Sentence examples for mistaken identification from inspiring English sources

There is also the mistaken identification of people.

The man convicted, Paris Drake, insisted that he was innocent and the victim of mistaken identification by two witnesses.

I cannot begin to imagine what would have happened had my mistaken identification occurred in a capital case.

Many big police departments will not use open-ended mug shot searches because of the chance of a mistaken identification.

The reality of DNA testing, mistaken identification and underfinanced public defense systems teaches us that the criminal justice system is not always right.

The plot centres on the unfortunate chain of events that follow the mistaken identification of a young Judean man as a new religious leader.

Officials and hospital employees blamed grief for the mistaken identifications.

The official rules of engagement are designed to safeguard against mistaken identifications.

Numerous studies of DNA exonerations show that up to 90percentt of the wrongful convictions were based on mistaken identifications.

Research carried out in Austin between 2008 and 2011 shows that the use of sequential lineups substantially "reduces mistaken identifications with little or no reduction in accurate identifications".

All the causes of wrongful convictions are at play: mistaken identifications, false confessions, police and prosecutorial misconduct, bad lawyers, junk forensic science.