Usually means: Confusion over someone's true identity.
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  1. mistaken identity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mistaken identity: Collins English Dictionary
  3. mistaken-identity: Wordnik
  4. mistaken identity: Wiktionary
  5. Mistaken Identity (Delta Goodrem album), Mistaken Identity (Delta Goodrem song), Mistaken Identity (Donna Summer album), Mistaken Identity (Kim Carnes album), Mistaken Identity (Vernon Reid album), Mistaken Identity (album), Mistaken Identity (film), Mistaken identity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Mistaken Identity: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  7. mistaken identity: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (mistaken identity)

noun:  A case of false belief that a certain individual is someone else.
noun:  (law) A defense in criminal law based on this situation, claiming that any eyewitnesses to a crime incorrectly thought that they saw the defendant.

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