Conviction

After reading the case, I don’t agree on that main reason on James’ wrongful conviction. The details that were given from the victim were way too broad to conclude that James was the perpetrator. There had to be other details that were given to conclude that James was the one. If that was the sole reason that James was convicted then…

Abstract Eyewitness misidentification is one of the leading causes of wrongful conviction. The correlation between confidence and memory, effects of stress on memory, and the accuracy of identification have been proven to be false. Research studies indicate that misinterpretation can occur in one of three stages of the memory process acquisition, retention, and retrieval which are not exempt to that of an eyewitness. This paper will speak on the validity of eyewitness testimonies in the…

Conventional wisdom dictates than an innocent person will not be convicted of a crime in America.1 “Like many criminal justice officials, most people appear to believe in what . . . has been labeled ‘the myth of psychological interrogation’: that an innocent person will not falsely confess to a serious crime.”2 This myth, though easily dispelled by psychological and sociological literature on the subject, continues to play an integral role in the criminal justice system.3 Both experimental and…

raise awareness about flaws in the justice system, particularly wrongful convictions. In the book, Simon underscored the role of photography as an arbiter of justice. Considering Simon’s…

Effects of wrongful conviction are commonly underrepresented in the Criminal Justice System. According to the Innocence project (2014), more than 1,300 individuals in the United States that were convicted of crimes have been exonerated and cleared of all charges brought against them. Errors consist of misleading eyewitness testimony, confessions that are coerced, criminal investigators getting tunnel vision, and corruption of prosecutors. Of the many difficulties exonerates face compensation,…

real culprit; however, he was already dead by that time. The police discovered that “the offender was Johnny Douglas, by then deceased, who was one of the first people that police interviewed about the Glover murder in 1994” (Center on Wrongful Convictions). The result of this case shows that if the police would have done a thorough investigation and followed procedures, then the lives of four innocent men could have been spared. The ruling of this case severely affected the men because they…

Eyewitness misidentification is the greatest contributing factor to wrongful convictions proven by DNA testing, playing a role in more than 70% of convictions overturned through DNA testing Nationwide. One of the primary reasons that eyewitness error is the main source of wrongful convictions is on the grounds that it is a standout amongst the most effective sorts of proof that can be introduced against a criminal Defendant. Biological…

possible by the Innocence Project. Two men with similar cases were among this list of exonerations. Two different men with two different crimes were both wrongfully convicted, were not given enough investigation, and were exonerated many years after conviction. Jimmy Ray Bromgard was a man convicted for a crime he did not commit: the rape of an 8-year-old girl in 1987. He was put in jail for 15 years before he was exonerated. There were many issues with this case, such as the little girl being…

The case of Brandon Mayfield is widely known amongst people who have a deep interest in wrongful convictions. Mayfield is an American Muslim who was wrongfully accused of the bombing that occurred in Madrid back in 2004. In this case, the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation, commonly known as the FBI, "identified" Mayfield's fingerprint from a bag that contained denoting devices. Despite the fingerprint not being Mayfield's, multiple FBI examiners matched the fingerprints in the bag to…

False eyewitness identification has proven to have a high degree of inaccuracy, yet still remains to be one of the most convincing pieces of evidence presented to a jury during a trial. Eyewitness accounts of certain events have been used to convict individuals that were later exonerated after serving years in a correctional facility for crimes they did not commit. Through the use of photographs and lineups during a criminal investigation, police officers and other interested parties are able to…