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The Case Of Sibyl Danforth Vs. The State Of Vermont

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A system of law in America that we believe to find justice every time does it exists? Well many times we have seen suspects get away with a crime and the victims know what happened and justice wasn’t achieved. The court, in the case of Sibyl Danforth coming to court for manslaughter came to the proper conclusion and found justice in the trial of Sibyl Danforth vs. the State of Vermont. In some court room’s justice isn’t always found. Judges act as though they are Zeus or above every other person. Our justice system is impartial at times and we forget what truly matter. In a formal petition in the case of Katherine v Mcknamara, Kinsella “Have you ever stopped to consider that public defenders (the poor man’s lawyer) don’t investigate anything? …show more content…

When someone like sibyl Danforth acts in good faith when giving Charlotte Bedford a cesarean section on a women who she believed to be dead checking her for a heart beat and not finding one, so she did what a women with good faith would do try to save the life of the child she was about to birth. In a case where Sibyl was under tremendous pressure to make a decision where she was giving a home birth and had no medicine or way to bring the women to the hospital with the weather conditions being absolutely horrendous. She mad all efforts to make an attempt at saving Charlottes life.” Fifteen Compressions and two breath’s. Fifteen Compressions followed by two breathes. There didn’t seem to be a pulse, and my mother pleaded with Charlotte to breathe as she worked.” (Pg 82)She tried many times to revive Charlotte and do have her have been found guilty would have been a crime in itself. I guess Anne Austin was not able to see the fact that she really cared about Charlotte women and wanted her to suffer from something she didn’t do, it was like she had a vendetta out for

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