After 15 years in prison, James Garner is free after a DA asked a judge to dismiss the convictions based on faulty court identifications ...

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

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

The Innocence Project reports that eyewitness misidentification was a factor in 72 percent of 325 cases in which judgments of guilt were subsequently overturned based on DNA evidence.

Eyewitness memory is reliable when initially tested using proper procedures, but the legal system nonetheless habitually relies on unreliable (contaminated) eyewitness evidence from later IDs.

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

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

Eyewitness misidentification, like in Mack's case, is the primary cause of erroneous convictions and played a role in 64% of the 245 exonerations and releases achieved by the Innocence Project. A ...

Benson and other exoneree advocates were testifying in support of the bill that would adopt four best practices to reduce the potential for eyewitness misidentification of criminal suspects.

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 ...

According to the suspect, the only eyewitness account to the alleged assassination attempt does not match his description.