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    Madeline Maeloa Wrongly Accused “Ring Ring Ring...” the school bell sounded. Lunch has just ended and everyone was supposed to be in their classes by now. Sydney‚ my best friend‚ a careless and clumsy girl‚ approached my group of friends and me. I carried a happy feeling and smile to school as spring break just ended and this was the first day of school‚ expecting a ‘hi’ from her. “Did you STEAL my phone from my locker?” Sydney questioned me really loud and in a mean way as if I’m a prisoner

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    The Accused Innocent Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible directly in response to the communist Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s. The trials were held for the many men and women who were accused of performing witchcraft; those who did not confess to witchery were hung while those who did confess faced only jail time. Almost 300 years later‚ three teenage boys‚ Damien Echols‚ Jessie Misskelley‚ and Jason Baldwin‚ were accused for murdering three eight-year old boys as part of a satanic sacrifice in

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    People are accused everyday for something they didn’t do. People are put in jail for something another person has done. Someone’s life may be put to death over a fib. People are hurt for hearing information that they thought was true‚ but it wasn’t. There are three reasons why people are wrongly accused and that would be; false information‚ media‚ and being too scared. The first one is false information. People are given false information all the time. There is this and that going around

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    DNA Evidence Free Wrongly Convicted People DNA testing can be used to free wrongly convicted people like Kennedy Brewer and Herman Atkins. Too many people get charged for crimes they did not commit. Kennedy Brewer and Herman Atkins are both examples of wrongly convicted people. On April 8th 1986‚ in Lake Elsinore‚ a female clerk was working at a shoe store when sometime between 11:30 AM and 12:00 PM‚ she was raped and robbed at gunpoint. The women was working her shift when this happened. “She

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    Wrongly Accused Who was wrongly accused when the trials of Tom Robison took place back in the 1930s? I will present some facts and quotes from informational sources that will prove how people are really the ones to blame. To discuss who or what was wrongly accused? Is to get to the bottom and find the evidence base on facts. Highlighting 2 informational articles‚ and the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee in chapter 20 of Atticus speech of what the jury should do. Let’s start with Atticus’s

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    Throughout history innocent people were persecuted because of religion‚ race‚ gender‚ or beliefs. It has been proved that between the first persecution under Nero in 64 to the Edict of Milan in 313‚ Christians experienced 129 years of persecution. Since the fifth century‚ there have been ten major persecutions and that is not counting the minor ones. The Holocaust started in the late 1938s and ended in 1945 during World War II and was one of the major persecutions. The events of The Crucible and

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    Posted on September 25‚ 2012 by admin “THE ACCUSED (1988) The Accused” deals with a gang rape that took place in a tavern. Several men held Sarah Tobias‚ a young woman with a reputation for promiscuity‚ down on the pinball table and took turns at having sex with her while she was held down. Around them is a crowd of onlookers. None stopped‚ or attempted to stop‚ this from happening. In fact‚ a crowd gathered around these men who were raping Sarah and were cheering them on and encouraging

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    People Accused of Violent Crimes Should Not Be Allowed To Post Bail People accused of violent crimes should not be allowed to post bail and remain out of jail while their trial is pending. There are many reasons to why I strongly agree with this statement. Many factors are unknown to the public without conducting some sort of extensive research. Whether it is simply reading in the paper about pending trials‚ or as complicated as researching previous trials. Bail is decided by a judge

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    important. The law system of the United States is like that of any other nation. It has room for error. It was created by humanity and just like it’s creator it can have imperfections. These possible imperfections are shown in the movie when the The Accused was very useful as a law-related learning tool because it gave examples of procedures in our legal system and even gave me a chance to see what a trial might be like in real life. I truly enjoyed watching this movie because Jodie Foster and Kelly

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    rape is the central matter of the film. It points out that criminal solicitation is just as wrong as the crime itself. The film did a good quality job in portraying the reality of a rape crime for a woman in a lower social-class. Whether a person is in low-class or high-class socially‚ does not make them more indecent. It also showed the difficulty of being heard when the woman is not so innocent in her past experiences even when there is a well practiced prosecutor working with them. In the criminal

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