The Mccleskey Court Case

The issues started when McCleskey, an African American, was convicted of two charges of robbery and one charge of murder and was sentenced to the death penalty. These actions were taken on the account of McCleskey robbing a furniture store in Atlanta, Georgia and murdering a Caucasian police officer in the process, by shooting him with a gun. Later witnesses brought in the gun he used, and one of the bullets that were fired that night. The jury did find him guilty and charged him for the things he did. McCleskey tried to defend himself in court by stating that they were violating the eighth and fourteenth amendment, which both explain things about equal protection rights, and cruel and harsh punishments, given to those who are tired. He explained …show more content…
But McCleskey still pleaded that his case was unfair and wanted to motion for a new trial. He eventually signed a petition, but was still denied and was only tried for the one case. Many witnesses were available at the time of the act in case. McCleskey was held accountable for his actions in court when he proceeded to lie about his actions, even though there were many people that saw it happen in action, and there was hard evidence, to support the case. Now there were many flaws in the case itself. As in the jury that day wasn’t fully correct in the sense that the jury wasn’t made up of African Americans, as well as Caucasian, and Latino. This was unfair to McCleskey. It violated his equal protections rights, which was his fourteenth amendment. This was decided wrong because the jury wasn’t completely fair that day and the Supreme Court was violating the eighth and fourteenth amendment. I’ve come to this conclusion, because if this would have happened in today’s society, it would not be as serious of a case, even though McCleskey has murdered someone. Even though he did get charged for two counts of robbery and one count for murder, the death sentence wouldn’t be in effect today, causing his trial to be unfair. It was also unfair because he was tried against a white male, which back then was such a big problem, because