Causes of Wrongful Convictions Pt. 1
This occurs when a witness incorrectly identifies an innocent person as the perpetrator.
What is eyewitness misidentification?
A person in jail who testifies against another inmate, often in exchange for a reward like a reduced sentence.
What is a jailhouse informant?
The first innocence clinic in the United States to focus exclusively on non-DNA wrongful conviction cases.
What is the Michigan Innocence Clinic?
Use this link in all of MIC's emails if you need to miss a meeting (non-recurring basis).
What is the absence form?
The Vice President of Internal Affairs.
Who is Rachel Joseph?
When someone admits to a crime they did not commit.
What is a false confession?
A confession given by someone due to pressure, threats, or force, rather than their own free will.
What is a coerced confession?
National non-profit legal and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and post-conviction legal reform.
What is the Innocence Project?
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What is GroupMe?
The Vice President of Education.
Who is Alex Johnson?
Improper or unethical conduct by a prosecutor, such as withholding evidence favorable to the defense.
What is prosecutorial misconduct?
The tendency to only look for evidence that supports what you already believe and ignore evidence that doesn’t.
What is confirmation bias?
A specialized division inside a prosecutor's office or attorney general's office that investigates claims of wrongful conviction and actual innocence.
What is a conviction integrity unit? or What is a conviction review unit?
This new tracking method will help us see how involved all of our members are and who is going the extra mile as a member of MIC.
What is the point system?
The Vice President of Fundraising.
Who is Anabelle Guarnera?
Variety of evidence types that have been proven to be scientifically unreliable (e.g. bite marks, SBS).
What is junk science?
When a lawyer fails to properly defend their client, often because they lack resources, time, or skill.
What is inadequate legal defense?
A community-based organization and advocacy network dedicated to amplifying the voices of trauma victims and survivors, fostering judgment-free healing, and demanding systemic justice in Southeastern Michigan.
What is Survivor's Speak?
MIC was a collaborating student organization at this event last Friday (10/9).
What were the Decarceration Organization Fair, Beyond film, and panel discussion?
The Vice President of External Affairs.
Who is Ethan Katzke?
When investigators or other legal actors focus on one suspect and disregard evidence pointing elsewhere.
What is tunnel vision?
Police identification process that improperly steers a witness toward choosing a specific suspect, violating constitutional due process.
What is a suggestive lineup?
Organization founded by Bryan Stevenson that provides pro bono legal defense to death row prisoners, wrongly convicted individuals, juveniles prosecuted as adults, and people facing excessive or unfair sentences.
What is the Equal Justice Initiative?
This attorney will be the guest speaker at our next MIC meeting (first and last name required)!
Who is Justin Brooks?
The Vice President of Marketing.
Who is Sydney Tyburski?