False Arrests and Obstruction Of Justice- Alex Karni

Alex Karni
IHSS
Roddy
April 8, 2021
False Arrest and Obstruction of Justice
 
When most people think about false arrests committed by the police, they think about an arrest that was not supported by evidence. But this is not the case for measuring whether the police have falsely arrested someone. For police to be guilty of false arrest, the police must act without authority or beyond the scope of their privileges. Suppose a police officer arrests someone because that person insulted the officer or did something the officer didn’t like. Insulting an officer is not a crime, and unless that officer has another reason to make an arrest, he is acting illegally. If and when the defendant is brought to court and the court finds out the truth, they should set the defendant free. Although they are free from the accusations, the released defendant cant sue the police for unlawful arrests, but the officer making the false statements might be arrested for making false statements, swearing a false oath, or even false imprisonment. Along with this issue, wrongful convictions by police ties in. A study by the National Registry of Exonerations reviews 2,400 exonerations it has logged between 1989 and 2019. Of the 2,400, 93 innocent defendants were sentenced to death and later cleared before they were executed. Also, African Americans are only 13% of the American population but a majority of innocent defendants wrongfully convicted of crimes and later exonerated. I think there should be a law that states that no one can convict someone of a felony unless there are 100% certainty and evidence they convicted the crime. 


https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020/09/16/more-than-half-all-wrongful-criminal-convictions-caused-by-government-misconduct-study-finds/


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