Police lineup

Jerome White, he was misidentified as the man who raped and robbed a 74 year old women, by the victim herself (6 weeks later), which resulted in him spending 28 years in prison. To make it worse the actual guilty man, James Edward Parham, was in the lineup one person away from Mr. White and he was not caught again until he raped another victim. Many errors were made in how the case was handled and although they were not intentional they still magnify problems in the justice system and how we view our

Theodore Robert Cowell, more notoriously known as Ted Bundy, was born in Burlington, Vermont on November 24, 1946. Bundy was raised by his grandparents for the first three years of his life in order to avoid public disgrace from their community due to the fact that Bundy’s mother had him out of wedlock. As a young boy, Bundy was under the notion, along with the community around him, that his grandparents were his parents and his mother was his older sister. At the age of four, his mother left with

show eyewitness lineups is someone who doesn’t know anything including the detectives, for example: a double-blind scientific experiment—neither the witness nor the presiding officer should know in advance whether the suspect is in the lineup. Double-blinding is central to the scientific method because it minimizes the risk that experimenters might inadvertently bias the outcome of their research, finding only what they expected to find. But it leaves the question of exactly how police departments should

INTRODUCTION There is wrongful conviction when a person who is innocent in the charges leveled against him is found guilty of the offenses and as a result have to serve the penalty for it. There is also wrongful conviction when a person who committed a crime is found innocent due to lack of enough evidence to convict the accomplice and as a result the innocent percent person is convicted. In a nutshell conviction is said to be wrong when an innocent person is found guilty and the guilty person

this society, it is meant to protect and serve. This “system” is also meant to maintain the peace and enforce the laws set by the government. However, the criminal justice system is not even close to perfect. It has many flaws, some of which are: police brutality, death penalty, mass incarceration, gun violence, and especially wrongful convictions. A majority of the flaws that the system has can be easily fixed and can be set straight. For example, the issue of wrongful convictions has been relevant

task with the correct tools. The police officer needs to be able to communicate with the accident victims, another officer, the department, or even the dispatcher. There are different types of accidents that may occur such as fire accidents, auto accidents, homicides, robberies and

CASE STUDY: MARTIN FRANKEL Many people in society are unsure on what white collar crime actually is. There are different opinions on what white collar crime should be defined as. A strong definition would be any violation of criminal, civil or regulatory laws or unethical actions committed in the course of one’s occupation. These individuals are usually very respectable in society and have “high-status”. White collar crime is much larger than your traditional street crime: It harms a larger pool

is controllable by the criminal justice system. These variables are within the procedure of attaining evidences. For instance, post-identification feedback (e.g., confirming feedback that an eyewitness receives), biased lineup/ photo array composition, biased administrators of lineup can negatively influences Eye-ID. The second primary cause of wrongful conviction is due to unreliable or improper forensic science and forensic misconduct. The Innocence Project asserts that most forensic science (e.g

Basketball Story It was the biggest basketball game in East Davidson High School history, and it was coming down to the wire. The starting point guard Corey Shriller, a junior had already scored 33 points and was looking forward to his first state title, but Saint Thomas High School was standing in his way and leading by 2 with 24 seconds left on the clock. Saint Thomas had the ball and Corey was forced to foul. Corey darted towards a Saint Thomas Guard named Noah Simmons and took him out.

A conventional method for lineups, show-ups, and photographic arrays when watching a television show such as Law and Order have witness view several people through a one-way glass to identify the person they saw commit the crime. “According to the Innocence Project, eyewitness misidentification is the greatest cause of wrongful convictions, with nearly 75% of overturned convictions resulting from misidentification” (Naito, 2014). However, since I have been working as a law enforcement officer I have