Miscarriage

court to obtain justice through monetary means. The largest sum of money granted to an individual was to David Milgaard who received ten-million dollars, Ivan henry was given eight-million dollars for the 27 years he spent wrongfully imprisoned. Miscarriages of Justice are serious offences, since often they deprive individuals of their rights and also undermine the proceedings of the Justice system. The mistakes made in interpreting evidence, collecting or gathering evidence, and the information…

Eyewitness misidentification has been the predominant cause of erroneous convictions. A study by the Innocence Project shows that it plays a role in 72% of justice miscarriages. However, eyewitness testimony is considered compelling evidence and has been the foundation upon which many cases have been brought to trial. Factors like weapon focus effect, forgetting curve, cross racial identification, communication with witness after identification and memory contamination, contribute to eye witness…

Here is how misidentification often occurs: A crime is committed, the victim claims they have a vivid memory of the perpetrator, a composite sketch is created and the victim chooses a suspect from the photo and physical lineup. The investigators think they have caught the perpetrator and done justice. They are often times wrong. Eyewitness misidentification has been known as the leading cause of wrongful conviction. A study by the Innocence projects depicts that it plays a role in 72% of…

Unjust Convictions, it Could have Been You Have you ever felt like your parents have punished you unjustly, and you were mad because you couldn 't play with the other kids and it wasn 't even your fault? For some people this injustice is much worse, because instead of being grounded, they are spending their lives in prison for crimes that they didn 't even commit, some have even died without ever finding justice. Besides that is extremely difficult to prove someone 's innocence, although…

Frequent exonerations of innocent parties affect the entire legal system in a myriad of ways. Perhaps no challenge is greater to the integrity of the American criminal justice system than that of the conviction of innocent individuals. Since the1990’s when DNA evidence became more widely known and accepted, a great deal of attention has been focused on wrongly condemned individuals and their post-conviction exonerations. In many of these cases, defendants had been sentenced to death and were…

Wrongful convictions can be defined as any defendant that is wrongfully convicted of a crime for any reason that the defendant did not do or wrongful/misleading evidence that leads to the conviction of the defendant. It can also be seen as if they had pleaded guilty to any charges that were filed against him in a court of law and he was innocent of committing the crime. There is a rising concern among criminal justice professionals and policy makers about the wrongful conviction of innocent…

Barry Scheck worked his way up the ladder of the law field slowly, but surely. Beginning in 1987, Scheck was the personal lawyer for Hedda Nussbaum. Through rigorous work, blood, sweat and tears Scheck got all charges dropped against Nussbaum and then got Joel Sternberg, her abuser, arrested in criminal court as well as sued in civil court. Then in 1995 Scheck joined the O.J. Simpson trial. Earning him large amounts of publicity. Scheck was the DNA examiner for the O.J. case.He crossed the…

The Use of DNA Testing Problems are a part of everyday life; some are just bigger than others. Problems within the judicial system are very important issues to be covered. There is a reason that this is a problem and many proposed solutions. DNA testing needs to be used in the judicial system to help eliminate wrongfully convicted citizens. DNA evidence is not used enough in trials. This is a problem because states have the technology and resources available to them and still conviction…

Eyewitness Identification The California Innocence Project website states that eyewitness misidentification is a primary cause of wrongful convictions. Up to a quarter of eyewitness identifications in cases of strangers are incorrect. Despite the high rate of error in eyewitness identification, eyewitnesses can provide the most damning evidence against a suspect. Several reasons explain the high error rate in eyewitness identification. One reason is the stress and anxiety that individuals feel…

Journal 5 Some people say that our legal system has many issues and that it needs to be fixed. Some of these include testilying and false convictions of innocent people. Although there may be some issues there are 3 main reasons why we can't take time to make sure our legal system always successfully convicts the right person. One of the main reason that convictions of innocent people are not happening as often are because of the new Technology that has been created to work with DNA. Years ago,…