Lindbergh Case Study In Criminal Justice

After reading the details about the case I find myself wanting to ask questions. I know that someone was charged, convicted and then put to death but I cant help myself from thinking there was more than just the one individual involved. On the surface, a man was caught with the money used in the ransom and he was subsequently prosecuted however, how does one man enter a home through the window on the second floor and remove a baby from the house when everyone was home to include the house staff? As a person who is currently pursuing a career in criminal justice and having some base knowledge of how the process works, I know that the police, the courts, and corrections all play an integral part in the process with how this case should be …show more content…
This is the basic role of the police in this case. Once the offender was arrested the next component of the justice system is the courts. The offender was given a swift trial and the jury found the defendant guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. The defense appealed unsuccessfully however, the Governor of New Jersey granted the defendant a 30-day reprieve. After the 30 days he was resentenced and was set to be put to death by electrocution. As a last ditch effort the defendant requested a pardon which was denied. The third and last component is corrections. During his trial and sentencing he was in the custody of corrections. There is nothing about whether or not he was properly cared for while he was in corrections and up until his electrocution corrections did everything to standard. Each component did what they had to do to, from making the arrest, to the trial and guilty verdict, and to the last part of the process, the death of the defendant. Having just wrote the above, there are a few other topics about the process as a whole that someone may find …show more content…
Evidence like, the tool marks on the ladder outside the window matched the tools at his house, his handwriting matched the writing on the ransom notes, and the ransom money he had used which is what originally led the police to look at him as a suspect was, in the jurors eyes, enough evidence to try and convicted him of murder. As much circumstantial evidence that was against him I still want to believe that he could not have pulled this off without the help of someone. Unfortunately, because of the nature of this case and who the Lindbergh’s were there was a necessity to solve this case and be done with it. His trial was only five weeks long which in my opinion would be a pretty quick trial. We are all afforded due process and in my opinion, I believe that he was given due process. He was allowed to appeal his case and he did. He was allowed to request a pardon and he did. All of which were denied. The Governor even gave him a 30 day reprieve which would possibly allow for any additional information to be gathered that might change the outcome of this verdict. None came forward and Hauptman was put to