Legal Precedent In The Criminal Justice System

The theory of legal precedent has changed the face of the Criminal Justice System and Criminal Courts in many ways. Previously judges made decisions solely on what they believed, without mentioning existing cases. The decisions were only base on what they were told about the pending case, and with that information they provided a suitable conclusion. Today judges base their decisions on previous cases, to be able to justify their actions. Legal precedent is extremely beneficial to our Criminal justice system and our court system because it allows consistency, reliability and predictability within our decisions.
The Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison is described as the case that established the precedent of Judicial review. Which forever
changed the Criminal justice system and criminal court systems, by declaring “the Supreme Court has the final say, but only as to the parties in cases before the courts.” Providing limits on how far our criminal justice system could go. Another Supreme Court case that changed the way of the courts was Brown v. Board of Education. This case ended the phrase separate but equal and declared rights to all citizens regardless of the color of their skin because it violated the 14th Amendment. Furthermore, the Supreme Court Case Roe v. Wade was settled “as a precedent of the court, entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis.” Changing the way, the Criminal Justice systems and courts view reproduction rights.