were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train (Encyclopedia of Alabama : Scottsboro Trials 1). This case was more hectic than any other event in the South because it revealed the barbarous treatment of blacks. The announcement of this verdict brought the sentences to an uproar of protest in the North. Every boy was sentenced to death by electrocution (Wormser 1). In 1931‚ nine black boys boarded a train at Chattanooga to Memphis. Little did these boys know that they would be accused
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Maycomb‚ Scout is surrounded by prejudice. She desperately tries to hold on to her naive sense of justice‚ but do to the shocking events of a trial this becomes impossible to do. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Scout loses her innocence from the verdict of Tom Robinson’s trial. Scout discovers that the people of Maycomb are racist. Until Atticus represents Tom Robinson‚ Scout has always seen Maycomb as an accepting town. It is only after Scout reads BB Underwood’s article about the unfairness of
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the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It is represented by people who are looked down upon within a community in both the book and today. Jem‚ a young boy‚ shows compassion in the novel when he recognizes the unfairness of Tom Robinson’s verdict just because he has a darker skin tone. t Atticus expresses care and concern for Mrs. Dubose who has a hard time controlling her actions due to her disability. Also‚ Scout demonstrates compassion for Boo Radley‚ who has become an outcast in society
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Something that I can’t understand was “ in 2003 a young boy said that Jackson molested him after giving him and other kids at the ranch wine and alcohol(Top 10 most famous Not guilty verdicts)”. For a simple fact why would you give a minor alcohol and wine. Either way he has committed a crime. There are differences in our court system‚ but “their should be no differences between any person or celebrities in the order of law(Do celebrities
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This task is an extension of the content discussed in p4 where i discussed the role of lay people. Also i described the background of magistrates and jury. I also talked about formal requirements‚ qualifications‚ restrictions‚ selection and training to become part of the magistrates. Also explained what is needed to become part of the jury for example the eligibility‚ what disqualifications which will restrict you‚ and discretionary excusals. in this assignment to meet the criteria i will need to
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November 20‚ 2013 Juvenile crimes are the various offenses that children under the age of eight-teen commit. The acts involved in these crimes are called juvenile delinquency. The issue of juvenile delinquency has been a rising issue in the American society for decades. As we take a look into the factors behind this problem we will also look into what changes have been made to the juvenile justice system to combat this. Factors behind juvenile delinquency is said to be mental illness and
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and Moral Relativism can result in morality becoming inconsistent. The standard of consistency requires that “a moral theory should be consistent in the sense that its principles‚ together with relevant factual information‚ yield consistent moral verdicts about the morality of actions‚ persons‚ and other objects of moral evaluation” (Timmons 271). In this essay I will argue that both Moral Relativism and Divine Command Theory have their flaws and the only way to ‘do the right thing’ is to rely on
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Men‚ a play by Reginald Rose‚ was written in 1955 at a time when America was involved in a cold war with communist countries. It shows the strength of a deliberative process that enables individuals‚ who have “nothing to gain or lose‚” to reach a verdict. In the American jury system “everybody deserves a fair trial” and in Twelve Angry Men the defendant gets a very fair trial. All the jurors have their own opinions on the case but in the end a decision is made. The jury‚ and the audience‚ never discovers
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minority‚ violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. The Fisher V. University of Texas case should be ruled by the precedent set by the Grutter v. Bollinger case. However‚ declaring the affirmative action unconstitutional is a possible verdict. Fisher has the 14th amendment on her side which states that all citizens are entitled to equal protection under the law. Chief Justice Roberts‚ in a 2007 affirmative-action decision‚ famously stated
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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee is a great work in American literature‚ and has been taught in schools for many years. The book is the story of two young children during part of their time growing up. In this book‚ readers see the adventures of Scout and Jem‚ and how they learn from them. Along with learning that racism is a big part in their society in this time‚ and the unfairness of it. The novel should be taught in schools because of the lessons taught to readers by Scout and Jem
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