PSYC 268 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Miranda Warning, Quid Pro Quo, Fundamental Justice
4 Apr 2016
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Fundamental attribution error the tendency to overemphasize dispositional or personality-based explanations for an individual"s behavior while minimizing situational or external causes. Jurors would interpret a confessions as a reflection of the actual guilt of a defendant and discount the possibility that external causes (coercion) led an individual to falsely confess. Incrimination statements made to people who are not in authority are not subject to the law. Two sources of law (serve different objectives) that affect police interactions with suspects and the use of incriminating evidence are. Concerned with fairness and practices that are acceptable in a free and democratic society. Under any alleged charter violation, party asserting the violation must prove a violation on a balance of probabilities. Under section 24(2), the court may admit the evidence notwithstanding the infringement if admission of the statement would not bring the administration of justice into disrepute.
