The film relates to the course in a several different ways, but I found the issue of Due Process the most significant topic in the documentary because it well presents the inadequacy of the American Justice System where it is supposed to be ensured by Appellate Process. I clearly remember learning about the Appellate Process which is supposed to act as a shield for defendant guaranteed by the Due Process. In this incident an African-American teen was arrested for the murder and armed robbery of a white tourist in Jacksonville based only upon the eye-witness account of the tourist’s husband. The teen was subsequently denied the right to make his phone call or contact an attorney, interrogated for an inordinate amount of time, threatened, racially slurred, struck
The film relates to the course in a several different ways, but I found the issue of Due Process the most significant topic in the documentary because it well presents the inadequacy of the American Justice System where it is supposed to be ensured by Appellate Process. I clearly remember learning about the Appellate Process which is supposed to act as a shield for defendant guaranteed by the Due Process. In this incident an African-American teen was arrested for the murder and armed robbery of a white tourist in Jacksonville based only upon the eye-witness account of the tourist’s husband. The teen was subsequently denied the right to make his phone call or contact an attorney, interrogated for an inordinate amount of time, threatened, racially slurred, struck