Miscarriage

The Evidences- where the case went wrong: According to the file there was just one evidence against Morton and that evidence was a note found at the crime scene. That note was signed with “I L Y,” for I love you, and “M,” for Michael, who was Christine’s husband. (Bazelon, 2012). That note was all about a husband’s anger over his wife as she did not let him have sex with her at the night of Morton’s birthday. But that of course was not an enough evidence to prove someone guilty of homicide. It…

It is unbelievable the number of exonerees who have been convicted for a crime they did not commit. An exoneree is a person who has been proven innocent after being convicted for a crime they did not do. To exonerate means to release them when proven innocent. There are many factors taken in place and mistakes done by the criminal justice system that has led to wrongful conviction and even death sentences. Why are innocents convicted? There are three factors that can lead someone to be…

. Another very important piece of policing that has also evolved with the times is police interrogation methods. An interrogation is when someone examines a suspect by questioning them formally. The biggest difference in interrogation methods used in the past compared to the more modern method is between the confrontational and non-confrontational methods. Confrontational interrogation, also known as the Reid Technique, is an aggressive way to obtain a confession. It begins by a fact finding…

Texas has 125 records of wrongful convictions since 1989. Unlawfully charging someone with a crime they did not commit, barely looking at the evidence, wrongly convicting someone so they are sentenced to life in prison was the case for both Randolph Arledge and Kennedy Brewer . Randolph Arledge was convicted for the murder of Carolyn Armstrong and Kennedy Brewer for the slaying of Christina Jackson. Both Brewer and Arledge have what they were charged for, evidence behind the story, why they were…

Dr. Zieva Konvisser, a professor at Wayne State University, who conducted the interview with the defendant, Ms. Julie Baumer examined the psychological, emotional, and family impacts revolving around Ms. Baumer case. This interview was conducted for an emotional standpoint, and it gave insight on how the family felt as well as how Ms. Baumer reaction throughout the entire process. Ms. Baumer came from a large family and was raised Catholic, she was living the American dream and was a loan…

False Eyewitness Testimonies Gene Bibbins life forever changed when a thirteen-year-old girl, under the intense pressure of interrogation, unknowingly convicted him of a crime that he was not responsible for. False eyewitness testimonies can arise from the most innocent, knowingly honest and sincere statements. The issue of false eyewitness testimonies in the United States' justice system is one that can influence a person's life in a negative and in an overall degrading way. Though false…

Psychological studies have contributed to our understanding that there are many factors that lead cases to be exonerated at court. Factors such as: eye witnesses, juries, false confessions and biases. Using studies from Peter J. van Koppen and Shara K. Lochun, and Tim Newburn, we can understand how unreliable eyewitnesses can be to a crime and how juries can be unreliable as a judging panel, respectively. Using Keith A. Findley’s research we can comprehend how false confessions and biases come…

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…

Miscarriage of Justice On January 18, 1985, Ronald Cotton was sentenced to life in prison plus fifty years (Thompson-Cannino, Cotton, & Torneo 2009). An innocent man’s life changed on that day, this does not minimize the fact that a woman was raped and violated and she picked the wrong guy in the line up, this young man turned himself in, confident he had nothing to hide but his world was shattered when he walked into the trap of fitting a profile of a line up, he walked into a “Harsh and…

Washington Institute for Public and International Affairs Research at American University and his team of researchers conducted a three year, first of its kind, large-scale empirical study Predicting Erroneous Convictions: A Social Science Approach to Miscarriages of Justice employing social scientific methods. It was funded by NIJ, and an NIJ video features Gould discussing wrongful convictions. After identifying 460 cases employing sophisticated analytical methods matched with a qualitative…