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By Tobias Carroll How reliable are eyewitnesses when it comes to identifying someone in a trial? That’s a subject that concerns many people looking to reform the criminal justice system. The nonprofit Innocence Project, for instance, cites an alarming statistic — that “[m]istaken eyewitness identifications contributed to approximately 69% of the more than 375 wrongful convictions in the United States overturned by post-conviction DNA evidence.” One high-profile example of someone being wrongly incarcerated centers around incorrect eyewitness testimony — the case of Anthony Broadwater, who was …