you dont announce your conclusion. you dont announce that somebodys guilty particularly with no evidence as we have here for two reasons among others. one is that the persons depending on your investigations, the victims of the crim...

With no evidence as we have here for two reasons among others. one is that the persons depending on your investigations, the victims of the crime, wont trust the investigation. youve announced your conclusion without any evidence. and so they say, well, what else are you announcing? the other problem with that is a phenomenon called belief persistence. once you announce your conclusion in an investigation you will try to make all the pieces fit them. it accounts for a lot of wrongful convictions...