People with eye problems also have a relatively high chance of inaccurate identification".
The fact that the victim, a white man, was asked to identify a black assailant also increased the chance of an inaccurate identification, according to a panel of 13 eyewitness and memory experts from universities throughout the country.
These include, he said, incompetent defense counsel, shoddy or fraudulent crime labs, inaccurate identification by witnesses, false confessions, misconduct by the police and prosecutors, and reliance on incriminating testimony from inmates who negotiate with the authorities, witnesses often referred to by defense lawyers as "jailhouse snitches".
The remedies suggested by the Commission on Immigration Reform for false birth certificates -- single certificate design, matching births and deaths, standardized application forms, computerized storage of birth records -- are worthy but superficial remedies for a much larger problem of inaccurate identification of our citizenry.
Enwistle said on Saturday that Messham made "an inaccurate identification" but stressed he was not blaming him "at all": It was our responsibility, Newsnight's responsibility, to make sure that any misidentification did not end up on television and I am afraid we did not manage to do that, therefore we have to absolutely take the blame.
LOS ANGELES — The fallout for Brian Ross, the television reporter whose inaccurate identification of the man accused of the Colorado movie theater killings as a member of the Tea Party movement set off a firestorm of criticism for ABC News, consisted of "a stern and serious conversation".
When jurors hear inaccurate identifications, they have a tendency to accept that testimony.
Inaccurate identifications of specimens in museum collections are quite common within galagids [8, Masters and Couette, pers. comm.].
Misleading or inaccurate eyewitness identification was a factor in a vast majority of overturned convictions in those cases.
The effect of tuning the control gain is studied to compensate for the inaccurate system identification or factors that cannot be identified easily but play a major role in vibration of a structure.
The Truth in Caller ID Act prohibits anyone from using "misleading or inaccurate caller identification information with the intent to defraud, cause harm or wrongfully obtain anything of value".
