A due-process violation based on the State failing to disclose evidence that is material and exculpatory.
What is a Brady violation?
Five most common causes of wrongful conviction
What is eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, official misconduct, perjury, and faulty forensic science?
A means of dissecting written suspect statements while looking for markers of deception
SCAN (Scientific Content Analysis)
This group was convicted of assaulting a young woman in Central Park NYC and served 5-11 years in prison each.
Who are the Central Park Five?
A claim based that an attorney's conduct that fell below an "objective standard of reasonableness" that resulted in "a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors,” the outcome of the criminal proceeding would have been different.
What is ineffective assistance of counsel?
Prosecutors are given this power to decide which cases to pursue—a power subject to abuse.
What is prosecutorial discretion?
Owner of a beautiful dog named Lucy Serena Williams
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A process that tracks the movement of evidence through its collection, safeguarding, and analysis.
What is chain of custody?
Wrongfully convicted of murdering her roommate while studying abroad in Italy.
Amanda Knox
A due-process violation based on the State failing to disclose material evidence impacting the credibility of a witness.
What is a Giglio violation?
4 best practices ( "Core Four") for preventing eyewitness misidentification.
What is double-blind administration, pre identification instructions, composition of lineup based on resemblance to the description provided by the eyewitness, and confidence statements?
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A forensic discipline whose practitioners regard the drops, spatters and trails of blood at a crime scene as clues that can sometimes be used to reconstruct and even reverse-engineer the crime itself
Blood-Stain Pattern Analysis
The subject of the documentary "Making a Murderer", who is still incarcerated.
Who is Steven Avery?
That evidence discovered since trial would probably have produced a different result at trial.
What is newly discovered evidence?
Most common cause of wrongful conviction, playing a role in 72% of convictions overturned through DNA testing.
What is eyewitness misidentification?
Position Professor Gurule held in in the Bush (2) administration
Under Secretary for Enforcement, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Analysts in this discipline think they can spot a murderer on the phone by analyzing speech patterns, tone, pauses, word choice and even the grammar used during emergency calls.
911 Call Analysis
This group of Latina lesbian women was convicted of sexually assaulting two young girls as a part of a satanic ritual. It was later found that the father of the girls told his daughters to fabricate the story, as one of the women rejected his advances. This group is also the subject of the documentary "Southwest of Salem".
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A due-process violation based on the State knowingly using false evidence, including false testimony, that had a reasonable likelihood of impacting the jury's verdict
What is a Napue violation?
Over 70% of women exonerees were convicted in these kind of cases
What is a "no crime" case?
Team that won the SB Cubs game we attended
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Lake County Captains
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Type of Junk Science Used to Convict Ted Bundy
This group, the subject of the documentary "Mind Over Murder", was exonerated in 2009.
Who are the Beatrix Six?