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The question is how this could happen and what can lead a person to do something as seemingly crazy as confessing to a crime they didn't commit.... t goes without saying that this crime has been tailored in racial stereotyping with emphasis on the timeline introspectively to fit the crimes to the particular decade.... As Burns shows, the DNA evidence showed that Matias Reyes, the "East Side Slasher" was an offender who committed crime.... However, the police did not pay any attention to that and preferred to accuse the group of African American and Latino boys of the crime commitment....
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This paper "Juvenile Interrogation - Admissibility of a Juvenile Confession" focuses on the juvenile confession and admissibility to date which continues to pose numerous and varied challenges to investigators while trying to convince the court regarding the evidence they have at hand.... nbsp; Juvenile Interrogation - Admissibility of a Juvenile ConfessionUndeniably, juvenile confession and admissibility to date continues to pose numerous and varied challenges to investigators while trying to convince the court regarding the evidence they have at hand (Sherman, 2011)....
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Derek Tice and Eric Wilson faced the same fate, being accused of a crime they did not even know about.... Derek Tice and Eric Wilson faced the same fate, being accused of a crime they did not even know about.... A letter from an inmate, Omar Ballard, confessing about the crime, was submitted to the investigators.... He became the first suspect and was interrogated and locked up in jail because of a confession he was forced to make....
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IntroductionThis article delves into issues ascribed to the confession of five men over the rape and murder of woman in Norfolk Virginia.... These confessions are believed to have been performed by coercing the suspects to admit that they had committed the crime.... The confessions are associated with controversies owing to the fact that DNA examinations that were conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation provided results indicating that: Only Omar Ballard's DNA matched the DNA that were found at the scene of the crime....
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The “coerced-compliant” (Conti 22) confession is the confession when a suspect is stressed and terrified by the police's psychological oppression and agrees to confess in order to get rid of the stress he's got into.... Police use of deceit as a part of the strategy of crime investigations causes multiple discussions around the ethical roots of the right of policemen to tell lies to people in order to solve crimes.... The point is that police use of deceit may cause a lot of negative consequences… Although some techniques of deceit may be useful during crime investigations others like use of deceit during interrogations must be forbidden for certain reasons.
Although the Fifth endment provides a person with the right not to confess anything against one's own will, there are bunches of strong psychological techniques that help police to extract the confessions they need from their suspects, making a suspect confused in whether his confession is his own or has come against his actual will (Najdowski & Bonventre 26)....
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A confession retrieved by deceptive methods must be reviewed and shouldn't be processed in court without any other pieces of evidence but the confession, as police use of deceit often leads to false confessions.... For instance, police detectives may tell a suspect that they have got something on him, like fingerprints or witnesses who saw him doing the crime, and there is no way out for him, so if he wants to shorten his sentence, he can make a deal with police and confess....
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In the case of the Russell murders where Lin and Megan Russell were killed by the accused Michael Stone2, the confession that was supposedly made by the defendant was the piece of evidence that led to the successful conviction by the jury.... Yet the council also has the discretion to seek its inadmissibility on the grounds that it is contrary to section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act in a situation where the confession is allowed in court.... The Police and Criminal Evidence Act have set out in section 82 of the act the definition of what would constitute a confession....
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The paper espouses various roles of polygraph on suspects.... The author states that the polygraph may be used to monitor sex offenders to determine whether they are compliant with probation or parole conditions.... In the US, the legal systems allow the use of polygraph in the monitoring of sex offenders… The polygraph may be used to monitor sex offenders to determine whether they are compliant with probation or parole conditions....
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