Blockbuster Vs To Kill A Mockingbird

Sometimes in a court of law people are wrongfully punished for crimes. Blockburger was arrested for violating the Narcotics Act. In the 1931 Blockburger v. United States court case, Blockburger was found guilty of violating the Narcotics Act by the district court, he then appealed to the to the Supreme Court. The Blockburger v. United States court case is similar to the Robinson v. Alabama case, in To Kill A Mockingbird,because in both cases the defendants were wrongfully sentenced.
Blockbuster committed multiple crimes, that violated the Harrison Narcotics Act. The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914 consisted of "a special tax on all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes," (www.cfr.org). Blockbuster sold Morphine Hydrochloride to a buyer, that was not in it’s original packaging. Which violated

United States case and the Robinson v. Alabama case from To Kill A Mockingbird were very similar. Both Criminals received a verdict that they should not have. In the Robinson Case, Tom Robinson was charged with raping Mayella Ewell. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. In this case the jury was biased, instead of seeing a prosecution and a defence,they saw a black man and a white woman. Tom Robinson was sentenced to death based on the word of a white woman against a black man and circumstantial evidence alone. In the Blockbuster Case, Blockbuster was charged with violating the Narcotics Act. He too was found guilty and was sentenced to 5 years in prison and a two thousand dollar fine for each offence. In this case, the judges ignored the defendant’s fifth amendment right to be protected from double jeopardy. The charged him with committing two different crimes, even though both crimes were committed in a single action. Robinson and Blockbuster’s trials should have both had a different