Suspect

The Fifth Amendment of the United States’ Constitution concentrates on the criminal and civil legal proceedings. Additionally, it is considered one component of The Bill of Rights. Research by the Legal Information Institute (n.d.) Illustrated that The Fifth Amendment is divided into criminal and civil laws. In criminal circumstances, it guarantees the right to a grand jury, forbids double jeopardy, and protects against self-incrimination. In terms of civil rights, it requires that due process…

requirements for official usage of informers given the name of ‘covert human intelligence sources’ and they can work with the central and local government agencies, police and regulatory agencies. Some countries like the US have defence legislation for the suspect when he or she is provoked to commit a crime by immoral acts of informers, thus leading to the justification of the usage of informers in criminal cases (Weston, Lushbaugh and Wells, 2000). There is no such defence mechanism for…

factors and influences. The two main reasons why, are “relative judgement” and “absolute judgement”. When simultaneous lineups are being conducted, “eyewitnesses are more likely to use relative judgement – they select a suspect who looks most like the perpetrator relative to other suspects in the lineup”. (Wells, 1984) When I took psychology last year at a different university, I knew of the “three stages of human information processing” because they are what everyone uses on a daily basis when…

One night a father walked down to his basement finding his seven year old daughter dead. On December 26, 1996 in Boulder, California, Patsy got up from her sleep to get a glass of milk, on her way down she found a ransom note indicating that someone had their daughter, Jonbenet Ramsey and to get her back safely they would have to pay a fee of 118,000. Patsy ran upstairs and woke up her husband John and they called the police immediately because, they thought Jonbenet had been kidnapped from the…

"The Complete Jack the Ripper" "The Complete Jack the Ripper" by Donald Rumbelow is an in-depth book that looks at the theories', murders, and suspects. of Jack the Ripper and the crimes that were committed in Whitechapel. He even looked at the more unlikely suspects very thoroughly. It was originally published in 1975 but has been revised since then. Donald Rumbelow was an London policeman and a crime historian. He is also a tour guide on the Jack the Ripper Walk in London. He has several…

Police officers and prosecutors work together to make sure that they are well-prepared for court. Police officers posses the cases originally and then they are handed over to the State's attorney's office, where they are prepared for court. Misdemeanor cases start at the district court level, here the officer and the prosecutor work together in order to prepare all of the evidence in the State's possession, make sure that all witnesses have been interviewed, and that the case is ready to go to…

had been destroyed. However, the Innocence Project investigators found that less sophisticated forensic testing used in 1982 showed that Swift did not commit the crime, but the jury never heard this evidence. The victim picking out the seven other suspects before selecting Swift, was never presented to the defense attorneys or prosecutors. On top of everything else, Lawrence R. Greene, Swift’s court-appointed trial attorney, failed to follow up on the identification process during trial and did…

they have recently been released from the North Carolina’s death row, as DNA evidence has finally established the guilt of another man. The reason why I chose this article is because the two brothers, who were convicted in this case, were vulnerable suspects as they were under the age of nineteen and had a mental disability. According to research, false confessions by minors have recently been increasing during the last couple of years, because minors tend to comply with authority figures, as…

Department. Delving further into Terry’s personal life, the investigators confirms that “other than the fact that nothing's there, there's nothing that would raise any flags.” (Egan). Above all, Terry Hobbs, from that point in time, had become an indirect suspect for the case, due to the evidence developed against…

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 officers should warn the witnesses that they should not be obligated or pressured to…