... instances in late years: three occurred alone in the space of a few months in 1967-68. A memorandum of the National Council of Civil Liberties published in 1968 gave details of 15 cases from 1966 onwards; in most of these a person was convicted on identification evidence and the mistake was either established or very likely; in a few of them the defendant had not gone beyond being committed for trial when by a happy accident the mistake was discovered". (Burnside, J., 2007, Visual Identification of suspects. Retrieved on 13/2/2008 from http://www.wikicrimeline.co.uk). (fig2) In 1996, in the US, The Department of Justice released a report entitled "Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science." This report looked into 28 of the cases that had been exonerated due to DNA evidence, out of these 28 cases the Department of Justice found that 24 were due to eyewitness' misidentifying the suspect. The Attorney General commented on the ...

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