mistaken witness identification leads to innocents being convicted

No, I wouldn't, because I am not blind and delusional. Initial testimony, done in good faith, is what it is: a piece of evidence. Regardless, don't hold your breath for a change in laws putting witnesses in prison for mistaken identity.

 

true, it is a piece of evidence - wrong when done wrong that can easily kill and, sad to say, it has happened

 

I believe now it does not matter if that man was guilty of anything. It only mattered that the accuser believes he is. Accordingly, unless she recants the conviction should stand on her belief in his guilt, nor should any of us question that he was guilty of the offense because a woman said he is. The trial was just an unnecessary formality. Once she made the complaint and identified him, he should have been sent straight to prison.

 

Years ago there was a TV news documentary where an innocent man was misidentified for a felony - because of the severe nature of the crime he was assigned a very high bail. A bail he could not afford to raise. He spent a full year in jail for a crime he did not commit while awaiting trial. During his imprisonment he was repeatedly gang raped by criminal prison gangs and got AIDS. The trial probably lasted less than an hour because the witnesses immediately said he was not the guilty party. Case immediately dismissed. Meantime the man got terminal AIDS and infected his wife and young daughter. Because of a mistaken identity three innocent people got a death sentence.