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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Thursday, the 12th day of January.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning.

In the news this morning, a Philadelphia woman was wrongfully charged with a crime in Texas after a case of mistaken identity prompted her arrest.

A Texas district attorney office dismissed the charges against the woman, and Philadelphia police told NBC10 on Wednesday they requested that she be released from custody.

The woman spent nearly a week in jail after being wrongfully arrested for a Texas crime due to a case of this mistaken identity.

The ordeal began with a shoplifting incident at a sports store in Webster, Texas back in May of last year.

Webster police identified the suspect as a woman named Julie Hudson.

A surveillance photo of the suspect looked similar to social media images of a 31-year-old PhD student from

Philadelphia who was also named Julie Hudson. Hudson, who was unaware, she was mistakenly

identified as a shoplifting suspect, soon found herself repeatedly being denied jobs.

She then found out that she had a criminal record when Hudson visited Philadelphia

police station to find out why she was arrested while she was there placed in custody on

January 5th in connection with the theft in Texas.

Wow.

Yeah.

And then spent a week in jail because of it.

One of my fears is being, now, she, you know, this is going to be clear and everything,

but being wrongfully prosecuted. It's just, I don you know, this is going to be clear and everything, but being

wrongfully prosecuted. It's just, I don't know why.

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