The communication-persuasion framework represents an attempt to organize these factors in a conceptually coherent fashion that informs criminal justice practitioners who solicit and evaluate eyewitness memory reports and also guides new research. A thorough understanding of eyewitness persuasion is an important theoretical and practical goal in order to learn how and how well fact finders discern eyewitness accuracy. The validity-intuition model of discernibility, high on conjecture and low on empirical backing as it is, offers a point of departure for this critical research challenge. Determinants of memory believability are discussed in the context of jury decisionmaking, and ways of judging eyewitness accuracy are examined. 91 references, 2 notes, 2 tables, and 1 figure