“Where does this incident take place, Shirley?” “It’s an apartment complex on Bath Street.” “As you face the building from the street, tell us what this apartment house looks like?” “It’s a brick building with three stories—one front door. The bricks are smudged with a lot of smoke and grime. There’s graffiti under one window. Some of the windows on the third floor have no curtains over them, and some have cardboard to cover where panes of glass have been broken out.” If the witness can’t produce this kind of detail, then we have to go with the witness to the scene and point out all of the
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