Mistaken identification by eyewitnesses was a factor in nearly 90 percent of the nation's first 70 convictions overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York-based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.
Faced with that alarming data, Virginia is working to become one of the first states to keep more innocent people out of prison by scrapping the traditional lineup. Mistaken identifications in Virginia have helped convict six of eight defendants later cleared by DNA.
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