Examples Of Wrongful Convictions

Picture yourself standing there at the scene of a crime while it is still happening. When the police arrive, they take you to jail believing that you committed the crime, having no evidence to prove that you are not guilty of the set crime. Wrongful convictions are prevalent in today’s correction system. Looking at the cases of Albert Woodfox and Valentino Dixon and examples of inadequate defense, government misconduct in the court and prison system, and poor eyewitness accounts this paper will examine factors for wrongful conviction.
Picture yourself at court and what kept you from going to jail depended on a defense lawyer. Inadequate defense lawyers have played a great part in wrongful convictions. According to Dr.Emily West, “[T]he most

According to the article, these eyewitnesses called Compliance and Eyewitness Testimony: Do Eyewitnesses? The test subjects had complied with misleading 'expert pressure' during investigative Interviewing (Roper, Rachel, and David Shewan, 2002). "The study is viewed as an exploratory one but the authors suspected that participants labeled as ‘poor' eyewitnesses will deliberately alter their answers” (Roper, Rachel, and David Shewan, 2002). This experiment could prove that with the suggestion that an individual is a poor eyewitness, could change the outcome of a case. According to the "Judge rejects bid from Angola Three's Albert Woodfox after 40 years in solitary," Albert Woodfox was rejected defense efforts (Judge Rejects Bid...). This also is the reason for being wrongfully convicted, having a poor defense when dealing with large criminal charges. According to Repression, Resistance, and the Neocolonial Prison Nation, by being part of a “gang”, or in any way affiliated with a gang would give reason to a biased judge or courtroom probable cause for sociality confinement (Kersplebedeb, K). There had been no forensic evidence to prove that, Woodfox had been connected to murder. He was stilled been set to solitary confinement. Sullivan, a witness called to Dixon's proves the claim that poor eyewitnesses contribute to wrongful incarceration. Here, stated in the buffalo post “Sullivan admitted he

I think lesser workloads and more incentives for lawyers should be introduced. Better selected juries to prevent the judge from, making any harsh and unfair decisions, and lastly more extensive background check for eyewitness accounts. The first idea, giving lawyers a required lessen workload was that according to article Inadequate Defense, it stated that “of sleeping, drunk, incompetent and overburdened defense attorneys, at the trial level and on appeal” (Inadequate Defense). The reason why I want a better jury is so there to ask questions that aren't being asked. The article Government Misconduct stated that there is corruption at every level of the correction system (Government Misconduct) lastly, there should be more extensive eyewitness reports from Sullivan, in Dixon's case where he was under the influence of drugs and had claimed that he saw