Arnold Rampersaud Case Study

Brothers and sisters, comrades and friends:

The trial of Arnold Rampersaud on the charge of alleged murder is a serious affair. It is a serious affair because murder is always serious. It is serious because it is the murder of a policeman. It is serious because of its political implications. It is serious because racial and racist implications are involved. It is serious because the news coverage of this item has not been, and can never be, under the circumstances, sufficient to inform the general public so that they can understand what is going on. It is serious because it is taking place at a time of deepening economic crisis.

And you must rest assured that this economic crisis is fundamentally related to the absence of rights, to the various aspects of the denial of justice and fairplay in this society. The Working People’s alliance, on behalf of which I speak tonight, has as one of its slogans the phrase: “The struggle is a struggle for bread and justice”. The two cannot be separated. So that when one goes to the shops and finds that this is scarce, that is scarce, and the other item which is there is beyond one’s pocket, one must understand that the struggle for bread is closely related to, inseparable from, the struggle for justice. …show more content…
When there is evidence against an individual in any type of case, that evidence is collated and seriously attested, and then a charge is brought against the individual in the light of that evidence, subsequent to the evidence. When we examine the matter, we find that, in this case, there are two principal witnesses who appeared for the state at the last trial and who are appearing for the state in the present trial –two principal witnesses who are the sole link between Arnold Rampersaud and the offence. And those of you who have been here from the beginning would ae learnt, those to principal witnesses both gave their statements after Arnold Rampersaud was charged for