Gladwell finds the Duke rape case interesting because it gives us a chance to look at how the legal system will deal with the problems of eyewitness testimony across races when its a minority person picking out *white* defendants. There is a pretty good scientific understanding that our ability to identify other people is far reduced when they are people of a race different than our own. In most high profile cases in the past, though, it has been a white victim picking out blacks. Gladwell asserts that there could be thousands of black men in prison on the basis of flawed eyewitness testimony. He is probably right.