All-white jury

has an interesting process to decide who will be one of the jurors to take part in one certain trial. The jury was elected by nine consuls by tribal ballot, and the tenth tribunal was drawn by the clerk of the magistrate. The court had ten entries, one for each tribe, twenty for each tribe, two tribes for the tribunal, one for the jury, one for each of the ten, and another for the box, The jury 's vote is here, in addition to two large bowl. At each entrance stood the rods equal in number to the…

Scottsboro boys? The name not only implies their youth but, due to the time and place, their racial inferiority. The nine boys, aged 13 to 21 were all illiterate, one of them was nearly blind and another disabled (Scottsboro Case, SIRS Discoverer.)…

The death penalty should be illegal because it is outdated and immoral. One reason the death penalty should be abolished is because the juries are not alway right about what happened. One study shows that 1 in every 25 victims of the death penalty is innocent. Imagine losing your life for a crime that you did not even commit. Take Ruben Cantu, a 17 year old Texan, was accused and convicted for capital murder. The eyewitness recanted his testimony and the co-defendant admitted that he allowed his…

We all have the privilege to be attempted by our associates, and it is a thoughtful approach to include the group in regulating equity. There are circumstances in which the law is unjust, and it is the duty of a member of the jury to speak to the supposition of the general population. Serving as a Jury was a reasonable way for me to maintain an individual liberty and just to watch out for the government: making sure it doesn 't push unjust laws on fellow citizens. These reasons drove me to…

injustice. Nate Blakeslee tells the town’s true story in his book Tulia. In 1999, forty-seven people were charged with dealing cocaine to a narc named Tom Coleman. Throughout the trials, it was blatantly obvious Coleman had fabricated the arrests, but all forty-seven were convicted anyways. In fact, some were sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison. The 1999 Tulia raid proves the justice system makes mistakes and can be influenced by unrelated and unreliable factors such as racism, witness’s…

because race, economic status, and fame should not get someone any special treatment. Why is the justice system like this and what can the system do to change this? A way this can change is to limit bias through activities to help juries in order to create a fair trial in all criminal cases. The system is ruining lives, not changing them. Inconsistencies in the justice system are what causes many problems in the society. An individual deserves a complete and ethical punishment based on the level…

reading this book I had heard it was about a racist trial of an African American and that was the basic summary of it. After reading the book I found that the main part of the story was about the unfair trial because of a racist jury even though all evidence pointed to the white man who was actually responsible for the crime, the were other lessons that could be related to racism or any other type of discrimination. This book was a really good and easy read that had a deep meaning to it and a…

John Garcia August 26th, 2017 A recent episode of Radiolab, titled “Null And Void,” discussed the issue on jury nullification. As the podcast progresses, it explained that jury nullification is when a defendant is in clear guilt of breaking the law, but the jury feels the defendant is not guilty and the law is unjust. Throughout the episode, a variety of emotions were displayed on whether jury nullification is beneficial or dangerous to our court system. Some may defend it and state people have…

me a good understanding of the 6th amendment by providing me with an in depth look into the jury and the deliberation process. The 6th amendment gives everyone the right to being tried by an impartial jury of their peers who are in charge of deciding the verdict. This movie raised a lot of concerns for me because the jury in this movie was not what I would consider to be impartial, nor did I think this jury presumed this boy innocent until proven guilty(burden of proof). What I mean by that is,…

how to get them back. My main concern is you-the law abiding person. I want to keep you safe and free.” (pg.19) So, the most important key issues discussed in his book “Let’s Get Free” is: mass incarceration, criminalization of drug offenders, and jury duty. The first issue Butler arguing is about mass incarceration. Because today, the United States has the worse rate of incarceration in the world; which is the largest rate of 2.3 million people in the prison.(pg.25) And every year more people…