False confession

Throughout the novel, Hester Prynne has many aspects of a hero. Although Hester had committed a sin that everyone shamed her for, she still prioritized and cared deeply for Pearl and made sure that she would be raised well, “I must tarry at home, and keep watch over my little Pearl. Had they taken her from me, I would willingly have gone with thee into the forest, and signed my name in the Black Man’s book too, and that with mine own blood!” (110). In addition, after a public shaming that…

A tragic hero is not equivalent to the heroes that people think of today. A tragic hero does not necessarily display courage, bravery, and strength in grim times, making them different than the heroic characters people think of today. Many famous Greek playwrights wrote about tragic heroes, but each one chose to focus on different characteristics, depending on how they defined a tragic hero. This is why when examining the characters Oedipus, in Oedipus the King (Sophocles), and Hippolytus, in…

In Arthur Miller's book, “The Crucible” a group of girls accuse innocent Salem citizens of conducting witchcraft. This creates hysteria in the village and leads to mostly everyone being falsely accused. Abigail Williams begins the false accusations, she does this in order to be with her desired lover John Proctor. Abigail and John Proctor had an affair, John Proctor's wife dismisses Abigail from being their servant for that reason. As a method to have John Proctor, Abigail falsely accuses John…

Seeing is believing, right? What about the practice of people seeing what they expect to see? The Crucible by Arthur Miller, reveals the dangers of bringing the idea of eyewitness testimony into court. In Proctor’s world, a relationship with God is defined by the letter by the Bible. Those who refute any part of the the Bible are non-believers. Proctor lives his life by doing good by good deeds for his community, guided by his own sense of righteousness rather than the definition of religion as…

committing first degree murders against their family members. Both investigations caused widespread controversy amongst the country, amid various false accusations, and lack of sufficient evidence. To begin, in the case of Stacey Lannert, as the case began to gain more publicity, controversy started to stir, and according to police, there was many alleged false throughout the case. When Stacey was only 9 years old in third grade, her father began sexually abusing…

are eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, government misconduct, and bad lawyering. Eyewitness misidentification is a main cause of wrongful convictions. DNA has proven that eyewitness misidentification is frequently inaccurate. Eyewitness misidentification can range from witnesses creating a description or inaccurately remembering the description of a suspect. False confessions are an additional cause of wrongful conviction. Some of the false confessions could be a result of a mental…

Definitions 1. Plain view is a legal term that describes the ready visibility of objects that might be seized as evidence during a search by police in the absence of a search warrant specifying the seizure of those objects. To lawfully seize evidence in plain view, officers must have a legal right to be in the viewing area and must have cause to believe that the evidence is somehow associated with criminal activity pg. 205 2. Terry Stop is a brief detention of a person by police on reasonable…

any miscalculation or failure is quickly covered up or prevented from reaching the public or the media. "Outrageous abuses ... have happened, and it 's all being kept hush hush," Tice told Business Insider.”(Business Insider). As a result of the confessions and actions of NSA employees, the people begin to lose the miniscule amount of trust they have in the government. The failures of government employees to responsibly deal with invaluable data and the NSA’s orders to execute immoral tasks…

critics of the punishment and interrogation method, gaining information through the use of pain is incredibly barbaric and heinous. In the middle ages, torture was used as both a form of punishment and humiliation as well as a way of obtaining confessions. There are those who see torture as a means to an end. The scenario most often put forth by those who support torture is always the “ticking…

When placed in life or death situations humans always resort to our programed will to live. In doing so humans resort to their primal instincts for survival and will do anything to ensure their continued existence, even going to the extreme of killing another person. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible Abigail’s rebellion against the strict society in Salem leads her to lie against other people, ultimately condemning them to death. However, Miller creates an ambigram as the audience and Abigail…