Police lineup

Photographic identification is more common than lineups and show-ups; however, judges have expressed their fear that the absence of the requirement of counsel at photographic identification "confrontations" might encourage police to abuse the identification process. (Wasberg, 2009) A “photo array” is a head-and-shoulders (mug shot) of the suspect and other mug shot pictures of people of similar age, race, and description, which a witness or victim attempts to pick the perpetrator. (Wasberg,…

Jennifer stated that when it was happening she just wanted to memorize his face so that if she lived through the horrible crime she would be able to identify him. Later on, Jennifer chose Ronald Cotton, a black restaurant dish washer, out of a photo lineup as the assailant. And chose Cotton in a live line up a second time. She was more than sure that it was him. Ronald was convicted in January 1985 by the jury for the crime. Evidence presented in the case included similarities of a flashlight…

an eye witness, ineffective assistance of the defense counsel, police or prosecutorial misconduct, and false…

is handcuffed and placed into police custody. The podcast entitled Miranda v Arizona by the author South East Texas CJ (2015) highlights why reading suspects their rights is so important. Miranda V Arizona was a case involving a female victim who was restrained, kidnapped, and raped in the year of 1963 in Phoenix Arizona. The woman was released near her home. Officer later arrested Mexican Immigrant, Ernesto Miranda who was taken into custody placed in a lineup and later identified by the…

convicted of the rape and murder of Deborah Sykes. This case, as established in the documentary “The Trials of Darryl Hunt,” is surrounded by many issues dealing to Hunt’s conviction. Of these issues, a couple stood out the most; police corruption, prosecution misconduct, photo lineup, false testimony, eyewitness testimony, jury selection, and so forth. As a tool, to help provide a better analysis, course materials will be used. Before moving forward and exploring deeper into the…

As Crime continues to be on the horizon across the globe, detectives will need accurate information before pressing criminal charges. There are several ways eyewitness can identify a suspect from either a police lineup or police sketch. This gives witnesses the opportunity to poitn out the person who could have committed the crime (Arkowitz,Lilienfeld, 2010). Psychologists have found that memory can be reconstructed rather than playing back, even questioning can lead to inaccurate recall…

focuses on the judicial blindness of eyewitness misidentification of innocent defendants in the U.S. Judicial blindness refers to how the system refuses to initiate a proposal for reform of police procedures, that could in-turn minimize identification error. Viewed in this research are methods such as having lineups and photo arrays to be conducted in person by experts who do not know the suspect, thus minimizing suggestion. What goes un-noticed by the system is that eyewitness confidence levels…

make sure that your rights are protected: • Don’t discuss anything about the incident with the police • Don’t mouth off, be rude or antagonize the police • Don’t run from the police • Don’t discuss the incident with anyone other than your lawyer • Don’t give the police permission to perform a search of anything • Don’t resist arrest • Don’t touch the officers in any way • Don’t believe anything the police tell you in order to get you to answer…

“There 's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get,” said John Grisham. What he said was exactly true; regardless of race, gender, height or weight, we all judge people and assume stereotypes about them. Dating back to the late 1800s up to current times, there is a list of numerous government officials and their committed crimes in each presidency. In nearly all of these cases, the punishment, if proven guilty, was miniscule compared to what a citizen would face…

ABC News held a recent experiment where they staged a purse snatching in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park. The object of the scenario is to give awareness on primetime that human perception is faulty and can lead to the imprisonment of innocent people. Actors were hired to play the victim and the criminal. The criminal walked up to the victim and asked if he could use her pen to write a phone number down. The criminal then proceeded to yell and then snatch her purse. The victim immediately turned to…