The Brooklyn Murder Essay

There are many different cases about a wrongly convicted suspect. One of them was in the Brooklyn Murder. In the Brooklyn Murder, the victim was a drug dealer whose name was Darryl “Black” Rush. With this information, the detectives think that the suspect was the rival of the drug dealer with the name Jonathan Fleming. The detectives asked him whether or not he was the murderer. He said that he was 1100 miles away in Disney Land when the crime happened. Fleming also showed his passport and phone calls when the crime scene happened. He even showed his airplane ticket. The detectives however, still does not believe in him. The police might think that some murderers would kill the suspect sometime before and go someplace else. So the detectives decided to throw him in jail. At this point, Fleming is around twenty five or twenty six years old. After twenty five years in jail, Fleming was finally proven innocent. He

That is what most people say. However, not all juries follow this. Some jury just convict if he/she thinks that the evidence is reliable or logical. What should happen, in my opinion, is that the jury should take a look at the evidence and try to rematch it. What happened in the story was that the jury just accepted what the police said and didn’t want to take a look deeper. Some reason could be that the police or detectives has investigated many crimes and has find out who did the crime. The jury might think that the detective is always right and all the evidence that he find will always and certainly lead to the correct suspect. However, in this case the detective found the wrong evidence. This detective from the story was named Ken Thompson. He also made a mistake in a previous case. The police should have stayed for some time and looked carefully at the airplane ticket. They also should have looked at the phone bills. By looking at those two, the police could know who the suspect is and avoid wrongful