Conviction

and convictions. In order to succeed in this process, the law firm needs to understand the process and law on expunging records of arrests or convictions and the amount of work required from its end. What is Expungement? Expungement is a term that refers to the process of clearing or deleting a criminal record of…

latter, her uncle was convicted of multiple counts of sexual assaults. Her like other characters in this show, prevail their abusers and find justice. However, this is not accountable for real life women and children. Thus the correlation between conviction rates in real life and television are not…

In the book “Ordinary Injustice” by Amy Bach, chapter four titled “Show Trial”, describes a number of different cases showing wrongful convictions being processed through the criminal justice system based off of false confessions. In Chicago, there was a nine-year-old girl named Lisa Cabassa was found raped and killed in the back of an alley a couple miles from her home. Two months after the rape and murder of Lisa, a witness named Judy called the police to give her testimony on the crime. Her…

the case of R v Angela Cannings [2004] 1 WLR 2607. Cannings was convicted for the murder of her two children who had allegedly suffered cot deaths. Her conviction would not have held without the professional evidence…

Although the number of wrongful convictions is an unknown figure, it has been said to be approximately one to five percent of convictions in America each year, where one percent averages out to about 6000 cases (Anderson, Anderson & Marquis, 2001). Wrongful convictions do not occur as a result of a single error by a sole individual.…

A Case of Mistaken Eyewitness Testimony, Ronald Cotton Ronald Cotton was a victim of being wrongly identified in an eyewitness testimony. In July 1984, a man broke into Jennifer Thompson-Cannino's, 22 years old house. Whoever this man was sexually assaulted her, but Jennifer Thompson-Cannino was smart and did what she could to stay alive and remember all the features of this man to make sure he will be charged for his actions. Later on in the same night, he repeated this actions to another…

On January 18th, 1991, in downtown Los Angeles, there were a shooting drive-by killing and a 16-year-old Francisco Carrillo was accused of being the murderer of killing the 41-year-old Donald Sarpy. Twenty years later, Carrillo was released due to the withdrawal of five out of six witnesses in the retrial (Daily Mail Reporter, 2011). The victim’s son, who is also one of the six witnesses, revealed that he could not detect definitely whether the individual in the car was Carrillo or not since…

(1) Explain the process of policy change and policy reform as it pertains to wrongful convictions in the context of innocence movement. An individual can think of human development as changing and growing actively throughout a course of time. Policies develop over time based on societies wants and needs. Sometimes policies are desired to be stricter and other times they are required to be more lenient. The innocence movement helped to change policies and this brought insight which helped those…

Texas has 125 records of wrongful convictions since 1989. Unlawfully charging someone with a crime they did not commit, barely looking at the evidence, wrongly convicting someone so they are sentenced to life in prison was the case for both Randolph Arledge and Kennedy Brewer . Randolph Arledge was convicted for the murder of Carolyn Armstrong and Kennedy Brewer for the slaying of Christina Jackson. Both Brewer and Arledge have what they were charged for, evidence behind the story, why they were…

she kept to herself; however, she did deal with mental and emotional abuse from some inmates. After the appeal, Ms. Baumer was exonerated for the crime of first-degree child abuse, after having spent five years being incarcerated for a wrongful conviction. While she was in prison, she wrote several books. Julie explained how the world was bigger compared to prison and how the first couple of years were tough. She stated that her brother employed her to work on plumbing; which helped her a great…