Crucible Pre-Reading Response Today's court cases completely go against the statement that Justice is best determined in a court of law.An example of how justice isn't always best determined in a court of law would be a white teenager who killed four people in a car accident, and was only on probation instead of receiving a criminal sentence. In 2013 Ethan Couch a 16 year old white male was conducting a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol ,in the process he crashed and killed four other people.His sentence was supposed to be a maximum of 20 years in prison for the charge of intoxication manslaughter, instead this teenager was given 10 years of probation.The jury made this decision because his parents hired a psychologist that was
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However Jahmar did not recieve 10 years of probation such as Ethan Couch did , instead he was to severe 12 years in prison (6 years for each person), also 5 years of mandatory parole.For this reason i believe that court cases go against the statement that Justice is best determined in a court of law.Ethan couch had an advantage of being white and wealthy, as where the second teenager Jahmar was neither white or wealthy.Because Jahmar was not rich and was from a lower class he was unable to pay off a physiatrist to diagnose him with something so he could get off with probation.There are probably about another several other cases that might be similar to Ethan Couch's and are not receiving the 10 year probation he is.I believe some people are not given a fair sentence.How was it that Ethan Couch a white teenager was able to remain a free person in the world after committing a crime and killing 4 innocent people , but as soon as a similar situation happened to Jahmar James an African American, the sentence has changed and he wasn't a free man.This definitely was eye opening to me and made me aware that racial discrimination is occurring in courtrooms.This was only comparing two cases , I can only imagine how many other cases there are in America that continues to give advantage to some people simply because of their skin color or social
However Jahmar did not recieve 10 years of probation such as Ethan Couch did , instead he was to severe 12 years in prison (6 years for each person), also 5 years of mandatory parole.For this reason i believe that court cases go against the statement that Justice is best determined in a court of law.Ethan couch had an advantage of being white and wealthy, as where the second teenager Jahmar was neither white or wealthy.Because Jahmar was not rich and was from a lower class he was unable to pay off a physiatrist to diagnose him with something so he could get off with probation.There are probably about another several other cases that might be similar to Ethan Couch's and are not receiving the 10 year probation he is.I believe some people are not given a fair sentence.How was it that Ethan Couch a white teenager was able to remain a free person in the world after committing a crime and killing 4 innocent people , but as soon as a similar situation happened to Jahmar James an African American, the sentence has changed and he wasn't a free man.This definitely was eye opening to me and made me aware that racial discrimination is occurring in courtrooms.This was only comparing two cases , I can only imagine how many other cases there are in America that continues to give advantage to some people simply because of their skin color or social