Chapter 10 Flashcards
Brady violations relate to?
racial bias in jury selection.
Brady violations refer to what else?
withholding exculpatory evidence.
According to the text, the most common charge leveled against prosecutors is…?
failure to disclose evidence.
Operation Greylord was corruption investigation which took place in where?
Chicago, Illinois.
According to the text, what is considered FALSE regarding judicial misconduct?
Attorneys often file complaints against judges when misconduct is suspected.
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.”
Antonin Scalia.
The procedure for presenting a single suspect to an eyewitness for identification is known as a…?
show-up.
Which of the following is cited in the text as being more influential to juries than exculpatory DNA evidence?
False confessions.
Only recognizing evidence to fit one’s theory is the definition of?
selective information processing.
Believing one’s original theory of the case despite evidence to the contrary is called…?
belief perseverance.
In terms of prosecutorial misconduct, Aronson and McMurtrie discussed the presence of all the following elements EXCEPT…?
emotional concord.
The Innocence Project is…?
a loose affiliation of lawyers who identify cases where a prisoner may be innocent.
Cummings used Bandura’s moral disentanglement theory to explain…?
intentional prosecutorial misconduct.
Confirmatory bias refers to…?
when a specific suspect has been fixated upon and investigators ignore other possibilities.
Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project asserts that many of the Brady violations occurring in prosecutors’ offices are due to…?
prosecutors being overworked and careless.
