Dr. Zieva Konvisser, a professor at Wayne State University, who conducted the interview with the defendant, Ms. Julie Baumer examined the psychological, emotional, and family impacts revolving around Ms. Baumer case. This interview was conducted for an emotional standpoint, and it gave insight on how the family felt as well as how Ms. Baumer reaction throughout the entire process. Ms. Baumer came from a large family and was raised Catholic, she was living the American dream and was a loan officer before the situation even occurred. In the interview, Julie elaborated on how she felt throughout the process and how it was a nightmare, despite the hardship Julie kept her faith and she had support from her family.…
The Judge then handed the floor to the plaintiff attorney Richard Whitley introduced himself and his client which was named Michelle Moore. The defendant name was Joshua Muniz. He stated that the case was a motor vehicle accident and had already been trialed at a criminal court, which Defendant Muniz had plead guilty and was on probation and has severed community service for committing the crime. Moore was now suing for Punitive damages and mental anguish for damages that were occurred during the accident.…
Within Just Mercy’s first chapters, the author Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and lawyer who works with condemned and incarcerated individuals, introduces Walter McMillan’s case. Walter was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the murder of Ronda Morrison, an eighteen year old white woman who worked as a part time clerk at a dry cleaning store in Monroeville, Alabama. There was no concrete evidence against Walter. Though there was evidence in favor of his freedom, he was held illegally on Death Row before getting tried and sentenced. He had a short trial, lasting for less than two days.…
The sheriff wasn’t able to stop the angry people and promise the safety of the nine men that were accused so he called the Alabama National Guard. Twelve days later the trial for the Scottsboro boys was started. On the day of the trial there were was an attorney who wasn’t from the town had appeared and declared that he can’t represent the Scottsboro boys so there was no attorney on the day of the trial. A Chattanooga real estate attorney offered to help any Alabama lawyer the court might hire even though he never did a criminal case before, was not enlisted in the Alabama bar, and was not familiar with the Alabama law. The judge had appointed lawyers for the purpose of to defend the Scottsboro boys because he didn’t want to impose the attorneys he wasn’t willing to hire any specific attorney to justify the boys.…
Days into the investigation however, police divers combed the muddy waters, while local and volunteers alike scoured the riverbanks. All known areas where Christine was thought to frequent were thoroughly searched. Authorities door-knocked the entire block and Christine’s parents put up posters in shops and on telephone poles in the neighborhood. They even made a heartfelt plea on television, radio, and in the local and national newspapers. Friends, neighbors, schoolteachers, bus drivers, sporting groups, and even previously convicted, and known, sex offenders within a 100- mile radius were questioned, but the poor little girl was never found and eventually the case went cold.…
Chapter Four, Show Trial, of Amy Bach’s Ordinary Injustice depicts a case of wrongful conviction that occurred over twenty years ago. Michael Evans and Paul Terry, both ages seventeen, had been charged with raping and murdering nine-year-old Lisa Cabassa. The crime occurred the evening of January 14, 1976, when Lisa and her eleven year old brother Ricky were walking to a friend’s house and got separated. Later when Ricky returned home he and his family realized Lisa never made it home. The only witness to Lisa’s abduction was Judy Januszewski, who didn’t come forward until days later.…
“I Am Not a Crook” Political leaders of the United States were once idolized. However, the publishing of the Pentagon Papers and the Vietnam War made the public wary of their government’s internal motives. In 1972, five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters, who were linked to President Richard M. Nixon. The public’s opinion of a corrupt government was solidified. Politics and journalism changed forever.…
April 9, 1931, eight teenage “hobo negroes” were sentenced to death after being convicted of attacking two white girls on a train. This story became quite popular in the press and years later still manages to conjure up arguments about the social injustice. Nine black teenage boys climbed upon a train, in a way only to look for work, and were confronted by two white males where a dispute broke out, in the mix of it all, two white females, joined in the argument. At the time the story broke out, no one truly knew the story because everyone believed the words of the whites who after the dispute left the train and reported the “committed crime” to local police. The “negro” boys were taken into custody in Scottsboro, Alabama, as the boys were referred…
Ms. Narwin How on Earth did I end up here? One moment, I’m living my dream, teaching children the wonders of literature, and the next I’m living with my dear sister and her husband thousands of miles away from Harrison High. Okay, so it wasn’t quite as quick as that, but it felt like it. All thanks to that little imbecile Philip Malloy. He ruined me, and I swear, the second I get back on my feet, I’m going to make sure he never gets a diploma.…
Immigration was difficult. Jane Addams, a wonderful woman, knew that. My parents were immigrants from France and always reminded us that they had to work to get where they were. As soon as they entered the beloved Country, they began working harder then ever. My mother as a maid for a rich man, and my father in a factory.…
“Judy Moody was in mood” is a book that has a lot of interesting story connect together. It writing about everything around a girl who name is Judy Moody. The book is writing about her grade 3 life. The main character in this book is Judy and people around her. The main character Judy has her own dream and this is made the character became more real in the story.…
In the book “Ordinary Injustice” by Amy Bach, chapter four titled “Show Trial”, describes a number of different cases showing wrongful convictions being processed through the criminal justice system based off of false confessions. In Chicago, there was a nine-year-old girl named Lisa Cabassa was found raped and killed in the back of an alley a couple miles from her home. Two months after the rape and murder of Lisa, a witness named Judy called the police to give her testimony on the crime. Her statement consisted of her telling the police the people involved with the crime were named Michael Evans and Paul Terry, whom were teenagers from the neighborhood. She spotted them with Lisa that night.…
While reading Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice & Redemption I was faced to realize not everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Ronald Cotton is an African American male who was labeled guilty the moment an officer saw him. He was denied many chances to prove his innocence in the criminal justice system. He spent eleven years in prison for a crime he did not commit.…
Rebel Women (1910) is a compilation of short stories about different situations that suffragettes went through, providing the feminist point of view of the author in regards of society; a second edition of this book was published in 1915. The depiction of suffragettes from the inside and her personal point of view were key elements that Evelyn Sharp used to express her view about the general situation of women’s suffrage. I considered for this analysis some short stories that, in my opinion, depict the situation of suffragettes in terms of politics, law and social context: “The Woman at the Gate” “The prison while the sun shines” and “The black spot of constituency”. “The Woman at the Gate” is a short story in which we are presented a peaceful manifestation in front of the Gates of Saint Stephens’ House. In this story it can be appreciated the opinion of men about…
This academic journal begins on reporting about Cynthia Bogard and her documentation on “The natural history of a Social Problems”. She successfully defined how homelessness came to be social problems in New York City and Washington, D.C. The “iron quadrangle”(player) involved in the issues were activist group, the government, experts, and the mass media. The media (CCNV) was good at creating event that attracted sympathetic coverage and also persuades the nation that only federal action could resolve this problem. But the opposite happened in President Reagan offices, they try to deny the problems and blame it on the homeless instead.…