Mistaken identity

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA case of false belief that a certain individual is someone else.

"The police arrested the wrong man; the media reported it as a case of mistaken identity."

2.NounA defense in criminal law based on this situation, claiming that any eyewitnesses to a crime incorrectly thought that they saw the defendant.

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