Interrogation

This questioning is called interrogation, information-gathering activity of police officers that involves the direct questioning of suspects. There are different types of interrogation styles that has been used before in the past years. Physical abuse, officers beating suspects until they confessed to the crime. This method has been frowned upon, because…

Brian has suffered from schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder; both are forms of mental illness. He has been struggling with it, since he was 14 years old, and sought treatment from a counselor since he was 17. He has always struggled with hearing voices whom he said were a higher power than him, and he had to obey them. He also suffered from hallucinations and had a history of violence. Brian, now twenty-one years old, has always admired his neighbor. They often discussed subjects that they had…

In the early 1960’s four men were arrested on different crimes.. In the police department those men confessed to their crimes without ever being told their rights, mainly that the Fifth Amendment Sixth Amendment. The confessions were used in court, and it became a question of whether those men’s constitutional rights had been violated. The question was answered in the Supreme Court case of Miranda v. Arizona. The Fifth Amendment was written for rights in criminal and civil legal issues.…

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…

Relevant Scene I decided to choose a combination of scenes from the movie to show the progression of the character and to fully make my point across. The first scene, was when Alfred started to tell Bruce about his time in Burma. He spoke about a thief who was stealing jewels and how they were looking for him, when one day, he [Alfred] saw a kid playing with a jewel, and learned that the thief was just throwing away the jewels he stole. Bruce asks why would the thief steal them in the…

Alyssa Lynch Professor Yoshimura AJS101 September 16th, 2017 Wrongful Convictions Wrongful convictions occur when defendants are found to be guilty during trial or plead guilty to crimes they did not commit to avoid a more serious sentence. It is a horrible injustice that can cause someone who is innocent to spend years on death row or in prison. The failure to provide the necessary amount of evidence of innocence is the main reason why innocent people get convicted during trial. But what…

On a July night in 1984, the homes of two women were broken into and both women were sexually assaulted. During a photo array one of the victims identified the attacker as Ronald Cotton and later confidently confirmed this suspicion during a physical line-up. These identifications mixed with other evidence resulted in the arrest of Ronald Cotton in August later that year. Cotton was later found guilty of both accounts of rape and received a life sentence plus fifty-four years in prison.…

Ashley Martinez Professor Nick Philosophy 11 December 5, 2015 Analysis of Central Park Five Case On April 1989, a woman was brutally beaten and raped near Central Park’s 102nd street in New York City, while going on her daily night jog. Five minority youth from ages 13 to 16 were arrested and convicted for the rape and almost-murder of Trisha Meili, a 28 year-old white woman from the upper east side of Manhattan. During this time in 1989 the city of New York was going through some rough…

Imagine this - you’ve just left your home country to live in the United States. You’re coming to your first stop and you see a beautiful green island. Looks great right? That’s what you’d think. Until you got on the island, you didn’t realize you would stay there for months, and at some point you would be deported and sent back to your country in shame. Starved, tired, and lonely is how all the immigrants felt who passed through Angel Island, which was an immigration station from the years 1910…

individuals. Reverend Samuel Parris’ daughter and niece came down with afflictions. The girls appeared to have pains, pricks, and convulsions. Many individuals, mostly women, were imprisoned. This forced them to defend themselves through forceful interrogation techniques. Admitting guilt allowed to the individuals to live; however, they had to give names of others that were part of the witchcraft. This further perpetuated the spread of the accusations. Professing innocence led to a court…