Sociology 2253A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Guy Paul Morin, David Milgaard, Tunnel Vision

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2253A/B
• Professor: Brenda Kobayashi

Document Summary

Occurs when individual has been arrested on criminal charges and either plead guilty or tried and found guilty. Notwithstanding plea or verdict is in fact innocent. Suggestive police interviewing: police communicate information to eyewitnesses that influences and ultimately contaminates their testimony: erroneous and fraudulent forensic science. Contaminated evidence: human error, sloppiness, exaggeration, misinterpretation, bias. Charged and convicted of murdering 9 year old neighbor lab tech suppressed information and the info and fiber samples that were used in the prosecution: fi(cid:271)ers (cid:449)ere (cid:373)i(cid:272)ros(cid:272)opi(cid:272)ally si(cid:373)ilar to gpm"s. (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:271)ody (cid:449)as dis(cid:272)o(cid:448)ered, there (cid:449)as a hair stu(cid:272)k i(cid:374) her (cid:374)e(cid:272)kla(cid:272)e, (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h did(cid:374)"t belong to the 9 year old fibers located on her belongings, and it was argued that the hair belonged to. Gpm this became the evidence that prosecuted him wrongful conviction spent 18 months in jail before he was acquitted la(cid:271) te(cid:272)h pro(cid:448)ided false i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) that (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t (cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)%