Plea bargain

lead to his decision to fire his lawyer. Mr. Havens was only able to give necessary information about the case to his second lawyer, and he also gave him a retainer check and this other attorney believed that he was guilty even though he refused a plea bargaining. Mr. Havens had experienced multiple problems involving lawyers, the entire case and it all seemed like he could not catch a break. Two weeks before the trial he had slipped and fallen down the stairs after he carpeted the stairs and…

Wrongful convictions often happen when the police or prosecution has made a mistake or there was an eyewitness misidentification. Unfortunately many also plead guilty despite being insolent due to the pressure, they eventually end up taking the plea bargains. A study…

his case began 76 miles away from me on the day of April 4, 1968, At the Lorraine Motel Room 306. (NCRM, unknown). Dr. Martin Luther King was in Memphis, TN waiting to hear if the federal courts would lift the ban on holding a Sanitation Workers march. As he and several friends exited the Lorraine Motel to go out for dinner a shot came forth from across the street at the Legacy building. (NCRM, unknown). At 39 years old Dr. King died from a gunshot room to the head before ambulances arrived to…

Crime against the state is seen as a violation of the rule of law, while crime against people is seen as a violation of human rights, and both conditions lead to the punishment of the offender befitting the crime. In this process of achieving justice, those highly impacted by these wrong actions are often ignored; the battle between the offender and the Crown often makes the victim, a mere spectator. Meanwhile, the Canadian Criminal Justice System is continuing to do its best in addressing the…

mistakes, confessions can be corrupt or coerced, forensic testing can be faulty, and prosecutors can be untrusting. According to Greer (2014), although an acquittal is usually an unlikely occurrence for even a defendant that is wrongfully convicted a plea bargain can often be utilized. Although it will still be a sentence that a defendant is objectively given it will result in less time incarcerated. State crimes contain two concepts with respect to wrongful convictions. The first concept is the…

Police Body Cameras With technology and media rapidly gaining popularity in society, law enforcement has received the short end of the stick. With every move of a police officer, there is always a cell phone recording in the distance of the occurrence of events. Within the time period of 2 minutes that video can easily be uploaded for the world to see, whether it is pro-police or criticising police for how they are carrying out their duty. Unfortunately, there is plenty of bias and ignorance in…

Simply put, lawyers are the lifeblood of an entire branch of the United States’ system of government: the legislative branch. Without lawyers, the entire justice system would go under. They are defendants for both the innocent and guilty, the weak and the powerful, the oppressed and the oppressors, and the individual and the government. In the simplest answer possible, lawyers are any person that speak for or instruct one side in any given case, but they do so much more. Everyone is familiar…

night. When West woke up the next morning, he was asked to answer questions about the prisoners who had escaped. Crediting himself as the mastermind behind the escape plan, I heard West describe the precise details of the scheme. Something about a plea bargain may have appealed to him. Now tourists gaze in awe at the papier-mâché heads that still sit in adjacent cells. The hole that in me attracts eager students delighted to learn more about the “Great Escape from Alcatraz.” I try to pick up…

his earnings, and lost endorsement deals worth millions more. With other creditors also attempting to collect millions of dollars in debts. By August 20, all the defendants on the initial federal charges including Vick had agreed to guilty pleas under plea bargain agreements, and on December 10, 2007 was sentenced to prison for running a dogfighting operation and will stay there up to 23 months. Clearly Michael Vick was the sacrificed lamb in this particular…

One of the girls was tucked away in a hole in an abandoned mine shaft, and the other a mere few feet away. Immediately, Armani rushes home and to process the experience. It is during the darkest hours of the night, he writes up a plea bargain to send to the prosecution, as leverage in the case (Armani had tried to have his client placed in a mental institution for life instead of prison), but when he presented this to them, they declined. Armani describes this time as a long period…