Presumption of innocence

The film begins with an misconception. A jaded and drained barman, Jean, collapses with exhaustion and nods off in his workplace where he is eyed by a seducing Irene and assumes he is a guest. Captivated by her Jean does not correct her presumption of him being a guest and the sticky misunderstanding becomes the start of a beautiful journey. A journey that has its bumpy roads where she at first seemingly disappears and then shows up a year later where he continues his facade. A journey filled…

Introduction: The case Tukaram vs. State of Maharashtra also known, as the Mathura rape case is a landmark case, which is based on a crime of rape that took place in a rural area known as Desai Ganj and it is said that two police constables committed the rape. The High court held the two accused guilty whereas the Trial court as well as the Supreme Court held that the accused were not guilty of rape. Facts: In the case Mathura is the girl who has alleged that the two police constables Ganpat…

Eyewitness misidentification is the most common cause of wrongful convictions, accounting for at least seventy-two percent of convictions overturned through DNA testing (The Innocence Project). This being said, eyewitness errors may happen for several reasons, including suggestive police interviewing, an incorrect belief about what the witness saw, and the malleability of confidence (Denov & Campbell, 2005). In this specific case…

The Motivation Behind Evil Throughout history, the notion of evil has been questioned and challenged by mankind. What exactly is it, and from where did it evolve? Theorists, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, C. Fred Alford, and Thomas Hobbes, have attempted to determine what evil is through literature and experiences. In British literature, stories such as Beowulf, Macbeth, and The Canterbury Tales portray the human concept of right and wrong. These stories provide characters and circumstances to…

Kenneth Lay’s naïve presumption of Innocence Enron has been yet another example of how a group of unethical individuals with a taste of success can manipulate a position into unscrupulous grandeur for the benefit of a few with no oversight from above and the auditors who should have thrown up a red flag much sooner on the pay roll. It was the perfect storm for Kenneth Lay and his cohorts to squeeze every illicit cent they could from the Enron cash cow. Claiming his innocence to up until his…

The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” was created in 1960 by the brilliant author, Harper Lee. The book takes place down south in early 1930 America in a town called Maycomb. One of the major characters in the story is Atticus Finch, a lawyer whose difficult task is to defend a man of colour in front of an all-white jury. Although, this novel has been out for over 50 years, I still believe that Atticus Finch is one of the most admired characters in modern American literature. The three…

fields, posing himself as one of the sheep. I as the shepherd was mindful that not only would I keep any eye on the safety of my flock, but that the wolf did not attack the shepherd before attacking the sheep. The other concern was to know that my presumption of suspicion was right and based on some valid proof. Though the conversation about this wolf appeared satisfactory, I was not quite quenched with my thirst of quest about the…

Frederick Douglass’s Learning to Read In his essay Learning to Read, author Frederick Douglass offers a seemingly grim outlook on the power of language in the context of nineteenth-century slavery. On first glance, Douglass 's struggle and subsequent suffering brought on by acquiring literacy seem to indicate futility, however, Douglass masterfully uses this newly acquired skill to introduce antislavery rhetoric without compromising the audience 's receptivity. His arrangement provides a…

These instructions to the jury are not only virtuous because they illustrate the virtues of neutrality and impartiality by instructing the jury to only consider the evidence and to not be influenced when deliberating by any preconceived notions, influences, or prejudices. These instructions also envelop the common practice employed by judges of “dispassion” to prevent “emotion from exerting any influence" wherever such opportunities exist in order to maintain fairness and equality to all in the…

marked by epiphanies, specifically ones where the character realizes the absence of the divine opposed to the recognition of it. Examples of this can be found in “Araby” and “Eveline” in the way that both main characters undergo the transition from innocence to experience through epiphanies, causing them to see that their personal paralyses are due to their own sense of vanity. Both of these stories nod at completeness in the sense that there is something each character desires or longs…