Auschwitz Trial

Hey, Pedro, have you ever heard of a famously female named Amanda Knox who was convicted of, and then acquitted of, the same murder twice in 2007? Well, Ms. Knox spent four years in prison before being freed in 2011, for the murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, Ms. Knox’s roommate. (Brayson, 2016) However, Ms. Knox’s case was re-tried in 2013 for the same murder because of biological evidence for DNA analysis. Ms. Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were tied to Kercher's murder…

Certainty vs. Doubt In “Twelve Angry Men”, 12 jurors are given the tough task to determine if an 18 year old boy is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. A variety of personalities are present at the table as the men discuss the boy’s future. After the jurors cast their vote, it is evident that one juror, juror #8, is the only one who voted not guilty. When asked why he thinks he’s innocent, he simply says, “I don’t know.” (12) This idea of doubt is exactly what drives the long argument…

Emmy was the one who stole the necklace because Emmy has access to everything and could personally use the extra money. To begin with, the window was broken from the inside of Mrs. Blivens hotel room. If Honore were to commit the crime, the shards of glass from the broken window would be in the inside of the room. Emmy knew that if the window was broken and the door was ajar that Schmidt would look guilty instead of herself. The housemaid also has access to all the rooms and could easily get…

not be punished for murder, is later punished for tax-evasion (Linder “All Capone Trial (1931): An Account”). However, the trial itself was not easy. More specifically, the witnesses needed to be made up of individuals who would turn on Capone (Linder “All Capone Trial (1931): An Account”). Even more so, Capone attempted to influence the jurors in his favor by researching who made up the jury (Linder “All Capone Trial (1931): An Account”). Thankfully, the Judge knew Capone’s game, and not only…

and taken into police custody while Tamerlan was killed in a getaway attempt. Eventually, Dzhokhar receives a lawyer and is tried for his actions. This trial, like many others, does not consist of hours upon hours of interrogating innocent bystanders and lecturing lawyers; a lot of visual evidence was recovered and used for trial. According to “Trial Lawyers Cater to Jurors’ Demands for Visual Evidence” by Sylvia Hsieh, it seems like a requirement that lawyers need to balance both visual and…

aboriginal by the name of Victor Daniel Williams, was charged in the year 1993 with robbery of a pizza parlour. He elected a trial by judge and jury, at which he pleaded not guilty to the crime. His defence was one of mistaken identity, nevertheless the jury convicted him . He claimed he was not involved with robbery, and that the robbery was committed by someone else. At his first trial, Williams argued that his rights under the grounds of, ss.7, 11(d) and 15(1) of the charter, had been…

forever they believed him and weren 't scared of him any more. The trial went on for hours nobody knowing which way the trial was going to go. John finally looked at the family of the victim and they looked really angry that I was on trial again. He did everything he could to not look at them because he didn’t want to make the wrong face at them and make people think he did do it so he only looked at his wife for the rest of the trial. The jury went into the back room for the recess judging if…

conflicts that brought many people to their breaking points. Both books had a strong emphasis on discrimination and prejudice. In Twelve Angry Men the jury was against the defendant for racist reasons just like the town was against Tom Robinson in the trial for racist reasons in To Kill A Mockingbird. The conflict is used in both literary pieces to display the theme of an arbitrary society to reveal that life is unfair and unequal. This theme is displayed through racism, discrimination and…

“Unbowed” is a legal drama film, written and directed by Chung Ji-young and starring Ahn Sung-ki and Park Won-sang. The movie is based on Kim Myung-ho’s true story, a math professor who was arrested and prosecuted for shooting with a crossbow the Judge Park Hong-woo. The movie starts with the aforementioned incident. We witness a math professor named Kim Kyung-ho (Ahn Sung-ki) holding a crossbow in front of the building’s entrance of Judge Park Bong-joo’s (Kim Eung-soo) home. When Judge Park…

#1 –– What are five defenses to criminal conduct? Explain in each case how each might be used. There are many kinds of defenses to criminal conduct that are known as affirmative defenses. The textbook mentions a few including: automatism, intoxication, coercion, alibi, and defense of property. The defense of automatism insists that the defendants was “incapable of formulating criminal intent because he/she blacked out or was acting unconsciously”, and therefore, had no intent to commit the…