SOC209H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Robbery, Parole Board Of Canada, Nippon Professional Baseball
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Tunnel vision on the part of police and crown- look ate most common stereotypical case like the husband must have killed the wife. Mistaken eyewitness identification and testimony- worst reliabilyt in court. False confessions- want to get it over with, immigrants, youth, do not know their rights or easily implanted. Assertion of innocence poor moral character, risky, Expert pathologists give a lot of wrongful testimonies- like raping your 4 year old niece, completely destroy your relationships- williams wong johnson. Due to multiplicity of errors- ratification of error. Once find out it they were innocent-challenges credibility of the police, defense, crown, witnesses. Remorse is an issue that determines whose situation will prevail-if the person shows remorse then we can view the whole system as correct/just. But the person then subverts any claim to innocence by showing remorse-this leads to doubt even at a later time where evidence maybe found.
