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    Interviews and Interrogations Policy In the world of security‚ interviews‚ and interrogations play a key role in solving a case or putting a face to a crime committed. They can be similar but they also have several differences. Interviews and interrogations also come with legal issues because of the way they are conducted. Putting a security policy in place within the organization can help guide security personnel when conducting interviews and interrogations. Interviews and Interrogations

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    Investigators emerged from the room with a written confession signed by Miranda. It included a typed disclaimer‚ also signed by Miranda‚ stating that he had “full knowledge of my legal rights‚ understanding any statement I make may be used against me‚” and that he had knowingly waived those rights. Two weeks later at a preliminary hearing‚ Miranda again was denied counsel. At his trial he did have a lawyer‚ whose objections to the use of Miranda’s signed confession as evidence were overruled. Miranda was convicted

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    Elite and Popular Perspectives of Witchcraft The elite perspective is the perspective of those in power. It may be the perspective of the monarchy but it may also be administrative/judicial or that of the church. Popular conceptions are those held by the common people. These two perspectives were not very distinctive because the elite and common people did not live completely separate lives from one another – there was some mixing of culture‚ and thus there were many similarities in the conceptions

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    Act four takes place in a jail cell in salem. Herrick enters and wakes up Sarah Good‚ Tituba then wakes up. Herricks tell them to get out of there and then asks them where they are going‚ Tituba responds that they are going to Barbadoes. Then Tituba hears a cow bellowing and thinks that it is her Majesty calling out to take her home. The deputy governor‚ Hathorne and Danforth arrive followed by Cheever‚ they asks when did Hale arrive and what was he doing. Herrick responds that he was sitting and

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    In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ John Proctor is seen as a tragic hero because he is able to overcome his tragic flaw of hubris‚ but still the circumstances led to his death. A tragic hero is a person who has sacrificed their lives for a principle. It is shown in the play that ordinary people can be tragic heroes. They believed so passionately in an idea that they were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice‚ their lives‚ for it. There are four main aspects that represent a tragic hero

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    Looking at the death penalty system in action‚ it is fundamentally flawed in use and there is a serious risk of executing innocent people. Many unjust convictions have shown that serious flaws such as: Lack of eyewitness identification‚ False confessions‚ and the access to have DNA testing have caused our countries criminal justice system to convict many innocent individuals‚ who were sentenced to death. The most disturbing fact individuals are faced with today‚ is that innocent people have

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    and written confession that presented to the jury. The oral‚ and written confession were handed over at the trial to the jury. Miranda was guilty of kidnapping as well as rape; he was punished twenty to thirty years in prison for each. The Miranda v. Arizona appealed but‚ the Supreme Court of Arizona maintain that Miranda’s Constitutional Rights existed in achieving the confession. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Miranda’s conviction but was retried and convicted‚ without the confession‚ by the State

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    belief that their actions would benefit the greater good of society. Edwin Delatorre in his quest to understand why police officers perceived their actions to be right‚ he observed that the law enforcers used force to push suspects to give their confessions. The act is therefore justified to be teleological in nature irrespective of what means is used to achieve the end result. Literature on the professional police indicates that noble cause corruption may interfere with the justice system where a

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    This paper that I am about to write is a case study on a juvenile confession. When I read this story it really bothered me that young people confess when they get in front of high authority people even if they didn’t do anything. Are these so called lawyers‚ attorneys and prosecutors‚ scaring these young people so much that they tell them things to make them confess? Well after reading this story‚ I have realized that this has happened more than once‚ and is becoming to be a pattern with some of

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    interrogative tactics to their advantage. Such tactics include misrepresenting facts‚ presenting false evidence‚ lying‚ deceit and psychological tactics and strategies to heighten adolescents stress and anxiety to manipulate their vulnerabilities to obtain confessions (Critics lament that

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