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August 27, 2008 : 220 EXONERATED
Can you recognize someone from hundreds of feet away?
Eyewitness misidentification — sometimes from witnesses whose vision was compromised by distance, darkness and other factors — has contributed to more than 75% of wrongful convictions overturned with DNA testing. A scientific study sheds new light on how visual recognition becomes impaired at increased distances.
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