It's really absurd they didn't do something like this in the first place. I'm presuming there was no living family that could tell them which man is which.
I wonder if that is at all possible. Could there be someone alive today who has no blood kin ( father, mother, siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins 1st, 2nd, etc )?
For example many who are in an orphanage has living parents, but the social services and the courts have decided to take them into care for their own safety.
> On October 31, 2019, the District Attorney’s office filed charges of identity theft and false impersonation against Woods.
On December 23, 2019, Woods’s public defender expressed concern over Woods’s mental competence because he kept insisting that he was the real William Woods.
> On February 10, 2020, following an examination by a physician, Woods was declared incompetent to stand trial and was sent to a California mental hospital for treatment, including psychotropic medication.
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedeta...
There should be an NTSB for egregious acts of injustice, because the players in the system independently show no aptitude for reform and they all messed up badly. The way they defined their roles was wrong.
Probably. That assumes that the father was still alive and of sound mind. Also assumes that the father had much contact with the son.
If they have become strangers to each other a long time ago he might not even be able to tell who is his real son, but his DNA still can provide evidence.
They probably didn't have much contact since he was homeless (otherwise he wouldn't be, I guess).
Well, Woods discovered the issue when he was age ~50, homeless, and 2000+ miles away in another state, so it's plausible to think there was some breakdown in relationships.