Conrad Zdzierk Research Paper

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As the Seattle Times reported in December of 2010, Conrad Zdzierk, a white polish man, used “hyper realistic” mask to disguise himself as a black man as he robbed several banks in Ohio. While the mask is realistic looking, the fact that he used this mask as a way to evade the police and cause another man to be arrested in his place is a horrible reality. I was unable to find a picture of the wrongly accused man to compare to the mask, but the fact that a mask caused an innocent man to be arrested is baffling. Regardless of how closely mask’s appearance resembled the man’s, that should not have led to the man’s arrest. Just because you look similar to someone who committed a crime does not mean you can be arrested just for how you look.
By using this mask, he stole about $15,000 dollars from six bank robberies. He chose this method because Conrad was able
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He was able to evade police officers as they did not find him themselves nor did it appear to be that they were going to be able to arrest Conrad for his crimes. The police arrested an innocent man because he resembled what Conrad’s mask appeared to look like. As in the Seattle times reported, six out of the seven bank tellers wrongly identified this man as the culprit. The blame can be placed on the mask, but the truth is, the man did not commit the crime, yet these six people had chosen that he was the man who did it.
While reading the Seattle Times article on the case, I saw that this wrongly accused man remained in jail until Conrad’s girlfriend had alerted the police of Conrad’s crimes. Conrad Zdzierak eventually pleaded guilty to “one count of aggravated assault” and “five counts of

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