All-white jury

Judge Ritholtz saw were of a commercial nature. Most tended to be non-serious car accidents. These cases traditionally would come in droves and would be completed quickly as well. Most were decided via a Summary Jury Trial, which essentially serves as a precursor to a real trial. The Summary Jury Trial is meant to encourage settlement. The testimony is delivered before a…

March 13 and 15th the case became a national news story and the Martin’s are represented by a lawyer, Benjamin Crump. It was ironically Zimmerman’s father who first used race as an issue. He was unhappy that the media was referring to his son as white and not Hispanic, and made a public statement about it. By March 22, 2012 rallies calling for Zimmerman’s arrest for murder were being held in Sanford, FL as well as in New York City. NAACP President Ben Jealous and Rev. Al Sharpton went to…

trains was an adventure that was taking them to a place to find jobs. Soon after the train crossed the Alabama border, a white man walked across the top of the train and stepped on Haywood Patterson’s hand. He was hanging off the side. Patterson had friends on the train, and soon a rock-throwing fight erupted. Eventually, the eight black boys succeeded in forcing all but one of the white members of the train, Orville Gilley, whom Patterson pulled back up because the train was now going too fast…

The death penalty has taken several jabs that have led to its temporary halt and many restrictions. The Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a case that combined two other defendants. All three defendants were African Americans, convicted and sentence to death. Two of the defendants were sentence by the state of Georgia, one for murder and the other for rape, while the third defendant was sentence by the state of Texas for rape. Fighting for equal protection under the law, this case…

weeks of testimony, the six-women jury rejected the prosecution’s contention that Mr. Zimmerman had deliberately pursued Mr. Martin because he assumed the hoodie-clad teenager was a criminal and instigated the fight that led to his death. Mr. Zimmerman said he shot Mr. Martin in self-defense after the teenager knocked him to the ground, punched him and slammed his head repeatedly against the sidewalk. In finding him not guilty of murder or manslaughter the jury agreed that Mr. Zimmerman could…

the courthouse put Atticus up to the task, but I think Atticus wanted to defend Tom because he didn’t want to see an honest man go to jail without a fight. I also believe that Atticus wanted to defend a black man is because he wanted to show that not all back people are liars. The last question Atticus will be asked is why did he un-button his clothes when he was questioning his witness. I think Attics un-buttoned his clothes because he wanted to show the court he is a man with good intentions…

Meanwhile, as Judge Sandoval got his cherry ass busted open by Min-jun, Bailiff Bob stood guard outside the Jury’s Deliberation Room. This was freakin’ foolish. Here I am babysitting these jurors, while the Judge interrogates that Defendant. All of this in the name of law! Bailiff Bob could hear the jurors and the arrogant box-tie wearing Foreman in a heated discussion behind the closed door. This was the only way in or out of the Deliberation Room. The door had a frosted glass panel on the…

“it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” or “not easy to send a boy off to die without talking about it first,” in an ideal justice system, all evidence must be examined without reasonable doubt (Lee, 119) (Rose, 12). Accepting a justice system where juries decide upon the verdict, society often conforms itself to the ideologies and prejudices of the people on the jury. Generally, society becomes desensitized to these verdicts and accepts them as impartial even when they’re disproportionately targeted…

Judge: “Am I not to hear the truth?” Objecting Counsel: “No, Your Lordship is to hear the evidence. ” Evidence law is a mixture of principles, rules, guidelines and discretions. Jeremy Bentham legal theorist, stated it thus; ‘The field of evidence is no other than the field of knowledge’. The law of evidence is a critical subject for any lawyer or indeed party to a proceedings, who is concerned with investigation or the conduct of trials. The law of evidence is essentially about, the facts or…

I arrived with another online student, Sarah Johnson, at the Allegany County Circuit Court at the address of 30 Washington Street, Cumberland MD, 21502. The judge for that morning was W. Timothy Finan. Upon entering the front door, you had to put all of your stuff in tubs that they ran through the security scanner; while they were doing that, you walked through a scanner as well. On the other side you reclaimed your items. The security officer then directed us upstairs to the second court room.…