Jack White Case Study

Being put in front of a Judge for a crime you did not commit, is something that happens too often. In fact, it happens so much that non-profit organizations such as “The Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) to identify, advocate for, and exonerate individuals who have been convicted of a crime. Influences on wrongful convictions are predominantly initiated by eyewitness misidentification and false confessions. Misidentification and False Confessions cripple the criminal justice system as it relies on the honesty of all parties involved. These miscarriages jeopardize a defendant’s image, as in the case of Jack White.

Jack White’s AIDWYC case is just one example of many innocent people who were wrongfully convicted due to

He always retained his innocence and did not give up the fight. After numerous times trying to have his conviction overturned, he final broke some ground in 1999, where the board ruled that there was “overwhelming evidence” and ordered that jack be reinstated as a consoler at Huronia and given pay back. However his criminal record could not be overruled. It was until May 2009 when the AIDWYC stepped in to help Jack’s exoneration. The Court of Appeal agreed they Jack had suffered a failure of justice, and due to substantial evidence and granted Jack a new fair trail. Jack would ultimately win this new fair trial as the Crown prosecutor withdrew charges because there was no reasonable prospect of conviction”.

This 17 year long process Jack had been subjected to was all caused by a false confession. For over half his life Jack had to deal with such tragedy, day in and day out. Although other reasons such as his lawyer’s incompetence rose, the main source of this suffering was owing to Wither and his dishonesty before the

This first article titles “False confessions and individual differences: The importance of victimization among youth” and the second “ False confessions to police and their relationship with conduct disorder, ADHD, and life adversity” share similar values in terms of false confessions. The methodologies used behind both articles were consistent as they shared similar researchers. Both studies took place in Iceland were approximately eleven thousand participants were analyzed. The first article depicts a correlation between false confessions’ during custodial interrogations and the history of victimization among young persons. It was evident to researchers that the main motives were to protect a peer and avoid police pressure. The findings in this article provide strong evidence of the correlation between being a victim of and outside pressure and giving a false confession. It is apparent that the participants are solely focused on their avoidance with the police at the time and not the end result of their false confessions. These confessions are taken seriously as investigators rely on them tremendously and can untimely result in a wrongful conviction. From a young age we can see students partaking in the act of false confessions in minor school offenses. In both articles participants were given questionnaires