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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Eyewitness misidentification contributes to an overwhelming majority of wrongful convictions, which are often overturned by DNA testing, according to the Innocence Project.

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 by ...

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Eyewitness misidentification is the leading cause of wrongful convictions, with 70% of wrongful convictions happening due to witnesses picking out the wrong perpetrator.

As we are all too aware, misidentification is a primary factor of wrongful convictions; The Innocence Project maintains that 60 percent of their clients were wrongfully convicted based on ...

More specifically, in 63% of wrongful convictions there was eyewitness identification; 52% had inaccurate or unscientific forensic analysis; 19% had untrustworthy informants: and 28% had confessions.