wrongly identified

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Prosecutor Ray Tully QC told the jury of nine men and three women how the pair had been wrongly identified as being responsible for a separate attack on a home in Hartcliffe earlier that evening.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2024

These self-styled detectives have wrongly identified Capitol rioters, like a retired firefighter who was 700 miles away.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2021

And in 2013, she won the exoneration of a man by proving that two witnesses wrongly identified him at trial.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2021

Correction: An earlier version of this story wrongly identified the location of a mass shooting in New Zealand.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2021

There was a sanctuary of Consus on the Aventine, dedicated by L. Papirius Cursor in 272, in early times wrongly identified with the altar in the circus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various