Judges Before They Are Corn Into The Courtroom Analysis

Evaluating Judges Before They Are Sworn into the Courtroom Imagine this: a middle-aged African-American man is homeless and desperate for food, willing to do whatever it takes to satisfy his aching stomach to stay alive. Suddenly, a normal-looking man approaches him. The homeless man asks the mysterious person what he needs, to which he replies, “A girl and some weed.” Prostitutes are common around the area where the homeless man resides, and weed is also prevalent. The man decides to follow through with the orders, hoping for some food in return. The homeless borrows a bike to retrieve the marijuana. Immediately after the weed and money was exchanged, the stranger reveals that he is an undercover police officer, and that the homeless man is under arrest for distribution of marijuana. The entire situation was a set-up, and he was taken to prison. The man was sentenced to life in prison without parole, simply for attempting to sell an extremely small amount of weed to survive. Unfortunately, this is a true story. In an article in “The Daily Beast”, Abby Haglage informed the …show more content…
Turner was a swimmer on the Stanford’s swim team. The case turned out to be very famous and the general public was outraged. Even though sexual assault happens every day, people were very unhappy about this certain case. The reason why is very unnerving: Brock Turner only received a six month sentence to prison, but was released three months early. According to a “Huffington Post” article by Tyler Kingkade, “The judge who sentenced former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to a lenient six-month jail term for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman believed he was ‘remorseful’, even though Turner never admitted guilt, according to a newly released court transcript” (1). There’s only one thing that makes the minimal sentencing make sense. Brock Turner is a Caucasian