Guilty Until Proven Innocent
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This is the "criminal process" webpage, which I wrote after seeing
prisoners pressured into confessing to crimes they didn't commit. As mentioned
in the article, if both a crime and a suspect are identified, confessions
(coerced or otherwise) should be unnecessary.
- "Guilty
until proven innocent."
- - the importance of never entering a
"guilty" plea when one is innocent
- The Criminal Justice
Process
- - Avoid being Nifonged
- Police Stops
(including "Terry stops")
- - Police stops (sometimes called "Terry stops" in the US) are a type of arrest. What not to do during a police stop.
- Impaired driving stops
- - Also police stops, but issues peculiar to impaired driving stops (DUI, DWI) and probable cause
- Interrogations
- - "investigations", "interrogations", "questioning" and "investagative vs. accusative"
- Impaired driving (DUI, DWI) stops
- Don't consent to pseudoscience. Don't participate in pseudoscience.
- Field Sobriety Tests (FSTs) and Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFSTs) as Pseudoscience
- A model evidentiary policy for adjudication by judges and administrators regarding exclusion of FSTs as evidence in Probable Cause hearings
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first posted 10 Nov 02; Last revised 29 Apr 18. ~~ This page copyright 2002, Stan Protigal
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