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    Abstract Darryl Hunt is an African American born in 1965 in North Carolina. In 1984‚ he was convicted wrongfully of rape and murder of Deborah Sykes‚ a young white woman working as a newspaper editor. This paper researches oh his wrongful conviction in North Carolina. Darryl Hunt served nineteen and a half years before DNA evidence exonerated him. The charges leveled against him were because of inconsistencies in the initial stages of the case. An all-white bench convicted the then nineteen-year-old

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    testing he was finally able to prove he was wrongly convicted. This non-profit legal organization reminds me of a show I watch every Monday night called “Conviction” which is about a unit that investigates cases of wrongful conviction but to my surprise I actually

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    In the article‚ “Safeguards Against Wrongful Conviction in Eyewitness Identification Cases: Insights from Empirical Research‚” Andrew Smith and Lisa Dufraimont (2014) address how eyewitness identifications are vital factors in convicting suspects. However‚ some of those identifications are inaccurate or mistaken‚ and innocent people can be wrongly convicted. In fact‚ mistaken eyewitness identification is the main factor in wrongful convictions of the innocent (Smith and Dufraimont‚ 2014). Furthermore

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    The criminal justice system needs reform to avoid wrongful convictions and unprepared re-entry to society. Each year‚ thousands of people are convicted of crimes they do not commit. A few main causes of wrongful convictions are eyewitness misidentifications‚ government misconduct‚ and bad lawyering. In many cases‚ those exonerated of the crimes they didn’t commit and now they longer have the proper resources to re-enter society successfully. In one case example involving eyewitness misidentification

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    Wrongful convictions are a horrible injustices that occur when innocent defendants are found guilty in criminal trial cases. People spend many years wrongfully convicted and are even put on death row. This has been an issue in the United States for a long time because there was no DNA testing. There are many factors which can lead to wrongful conviction such as false eyewitness misidentification‚ false confessions‚ forensic science issues‚ government misconduct‚ poor lawyering‚ etc. The innocence

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    According to Smalarz and Wells (2014)‚ the leading cause of wrongful convictions is eyewitness misidentification. Smalarz and Wells described a unique case where a rape victim‚ JT‚ had the opportunity to correctly identify her attacker. JT’s lawyer had received reports of her attacker bragging about getting away with the rape while he was in prison for another crime. The victim‚ JT‚ incorrectly identified the attacker‚ she actually choose the same person she choose in her first line up after the

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    On November 10th York had a Fighting Wrongful Convictions: Journalists Police the Justice System panel hosted by the Journalism Department. The main point of the panel was to talk about how a journalist should properly go about writing a story on wrongful convictions and to help illustrate the point they brought in Johnny Hincapie. Hincapie was an 18 year old who was wrongfully charged with helping in the murder of Brian Watkins in the 1990s. Now at 42 years old‚ and after serving 25 years in prison

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    Forensic Problems and Wrongfully Convictions (2009) states that‚ the most wrongful convictions involve more than one contributing cases‚ for example‚ if an eyewitness may have wrongly identified an innocent person‚ and in the same case a forensic analyst may have testified that hairs from the crime scene match the defendant’s hair. In the jury’s eyes‚ the eyewitness testimony is strengthened by the forensic evidence (Forensic Problems and Wrongfully Convictions‚ 2009). Not always the eye witnesses

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    Gender Bias in Education by Amanda Chapman of D ’Youville College "Sitting in the same classroom‚ reading the same textbook‚ listening to the same teacher‚ boys and girls receive very different educations." (Sadker‚ 1994) In fact‚ upon entering school‚ girls perform equal to or better than boys on nearly every measure of achievement‚ but by the time they graduate high school or college‚ they have fallen behind. (Sadker‚ 1994) However‚ discrepancies between the performance of girls and the performance

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    In recent discussions of implicit racial bias‚ a controversial issue has been whether implicit racial bias is moral or immoral. On the one hand‚ some people argue that some people think implicit racial bias is moral and socially acceptable because those people with implicit racial bias are not directly hurting others. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that implicit racial bias is immoral‚ socially unacceptable and should not be tolerated under any circumstances. In the words of Daniel Kelly

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