Rights of the accused

Imagine if you were accused of doing or being apart of something that would give people reason to legally kill you. Well that's what happened in the Salem Witch Trials. There was also an era where people in America would get there lives ruined and there jobs taken away because of accusations. This was called the McCarthy Era. There were a few similarities and differences in the McCartthy Era and the Salem Witch trials. Here they are. There are very similar details from these times in America.…

Facts: Incident took place in a freight train traveling through Alabama with nine African American men, two white females, and seven white males. Throughout the ride, a fight broke out between the men. The two women on the train accused the African American men of sexually assaulting them. It was in Scottsboro that the men pleaded not guilty. On the day of the arraignment they were not appointed counsel. The judge announced he appointed all members of the bar for uses of the prosecutions. On the…

hanged in 1692, because of being accused of witchcraft. Some people say that religion cause it. Others say that it was because of them trying to explain the unexplainable. Here’s why I think jealousy would beat out religion and explaining the unexplainable is explaining the cause of this whole ‘which ‘witch’ is a witch’ hysteria. My first piece of evidence came from Doc B (the accused and accuser chart). According to the chart, 61 out of the 110 females accused were married. Meanwhile, on…

of a particular offence are present. The elements are; actus reus, mens rea and causation. Actus reus, meaning “guilty act”, it refers to the physical act of carrying out the crime. Mens rea, meaning “guilty mind” refers to the mental state of the accused. In order for the prosecution to succeed,…

attacking them with their spirit. Twenty five people lost their lives because they were accused of something they did not do. The accusers said that innocent people were attacking them out of fear, revenge, and hysteria. Some of the accusers accused out…

decide a punishment for guilty people, but those punishments are different than the ones in the United States. Another difference with Athenian punishments is that people involved in the court can suggest the type of punishment, even the person being accused. This is different compared to the U.S. trials because not just anyone can determine the punishment. The judge and jury are the ones that have the final say in what the length of the punishments…

Salem also accused two hundred innocent people of performing some type of witchcraft supposedly. “Eighteen others followed Bishop to Salem’s Gallow Hill, while some one hundred fifty more men, women and children were accused over the next several months” (Bodian). A witch is a person that practices witchcraft, which is also known as the Devil's magic. The government of Salem said that they could tell if a person was a witch by weighing them to a stack of bibles and if the person, being accused…

both the preliminary examinations and the ensuing trials, the accused witches were presumed guilty.” (“Salem witch trials legal dictionary”). Also in not a single trial, anybody had a lawyer.( Plus, most of these people were pious) How do you expect them to defend themselves if they do not know their rights or the law. It was almost like a person arguing with casper the friendly ghosts. “English people (including American Colonists) accused of criminal acts were not allowed to have a lawyer to…

said whenever an army official had been accused of communism the decency this person had to accuse these people were as low as the decency of some of these accusers. “ A victim in the end of his own recklessness” (Joseph Mccarthy). This quote about the red scare shows that even though some people even though they may not have known any communist would accuse these people to get the attention off of them. In some cases many people got killed for being accused of communism even if they had no…

find himself to be a good person or a bad one. John had made mistakes in life that makes him seem like a bad man, but he also does good things for his community. He is a good man who had made mistakes in life, but he uses his good senses to do the right thing being a truthful christian. Johns Proctor first mistake is that he had an affair with Abigail williams and she soon falls in love with him. Abby had started framing people for witchcraft to try to get to John and was slowly going insane…