What does it mean to be guilty or innocent? Guilty means someone responsible of doing the wrong, supported by proof. While Innocent means he/she not responsible of the crime and (again) supported by proof. If one is the headmaster of the crime he/she must figure out a way to get out of it, if not then it was their intentions to be sent to jail. Of course if that person is trying to prevent going to jail for the law they just broke he/she have to lie and/or twist their story a bit. In this manslaughter case in the book Monster Steve Harmon is accused of being guilty in manslaughter of checking if it was safe for James King to rob a drugstore. Steve was indeed at the scene of the crime but was he actually apart of the crime, and if he was were is the proof to actually show he was involved in the crime? Steve Harmon is innocent of felony murder because there is no evidence and he was not there at the crime.
In every case in trial there should always be some type of evidence to prove/support reason why is one’s guilty. A bystander could also be strong evidence for a case in court, in this book a person was actually present in this accidental murder,
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“I know that because I was planning to do the film of my neighborhood over the holidays” (Myers ). As Steve stated around at time and day the robbery happened he was busy planning his film project. Mr. Sawicki also believe Steve was in fact not apart of the robbery from the time and effort he put in his film footage. And Sawicki also explain “to make an honest film must have an honest person.” (Myers ) As a teacher who like his student this much clearly have show Steve is a good student in Sawicki film class. So by previous work Steve done in film making and the weeks/days planning of a project that was assigned while this incident happened, was not in involved with the