Osvaldo Cruz

What is the delineation between guilt and innocence? Most people would say that if one is guilty, then one has done something wrong, and if one is innocent one has not. In truth, it is not quite this simple. Steve Harmon is a prime example of this phenomenon. While he may have made some mistakes, he did not make the one he is on trial for. Steve Harmon is innocent of felony murder because he did not pull the trigger, people lie to get what they want, and there is always reasonable doubt.…

drugstore robbery that ended in the felony murder of Alguinaldo Nesbitt if Steve is proved guilty he can get sentenced 25 years to a life sentence in prison. Kathy O’Brien is Steve's lawyer, and the four men on trial for this murder are James King, Oswaldo Cruz, and Richard “BoBo” Evans. The book begins with Steve being arrested at his front door right in front of his mom.…

False convictions can occur for a myriad of reasons and are detrimental to those who are innocent yet imprisoned for a crime that was committed by someone else. In the novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers, James King is on trial for the felony murder of a drugstore owner during the robbery of said drugstore. There is very little evidence and hardly believable witnesses, but King is still found “guilty” by the jury. Upon observing the evidence presented in James King’s trial, the jury should have…