Wrongful Convictions

Wrongful Convictions
There are many ways in which innocent people can be wrongfully convicted. They may be convinced of committing a crime by an interrogator who unknowingly and unintentionally leaks information. There is an eyewitness who can be unsure of who they picked in a photo lineup and can be positively reinforced which can lead to eyewitness misidentification.
First, people can be convinced into confessing to a crime the did not commit. Even though no one would or could imagine themselves confessing to a crime they didn’t commit, but there are people who actually do and it happens too often for it to be a negligible thing. This happens because of how police interrogation works. The police interrogator is intense and is yelling and …show more content…
There is also eyewitness misidentification that plays a factor. SInce eyewitness are often very inaccurate, 25 percent of eyewitnesses get the person correctly, there was an episode of a T.V show named brain games and in this episode the created a robbery scene in which two people speaking in a foreign language robbed somebody in plain sight. They later took the witnesses into a line up and three out of the four people chose the wrong person. The person that they chose was one of the bystanders who witnessed the robbery and the one person who didn’t choose the bystander chose the actual culprit of the crime. What also makes eyewitness testimonies unreliable is that the human memory itself cannot record an event with pristine detail like a video recorder. Instead it only was fragments of what it saw and will easily fall for any leading information. There was another episode of Brain Games in which there was a staged accident of a film or movie shoot. There was a parked blue car and a speeding red car that impacted the blue car at around 30 miles an hour, but when the officer that was on the case asked the witnesses the same question with just with a different word order and structure. “ How fast was the car going when it smashed into the car.” Their responses were from 40 to 70 miles an hour. The other question was “ How fast was the car going when it hit the

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