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Confirmatory bias refers to:

A) when a specific suspect has been fixated upon and investigators ignore other possibilities.
B) when it is confirmed that the prosecution is biased against the suspect.
C) when a confirmation of racial bias is pending.
D) none of these describe the concept.

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Compare and contrast the interpretationist and strict constructionist relationship to freedom.

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Garcetti v. Ceballos was a Supreme Court decision which dealt with:

The Minnesota v. White decision states that judges may not make political speeches since they are supposed to remain completely neutral.

What are some of the reasons that people distrust the justice system? Are these criticisms valid? Why or why not?

According to the text, which of the following statements about judicial misconduct is false?

Describe and discuss the power of false confessions and their relationship to wrongful convictions.

The term ___________ refers to a situation when a specific suspect has been fixated upon and, therefore, police and prosecutors ignore evidence that refutes their theory.

One of the most cited reasons for false convictions is ineffective counsel.

Which Supreme Court Justice did not recuse himself from Hamdan v. Rumsfeld , despite having said publicly that giving due-process rights to detainees in Guantanamo was "crazy."

Which of the following would be least receptive to the concept of natural rights?

The Supreme Court has ruled that prosecutors cannot be subject to ___________against them, even in the case of egregious rule breaking.

Which of the following is not a criticism of how the Bar handles complaints of ethical violations?

The first "conviction integrity unit" was established in which state?

It is called confirmatory bias when a judge decides a case ahead of time.

Only recognizing evidence to fit one's theory is the definition of:

Compare and contrast racial and confirmatory biases.

Even when there is evidence indicating innocence, juries have shown a willingness to convict based on false ____________________.

Discuss the number of innocents who may be imprisoned and explain the most common reasons for wrongful convictions.

You are a defense attorney defending a client against a murder charge. Your client is the former boyfriend of the victim, and it has been established by several witnesses that the breakup was not a pleasant one. Your client was identified as a suspect from the very beginning. During the trial, the prosecution presented a witness who claimed to overhear your client praying for forgiveness in his holding cell. The prosecution also presented the murder weapon, which was a softball bat with your client's fingerprint on the handle. Your client was convicted. Still convinced your client is innocent, you look for outside help. Where might you go to seek assistance in getting your client a new trial?