A Piece of String Editorial

How would you feel if you were falsely accused of committing an act that you are not responsible for and could have potentially changed what people thought of you for a very long time? On July 27, 1996 someone had made an anonymous phone call, stating that a bomb will explode in the Atlanta Olympics during the Summer Olympics. In this tragic event, one-hundred people and one deceased. A man named Richard Jewell was deceitfully accused of being the bomber of the Atlantic Olympic Bombing. Jewell denied playing any sort of role in the bombing occurrence. The bomber was not considered a suspect until two years later in February. Eric Robert Rudolph who placed the bomb at the Atlanta Olympics was also in a connection with three other bombings. It becomes ironic that the police officers can be in a dramatic rush to find who was responsible for the acts that were committed, they rush to figure it out also to keep the crime off of the streets and to be punished for committing an act of wrong doing. There are other cases where the police have accused innocently people of committing a crime in which they have not done. An example of this would also be the Boston Marathon, where bombing had all mad an occurrence at this event.

The body of this paper will examine the case of Pamela Foddrill and compare what happened in that real criminal investigation to the theory of criminal investigation discussed in our course textbook, Criminal Investigation: The Art and the Science. I will first examine the forensics evidence and

Captive of a G-string: An Analysis of literary techniques in Nicola Barker’s short story “G-String”

• The accused/accusers will be given the opportunity to respond by a meeting or put their response in writing to the claims made against them and speak about any relevant evidence.

Wrongful convictions are common in the court-system. In fact, wrongful convictions are not the rare events that you see or hear on televisions shows, but are very common. They stem from some sort of systematic defect that lead to wrongful convictions such as, eyewitness misidentification testimony, unvalidated or improper forensic science, false confessions and incriminating statements, DNA lab errors, false confessions, and informants (2014). Bringing awareness to all these systematic defects, which result in wrongful, is important because it will better adjust the system to avoid making the same mistakes with future cases. However, false confession is not a systematic defect. It does not occur because files were misplaced or a lab technician put one too many drops. False confessions occur because of some of psychological attempt to protect oneself and their family. Thus, the courts responsibility should be to reduce these false confessions.

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The first in a series of similarities is that, in some cases, evidence was merely a ‘he said’ ‘she said’ situation. For instance, in the book John Proctor said “I---I have no witness and cannot prove it, except my word be taken,” (Miller 68). In this case, Proctor was trying to prove that these girls had nothing to do with witchcraft, but he had no evidence to go off of. This is similar to assault cases in which the victim had waited too long to speak up about it and the evidence was gone by then. There is nothing rock-hard to go on except one’s word. The trust is gone from both situations because so many people are accusing so many others, and not many people will choose to trust in that situation. Because of this, many arguments turn into one’s word against the other’s. While this is

“Like most people, I indulge in small falsehoods and still think of myself as an honest person. Sure I lie, but it doesn’t hurt anything. Or does it” (3)? The selection lists ten types of lies. Those types are: the white lie, facades, ignoring the plain facts, deflecting, omission, stereotypes and cliché, groupthink, out-and-out lies, dismissal, and delusion. The white lie is used when the truth is more harmful than a lie. A facade is when you hide your true self and put on a mask for

What does the prosecution need to prove in the courtroom for a person to be convicted of a criminal offence? (2 marks)

Confessions have become one of the most valued pieces of evidence in the criminal justice system. What many people, including jurors, may not know is that the process to obtain a confession can vary greatly. Many confessions can be coerced by very abnormal and dangerous situations. A prime example of a suggestive interrogation with a false confession comes from the documentary titled Murder on a Sunday Morning. Alongside, the analysis of the confession given in this documentary will be the critical analysis of three separate academic articles with findings that could have better served the defendant of this case.

Determining a false confession proves difficult due to the multitude of dimensions involved. According to Kassin and Wrightsman’s (1985) survey of the literature, there are three main types of false confessions—voluntary, coerced-compliant, and coerced-internalized. Unlike coerced false confessions, voluntary false confessions arise as a result of someone willingly turning themselves into the police with an account of their crime (McCann, 1998). Voluntary false confessions can result from multiple motives, including an internalized need for punishment or to save someone else’s face. In contrast, coerced false confessions directly result from police interrogations. While coerced-compliant confessions are made to avoid interrogation, escape the stressful situation, or achieve some other reward, coerced-internalized confessions emerge when a suspects begins to

accusations, she should give him more credit than she had been giving him. He thought that she

Innocent until proven guilty is a phrase that applies to our judicial system in modern times; however, when the play Doubt by John Patrick Stanley was written this phrase did not always apply. The play is a parable that makes you think about how gossip and rumors can cause havoc and potentially ruin someone’s career. In the play the rumors that are flying are rumors about whether or not Father Flynn is innocent or guilty to the crime of molesting a young boy named Donald Muller. Critics still argue whether he was innocent or guilty to the crime today, and no answer is known. However, based on the evidence in Patrick Shanley’s play Doubt: A Parable, one could conclude that Father Flynn is innocent due to the fact that he had reasonable evidence

So you have broken the law, whether or not you had a warrant for your arrest, or not, and now you have to stand trial. During this time, you may be wondering what’s ahead on your journey to being found innocent or guilty. There are many different things that you will have to endure, and it may be a long process. Today, I will be writing about the steps from the time you have your initial appearance until the time the judge gives the verdict on whether or not you are found guilty.

The causes of wrongful convictions are easy to identify: irregularities and incompetence at the investigatory, pre-trial, trial and appellate stages of the criminal justice system. More particularly, Kaiser identifies the following contributory factors, among others: false accusations, misleading police investigative work, inept defense counsel, misperceptions by Crown prosecutors of their role, factual assumption of an accuser’s guilt by actors in the criminal justice system, community pressure for a conviction, inadequate identification evidence, perjury, false confessions, inadequate or misinterpreted forensic evidence, judicial bias, poor presentation of an appellate case, and difficulty in having fresh evidence admitted at the appellate stage. Each instance of determined wrongful conviction illustrates a different combination of failures in the criminal justice system that has