Literature Review
Crime convictions occur every day in America. Not everyone that is convicted for a crime means he/she did the crime. Unfortunately, in the American criminal justice system, people are convicted for crime they have not occurred. Wrongful convictions are the cause of people having convictions that they did not deserve. Many factors cause a wrong conviction. Some of the causes are police misconduct, forensic errors, inaccurate confessions, and judicial mistakes.
Wrongful Convictions
America’s justice system has convicted innocent people in America. One of the primary issues with wrong convictions is false identity. In America’s judicial system procedural errors and a factual innocent person are the two main ingredients that exist when a miscarriage in the justice system occurs (Gould & Leo, 2010). Much of the cases that make up convictions for wrong conviction are murder and rape. From 1989 to 2003, 95% of 340 exonerations came from murders and rape cases. Sometime guilty pleas can be a …show more content…
Suggestion a practice that leads to false identification is composed of two factors that make the identification suggestive. The first part of suggestiveness is when a law enforcement officer or another observer identifies the witness at the time of identification procedure or any time before in court identification. On the other hand, the second part is when a law enforcement officer or a detective use different procedures to make the alleged suspect standout. For example, in the case of Marvin Anderson, pictures were used to identify him; the pictures the cops presented were distorted. One picture of him was colored and the other suspect pictures were in black and white. Unfortunately, these suggestive factors incriminate innocent people until the law realizes they were wrong (Gould & Leo,
Crime convictions occur every day in America. Not everyone that is convicted for a crime means he/she did the crime. Unfortunately, in the American criminal justice system, people are convicted for crime they have not occurred. Wrongful convictions are the cause of people having convictions that they did not deserve. Many factors cause a wrong conviction. Some of the causes are police misconduct, forensic errors, inaccurate confessions, and judicial mistakes.
Wrongful Convictions
America’s justice system has convicted innocent people in America. One of the primary issues with wrong convictions is false identity. In America’s judicial system procedural errors and a factual innocent person are the two main ingredients that exist when a miscarriage in the justice system occurs (Gould & Leo, 2010). Much of the cases that make up convictions for wrong conviction are murder and rape. From 1989 to 2003, 95% of 340 exonerations came from murders and rape cases. Sometime guilty pleas can be a …show more content…
Suggestion a practice that leads to false identification is composed of two factors that make the identification suggestive. The first part of suggestiveness is when a law enforcement officer or another observer identifies the witness at the time of identification procedure or any time before in court identification. On the other hand, the second part is when a law enforcement officer or a detective use different procedures to make the alleged suspect standout. For example, in the case of Marvin Anderson, pictures were used to identify him; the pictures the cops presented were distorted. One picture of him was colored and the other suspect pictures were in black and white. Unfortunately, these suggestive factors incriminate innocent people until the law realizes they were wrong (Gould & Leo,