Perry Mitchell’s case, a black man from Lexington County, South Carolina, illustrates how wrongful convictions can happen due to bad eyewitness identification. One of difficulties you see in these cases is that oftentimes the person offering the identification genuinely believes he or she is making the correct ID. These cases can happen without any intentionally […]
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Mistaken Identity
One of the difficulties you see in these cases is that oftentimes the person offering the identification genuinely believes he or she is making the correct ID. These cases can happen without any intentionally misleading actors; they’re just horrible, tragic mistakes that can lead to very long sentences.