About a dozen men around the Washington region have been exonerated of crimes that they had been convicted of because of faulty eyewitness identifications. Some were released after having spent decades in prison before DNA evidence showed they were innocent. Such cases have irrefutably proved “that wrongful convictions occur,” said Jon Gould, a professor of justice, law and society at American University.

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