For my research on how the contextual themes concepts can result in criminal justice malfeasance I selected the case of State v. Steele, 138 Ohio St.3d 1, 2013-Ohio-2470. This case involved police officer Julian Steele of the Cincinnati, Ohio police department and his indictment on ten counts of police misconduct, including abduction, intimidation, extortion, rape, and sexual battery. Officer Steele abused his legal power to interrogate, arrest and detain a witness by knowingly filing a materially false complaint in order to influence or intimidate a witness; and abducting her minor child from school with the intent of charging the minor child with a robbery felony ” (State v. Steele, 138 Ohio St.3d 1, 2013-Ohio-2470). Due to the nature of this case and its involvement of the minor children involved, the court documents refer to the subjects by initials only.
According to the Maryland Criminal Law Code 1-301, an accessory after the Fact of Murder is a felony that can be charged with up to 5 years of jail time. Jay Wilds, a supposed contributor to the murder of Hae Min Lee in 1999 Baltimore, was guilty of accessory after the fact of murder but was somehow only charged with 2 years of probation. Who in the world would let this happen, many may speculate, but that is a notorious aura called corruption and bribery in the case of Hae Min Lee’s murder. Adnan Syed, the accused murderer of Hae Min Lee, has had to endure an erroneous trial while suffering from backstabbing lawyers, all while fighting for his freedom. This paper examines the benefits and disadvantages given to Adnan Syed during his 1999
If an individual is socialized within crime or has social ties with criminal perpetrators, that individual
Instead of living by the laws of the last century, this progress was beneficial to society as a whole. Crime at the turn of the century was also a concern, especially in urban communities. In this paper, I will discuss the 1905 jury trial of Robert Jefferson who was tried and convicted for the crime of Burglary in the Third Degree. On Monday, January 23, 1905, Mary F. Lake reported a burglary
He claims the prejudices of the judicial system handed out mandatory sentencing for those who used their constitutional right to have a trial by jury. The author builds a relationship with the audience by using Pathos in order to compel them to recognize the urgency to change the current law. Girault explains the failing logic of the law on page 225, he states that communities were to be made safer and instead of targeting petty crimes the focus would be to bring down kingpins, however after three decades of the SRA it still was a failure. Girault defines the sentencing reform act as discriminatory and states that minorities are hugely effected by this law and states ”Black people are overwhelming charged, convicted and sentenced at a higher rate to federal crimes since the passage of the Sentencing Reform Act.” (Girault 228).
Based on records dating back to 1989, over 3,100 people have been exonerated from crimes they did not commit, spending a combined total of 27,200 years in prison; to this day, the rate of exonerations continues to rise (Equal Justice Initiative, 2022). More people are questioning the accountability of police, yet, in the case of Lamar Johnson, “trust” in the system is what placed him in prison. In an interview, Johnson stated, “I didn’t have anything to hide. I believed in the system,” and at the time, he did not have a lawyer to represent him because of financial constraints (Moriarty, 2024). Based on radical criminology, working-class people are highly susceptible to incarceration because of the circumstances that determined the system’s establishment and the persistence of these historical connotations.
This paper is about the 1998-2004 trial in Oklahoma, which has stirred controversy over the course of many years thus far. Richard Glossip, a hotel worker at the Best Budget Inn was convicted of first degree murder by the Oklahoma County District Court for the alleged murder of his boss, Barry Van Treese on January 7, 1997. The case was heavily based off a testimony by Justin Sneed, a co-worker of Glossip. Sneed confessed he “committed the murder, but was paid to do so”. Sneed also confessed the amount of money to murder Van Treese which was 10,000$ USD.
Justice Quarterly: JQ, 15(3), 577-581. Retrieved October 6, 2017, from https://bethelu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.bethelu.idm.oclc.org/docview/228157991?accountid=56725 Saferstein, R. (2015). Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science (11th Ed.). Boston: Pearson. Retrieved October 6, 2017, from
Media makes the trials notorious. We will explore the relationship between motive and viciousness, and how these factors lead to media coverage, making trials notorious. When a crime is committed, there is usually a motive behind that crime. The crime is vicious, the worst of the worst, the unimaginable. With motive and viciousness combined, it attracts the media, the public, and
Celebrities getting away with Murder Celebrities have been getting away with the most bizarre charges that the law has to offer since the beginning of time. Two similar cases that ended the life of a loved one occurred but had contrasting endings that are ,“A White Bronco? Too-Tight Gloves? A Guide to the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial for Those Who Missed the '90’s” by Lydia Price from People Crime and “Man who killed ex-wife in September pleads guilty, gets 50-year sentence ” by Marc Freeman from SunSentinel. The two news story cases differ in the way that People Crime explains how OJ received a pass by paying off a fee even though there is no evidence that OJ paid off anyone to get acquitted, while Sun Sentinel explains a monster that
Coker gives great evidence that supports racial injustice in the criminal justice system. She discusses on the Supreme Court’s rulings and accusations of racial preference in the system. This article is helpful because it supports my thesis on race playing a role on the system of criminal justice. Hurwitz, J., & Peffley, M. (1997). Public perceptions of race and crime: The role of racial stereotypes.
Discrimination and racial disparities exist at every phase of the U.S. criminal justice system, especially when it comes to sentencing. The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, as there are over 2 million people imprisoned today. The drawing is a visual representation of my annotated bibliography. In it, I stated that the criminal justice system is broken, as it discriminates against people of color. The left side of the illustration depicts the scene of the courtroom during the trial of a white defendant.
Garoupa, Nuno, & Klick, Jonathan. (2006). Differential Victimization: Efficiency and Fairness Justifications for the Felony Murder Rule. FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 244. Retrieved February 21, 2018, from http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.951795.
Childhood experience, any history of crimes in the person's life. Then serial killers are divided by what type they are, for example Psychotic (being told to kill), missionaries which are people who kill to “clean up” the world. Then there are Hedonist, which are killers who kill for the fun of it and Hedonist are split into sub types:
While most of the unlawful conviction cases have been widely publicized, the general public remains alert and skeptical on how to properly address this new wave of challenges in our criminal justice system as a by-product of police brutality, junk science, eyewitness misidentification and much more. Limited policy adjustments have been implemented in the existing framework of conducting legal proceeding to indict criminal behaviors, nor have it provided adequate opportunities and resources for victims that fall under the wrongfully acquitted category. Current regulations for have strengths and flaws, which will be disclosed in this research. Exoneration, the contemporary legal approval from the judge and the court that indicates a defender
