Examples Of Error Of Criminal Justice

The four reasons why innocent individuals are wrongly convicted are called error of justice, DNA (Innocence movement), Innocence Projects, and Exonerations. The error of justice is defined as a term coined by Brian Forst to describe the many types of mistakes the criminal justice system can make. It is further described as “any departure from an optimal outcome of justice for a criminal case”. (Siegel, Larry J. 414) Many people can agree that in today’s society with the wrongly convicted situation a person fails to prosecute and is convict to be a guilty criminal. (Siegel, Larry J. 414) In nineteen-seventy-six, one of the errors that happen was the sentenced to death row when the wrong person was killed instead of the real criminal. The problem of wrongful convictions has become such an evident one, in fact, that an entire movement has been set in motion in response to them when a group with increased popularity of DNA testing has uncovered some of …show more content…
The exoneration only occur though one of the four means which are a governor issues a pardon that is based on any new evidence of the convicted innocence, Charges are dismissed by the court after the evidence are discovered, an acquittal is at retrial, and posthumous (after death) acknowledgment of innocence. (Siegel, Larry J. 417) The number of exonerations has increased considerably in recent years but only one study tells that there were twelve per year in nineteen-eighty-nine and an average of only forty-two each year since 2000. The work of the people that associated with the Innocence Project have an important role in seeing hundreds possibly thousands of wrongfully convicted persons exonerated. These are the reasons for wrongful convictions also which are eyewitness misidentification, unvalidated /improper forensics, false confession/admissions, and informants/snitches. (Siegel, Larry J.