Why Do Innocent People Become Guilty?

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When being guilty by mistake the person that is innocent can be paying someone else’s

sentence. When the person that is blamed for something they didn’t do they end up having to

have that problem on their record. The person has the situation on the record it makes it hard to

look or find a job.

The crimes that innocent people are considered guilty are serious and can do a big damage to

someone’s life. There are many people that have been accused by the police, by court, or even by

someone that they had close to. First, a lady name Sarah was accused for her daughters

accusation of her partner abusing her. A mother has been presumed guilty for telling her daughter

to say making false statements about her partner (Cavendish). This shows us that when the court
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Mr. Fishburne was wrongly mistaken as a fugitive and put in

the back of the police car ("The Wrong," 2006). After reading the story of Mr. Fishburne, this tells

us that he was arrested for have been mistaken for someone with the same name as his and with

no other evidence he was arrested and put in the back of a police car. The two different stories

says many things on why those people were considered guilty but with only one part of evidence

used.

There may be people being arrested for a crime that is very serious there are others that will be

serving a large time in jail or prison. In this story the lady’s name was She Xianglin she was

arrested for a crime that she thought she would never be in. She was a 39 year old woman was

considered guilty for a murder that she didn’t commit and was sentenced to 11 years of prison

(Daily). After reading the news about her, this says that there wasn’t a lot of things that can prover

her innocence and say that she wasn’t part of any of that crime. First, a man name Anthony he

was accused of two rape scenes in the mid eighties and now had to be imprisoned, was held

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