False Arrest Or False Imprisonment

When it comes to court cases, one of the most important pieces of evidence is an eyewitness testimony. Juries and judges are heavily influenced by the word of someone who says they saw the crime and remember the criminal, but researchers are beginning to doubt the...

False imprisonment refers to the act of unlawfully confining someone. This could have to do with unlawful police detention, though it generally refers to the use of threat or authority to detain someone without legal cause. Here are the three elements that must be...