The Importance Of The Fifth Amendment

I. Questions Presented Under Kansas law, did Sara Ryker confess voluntarily under the circumstances when officers questioned her? 1. Does Ryker’s ability to communicate with the outside world upon request weigh in favor of a voluntary confession when she asked to use the phone and the officers told her she had to wait? 2. Do Ryker’s age, intellect, and background support a voluntary confession when she is 20 years old, possesses low intelligence, and has no criminal background?

Even though there are certain laws that protect individuals from false confessions

Within The Crucible, it is evident that people are coerced to lie. This involves both kids and adults, and they mainly do this because of Abigail. During the trials, if you were accused nothing could save you. If you denied it, you would be hung. If you admitted it, you would be hung.

The book describes the Miranda Rights, which are the legal rights that a person under arrest must be informed before they are interrogated by police. If the arresting officer doesn’t inform an arrested person of his Miranda Rights, that person may walk free from any chargers. The book also talks about double jeopardy, double jeopardy is the right that prohibits a person from been tried twice for the same crime. In other words if a person is found innocent and sometime later new evidence surface that can incriminate him with the crime that he is “innocent” he cannot be charged for that same crime. The book also mentions self-incrimination, which is the right that no citizen will have to be a witness against himself.

What I originally thought of the 5th amendment protection against self-incrimination was basically the phrase of “the right to remain silent”. And I also know that this right is known as the notorious “Miranda Law”. I just know the 5th amendment as in words rather than application and what I heard from cop shows (or how the media presents it). Self incrimination is usually defined as putting blame on oneself. The video made me realize the significance and application of the 5th amendment protection against self- incrimination.

The police then determine if the suspect is guilty and continuously interrogate, accuse, and even threaten the suspect for hours until they confess, whether they are guilty or not. On many occasions the people who are coerced into false confessions are have severe mental impairments that prevent them from functioning as a normal person with out the impairments would.

Introduction Many important court cases depend on memory-based evidence. When there is not enough physical evidence to convict a suspect, law enforcement relies on testimonies and confessions to put criminals behind bars, yet, not all testimonies are reliable. Throughout the years, there have been many people who have been falsely convicted based on inadequate police interrogation methods that allowed for false confessions to occur. Effectiveness of Interrogation Methods Used by Civil Law Enforcement

The Right to remain silent when being questioned by the police is part of the Miranda Rights. I think people should have the Right to remain silent

The Social Psychology of False Confessions: Compliance, Internalization, and Confabulation is a study conducted by Saul M. Kassin and Katherine L. Kichel of Williams College. This experiment explores social influence and the impact it has on confessions. As a fundamental right in the United States, people are given several rights and if broken, various punishments can be implemented. Criminal confessions are usually self-incriminating or coerced, yet these can easily be swayed by other factors. Social influence can directly affect suspects and can potentially cause people to confess to crimes they did not commit.

False Confessions- The Breakdown Imagine being in court, tears running down your cheeks, watching a family member get their sentencing for a crime that they had no involvement in. Not only were they not involved, but the confession that they made was unknowingly the keys to the lock. From this situation, one can conclude that this situation would be anyone 's worst nightmare.

False confession What motive a person to confess to a crime they did it commit? Unfortunatly there's many factor that can influence to a person to make that mistake. In may cases they decide to admit guilt due to their ages. Most of the false confession are from youth under 18 years old, because under pressure they are waive their Miranda's right to silence and to have an attorney. Margaret swigel and John Winbey concuted a research and disucss their founding in a journal called False Confession New Data Collections and Law Enforcement Interrogation.

Indeed, for people who are not familiar with modern psychological techniques of interrogation might be absurd that someone would confess to an offense he or she didn 't commit. In a study conducted by Leo and Liu, 264 students were selected as potential jurors and were first asked to rate 18 different interrogation techniques. The participants had to rate according to their own perception how coercive each technique was, how likely it was to elicit a false confession and how likely to elicit a true confession. Later on, they were also asked to evaluate confessions in association with other types of evidence like eyewitness testimony, DNA evidence, and a suspect 's bad character

Truthfulness gets continuation and lying activates the conscience. An officer of the law is supposed to have strong ethical indicative of moral beliefs. These beliefs are absolutely essential for any law enforcement officer. Aristotle suggests, "life circumstances trigger a natural range of responses that includes a mean between excessive and defective responses” (Dempsey & Forst, 2016, p.227). A person’s character traits are the individual’s habitual ways of responding, and individuals who are the most admirable are those who find the norm between the two extremes regularly.

We swear to God to tell the truth and to not do just that is not appropriate. In my opinion, taking the oath or affirmation to testify truthfully is definitely not a waste of time. Although the Federal Courts do not require swearing in God’s name, I believe that if we all want to do well and tell the truth, we must continue to do this in the eyes of God so that we can have structure in society and in the courts. In essence, it the merit to the process is to make the person aware of the importance of telling the

“Courts have permitted the interrogators to tell the suspect that if he confesses his conscience will be comforted or they will inform the suspect’s cooperation to the court” (Richard 2008). It is unethical to promise and give hope to the suspect that will not be met in order to obtain a voluntary confession which are induced. During interrogation someone may walk in and hide his identity like being a police officer, while acting like someone else and promise the suspect that he or she is here to help and they are in good hands. Doing this is violating the rights of the suspect and should be taken into consideration, because it inflicts the mind of a suspect. If the suspect is going to confess it should be voluntary not being forced to “voluntary