Exam 10: Ethical Misconduct in the Courts and Responses

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Compare and contrast racial and confirmatory biases.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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."

Confirmatory bias refers to:

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

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