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Podcast: Turning A Moment Into A Movement
Episode: Confirmation Biases and Wrongful Convictions
Description: The Justice for Gerard Movement presents .... TURNING A MOMENT INTO A MOVEMENT! Confirmation Bias, coupled with tunnel vision and a rush to judgment, switches a case from an evidence-based investigation into a suspect-based one, in an effort to solve the case. When detectives and prosecutors think they’ve invested too much into a case to even consider the possibility that they may be wrong…even solid evidence that the suspect may not be the right guy gets discredited or outright ignored in order to not upset the momentum of closing the case. Faulty assumptions by law enforcement officers and pros...