MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE

Miscarriage of Justice



Miscarriage of Justice

Introduction

The Miscarriage of justice is simply a failure to achieve justice where the accused people who have been offended did not actually execute those offences, or their convictions were faulty as the process that have put them in conviction did not work in a righteous manner as it should have done. The misrepresentation of evidence by expert witness is crucial for the criminal justice system. In the cases of criminal justice, it depends on the ability of the juries and the jury itself that how do they cope up with the complex and scientifically represented expert evidence. Miscarriage of Justice can be resulted from the improperly obtained evidence, when there is a breach of stated standards take place while gathering evidence. The development in techniques to forensic identification has been established, where the system is largely dependent on the technology, but the technology is handled within the system and by humans who can be imperfect. The evidence represented by expert witnesses is crucial for criminal justice system, where it depends on the ability of the juries that how do they cope up with the complex and scientifically represented expert evidence. In this paper I will write about forensic expert witnesses which causes conviction of innocence in review of criminal justice and expert evidences, and improper obtained evidence and confession.

Discussion

Miscarriage of justice does not always require any dramatic circumstances to take place. Miscarriage can take place in such strong institutions as well, where they are used in a way to manipulate the result to give representation of justice, where in reality they show the perversion of justice (Blackmore, n.d.). Miscarriage of Justice involves unfair conviction, where an innocent person is proven to be guilty by misrepresenting evidences. Miscarriage of justice can take place in a stable political condition having well-built institutions to guard human rights and correct miscarriages (Walker, 1999). Dr. Bob defines that the accused should receive the desired result of fair trial in criminal trial according to law. When an accused fails to receive that fair result, this is where miscarriage of justice takes place.

Nobles and Schiff states in Understanding Miscarriages of Justice is not easy to put together one logical conception of miscarriage of justice (2000, p.1). The meaning of miscarriage of justice is different in the discussion of law, politics and media. Nobles and Schiff further state that Miscarriage of justice is “simply a failure to achieve justice” (2010, p.14). They have pointed out two principals about unlawful convictions that the accused people who have been offended did not actually execute those offences, or their convictions were faulty as the process that have put them in conviction did not work in a righteous manner as it should have done (2000, pp.16-17).

The contribution of forensic expert confession to miscarriage of justice is an important issue. How can the legal system accomplish the required balance to make sure that the innocent walk out freely and the guilty are convicted according ...