Criminal Justice System: An Argumentative Analysis

A prosecutor’s job is to search for the truth, to get the judge and jury to favor in the right direction for a defendant whether guilty or innocent and truth is supposed to triumph. However, this is not how the criminal justice system works when speaking of the minority. Innocent individuals are being charged for crimes they did not commit and are being interrogated and threated to except all blame for crimes. Prosecutors bully defendants into pleading guilty and accepting plea-bargains. These prosecutors believe in playing with defendants’ incompetence, so they focus on their lack of knowledge to get the case closed and someone locked down. Prosecutors are fully aware that most of their defendants are not well educated and nine times out of ten are part of the poor minority, which means they cannot afford proper representation. Then, they intimidate …show more content…
Will racial bias ever not lean in your direction, probably not… The rewind of slavery has resurfaced and the black male is back again in bondage while the white male gets a slap on the hand and a warning. Prosecutors have steps in plea-bargaining the minority; first, the police catch them and the prosecutor gets their mitts on them, second they talk dirty and make horrible threats, and third they assist in the process to lock them away and get some free manual labor out of them. “Black and Hispanic defendants are more likely to be held in jail before trial and more likely to be offered plea bargains that include a prison sentence than whites and Asians charged with the same crimes, according to a two-year study of prosecutions handled by the Manhattan district attorney’s office.” (James C.