Analysis Of The Article ' The Snitch System '

Jarrell Milton was initially charged as a juvenile with first-degree murder, but the prosecutors said “that they did not believe Jarrell Milton was the shooter, and his charges were reduced.” The Judge ordered Jarrell to be held at the youth center in secure placement for as of now. The Judge also said “if he was found guilty he would not go to prison, but he would go to a facility known as Boys Town or a rehab center in Kearney and remain under the court’s jurisdiction until the age of 19.” As for the Jamar and Shuntayvious Primes-Willis they were both charged as adults with first-degree murder. Jamar’s attorney requested that his case be moved to juvenile court, but his request got denied mostly because of his age. Primes-Willis also made

“It is difficult to prove a causal relationship between permissible investigative and interrogatory deception and testimonial deception.  Police freely admit to deceiving suspects and defendants.  They do not admit to perjury, much less to the rationalization of perjury.  There is evidence, however of the acceptability of perjury as a means to the end of conviction.  The evidence is limited and fragmentary and is certainly not dispositive” (Skolnick, 1982).

Many of today’s interrogation models being utilized in police investigations have an impact on false confessions. The model that has been in the public eye recently is the social psychological process model of interrogation known as the “The Reid Technique.” There are two alternatives used by the police today to replace the Reid Technique, one is the PEACE Model and the other is Cognitive Interviewing. These methods are not interrogation techniques like Reid but interview processes.

She later confessed to the grand jury that she held a disposable cigarette lighter burning while Adams, Rainge, Jimerson, and Williams raped Schmal seven times. She also stated that she saw Williams shoot both victims with a .38-caliber pistol. On June 19, Gray recanted her story at a preliminary hearing, claiming that she had been drugged and that the police walked her around the crime scene and told her what to say. Since Jimerson was only implicated by Gray’s recanted testimony, the charges against him were dismissed (Center on Wrongful Convictions, 2012). Gray was then convicted for perjury and as an accomplice because of her recantation. While incarcerated she agreed to be a witness for the prosecution of Dennis Williams who won one a new trial in

In order to comprehend the contribution of psychology to areas of criminal investigation it is important to evaluate research into two of the following areas of criminal investigation: eye witness testimony and offender profiling as well as assess the implications of the findings in the area of criminal investigation. In addition, this essay, with reference to relevant psychological research, discuss how the characteristics of the defendant may influence jury behaviour as well as analyse two psychological influences on the decision making process of juries. In order to improve the efficiency of detection and successful prosecution of crime it is important to underline that in a previous administration, detection of serious crime was poor and eyewitness testimony appeared very unreliable, partly due to standard interview techniques yielding confusing results. It is therefore this essays primary focus is to provide the chief constable with a report explaining how psychologists might be able to improve this situation with a full evaluation of process and evidence.

Psychological research shows that eyewitness testimony is not always accurate, therefore it should not be used in the criminal justice system. Discuss.

Renegotiation of reality occurs when, by virtue of the institutionalized process of police interrogations, the suspect perceives that his initial reality holds no value to the interrogator or to the outcome of the interrogation, when he lacks agency to defend his reality, and when there is no other option. In this paper, I will illustrate how each of these factors facilitates false confessions and will use the Norfolk Four case as my vehicle for exploration and analysis.

Police interrogate suspects on a daily basis, but how can they tell if the confession is real? We have all heard, at one time or another of someone confessing to a crime they didn’t commit. Then your next thought is “I would never confess to something I didn’t do”. The only way you can be a 100% sure of that is if you have been through an interrogation before. This paper is going to define “confession” and tell how an innocent person will confesses to a crime they didn’t commit. This paper will also show the history of interrogations.

After reading the case study summary it can be seen that there are many problems with the investigation of Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz. This section focuses on how jailhouse informants were used in unethical way to get a conviction. Jailhouse informants were one of the main reasons as to why Ron and Dennis were convicted. Giannelli (2007) states, in his article that jailhouse informants should be removed from the courtroom due to their unreliability. There are many causes as to why jailhouse informants should be removed from testifying. The first, is credibility of the informant, as seen during the testimony jailhouse informant’s testimonies were fabricated. The key witness Terri Holland was going to face her third felony when she supposedly heard Ron Williamson confess of the crime. However, this testimony should have been challenged by the defense because she did not

The topic of wrongful convictions will be discussed in this research paper. Wrongful conviction is defined as the conviction of a person who is accused of a crime in which, in the result of subsequent investigation, proves erroneous. These persons who are in fact innocent, will be wrongly convicted by a jury or a court of law.

As the District Attorney, my job consists often of evaluating the competency of our local legal system and its processes. Due to the rather high levels of incarceration in this city, and the recent increase in use of forensic evidence, it has been proposed that recent research upon the topic of bias within forensic investigators be considered. This research incorporates information about confirmation bias, and personal stereotypes within the forensic community. In the study done by Brusko and Ibrahim, they looked to examine these qualities and how they affect wrongful incarcerations. Thus, by examining the information and the results obtained in this study, we hope to gain new insight into what may affect our incarceration rates and how false convictions factor in.

When I planned this project, it was influenced by two TV shows documentary: “Investigation Discovery (ID) ” and “The Fifth Estate .” Some of the episodes on these TV shows (e.g., “False Confessions, Wrongful Convictions”, “Solved”, and “The Interrogation Room”), which encouraged me to learn more about mistaken within the criminal justice system, notably, youth suspects. I have taken into consideration the innocent youth years in

According to Forrest and Woody (2010), “False-evidence ploys raise particular concerns in the social science community because false-evidence ploys increase the likelihood of false confession in laboratory studies” (p. 9). Utilizing deception and trickery to gain false confessions from suspects will hinder an officer’s ethical decision making; furthermore, it can also create a lack of trust and confidence between the police and community they serve. When utilizing false-evidence ploys, there will be primary and secondary costs to society. False confessions are the primary cost for wrongful-imprisonment, and the wrongfully accused must suffer years or even decades of incarceration (Forrest & Woody, 2010). False confessions will also effect the community because the actual offender is still at large as police officers failed to apprehend the actual offender after a suspect untruthfully confesses (Forrest & Woody, 2010). The secondary costs of false-evidence ploys affect the legal system and society in various ways. First, deceptions that police officers utilize during interrogations could easily cause officers to lie in court proceeding, magistrates and internal affair detectives (Forrest & Woody, 2010). Secondly, deception will escalate anger in perpetrators who has been deceived and in return they will respond with great aggression and violence (Forrest & Woody, 2010). In order to prevent the aforementioned effects of false-evidence ploys, “defense attorneys should attempt to introduce an expert witness in the area of false confessions to educate jurors about the little-known, manipulative, and potentially deceptive nature of police interrogation” (Forrest & Woody, 2010, p.

In 1995, two criminal psychologists decided it was necessary to undertake studies into this particular area of eye witness testimonies. They felt the need to identify factors that must be taken into account when judging the value of the account given by the witness. Cutler and Penrod, after completing, their investigation into the subject they decided that there were seven main factors that must be considered. “A contrary finding is reported by Cutler, Dexter and Penrod (1990) who found that judges’ instructions failed to increase the scepticism . . . concerning eye witness evidence” (Feldman, 1993: p120)

According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 11, “Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense” (Claiming Human Rights). This right to the presumption of innocence is a basic human right, which everyone is entitled to because a human right is a right one has because one is human. However, in some cases people do not presume ‘innocent until proven guilty’ perspective, rather their thinking is the opposite, ‘guilty until proven innocent’. This is illustrated in the case of Denice Haraway, who one day disappeared from her job at a convenience store in Ada, Oklahoma. The police took off on a relentless mission to capture the person(s) responsible for this heinous act and, they did everything in their power to bring someone or anyone to justice, which they did when they arrested Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot. Even though they repeatedly said they were innocent, but everyone including the police believed them to be responsible because they ‘confessed’ to committing the crime, a confession based on a dream. This paper will illustrate the reasons that are relevant to the innocence of these two men. The one factor that is persisted throughout this case is the incompetent efforts of the law enforcement such as inadequate efforts on the crimes scenes leading to lost of evidence, not following proper protocol in