Police lineup

eyewitness statements, bias police forces, or even planted evidence have been proven innocent and released from prison. Many of these victims have been able to overturn their conviction by turning towards a lengthy appeals process or through the assistance of innocent project foundations. One of the most prominent cases that has attracted the attention of the United States public is that of Steven Avery. The trials and tribulations of Steven Avery…

Forensic evidence is when one uses specific objects to trace specific evidence one leaves, especially in a crime scene or a certain accident. Eyewitness identification involves selecting from a police lineup or could be something else. After selecting the suspect, most eyewitnesses are asked to make a formal statement. Many eyewitness testimony are misleading and one can change their mind at any given time. For example; a man named Gary Beeman was…

in the American criminal justice system, people are convicted for crime they have not occurred. Wrongful convictions are the cause of people having convictions that they did not deserve. Many factors cause a wrong conviction. Some of the causes are police misconduct, forensic errors, inaccurate confessions, and judicial mistakes. Wrongful Convictions America’s justice system has convicted innocent people in America. One of the primary issues with wrong convictions is false identity. In…

person. Many of the people saw different things; from different shirt or hair color; to even different races. While some of the percipients recalled every fine detail, or the person, to what what was stolen. Other people were asked to look at a photo lineup of suspects. But they asked some of the percipients 2 different types of questions. Is the person that you saw here, or which one of the people here did you see? The people that were asked the first question didn’t always find the suspect.…

He was placed in a lineup and identified as the alleged rapist by Rebecca Ann Johnson. Later, he was taken into questioning not being told that he had the right to an attorney or the right to remain silent before being interrogated (Riley 41). Miranda was asked various questions…

actually what eyewitness identification is all about. A person as the eyewitness should remember factors of intrinsic, (built-in) and extrinsic (outward) memory; which is the procedure for their memory, on the contrary it can be misleading evidence. Lineups are part of an identification process and based on an eyewitness identification, which could be a problem a criminal can be either guilty or innocent which his/her freedom could be placed in jeopardy (Walker, 2013). Being a one of…

Before June 13th 1966, police questioning of suspects in custody was covered by the "voluntariness" doctrine. Under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, courts would admit a defendant 's confession into evidence if it was voluntary, but excluded any involuntary confession.3 The law curtailed police misconduct in securing confessions and exemplifies judicial activism. Yet many dare to question the impacts…

scanning the whole scene of the crime for any type of evidence such as: fingerprints, hair, footprints, blood, bodily fluids or anything else admissible to find the perpetrator. I also think we need to better educate our officers. Right now, hardly any police departments require higher that a high school diploma or its equivalent. I think requiring a higher education, or offering some type of higher education program for officers would implement better policing practice from…

In police lineups, the police have a hypothesis, collect responses and interpret the results. The same factors that can bias the results of scientific experiment can bias eyewitness testimony in picking up suspects out of the lineup. Wells showed that there are a number of ways police can avoid biasing the eyewitness testimony. For instance, a lineup should be double blind. This means that the police officers in charge do not know who the possible suspect might be. Furthermore, the police…

photograph or police line-up. The crucial role here plays the officer, who should choose the fillers for the fair lineup, and give the eyewitness instructions before the lineup. The eyewitnesses, in most cases, will suggest the suspect’s facial features as the main factor in identification. Thus, the police lineup should consist of the fillers with the similar appearance as the suspect, to avoid any of them standing-out in the lineup. If the actual suspect has a distinctive feature, the police…