False Claims Act

Growing up in DeBill, Kansas, I always wanted to move, or I’d try running away every other week. DeBill was known to about four thousand people and a 2A State Championship win from 1966 that is still the talk of the town. I always nicknamed us, “Ghost Town, USA”. I absolutely hated and often wondered why we couldn’t just move the 45 miles down south to Kansas City, but Mom was adamant that we were not going to move away from the town she was from. Then she’d us the excuse of being a teacher and…

The book that I read was The House of Hades. The author is Rick Riordan. It is the 4th book in the Heroes of Olympus series. But it starts off from where the Percy Jackson series ended, so it is technically the 9th book. This book or series is played off from Greek and Roman mythology. This specific book was published in October 8, 2013. Currently, the 10th book is now out. The intended audience for this book are teenagers. The genre is fantasy adventure. But since this is the 9th book…

I 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…

Conclusion The hypothesis for the best angle to shoot a paintball to achieve the farthest distance possible was rejected.The data from the experiment that supports this conclusion is, the distance of the paintball that was shot from a 35 degree angle traveled, on average, 126.56 meters. This distance is 2.84 meters greater than the average distance of the paintball shot at 30 degrees. The average distance of the paintballs shot at 35 degrees was also, 15.31 meters larger than the average…

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…

Point of view is one of the most important aspects of a novel. It helps the reader understand what is happening in a novel and how different characters react. When a novel uses multiple points of view it gives the reader a chance to view an event from multiple angles. The novel Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich uses multiple points of view to show irony among other things of different events. There are many characters that can be considered the protagonists of the novel as well as the antagonists…

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…

In order to achieve a goal, sometimes you must do the very opposite to achieve the aimed result. It sounds counterintuitive in the beginning, but it may lead to outstanding outcome. In “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, that is precisely what happened. The short story is about a man whose wife invited her old friend, Robert, to visit them at their home. He is not enthusiastic and annoyed about the visit claiming that the Robert’s blindness bothers him. However, he had an epiphany when he got to…

In addition, taking advantage of the person’s lack of knowledge with their legal rights by the boys and their parents were tactically out maneuvered by law enforcement to pursue illegal means to obtain a false confession by these young men that led to them being wrongfully convicted and serving time in jail. However, justice prevailed in the long run at the expense of these young men. The article, “The Interview” written by Douglas Starr in the prestigious…

Interrogators would keep the person in a room for hours, and continuously accuse them of a crime that sometimes the person being interrogated did not commit. This pressure would result on an individual giving a false confession. According to the Innocence Project (2014) people usually give out false confession because they believe that if they comply with the police, it will benefit them and help them prove their innocence in the future. The most popular way of getting confessions is through the…