potential for an individual to gain wisdom and knowledge. Socrates has gained many slanders and criticisms from the Athenians because he questions authorities and respected business men of Athen to reveal them as ignorant in their expertise. His interrogations destroy the beliefs of those who are being questioned, leaving them frustrated and lost without offering an alternative explanation. Not only does he cause them to question their beliefs, he embarasses them by publicly challenging what the…
FBI has claimed that Siddiqui lived a double life and substantiated such claims by tying her to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), a 9/11 mastermind. To add more intrigue to Siddiqui’s story, shortly after the arrest of KSM and his admission during interrogation of Siddiqui’s involvement in Al-Qaeda, she along with her children ages 7, 5 and 6 months old vanished en route to Islamabad in 2003. She would reappear in 2008 shrouded in a burka,…
shaggy hair, listened to punk rock music, read Stephen king books, and looked gothic. One of the boys was even at school the day the crime took place. One of the boys, Jesse Misskelley confessed because he had cracked under the pressure of the interrogation. Just like The central park five, the police got a confession from one so all three boys got charged with the murder of the three eight year old boys. In both stories, there was one boy from each story that was mentally disabled. The…
Police conduct during the Carter murder investigation was far from ideal. The police did not follow appropriate procedures when conducting interviews and interrogations and they harassed Williamson and Fritz for four years when, at the time, they did not even have fabricated evidence. The prosecution and police then fabricated evidence against the two men, implicating them in the rape and murder when no true evidence pointed to them and, in fact, much of the evidence pointed against them. in…
Miranda Rights Ernesto Miranda kidnapped a woman, drove her into the desert, and raped her. After an 11 day investigation, Detectives Cooley and Young caught Miranda and took him to the police station for questioning. During Miranda’s interrogation, he was told he had been positively identified in a lineup and that he would not be released without a full confession. Miranda wrote out his confession on a paper with a preprinted statement indicating he knew his Constitutional rights and was…
he’s right. What are we going to do? Alexandria: Quieting the crowd, I agree with Boris! she says eagerly. Alexei: So it’s settled me and Alexandria will find out who the killer is. Scene 6, Act 2 Act two begins; Alexandria and Alexei are doing interrogations of everyone at the party, beginning with Boris Alexandria: Where were you when Laura was murdered? Boris: You know the answer to that. I was talking to you the whole time! Alexei: whispers so no one can hear, We know but we can’t show and…
Summary: On Thursday, June 18, 2015 the conservative government of Canada received royal assent for a new piece of anti-terror legislation which will give expanded, controversial, and sweeping powers to Canada’s spy agency; the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIC). Because of the very radical changes C-51 proposes to the current terror prevention structure in Canada, many have simultaneously criticized and praised it. With opponents stipulating that because of the bill’s vague…
Barrack Obama is the current president of United States and has also made a legacy by being the first African-American president of the United States. He won two consecutive terms in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Being raised in the absence of his father and at the mercy of his grandparents, his ambition to excel in academics did not fade as he struggled to make things normal for himself. Obama is known for his work on change and equal rights for others. He got elected as the…
and knowingly and voluntarily waive them. The officers statement did not constitute coercion. Justice Harry Black (“J. Blackman”) disagreed with the majority’s account of the facts. J. Blackman believed that every comment should be considered an interrogation and the circumstance of a missing girl may still be found alive mandated an urgent need for finding her. Analysis: In Brewer v. Williams, 430 U.S. 387 (1977), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled by a 5-4 margin that a murder conviction must be…
DNA fingerprinting is used in forensic science to convict or exonerate a defendant of a crime. During an investigation, crime samples are collected from a scene or from a victim that can be used for DNA testing. Samples could include hair, blood, semen, or skin. After collection, these samples are tested for their molecular characteristics because the purpose is to identify the polymorphic DNA locations of one’s genes. This is because everyone has different genetic variations and can be…