The Crucible: Innocent Until Proven Guilty

If the statement “innocent until proven guilty” is such a common saying, then why do continue to ignore the meaning behind it? In human society today, people are often tricked into confessing to things they have not done. I believe that people do this because they are attempting to get someone else out of trouble in return for lying. For example, on a TV show that I was watching, a bunch of teenagers came together to keep a single kid out of trouble. The kid had done something bad in order to protect one of his friends, and when confronted about it all of the kids got together and confessed to doing it. They couldn’t place the blame on a single person since they had all came forward and confessed, therefore getting the kid out of trouble. In The Crucible, Tituba is

The truth that detectives often look for in the accused, is the truth that they want to hear. It is the truth that that one individual is looking for that can change a person's perspective on an entire case. Once someone is accused, the interrogator often goes against them based on the facts that they have already collected, and as everyone knows, the confession is the most important part of any criminal case. In the article, is tells us that O’brien told Varallo-Speckeen that she was guilty or that he knew what she did 36 times. This compares to someone walking up to you every day and telling you that you’re pretty. Eventually, you’re going to believe that you’re pretty. If being told that you committed a crime 36 times in one sitting, you’re eventually going to start to question yourself on whether or not you actually did commit that crime. Also in the time of the interrogation, O’brien interrupted her 71 times. Which gives her 71 less chances to defend herself against these accusations. In the end of the interrogation, she admitted that she “just wanted it to be