Mistaken eyewitness identification is a major culprit, but fingerprint misidentification is cited too.Ironically, our facility for recognising faces may be to blame.
According to the TSA, the Secure Flight programme will cut down on misidentification of passengers who share the same names as people on the no-fly list "and better identify individuals that may pose a known or suspected threat to aviation".
Or perhaps it was a hallucination or merely a case of misidentification by someone who had never seen one before.
Why, then, did a conviction not follow?During the first trial in 1992, on a straight charge of murder, Mr Nelson's lawyer argued that his client was the victim of a police plot and misidentification.
The Israelis' own report acknowledges mistakes made by all armies in the fog of war: some wrong buildings hit, cases of misidentification of civilians as fighters.Few if any conflicts have been subject to this level of forensic investigation.
Aiming to show that the probability of misidentification was extremely small, he divided a fingerprint into 24 squares, and measured various features of the ridges in each square.
This misidentification means that the immune system attacks cells containing that protein as if they were invading bacteria or viruses.Many researchers view such autoimmune disorders as members of a family, with the same underlying mechanism and varying only in the details of what has gone wrong and where.
HeLa cells are a common source of cross-contamination of other cell lines and a suspected cause of numerous instances of cell line misidentification.
The name Buzzards Bay may have originated from the misidentification of ospreys in the area as buzzards.
An unfortunate misidentification hampered the early recognition of the northern sky's brightest nearby galaxy, the Andromeda Nebula, also known as M31.
The collection of African art traces the development of African art and its misunderstanding or misidentification in the hands of colonial Europeans.
