A significant and unexplained discrepancy between the clothing described on a person observed at the scene and the clothing worn by the person later identified to police gives rise to a reasonable doubt that cannot be cured by general descriptions of height and build or by evidence of consciousness of guilt through flight. Where the evidence will always give rise to such a doubt, a verdict of acquittal rather than retrial is appropriate.
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