Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Monster

Most People think that we have a great justice but people don’t see the flaw in it. Hundreds of people are accused about crimes they did not commit. In 1982 Alton Logan was accused of first degree murder. His Two attorneys know he was innocent but they stayed silent. He was finally released in 2008 after 26 years. What could have been the reason that they stayed silent? Was it race or something else that caused an innocent man to be put in jail?

Steve may have been in the same place if he did not show that he was not like the people that did that crime. He was only in jail for six months but he was still scarred like any other innocent person in jail. Race could have played a factor in how this case may have turned out. In Monster Steve was found innocent but I think in real life he may have been found guilty; Due to things such as unfound info, human error, and even racism.
Lots of people also think that we can get just about all the info about crimes. But really even crimes from twenty years ago can’t be solved with modern DNA technology. With the Alton Logan story there must have been some kind of info that not was not found out now to solve this case.
Our justice system is flawed but there are more people that did crimes in jail then innocent people yes there is always going to be racism and human error that cause us to put the wrong person in jail. Maybe we need to be a lot picker on who we pick as the jury to insure that we have the correct outcome.

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