CJE-3110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pepper Spray, Homicide, Custodial Interrogation
31 Jan 2017
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Chapter 8 review questions: explain trial by ordeal. A common technique to determine guilt or innocence during the middle ages. Ex: people required to walk barefoot over a bed of hot embers; jump into a river or pond with a heavy millstone tied around the neck. Whatever the test, the prevailing mood was that divine intervention would work. There is the fear of extracting false confessions from completely innocent people. Not capturing the real culprits allows criminals to remain at large: relay the details of the escobedo case. Escobedo asked several times to see his lawyer. The police told him each time that his lawyer did not wish to see him. He confessed to the murder charge without talking to his attorney. The lawyer appealed the conviction on two grounds. The police had denied his client legal representation, violation of sixth.
