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

Mays Thursday, the twelfth day of January 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 NBC 10 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 lifting 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 theft.

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 visited Philadelphia, I feel it off your police station to find out why she was arrested while she was there placed in custody on January 5 in connection with the theft in Texas.

Wow.

Yeah.

I mean, I think she's a real jail because of it.

One of my one of my fears is being now cheap.

You know, this is going to be clear and everything, but being wrongfully prosecuted.

It's just I don't know why it's the stuff of nightmares and totally.

Yeah, you are fully innocent and confused as to why you are being held for whatever reason it may be and nobody's nobody believes you.

Yeah.

My uncle's an attorney and for a while he worked with his clients were on death row and he had somebody who did not commit the crime.

He said, I knew 100% this guy didn't commit the crime, but they didn't have the evidence.

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