Narrative Essay On Criminal Justice

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I had no one to stand beside me and to support financially nor morally, in that time of persecution. I was penniless and had no paid lawyer to argue on my behalf. Court had provided me a lawyer who advised me to be silent, to act like mentally ill in the court, when trialed, to draw sympathy of the court and to escape from capital punishment. I didn’t know that my lawyer too was well sided with my enemy and it was a ploy, to turn the case in their favor and to keep me in the jail and mute me. I was unaware of their trap at the time of trial. My rationality was frozen that I could not foresee the consequences of acting upon their advices. The judge who heard the case bluntly believed the prosecution and condemned me for life imprisonment with solitary confinement and medication for mental illness, a psychotic killer who well befitting.

Since I was senseless and was mindless under the effect of forced drugging, I didn’t think anything consciously. I had no anxiety, no fear or no feeling of remorse. After the release, my …show more content…

They don’t believe I am a murderer. Not only they, the Judge, who studied the case when a defamation case was filed on my release, said that there was no plausible evidence against me and I was wrongly convicted. Newspapers reported the jude’s findindings as it was a story of denyed justice. The lawyer, granted to me by the trail court, was offering a weak defense. It was deliberate and the intention and motive behind his negligence against the ethics of his profession was dubious. The prosecution could not prove charges, indisputably. No witnesses. No direct evidences. Conviction was purely on circumstantial evidences. Circumstantial evidences can be reliable and valid, in some cases, but in this case it was not not so. The accused had history of mental illness, but not all mental patients are mens rea or criminal