Dustin Turner: Guilty Or Injustice?

Have you ever heard of the incident which occurred at Rosewood, Florida? If you haven’t I really think you should. It’s a case everyone should know about. A white woman by the name Fannie Taylor cheated on her husband. The man who Fannie cheated on her husband with beat her after they got done having sex. She didn’t want her husband to find out about her cheating, so she lied to everyone in town. She said “that a black man raped and robbed her’. An old lady by the name of Sarah Carrier was the house maid of the Taylor household was there the time Mrs. Taylor cheated on her husband. She heard Mrs. Taylor lied about being raped by a black man, but she couldn’t speak up at the time. The white men in town found out about her being raped, and they went crazy. They went around killing every black person that got in their way. Some of the time they didn’t have to get in their way if they didn’t tell them what they wanted to hear. Then person that really beat her got away, nobody tripped off him. They was going around thinking it was this man by the name of Mr. Mann who the white people thought name was Jessie Hunter was the man who raped and robbed Fannie Taylor.

Nobody deserves to go to prison for a crime that they didn’t commit. Dustin Turner has spent more than enough year time in prison. In 2002, Billy Brown confessed to Jennifer Evans’ murder and said that Dusty played no part in it. Also, they never found any evidence for Dustin they just went by theories. Billy Brown will be serving seventy-two years while Dusty serve eighty-two. This is not right and justice must be served to Dustin

14 year old Steven Truscott gave his classmate Lynne Harper a ride on his bicycle on June 9, 1959. Truscott had dropped her off before they parted ways. Lynne was reported missing later that night, and two days later, her body was found on a nearby farm. She was sexually assaulted and strangled to death. The community was horrified by what happened to this young girl and everyone was determined to find the killer. Immediately, investigators became fixated on Truscott as the prime suspect since he was the last person to see Lynne. They didn’t consider any other suspects, even though there was no physical evidence linking him to the murder. He was arrested 24 hours later, and stood trial as an adult. (Steven Truscott |

Darryl Hunt is an African American born in 1965 in North Carolina. In 1984, he was convicted wrongfully of rape and murder of Deborah Sykes, a young white woman working as a newspaper editor. This paper researches oh his wrongful conviction in North Carolina. Darryl Hunt served nineteen and a half years before DNA evidence exonerated him. The charges leveled against him were because of inconsistencies in the initial stages of the case. An all-white bench convicted the then nineteen-year-old Hunt, even though there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime. A hotel employee made false claims that he saw Hunt enter the hotel bathroom, and later emerge with bloodstained towels. Other witnesses also fixed Hunt to the case.

On the evening of June 17 2015, a group of twelve black church members accepted a stranger into their bible study. The stranger sat with the Bible study group for about 45 minutes, and then during the final prayer, when everyone's eyes were closed, he pulled out a gun and started firing. Dylann Roof killed nine of the twelve people present, only three survived. He was convicted of 33 federal charges, including hate crimes, obstruction of religion and firearms charges. He has just recently been sentenced to death. Roof decided to defend himself and called on no witnesses and did not produce any evidence for his case. He did not even ask jurors to spare his life. The prosecution however called around 38 witnesses, including family and friends

His convictions have relieved many people but raises many questions about police officers and their intentions. It also makes it seem like even cops are devaluing African-American lives, and that is sad to the black community. Police officers are acting like African American lives are useless and that’s the way we are being treated. And for a case like this to happen, is heartbreaking to black women, or women in general. It could have happened to any race, but women are always the main target. Support groups, women groups, etc. have all been the voice, but they are not being heard loud enough. Women face lots of problems, only to be treated as if they’re not needed on this world. Women go through pregnancies, miscarriages, rape, being degraded by men, etc. and the problem is still continuing with no solution, with no solutions in the future.

Dan white strange defense after committing 1st-degree murder set standards in America and it came to be called the Twinkie Defense. It transformed the defenses in America and sent a message to the criminal defense bar. After Dan white assassinated the mayor and Mike people knew exactly why he had done it. White’s murder act had absolutely nothing to do with Twinkies. Dan white had the intention to kill and the video states “He had very deliberately taken his revenge, loaded a handgun and hidden in his jacket, had 10 extra bullets in his pocket.” Therefore, they informed us by telling us his intentions for the double homicide were present at the time.

I think that Fields was guilty for violating the law. I think that it was wrong for him to claim that he served in the military and that he won a purple heart award. I think that this goes against the stolen valor act, and that he should have to pay the consequences. I think that it would be wrong to let him get away with it because it makes it seem like the people who actually did win the award are not that important. If the military officials who actually did win the award are upset and think that it is not a big deal they might stop doing it.

Furthermore, Turner’s sentence of his crime was unacceptable and caused an outrage, as the member of the public criticised Judge Aaron Persky of judicial bias in favour of male privilege and having an elite status (Stack, 2016). Thus, giving a perception of special treatment by the Judge Persky which highlighted Turner’s position as a star athlete and an All-American swimmer in a top university; as well as, his father, Dan Turner believed that his son should have not deserved a long sentence because, he has no previous criminal history. Dan Turner also claimed that his son was not being himself and was mentally unstable for what he had to go through during the trial. The Judge Persky stated that a longer sentence would have had severe impact on Turner (Vaidyanathan, 2016). Therefore, in relation to a feminist perspective within this case, it is expected that in a patriarchal society that men are frequently holding the position of social, legal and institutional dominancy and power over women. Thus, being able to be positioned to withhold major benefits from women who rejects them sexual access; moreover, to threatening penalties and harm (Whisnant, 2013).

In cases like Elliot Rogers and like Brock Turner's we see how gender favoritism can change the terms of events. For Brock Turner it helped to low the sentence he would receive, and for Elliot Roger it would create this idea of being superior a superior human and a superior race. In cases where the perpetrator is other then white in the United States they are not branded as mentally unhealthy like Elliot and are not taken into consideration on how the crime may affect the perpetrator like what happened for Brock Turner. An “important aspect regarding the link between sexist attitudes and male violence against women concerns the fact that sexist attitudes function as socially shared norms in justifying such violence.” Generally this means “rules

Many of the consequences of how race affects the larger criminal justice system can be seen in innocence-related efforts. “An analysis of the 297 DNA exonerations reveals minorities make up approximately 70% of those proven innocent through DNA testing. Similarly, African-Americans represent the vast majority of these exonerations – 63% of those exonerated by DNA testing.”(Edwin Grimsley, Innocence Project Case Analyst) As this quote

Cleveland, Ohio, Harold Franks, a businessman, was robbed and killed as he left his store…His attackers threw battery acid in his face, beat him with a stick, and ended his life with two gunshots to the chest. Police claimed they had an eyewitness. A twelve-year-old boy named Eddie Vernon. He pointed the finger at three neighborhood black-men. Eighteen-year-old, Ricky Jackson and his two friends, brothers Wiley and Ronnie Bridgeman. Even though Eddie was actually a few blocks away on a school bus at the time of the murder, the three men still were arrested. Based on Eddie’s false testimony, the men were convicted, and sentenced to die. However, because the Ohio state law was changed within a few days, it was changed to life imprisonment. After they

Tragedy struck Gaithersburg, MD this morning when news that 67 year old Ethan Turner was maltreated and murdered by caregiver Charles Poe. Charles Poe crept into Turner’s home while Turner slept and Poe Steadily, Swiftly, Suffocated Turner in his sleep. The town is mournful this morning, Turner was an eccentric and joyful man. He was almost perfect, well except for his eye that is. In a statement released by Poe, “One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture- a pale blue eye with a film over it.” Turner’s eye was a marble. It had no pupil, just a pale blue film. Well, what was Poe’s motive? What drives a man to kill? Well, in Poe’s case, he claimed that the eye vexed him, that it made his blood run cold. Poe claimed that he would watch the man every night, for seven days and seven nights.

We should not be blinded by the stories on the media as it will only lead you to a deeper misunderstanding towards him. After all, Dustin is not an unwanted bad boy and he is not that bad who deserve to go to

The homicide of Lennon Lacy compares and contrasts with the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers. It compares in many ways, let’s talk about a few. One way it compares is through one of the quotes from the book, “Felony murder is as serious as it gets.” In the book Steve Harmon is a suspect of felony murder. If they would have caught Lennon Lacy’s murderer that person may have been sentenced with felony murder. Another comparison is black people getting treated unfairly. Steve is getting treated unfairly because he was black and a teenager and some of those people may have still been convinced that Steve was apart of the murder over stereotypes. Lennon Lacy was black and a teenager so they had conspiracies about the situation stating that he brung it upon himself that his life had to be ended. My quote for this comparison is “Monster tattooed over my forehead ” my reasoning for choosing this one is because ,not all the time, but most of the time white people think all black people are monsters because of stereotypes. My last comparison is, corresponding with the quote “I can’t stay in prison for 20 years” it compares with the Lennon Lacy story because not only would the murderer have a possibility to go to prison for felony murder he has the possibility for hate crime charges. In my perspective I think that is the reasons that the murderer of Lennon Lacy