wrongly identified
Example Sentences
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The names of the wrongly identified men were shared in posts alongside calls to arrest them.
From Slate • Jan. 28, 2026
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
Jamie Turner, 34, of Northampton, was wrongly identified as one of a group of men shouting at pro-Palestinian protesters at Waterloo Station, London.
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2023
From 1998 until his release in 2016, Mr. Rosario sent hundreds of handwritten letters to lawyers, advocates and other authorities, seeking evidence that witnesses had wrongly identified him at trial.
From New York Times • May 7, 2022
We must not expect too much from this kind of evidence: we must not expect clear logical proof of every article rightly or wrongly identified with the popularly termed 'orthodox' Creed.
From Modern Substitutes for Christianity by Muir, Pearson McAdam
