CRI210H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Donald Marshall, Jr., Guy Paul Morin, Eyewitness Testimony
6 Apr 2020
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Winter term: the devastating ordeals of wrongly convicted canadians, such as donald marshall jr. , david. Milgaard, guy paul morin, steven truscott, and jamie nelson serve as powerful reminders of the potential error in the justice system. Instead, several individual and systematic factors, alone or in concert, contribute to wrongful convictions: these factors include eyewitness error, erroneous forensic science, false convictions, the use of jailhouse informants, professional and institutional misconduct, and racial bias. 1: the term malleability of confidence refers to the pliable nature of a witnesses" certainty of her testimony. Erroneous forensic science: the inquiry revealed that smith made several fundamental errors: he testified outside his area of expertise. In some cases, inadvertent human error, sloppiness, exaggeration, misinterpretation, and bias may work to contaminate evidence, whether in the forensic laboratory or at the crime scene. In 1972 romeo phillion voluntarily confessed to a crime he did not commit.
