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girls and sexually assaulting them on May 2, 1991 due to eyewitness misinterpretation. Both girls identified the culprit as Abbitt separately in a photo lineup despite having limited view of the attacker’s face; Abbitt had previously lived in the neighbourhood and visited their home on a previous occasion. Treating him as the primary suspect, police collected evidence such as clothing from the scene and conducted DNA tests on them, producing results that were either inconclusive or did not match Abbitt

rules of the court system that he or she has sworn to tell the truth during examination” (Chevigny , 1969). “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

real life case of noble cause corruption. The New York Times (2008) reported that an investigation was initiated on a New York Police Department narcotics unit when Detectives Johnstone and Ofc. Alvarez claimed to have recovered 17 bags of cocaine, rather than the 28 bags they actually recovered from a drug suspect in September. The next day Detective Johnstone, in a police vehicle, was overheard on a departmental tape recording bragging to another officer about the

a free citizen therefore a police officer may search their persons and any areas that are within their reach. An example can be Mary is arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. She was stopped after swerving through the road and going at a very slow speed. A search of her vehicle found narcotics in the passenger side of the vehicle. She was herself and that was within her wingspan. • Consent- this is where individual volunteers to give consent to the police officers to enter the premises

Today, Canadian’s lives today are as translucent as ever. Most organizations especially the government constantly watches each and every one of our moves. By definition, surveillance is any systematic focus on any information in order to influence, manage, entitle, or control those whose information is collected. (Bennet et Al, 6). From driving to the shopping mall to withdrawing money from the ATM machine, Canadians are being watched constantly. With Canada’s commitment to advance technology and

arrest, John voluntarily began to make incriminating statements to the arresting officers. At the police station, detectives conducted an interview of John asking him about the theft. John Doe has had no prior arrests, is 35 years old, and most of John Doe’s family still resides in his home country. Due to the amount of

Errol Morris confirms this reality based on a true story of an innocent convicted Randal Adams for a criminal case by creating a film, The Thin Blue Line. David Harris, an important accuser, claims Adams was a murderer and shot Robert Wood, a Dallas police officer. With Morris’ suspicion of Adam's’ innocence, he turns himself to be a detective movie director and investigates the criminal case that occurred in Dallas, Texas in 1976. His goal is to show that Adams was wrongly convicted and justice system

In March of 1963, the Phoenix Police Department brought in an accused to their departments to investigate him. Upon arriving to the police department two detectives interrogated him about the rape of a mildly, handicap young woman and a kidnap. After two hours of interrogating the suspect, Ernesto Miranda, confessed to the crime just after the detectives told him the victim had identified him in a lineup. Ernesto Miranda was found guilty of both crimes and was sentenced to twenty to thirty years

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS Constitutional Protections in Criminal Investigations What are constitutional rights and why are they so important to us? Our Constitutional rights are in place to protect us from wrongful conviction and improper police behavior. Originally these rights were made in reaction to the abusive conduct displayed by British authorities during Colonial times. Without the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, we would not be a democracy, but instead we would become a communist

Can anyone imagine the life of an individual suffering in prison knowing they are actually innocent from the very beginning of trial, but the judge still sentences them to twenty years in prison or the death penalty? The teenage years and mid-twenties heading into the thirties are supposed to be the best time in life for any individual, but also imagine all of those years taken away because the time spent in prison. No marriage, no more activities with kids or watching them grow up, can’t travel