CRIM 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Police Perjury, Exclusionary Rule, Confabulation
29 Apr 2019
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4th amendment: rights of the accused, the constitution protects the innocent and the guilty, error is inevitable, why are there errors? they should be. Guilty are punished more severely than they should be. Innocent are punished: lying coached, testilying, pressure, protect themselves, protect, mistakes simply human error, inadvertent misidentification, courtroom presentation issues not precise, not articulate, lack, eyewitness error: * see wrong - emotional loading; perceptual distortions. * remember wrong false memories; memory distortions. * confabulation (particularly with young witnesses) others, make themselves look good, attract attention, get back at an enemy creditability, nervous, emotional, intimidated on the witness stand and retract statements/get rattled: professional misconduct (police, prosecutor, judge): Intentional (fabricate, alter, suppress evidence: forensic science errors: A. inadvertent (human error - mistakes made in the lab tests) U. s. v havens (witness impeachment) - illegally seized evidence can be used to impeach a witnesses" courtroom testimony.
