He has now launched a legal action to force Twitter to reveal the details of people in the UK who began tweeting his identity in this case.
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"Tragically we believe this was a case of mistaken identity by the officers, " Beck said.
Mr Portsmouth denied in court he was her assailant and said it was a case of mistaken identity.
Mr. BEN WIZNER (Attorney, ACLU): This was apparently a case of mistaken identity.
While searching for Dorner, police shot two people in Torrance in a case of mistaken identity, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said.
Merseyside Police believe he was killed in a case of mistaken identity.
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Frances Tuke, from the Association of British Travel Agents, says arriving in the wrong country in a case of mistaken identity is rare.
He was accused of committing terrorist acts against the United States, but his lawyer Clive Stafford Smith says it is a case of mistaken identity.
One of his favorite books was Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, which is about a nature columnist who, in a case of mistaken identity, is sent to cover a war in Africa.
The fiasco was partly due to blunders by the judge as well as the Home Office but the Beck affair is remembered as the most notorious case of mistaken identity in English history.
Correction 10 November 2012: The BBC has apologised unreservedly for broadcasting a report on Newsnight on 2 November over allegations of child abuse which transpired to have involved a case of mistaken identity.
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But the college says that it has no plans to restrict students from wearing clothes which are part of their religious identity - and in the case of Muslim headgear, there will be efforts to reach a compromise with individuals.
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The meeting between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the parents of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, who was killed in an apparent case of mistaken identity, came as gun control advocates have pressed Congress to pass proposals that include requiring criminal history checks for nearly all gun purchases.
Mr Entwistle's resignation came after he was criticised for his performance during an interview on the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme on Saturday, in which he admitted he had not read a newspaper article revealing the case of mistaken identity involving Lord McAlpine, and that he had not seen the Newsnight broadcast when it aired on 2 November as he "was out".
In a brief note, the Supreme Court requested that the solicitor general file a response in the case, in which the federal government has refused to release the man's identity or even confirm the existence of the case and its circumstances.
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Rakoff seized upon the identity of the plaintiff in this case to enforce a tougher review.
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In this case, the cyber identity of this file would be a full set of its cyber coordinates in the IP subspace: the computer IP address, its MAC address, a Port number associated with the particular application, and the file name would constitute the full set of cyber coordinates, singularly identifying a cyber object (our file) in cyberspace.
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In case after case, we have brought identity thieves to justice, but these cases are generally not about tax-refund theft because of the federal restrictions.
GenVault keeps a copy of the rice DNA sequences and plate numbers as a backup, in case the lab workers fear an identity mix-up.
In the case of the Global Trends report, Identity Bias plays out in a particular way: the US is considered a unitary actor, with clear interests.
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He also said the Rufallah al-Sihati brigade was actually "under the command of -- and committed to -- the national authority, " the case appeared to be one of mistaken identity.
This case incorporated all the various types of identity theft, and when I say types, I mean, there's the inside threat, which is there's someone well placed inside a company that's dispensing this personal information.
After asking their identity, judge Shabbir Ahmed said he would not hear the case any more.
The victim came forward long ago and made her identity public, saying she was disturbed by how the criminal case had been handled.
In this case we must do so for the sake of the identity of a region that has already had it far too hard.
The Federal Reserve is expected to ask the court to reconsider the case and has said it is willing to take the case to the Supreme Court if necessary to protect the identity of the firms which received billions in taxpayer-backed guarantees.
The Securities and Exchange Commission didn't file a fraud case because Goldman failed to disclose Mr. Paulson's identity to potential counterparties.
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He may even have been told about a case where evidence was faked in order to conceal the killers' identity.
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