Police lineup

Today’s legal system is set up to try and prevent mistakes as much as possible as not to arrest or convict innocent people (Bohm and Haley, 2014.) As the population in the United States grows, crime grows, and limited space in our correction facilities grow, I believe that some would think the miscarriages of justice will rise. I think that we now have the tools and technology available to us to reduce the number of false convictions. If the justice system uses the available technology today correctly

Next, I would like to discuss the retention period between Mr. Greer wanting to provide a statement to police. When police went to the apartment and seized the knife on March 1st, it was laying on the foot of the bed in the bedroom, with the only DNA on it is Mr. Greer’s blood. Mr. Greer was hospitalized and treated for four stab wounds, three lower back and one in the shoulder during that time Mr. Greer did not provide a statement and refused to identify the suspect. It wasn’t until after Mr. Greer

something they had no involvement in. There are many theories to explain why witnesses may identify the wrong person as the perpetrator of a crime. The different ways we retrieve memories affects what we remember. Other theories have to deal with how lineups or photo arrays are displayed to the witness and the effect they have on the result. All of the different theories of how our memories can be influenced, cause people to argue

In 2001, more than roughly 200 innocent people were convicted of crimes that they did not commit. All of these cases had one thing in common: mistaken eyewitness identification. According to Webster dictionary, an eyewitness identification can be summed up by someone who sees something happen and is able to describe it. In reality, mistaken eyewitness identification has become a huge complication in the United States, because of the difficulties that follow it. Mistaken eyewitness identification

System Unit Essay Marvin Anderson is a man who was falsely accused of abduction, rape, robbery, and sodomy. This is his story. On July 17, 1982, a young woman was raped by a black man whom she said was a total stranger. After she reported the crime, a police officer singled out Anderson as a suspect because the perpetrator had told the victim that he “had a white girl,” and Anderson was the only black man the officer knew who lived with a white woman. Because Anderson had no criminal record, the officer

and under a full moon outdoors, testified that she had absolutely no doubt the respondent was her attacker. Before the show up where the victim identified her assailant, she had not made any identification of others present in previous show ups, lineups, or through pictures. The court held that the fact that the show up was considered suggestive and did not make the identification inadmissible under the due process clause. Therefore, her testimony was considered reliable. I personally agree with

Front-Line and Predisposing Contributors to Wrongful Incarceration The United States prides itself on having robust, deeply entrenched measures implemented across its core agencies, including the police and criminal justice system, to safeguard against wrongfully convicting people who, after further reflection, are factually found to be innocent. As citizens, we have been educated to trust, among other things, that our systems protect the notions that one is innocent until proven guilty and that

Three Photo Spread Analysis 28 June 2015 Subject: Dennis arrested for stealing. Memorandum: A young woman named Vicky was at the mall where she had her purse stolen from her by a white male. The only description that Vicky can give to the police is that the assailant was a white male, “approximately 25 to 35 years old, tall, perhaps close to six feet, somewhat stocky. She recalls him as having dark blond hair and does not recollect facial hair.” (UMUC, 2015) William, a 6'4" male, witnesses

The lawyer would use their specific tactics of negotiation and sometimes fear to get into the mind of the eyewitness, therefore causing the eyewitness to experience errors in their memory while on the stand during a heavy trial. Moveover, the significant errors that can occur during these important moments that the eyewitness tries to recall the memories of their horrific and/or pleasant memories can be either forgotten or interpreted in an entirely different way or tone. Therefore giving the lawyer

A police must say the order in which they question the suspect and read the suspect her or her righs. of are if not gien then the case turns out to a similar fashion to the decision of Fellers v U.S. Fellers V U.S is when two police officers went to the home of John J, Fellers to arrest him because of an indictment for conspiracy to distrivute methamphetamine. They