In Philadelphia, 60 percent of the capital cases went without proper investigation and most of them end in the death penalties. This leads to a larger number of wrongful convictions in the supreme court justice. Inadequate defense lead to wrongful convictions which must be addressed by improving our court system laws and proper investigation.
Inadequate defense is a major issue in the United States, which is caused by assuming that the victims are right about their attackers. The lawyers are not doing enough investigation, which is a major cause of the inadequate defenses. Courts arrest people due to past convictions (Kennedy). This causes the judges and lawyers not to do enough research about the case. "Rampilla had troubled …show more content…
Because of higher number of people being wrongfully convicted, the national death Penalty Moratorium Act of 2003 was passed on(Bader). The Penalty Moratorium Act law was passed on to make sure that the supreme court have the right person. Because many people were being convicted wrongfully, the supreme court found it important for this law to be established in order to bring the people their justice. "The court used Rampilla's mental illnesses against him in court, but failed to look at his childhood"(Kennedy). His mother was alcoholism addict and even drank it while she was pregnant with him. This shows that the court will try to look at the bad sides try to go against someone which makes most of them biased.
Last effects of the inadequate defense have caused is that most of the time they will use the past to go against you. "Mitigating evidence, taken as a whole might well have influenced the jury's appraise of Rampilla's capacity"(Kennedy). This caused Rampilla's supreme court to have a different result. Also the commonwealth tried to use past conviction to convince the court about the prosecution case(Kennedy). Most of the time the supreme court justice uses the past conviction to persecute someone, even if they never committed the crimes. They will still use that to prosecute …show more content…
The court suggested that the Wiggins v. Smith indicate the unreasonable applications and identifies correct principal from the court(Kennedy). This law will make sure that the court's information is reasonable before they make the final decisions. Also ABA was established to make sure that before they put anyone on deal penalty, they must have appropriate attorney to solve the client(Kennedy). This law will reduce the numbers of people being wrongfully prosecuted in the