Pathways to Suspicion: Causes and Consequences of Innocent Suspects' Origin of Implication

Abstract

The only trouble Mrcus Cardin'expected when police stopped his car was for the open container of beer in his cup holder. The driver, his friend, had not been drinking and there was otherwise nothing illegal in the vehicle. Instead of the slap on the wrist Cardin was expecting, this traffic stop ultimately resulted in him being imprisoned for over a 1. Throughout this article, names and other identifying information have been altered in order to preserve defendants' anonymity, a condition of the human subjects' protection plans …