Precis: According to Melanie Eversley in “What’s next in Freddie Gray case: Decision on retrial”, featured in USA Today, a Baltimore judge has met with prosecutors and defense lawyers trying to come to the decision of whether or not police officer William Porter will be retired on charges of Freddie Gray’s death. Rep. Elijah Cummings says that he was told the state intends to retry the officer. However, there were protests after the announcing the mistrial and vasts majority of Baltimore’s populations is very disappointed with the outcome. The lawyer of the Gray family, William Murphy states that “The outcome of the trial was not a disappointment for either side in the racially charged case.” After the announcement of the mistrial Murphy says,
During this court case, the jury was also very engaged and had numerous question for both
The jury was shown videos of more normal times for the family, when things seemed to be going well. Expert testimony also played a role in the outcome of the first trial. The evidence presented in this case was able to help the jury come to a decision when determining Mrs. Yates final
I agree that the jury made the best decision in this case. Despite the media coverage, I’m sure it was difficult for
Steve Harmon is so hypnagogic because he makes up such a lie on the podium to the point where I don’t even know if he wants out of jail. Steve Harmon is a 16 year old black male who live on the streets of Harlem. Steve Harmon has lied about not being at the drugstore in which the murder took place. Mr. Harmon has also taken part in the crime and he admitted it. If you think that is bad, Mr. Richard “Bobo” Evans said that he saw Mr. Harmon coming from the drugstore as planned.
If you were blamed for a crime you didn’t do, would you let that accusation go and let it tarnish your reputation? Would you let it fly by and have others judge from every angle? No, right? Normally people who get accused of crimes demand justice as they know they did not commit the crime and only justice can give them the freedom they deserve. But let’s look at Steve Harmon, the main character from the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers who was on trial for murder.
and they start to gang up and say “he sat in there for 6 days and he doesn't know” and “You sat right in court and heard the same things I did” (Rose 14). This evidence shows that just because he has his own opinion and doesn’t want to vote guilty because everyone else did, people aren’t respecting his opinion and are basically calling him stupid for his decision. And I feel like more people started to choose innocent because they took into consideration of his idea and realized they could stand up to the rest of the group since they had
In fact, he did not recall running over Blackwell. Regardless, there was still prove that lead Judge Palmer to look guilty, and the Judge being an extremely honest man saw
Keywords that are most important to the documentary are, War on Drugs, incarceration, drug involvement/abuse, and racism. All of these words are loosely or heavily connected to each other. The words drug involvement/abuse highlight the purpose of the film, and the reasons for the War on Drugs and numerous laws created to fight drug abuse that cause death and destroy abiding citizens of communities. Furthermore, the War on Drugs simply labels the struggle against drug use and the governmental involvement to enforce anti-drug laws. The word incarceration and racism also link together to explain how as a result of the War on Drugs, the U.S. is one of the top countries with the highest imprisonment rate and more African-Americans or low-class minorities are convicted of drug crimes than any other ethnicity or social class.
And have many mistakes to see that he was the killer, but still say that he was not guilty, and let him walk free. As it started out with the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman on June 13, 1994. As LAPD convicted O.J simpson for the murder, as the trial lasted for 10 months of arguments and disagreements, and where there was so many evidence of O.J that led him to be the killer of Nicole Simpson, and as October 3, 1995 he was found not guilty of the murder. But didn’t stop him to be a criminal and was sentence to jail for his behavior. As this trial showed us, the issues of law enforcement that still exist in our country, as this trial will be remembered for it creating a greater awareness of domestic violence issues, and a lessons of how the trial system work, for a criminal to be innocent tell the juries have proof that he was guilty.
But, why was this vote such a controversy? There were two constitutional problems that arose during the trial. First, many believed the Tenure of Office Act was unconstitutional, and the second was the uncertainty of who was to become president upon Johnson’s removal from office. Furthermore, some people believed the reason why Ross voted “Not Guilty” was because he would benefit from the $150,000 slush fund that had been set up by Johnson’s
This may cause the jury to be indecisive between what the actual case and what the media portrays it to be. The amount of media released for cases creates a negative impact within the courts and makes it difficult for a fair trial. When juries are uncertain about a case or a suspect, they result to social media platforms and news coverage that will provide them with more information and depth into the case. ‘’But if the case unfolds in the media, by the time a case gets to court, the supposedly impartial jury (or even the judge) may have already heard information and allegations (not admissible by court standards) that have caused them to seriously prejudice the parties’’. (Nedim, 2014).
As the words “not guilty” rang through the courtroom, they traveled across the country as well (O.J.: Made In America). While some individuals celebrated in the streets, others protested and
Who is responsible for Macbeth’s downfall, the witches, or Macbeth? Who is responsible for the scorpions in Macbeth’s mind, the savage killing of several people in cold blood, the conception near the end of the play that Macbeth grasps of nihilism, and Macbeth getting so shielded in the prophecies that he can barely see straight? Is it Macbeth... or the witches? The play by William Shakespeare, Macbeth, has many motifs and famous quotes. However, it raises a lot of questions.
A lot of people can be blamed for Neil’s death. Oh, it was his unsupportive dad. Oh, it was the new English teacher, Keating, who filled his head with rubbish. Oh, it was Neil’s fault; he was the one who pulled the trigger. Well, I lean more to the side that states Neil did it.
