Essays on Criminal Procedure

Criminal records check is one step of the procedure involved in due diligence research conducted on individuals. And even though our age today is referred to as “the digital age”, digitized information may not be enough in performing a comprehensive criminal records check. Often, old-fashioned...

Employees are an integral part of a company’s business. And this is why before hiring an individual for a job position, companies deem it important to conduct a thorough background check on that person, which includes his personal history, criminal records, past employment, and the...

This essay will introduce us the definitions of false memories and eyewitness testimonies as well as what they are and also what literature has told us about them. The aim of this essay is assessing how reliable the eyewitness testimony and explained how false memories...

In due diligence research, a criminal records search is a standard part of the process. In this highly digitized age, performing any type of search should be much easier now that we have the right technology to do it. However, no matter how much information...

One of the most well-known tenets of English law is that a person ‘should not be judged strenuously by reference to the awesome specter of his past life.’ This very well established tradition has led to the oft-cited rule of evidence law which prohibits reliance...

For the more than 100 years after the ratification of the Fourth Amendment, it was of little value to criminal defendants because evidence seized by law enforcement in violation of the warrant or reasonableness requirements was still admissible during the defendant’s prosecution. The U.S. Supreme...

Firstly, the term ‘criminalisation’ means turning a legal activity into an illegal activity, hence making it a criminal offence. The Latin term ‘Actus non facit reum, nisi men sit rea’ means ‘an act does not make a man guilty of a crime unless his mind...

Over the years the law on Intention and Recklessness had been under academic scrutiny and criticism for being inconsistent. Several adaptations were introduced in the evolution of the law making it more settled such as the House of Lords’ decision in Woollin, and this essay...

Introduction The investigating officer often finds hair as evidence at a crime scene. Hair is a type of physical evidence. Physical evidence is anything which is tangible at a crime scene. Hence hair comes under this category. Hair is also classified under physical evidence as...