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A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months (arstechnica.com)
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[–] darklamer@feddit.org 48 points 2 days ago

The technicalities of usernames and underscores makes this seem more complicated than it really is:

"Without any evidence whatsoever we convicted a man named Joe Smith, because we had been told that there was some man somewhere named Joe Smith, who was suspected of being a criminal."