James Whitey Bulger Research Paper

Did you know that unarmed black men are seven times more likely to die than white men? Racism is as old as human society itself. As long as human beings have been around, people have always seemed to have hated or feared people with a different skin color. Racism is just a part of the human nature. Trayvon Benjamin Martin was just 17 when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, in Sanford, Florida on February 2012. The murder of Trayvon Martin affected many people. The death of Martin was just the first of several deaths where a white person killed a black innocent person. Since the deaths weren’t stopping the #BlackLivesMatter movement began.

was held on July 23rd, 2014. This trial was held at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, MA. The trial was a jury trial, meaning that the people that decided if James was guilty or not were people brought to court by the United States of America. The judge of the trial was Denise Jefferson Casper, who at the time was forty-five years old, and worked for the court of law in this particular Boston district. The defense attorney for Mr. Bulger was a man named Hank Brennan. Hank Brennan was court appointed to Mr. Bulger, which means that he did not get his own attorney, but rather the state had to pay for him to have an attorney which is a law in the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The prosecuting attorney was Brian Kelly. Brian Kelly is now a very well known attorney in the country most notably for this trial. There were seventy-two witnesses called in against the like of James “Whitey” Bulger. One of the key witnesses against Bulger was going to be Stephen Rakes. This was a man that had seen Bulger commit his crime so he would have been a key witness. For some mysterious reason Stephen Rakes was murdered the day before he was going to get called in for the prosecution. Most of the evidence that was shown during the trial were murder weapons, about eight hundred-thousand dollars, more guns. The jury then found that only eleven of the nineteen deaths were due to him. The jury was unanimous and

Why does a 14 year old African American boy have to be brutally murdered for the Civil Rights Movement to be mobilized? Like most Americans in the Southern parts of the United States, they despised African Americans. Many don’t know why they do they just know they’re supposed to.

How would you feel if you were accused for something that you didn't even do? For instance, Emmett Till. He was a 14-year-old boy who was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. While he was visiting his family in Money, Mississippi, he was dreadfully murdered for “flirting” with a white woman while he was at the market buying gum. In this essay, we will discuss the tragic death of Emmett Till and the impact that he created.

On January 17th, 2015, Brock Turner, a 20-year-old Stanford freshman, sexually assaulted a 23-year-old unconscious women behind a dumpster located near a house party. The victim, who decided to not state her name and will therefore be referred to as Emily Doe, admitted in a letter she read aloud in court that that night she drank too much, too fast. However, this isn’t an excuse ‘nor a way to justify Brock’s actions. Someone who is drunk and unconscious should not be taken advantage of, they are still a person who should be respected no matter the circumstances.

Even though he committed many crimes, he was formally charged for only four: the attempted kidnapping of Carol DaRonch, the abduction and murder of Caryn Campbell, the Florida State University Chi Omega murders, and the Kimberly Leach abduction and murder (Rule).

Travon Martin, Michael Brown, Oscar Grant, and Eric Garner these are the names of innocent, unarmed, and black men. The system lets Travon Martin killer get away with murder, and the others were killed by police officers. Is it just me or is this becoming a part of our society? What gives the police officers the right to do these tragic things? I thought police were supposed to protect us, not hurt us or have people in the U.S afraid of them. When I was younger I looked at police as good people and they watch the neighborhood. A lot of things have changed over the years and its starting to get out of hand.

Through, Lee’s attorneys, he sought to use DNA testing in an effort to prove his innocence. He maintained that he did not commit the crime.

was impeached by the House of Representatives and was tried by the Senate for perjury and obstruction of justice. He is later acquitted of all charges.

On September 3rd, 1929, James Joseph Bulger Jr. was born in Everett, Massachusetts. He was born into a large Roman Catholic, Irish-American family with five other siblings. It was not until later, he found himself at home in South Boston-- a place he would later reign with a bloody fist. The Bulger family was one of the low income families that was eligible and selected to reside in the Old Harbor Village projects. This area of Boston was dominantly made up of Irish and Italian low income immigrants. At this time, the Irish received a great deal of alienation and quickly found themselves piled into South Boston, or otherwise known as “Southie”.

In the James Bulger case many witnesses were reluctant to speak up until after the child was found dead. According to The Sun (2018), “ The killers walked James for two and half miles and were spotted by 38 people – some of whom challenged the pair. These ten year old boys were claiming James as their little brother or James was lost and they were trying to help him find his mum when questions came about. According to The Sun (2018), “The pair took James to a railway line and tortured, beat and sexually assaulted him. They poured modelling paint into his eyes, stoned him and clubbed him with bricks, before leaving him on the railway line to be hit by a train. After killing the tot they left his body near the tracks where it was discovered two days later.” With all the information the boys presented, who would have believed there true intentions were to kill?

Charles Perrone; his crimes include adultery, business fraud and attempted murder (twice). Focusing on his most heinous crime: attempted murder, he failed to kill his wife

He then attempted to flee New Jersey. His behavior suggests that he knew his crimes were wrong.

civil aviation, retaliatory murder of a member of the immediate family of law enforcement officials, civil rights offenses resulting in death, murder of a member of Congress, an important executive official, or a Supreme Court justice, espionage, death resulting from offenses involving transportation of explosives, destruction of government property, or destruction of property related to foreign or interstate commerce, murder committed by the use of firearm during a crime of violence of drug-trafficking crime, murder committed in a federal government facility, genocide, first-degree murder, murder of a federal judge or law enforcement official, murder of a foreign official, murder by a federal prisoner, murder of a US national in a foreign

with conspiracy, and sentenced to be hung. He appealed his case and the U.S. Supreme