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Regina Stewart Case Study

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The first case that I’m going to talk about is the Erma Faye Stewart case and Regina Kelly case. These two women were charged with felony drug distribution charges. This case took place in Hearne, Texas back in 2000. Stewart and Kelly along with 25 other men were charged in this case. Everybody bail was set to 70,000 each. The police knew about the drugs because a confidential informant. Erna Stewart had two kids and Regina Kelly had four kids. The two ladies had no minor criminal history before and were unsure about the system. Stewart and Kelly didn’t have any money so they have to use the lawyer that was chosen for them. The ladies said they were innocence and trusted that the lawyer would get them out of this horrible situation. The ladies …show more content…

So that’s why most people get out of jail and end up back in jail because they are trying to get money the fast and illegal way. The system is aware of that is don’t really help out this people so they can get their life together. No matter how much a person is getting at a job taxes are being taking out. The fact that Stewart is working and paying taxes for public assistance and cant received it is very unfair. Everybody in this world need helps with something. When they drop everyone case the seven people who plead guilty cases should have been drop also. This situation would have never occurred if they DA made should their confidential informant was …show more content…

When she got out she met a law professor at New York unvitersy. The professor name was Claudia Angelos and he had a student name abbe smith who helps him. Claudia and abbe study the case and tried to prove that Jarret didn’t have anything to do with it. Angelos wanted the court to challenge the eyewitness. When Angelos filed the writ of habeas corpus it was granted and things were looking better for Jarret. The court allowed her to be released or retried. Jarret then had to plea again but she didn’t want to do it. Jarret didn’t want to do something that she knows she didn’t do. Jarret rather to sit in jail than to lie and said she done something. In 2005 she had a parole board hearing. They wanted her to express the wrong that she did but she still followed her heat and said she will not. She just kept begging honest and will not plead guilty for thirty years and she was released from prison on June 13,

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