Eyewitness identification

Relevant Stakeholders When it comes to witness intimidation, there are several stake holders to take into account. These stakeholder can be greatly affected by the act of witness intimidation and the come from varying fields. These field span from social to legal with perspectives that vary as well. In no particular order, the first of the stakeholders include victim-witness units and crime victim advocacy groups (Debel, 2006). For these two stakeholders the main purpose of them is to be there…

The horror in California began on Friday, December 20, 1968 in the city of Vallejo when sixteen-year-old Betty Lou Jensen and seventeen-year-old David Faraday were killed while out on a date. According to Haugen (2011), they had driven to a remote lover’s lane on Lake Herman Road. While they were parked, a vehicle stopped nearby and the driver got out, shot out the rear passenger window of David Faraday’s station wagon, and then shot the left rear tire. The man proceeded to shoot Faraday…

Do you ever wonder to yourself what it would be like to be convicted of a crime you didn't commit? That feeling that you have knowing that you did no wrongdoing yet sent to jail for something you didn't do. Families broken, time lost, and all things that happened to innocent people that can't be undone. You did all you could to clear your name and convince the judge, but in reality, there is nothing more you could do but to maintain your innocence. Because of this there are groups out there to…

Today, society has in its mind what it is called “death penalty” for those who “deserve it.” According to Prejean Helen, in the article “the death of innocents,” death penalty is “the most severe form of corporal punishment as it requires law enforcement officers to kill (to cause the death of, to end the life) of the convicted offender” (114). Different views are heard about this subject all around the world. There is much debate in whether or not the death penalty should be abolished. There…

“Two weeks ago, a woman saw you running from a house. She described you even your ski cap,” he said and asked. “Do you remember it?” “Well, kind of,” Raymond said, shrugging his shoulders. “Tell me about it, but remember we have an eyewitness. Should I bring her in to identify you?” The detective asked. “That won’t be necessary, I remember it,” he said, shaking his head. “One night, I slept down by the river and was hungry enough to eat a bear. After checking several houses, I found…

Confession The provisions of sections 164, 342 and 364 of the Criminal Procedure Code and articles 37 to 43 of Qanun-e-Shahadat Order, 1984 deals with confession. Section 164 deals with the recording of confession at any stage before the commencing of an enquiry or trial. Section 342 deals with the examination of accused persons during the course of the enquiry or trial. Section 364 prescribes the manner in which the examination of an accused person is to be recorded. Confession is not defined…

Arike Jacobs The Marrow of Tradition: Lynching and “Justice” When discussing American history it is near impossible to ignore the centuries of racial tension. The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt exposes the social pathology of the American South that has normalized the brutalization of black bodies. Chesnutt writes of various lives both black and white in the events that lead up to a race riot similar to the Wilmington Massacre of 1898. By fictionalizing such an event he is able to…

CORTICAL MAPPING USING MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIALS IN GLIOMA SURGERY INTRODUCTION The aim of glioma surgery is to get maximum resection of a tumor with minimal violation of normal brain tissue. A primary tenet of neurosurgical oncology is that survival can improve with greater tumor resection, but this principle must be tempered by the potential for functional loss after a radical removal. It has always been a challenge to achieve this ?functional? resection especially when eloquent cortex is…

What is Injustice? Learners Dictionary defines Injustice as, a situation in which a person or a group of people are ignored. Ronald Cotton is a real-life example of the term injustice, because he spent eleven years of his life incarcerated for a crime he simply did not commit, only to be compensated $5,000 for the mistake the state of North Carolina made. But, how does the Criminal Justice System miss a detail so important that it determines whether a person is guilty or innocent? The fact of…

In the present day, most of the countries visited are filled with all types of races and cultures. The world is a big melting pot, a mixing of cultures, beliefs, backgrounds, and religions. This can be most notably seen in the Unites States and various countries throughout Europe. As the world evolved and nations began to grow, different types of races and cultures were put at the bottom of the social class. History has revealed a nation battled itself, the American Civil War, just for equality,…