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TIL A Florida Sheriff’s Office twice arrested the wrong “Ashley Chiasson”, who served 5 weeks in jail, even though there was a 20lb and 5 inch difference in the women and they had a different middle name. Key witnesses and victims were not shown photo lineups to identify the suspect in both cases.

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