Eyewitness Misidentification. Eyewitness misidentification is one of the most common factors in cases of wrongful conviction. Nationally, 28% of all exonerations involve mistaken eyewitness ...

And there's a national study suggesting that in more than 70 percent of documented exonerations, there was an eyewitness misidentification somewhere in the case. Now these aren't situations of a ...

The California Innocence Coalition identifies 66 wrongful convictions based on eyewitness misidentification — 28 of them in Los Angeles County. Advertisement.

Eyewitness misidentification has been found to be the leading cause of known wrongful conviction, contributing to approximately 70 per cent of known wrongful convictions that have been overturned ...

$1.4 million grant to fund research into preventing misidentifications ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Nobody’s perfect, and everyone makes mistakes — including eyewitnesses to crimes. The difference for eyewitnesses, though, is that those mistakes can cost innocent people ...

It was misidentification by an eyewitness that resulted in Benson’s conviction for a 1998 murder. ”We are all here to prevent injustice,” Benson told the Senate Corrections and Criminal Law ...

Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide. A recent ruling by New Jersey's state Supreme Court may go a long way to ensure the right people are ...

A bill that is expected by some to reduce the number of wrongful convictions in Kansas because of eyewitness misidentification passed the Senate on Thursday.The bill, originally introduced by Sen ...

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