How Did Six Eyewitnesses Identify the Wrong Man in a Murder?

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Lydell Grant, picked out of lineup, doesn’t even look like the man who eventually confessed to the crime.

Published Jul. 10 2020 4:55AM EDT

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On the strength of six eyewitnesses’ lineup identifications, Lydell Grant was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for the murder of a young Texas man, Aaron Scheerhoorn, who was stabbed to death outside a Houston nightclub in 2010.

All six of those eyewitnesses were wrong.

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Laura Smalarz, The Conversation

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How Did Six Eyewitnesses Identify the Wrong Man in a Murder?

Lydell Grant, picked out of lineup, doesn’t even look like the man who eventually confessed to the crime.

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Laura Smalarz, The Conversation