Witness Misidentification is the leading cause of wrongful convictions in the United States.
Combating Witness misidentificat.
And the problem is not limited to death-row inmates: a comprehensive 2012 study by Marvin Zalman, a professor of Criminal procedure, concludes that up to 2,000 individuals are wrongfully convicted of felonies each year.
Among former death-row inmates proven Innocent by post-trial DNA evidence, more than half of their cases involved a mistaken eyeWitness identification.
Witness Misidentification is the leading cause of wrongful convictions in the United States