I choose scenario two police interrogations and false confessions, as you see today on the news people who claim they were innocence at the time of the crime, but was made to say they were guilty were later set free. False confession is very much alive today, especially in the legal system in North America today , and there is a very long history of these type of wrongful declarations (Chapman, 2013). One of the first references to a false confession was recorded in 1660. a servant's name John Perry , he was sent to look for his master ,Williams Harrison when perry failed to return home for a prolonged period of a time, it was suspected that he robbed his master of rent money he had collected and he had killed Harrison in the
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False confession is very much alive today, especially in the legal system in North America today , and there is a very long history of these type of wrongful declarations (Chapman, 2013). One of the first references to a false confession was recorded in 1660. a servant's name John Perry , he was sent to look for his master ,Williams Harrison when perry failed to return home for a prolonged period of a time, it was suspected that he robbed his master of rent money he had collected and he had killed Harrison in the process,when perry return home, he originally maintain his innocence, saying that he believed Harrison had been killed, but he was not the murderer. Urged by the justice of the peace to confess to the murder of Harrison. Instead, Perry proclaimed his mother and brother Richard was guilty of the crime and he had help to dispose of the body. All three member of the perry family was convicted of murder on solely of john's very detail confession, john even claimed to have the string his brother strangle Harrison. Even though john retracted
False confession is very much alive today, especially in the legal system in North America today , and there is a very long history of these type of wrongful declarations (Chapman, 2013). One of the first references to a false confession was recorded in 1660. a servant's name John Perry , he was sent to look for his master ,Williams Harrison when perry failed to return home for a prolonged period of a time, it was suspected that he robbed his master of rent money he had collected and he had killed Harrison in the process,when perry return home, he originally maintain his innocence, saying that he believed Harrison had been killed, but he was not the murderer. Urged by the justice of the peace to confess to the murder of Harrison. Instead, Perry proclaimed his mother and brother Richard was guilty of the crime and he had help to dispose of the body. All three member of the perry family was convicted of murder on solely of john's very detail confession, john even claimed to have the string his brother strangle Harrison. Even though john retracted