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    False confession : A True issue in the United Sate Justice System Thesis: Since false confession is the major of wrongful conviction in the system, The false confession have many factor to make everybody misunderstand of the suspect. Some people belief that complying with the policy by saying that they committed the crime in question will be more benefit for them. The definition of false confession. First, according to (innocenceproject.org), false confession are complex and varied, but…

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    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…

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    Case and the false confession related to this case. Five of the African-American and Hispanic-American teenagers were considered resibonsible for the malignant rape case and were arrested. They made confession due to mental and physical mistreatment, which was proved to be false confession years later because the true raper stepped forward and confessed. I focus on two of the main factors: motivation and personality. This type of false confession is coerced-compliant false confessions. In such…

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    507: Confessions Kim Possible – Rhetorical Analysis Saul Elbien, the rhetor to “507: Confessions – Kim Possible” podcast published from Chicago Public Media on October eleventh, 2013, address a unique situation sometimes present in criminal investigations, false confessions. Elbien starts off his podcast by describing a crime scene: a man found dead by the Anacostia River, bound and beaten to death, with only his credit cards missing. (“507: Confessions”) Elbien then introduces the audience to…

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    False confessions can be broken down into two categories, internalized and compliant confessions (Blair, 2005). The main difference between the two comes down to the suspect’s own belief in their guilt. If the suspect begins to believe they could have, or had to have committed the crime, the false confession is internalized. If the suspect still believes in their innocence, yet confesses for short term benefits, it is complaint. (Blair, 2005) Internalized Confessions Internalized confessions…

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    police interrogation tactics that are standard in American law enforcement, Hobbs confessed to the rapes and murder, crimes he didn’t commit, and then proceeded to the next two years in prison before DNA evidence surfaced. Prosecutors then cited the confession as a defense, and used bizarre alternative justifications for why the DNA test had cleared him. Subsequently, Hobbs spent an additional three years behind bars, all for crimes he didn’t commit. Unfortunately, Jerry Hobbs is among the…

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    False Confessions While Interrogating Juveniles The interrogation of juveniles has and will continue to be a sensitive subject for all parties involved. Whether it is to obtain critical information that could lead to the closing of a case or possibly even the child is the perpetrator themselves, the question of when legal or guardian representation for the child should be present is a differing matter amongst almost every state in the union. There are times when such interrogations can lead to…

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    False confessions have become more prevalent in today’s world. With all of the technology advances today we have found out that we have convicted people who have falsely confessed. In Marion’s peer review article it says, “Since 1989, more than 1,400 wrongful convictions of innocent people have been exposed in the United States—either through DNA testing or via the discovery of other types of evidence” (Marion 65). However today we have organizations that are trying to help people with cases.…

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    The article “Inside Interrogation: The Lie, The Bluff, and False Confessions”, published by Jennifer Perillo, and Saul Kassin, discusses situations and potential contributors that can result in false confessions. Perillo and Kassin focus on what are called situational pressures, the use of false evidence, including the use of a fake witness, or false documented proof of the crime happening-also known as a bluff tactic- as risk factors for why people falsely confess to crimes they did not commit…

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    Historical Context The Westminster Confession of Faith was written in the year 1646, titled “The Humble Advice of the Assembly,” in London, under the authority of King Charles I. During the period leading up to the Confession, in the battles of civil discontent with Scotland, the Royal Crown and Church of England had to quench the appeal for religious freedoms that the Episcopal Orthodox government of the past could not placate. Forty years prior, under King James I, the Puritan views which had…

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