Sarah Pearce Story on Dateline

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If you watched Dateline this past weekend, you saw the horrific story of what happened to Linda LeBrane. She endured a brutal attack by three people who nearly killed her. She was lucky to live.

I won’t detail the Dateline episode as it takes many twists and turns, but I do want to say that I believe Sarah Pearce is innocent and not the person who harmed Linda LeBrane. I am happy she has been released from prison, but I am sad she still has the conviction hanging over her head.

Most people don’t realize that eye witness accounts are not as reliable as we think. The Innocence Project has been working to share information on this and make changes to the system, and I agree they need to be made.

From the Innocence Project, “Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide, playing a role in 72% of convictions overturned through DNA testing.”