Prosecution & Sentencing Issues
Wrongful Convictions
Mateusz Konieczkowski
CRM 420-01
Professor Rivolta
5 May 2015
Central Connecticut State University
#1 There has been many times where the tough-on-crime approach has characterized our Criminal Justice System since the early 1980’s. One of these policies is the Sentencing guideline. Many times, when judges following the sentencing polices, they are too soft on the criminals. Some criminals get away with the crime that they have done. Even in the book illustrates how “a second problem was the recognition of racial disparities” (Mays & Ruddel, 2015). These two authors described how the sentencing guidelines are racially organized. Ever since Minnesota introduced the first
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This would reduce wrongful convictions in situations with the police. A book called Police Officer Body-Worn Cameras: Assessing the Evidence, by Michael White, gives a run down, step by step,of how effective these body worn cameras are by police officers and how it will reduce the wrongful convictions. White explains how “Body-worn cameras have evidentiary benefits that expedite resolution of citizen complaints or lawsuits and that improve evidence for arrest and prosecution”(White, p.7, 2014). This will decrease police officers getting blamed for something they have not done and citizens will stop getting blamed for things they have not done. There will be fewer complaints from both sides and police brutality will reduce as well. With body worn cameras, people will be able to see who started to situation first. The courtroom will be able to deter and find out what had really happened in that certain crime on that certain day. This also relates to police misconduct, which will improve because police will have less power and time to lie about a crime. There will only be true and real evidence, not just what the police officer “saw or