Do cases of mistaken identity ever lead to people being accused of crimes they did not commit?
by 
mapofsteel
ANSWERS: 3
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Absolutely. Nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions based on eye witnesses were later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York-based Innocence Project.
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Definitely! I was going to say the same thing OC Joe said though I didn't know the exact statistics. Eye witness accounts are notoriously wrong. That's why evidence is so important.
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i think that happens all the time
OC Joe 
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