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Summary: The Case Of Kevin Byrd

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(INTRODUCTION)Did you ever have a love one who was innocent but still served time for no reason all because he or she was in the wrong place at the wrong time or just the main suspect of a crime because he or she fit the description a witness provided. I go to a school in West Fargo and I’m a junior haven’t really seen unjust in my life to anyone I know. But read multiple articles on unjust sentence to people and wrote multiple paragraphs on the cases I read 24 to be exact. The article included lawyers view the innocent victim view and also the witness view after the trail. (Reason)people are sent to jail over speculations and evidence that don't connect to the victim of the crime. people go to jail over one witness testimony and are put in …show more content…

According to Byrd he thought the police came to investigate a robbery that occurred at the grocery stored he worked. Byrd was not frighten at all knowing they had no evidence towards him. The woman who pointed Byrd out was a victim of rape when she was sleeping with her two year old in bed and man came into her house and rape her while she was pregnant she later describe the suspect to the police. But while shopping with her husband pointed out Kevin Byrd to be the person who rape her and he had a whole different description of the person she said did the crime. Byrd was put into jail for 12 years with no evidence saying he did the crime. DNA later cleared Byrd of the crime and everyone involved in the crime even the judge and prosecutors said the best way to clear his name was to pardon him which George W bush didn’t not want to do. George W bush father was once called to be so soft on crime this could have been a personal reason why Bush didn't not want to pardon Byrd. Byrd was release on bail in the summer and still had to pay $185 dollars to clear his name from the crime records. Judge Shaver and with the

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