Conviction

Wrongful convictions are an atrocious act; wrongfully stripping an individual of his God given freedom for majority of his or her life and attempting to compensate them with monetary settlements cannot rectify such a heinous situation. 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. Ronald Cotton is a prime example of how unreliable eyewitness…

There are many causes for wrongful conviction. Some are caused by honest mistakes. In these situations, the person who ended up being the cause held no malice towards the person who was wrongfully convicted. However, there are some instances where they purposefully did something to cause the conviction. Either they covered up something that could have proven the person’s innocence or they slandered them by telling everyone what they had supposedly done until everyone—the press, the community,…

The pro-choice conviction relies on the belief that abortion should be legalized, and that women have the right to control their own bodies. Pro-choice arguments include the fact that legalized abortions are a safe procedure, it allows the woman to have control over her own body, it is not a mean to replace contraceptive methods and it should not be considered murder. One of the pro-choice arguments in order to legalize abortion is based on the concept that women seeking an abortion can seek…

defenseless because murder is in no cases acceptable. On the other hand, a pro-choice person might not have a strong conviction against the act, or they may believe that abortion needs to be available to victims of rape & incest or if the pregnancy threatens the mother’s life, but abortion is murder. One kind of pro-choice person that I mentioned, the one who lacks a strong conviction, commonly carries the…

The Conviction and Recantation of Galileo The Conviction Galileo was brought in at seventy years old, convicted for holding a doctrine thought true by many. The theory he held true what that the sun was the center of the universe and that the earth rotates around the sun. The Holy Apostolic Chair has brought him in to denounce all of those beliefs, moreover, having others that he constructed to share the same opinions. Additionally, corresponding with a German mathematicians and publishing…

After reading the article, “The Prosecutor’s Contribution to Wrongful Conviction” I found the information discussed to be interesting. As someone who wants to be an attorney following graduation from law school, it was somewhat eye opening to learn more about the role prosecutors play in wrongful convictions, especially when a lot of the focus regarding wrongful convictions seem to be on the investigators, rather than the adversarial system. I found the quote from Berger v. United States that…

False Confessions and Wrong Convictions in Forensic Psychology Americans have long historical records of false convictions and wrongful convictions. A number of academicians, journalists, researchers, lawyers as well as activists have attempted to document numerous accounts of the cases where in the innocent have been convicted owing to false confessions and wrong convictions and elaborated upon the reasons as well as their ramifications (Borchard,1932; Radin,1964; Scheck et al., 2000). The…

Causes of Wrongful Convictions “Wrongful conviction is on the rise because the protections against it have been eroded” stated by Paul Craig Roberts in his article “The Causes of Wrongful Conviction. (Roberts, Spring 2003). It is a very old yet modern problem in today’s society. Wrongful convictions claim the lives of many innocent people in the justice system. In order to understand how wrongful convictions take place, one must be conscious of the causes. Wrongful convictions are a problem…

Technology and Crime” “In 1992 lawyers Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld created the Innocence Project, a legal organization aimed at overturning wrongful conviction through DNA profiling. Since then, more than two hundred criminal convictions have been overturned in the United States alone.” The Innocence Project is needed to help turn over wrongful convictions that were made. The article “DNA Technology and Crime” stated in their article “ DNA was first studied in depth by biologist James Watson…

As a border state, it is not uncommon for some Minnesota residents to travel across the border to our northern neighbor every now and again. However, many do not realize that having a DWI conviction can make it tough to get into Canada. The common belief is that if they have a passport, they will be allowed into the country. The truth is that Canadian law allows border officials to turn away anybody who has been convicted of a any crime – not just a DWI. When traveling to Canada after a…