Essay On Curtis Should Be Paid In Restitution

I believe that Curtis should be paid in restitution because of the three following reasons: Curtis should have never been convicted, the trials were ruined with racial discrimination, and witnesses made up claims of Curtis’s location on the day of the murders. The first of the three reasons is that Curtis should have never been convicted hence he was wrongfully convicted. There was made-up information from witnesses and the prosecutor, and there wasn’t even any objective evidence against Curtis. The false evidence was the witnesses lying about the locations of Flowers at the time of the murder and the motives that Curtis could have possibly had were wrong. They were proven wrong by other witnesses and new information was found. This is a reason for Curtis to be paid in restitution because he was charged for something that had false evidence and he should have never been convicted because of the false information said in court.

This would be a reason for being paid in restitution because it is illegal to discriminate against a person in court which means the state is breaking the law. Both defense and prosecution attorneys can defeat potential jurors who believe they have biases that impede fair judgment, but many significant biases go undetected or worse. This would affect Curtis because he is a man of color who had a jury of mostly white people. This led to Curtis being wrongfully convicted. Curtis has the right to sue the state because of the illegal status of racial discrimination during the case, with a crime that he did not commit because of the evidence of other