I didn’t grow up in the best of circumstances. I grew up in a neighborhood filled to the brim with crime. My father was a low ranking gang member with little to no room for advancement. My mother was a heroin addict. Or whatever she had on hand. Sometimes my father joined her, but when he got high or drunk he became very abusive. That was typically when I snuck out and hid out at a friend’s house for a few hours. But I never stayed the night. My father made a habit of visiting my room, as if trying to make up for the fact that every time that he lifted his hand, maybe to catch my attention or something harmless like that, I would flinch away from him.
So when I first got there I had the idea that it was a mock trial. It was not until we start and they started going over the history of the Texas Supreme Court and how they are able to travel thought the state did I realize that the court cases were real. Which, I am glad that they were real cases because that would have been boring if they were mock. So once I got that all right in my head I started to focus on the cases the first one was at some point difficult to follow to quote my friend who’s in high school “I don’t get why everybody is so mad about so ranch there is plenty of it at Walmart at leas that’s what that one dude said”. Now, my friends, he is the class clown, so I knew it was a joke but he did ask me “for real why did he keep
My trial was hard and brutal. The hardest thing was to see that people, that I didn’t even know, want me dead for something that I am physically not capable of doing. You all know me, and who I really am. Most of you probably don’t care about what I have to say, and most of you don’t care what happens to me, but I know some of you do truly believe me. I was framed, and the evidence even proves that I didn’t do it, but no one believes a black man .I mean how could I choke a strong woman like Mayella, and keep her down to where she can’t get up, with my crippled arm. I would never do such a thing to anyone, and I hope you all know that. This justice system is not fair, and I knew there would be no way out of this mess.
Sounds like a plan. Yes, this is a new homicide. Crime was committed when he was 17 and he turned 18 in May.
This Gruesome Crime Your Honor, at this time I am urged to ask you why you are crying for these two men. Let us not forget the afternoon of May 21. After six months of planning the perfect crime, Mr. Leopold and Mr. Lobe coaxed the young Bobby Franks into their car while he was walking home from school. Once Bobby had been lured into the vehicle, Loeb bludgeoned the poor child over the head multiple times with a chisel. After finding that unsuccessful Loeb dragged Bobby into the back seat and forced a sock down his throat and waited for him to finally suffocate. After the murder, the two men drove the body to Wolf Lake where they poured hydrochloric acid over Bobby's face, abdomen, and genitals. Once they mutilated and dismembered the body, they discarded Bobbys remains in a drain, and then they drove home to write a ransom note and spend the evening playing a leisurely game of cards. And why? Why would these two scholars do something so sinister? Because they were bored. Because they wanted a rush. Because they could. Your Honor, do you still sympathize with these two murders?
For example, I could say "the man on trial may not have killed the victim, but the victim was stabbed, and the man on trial did own an awful lot of knives, didn't he?" - that kind of snide inference is not literally the same as saying you believe he killed the victim, but it's clear as day what I personally think based on how I present the information.
It is halfway through the trial and I am exhausted. I haven't done anything except for sitting in a chair handcuffed. There are many words running through my mind. When O’brien yelled at me and told me to get my act together, I felt a sense of sorrow. I don't know what I did wrong. Petrocelli tells everyone that since I was in the store at the time of the robbery, I was part of the gang. I knew the people in the gang, but I wasn't part of it. Why would I join a killing gang? I would never in a million years let my family down. Right now, I am sitting in my bed contemplating what I am going to say for my testimony. Do I tell the truth? Do I tell the jury what they want to hear? I think I shield just wing it. Tell them from the bottom of my heart that I am innocent. It will be hard but not impossible.
Since Rafael purposed, I couldn't be loving life more. Everything was fitting together perfect and I couldn't wait to actually marry the man.... Or actually I could. No date has been set yet, no plans made... The engagement was set more open ending at the moment. Because niether of us wanted to rush it. Life was going amazingly well, almost to good to be true seeming as our job were sex crimes... Then came this case.
Execution duty. I had been assigned to execution duty. I had always feared that this day would come. Removing my hand from the assignment device, I reluctantly accepted my fate. Walking through the blank white hallway, I passed a group of engineering guys installing ceiling lights. The outpost was still under construction, and had been since before I was stationed there. Seeing the blue hologram floating above my head, they stopped their work and stared at me sympathetically. A few even gave salutes. They knew as well as I did that I would walk in that room a man, and leave a monster.
When this happened to me I was really upset and confused I wanted to buy chips and they thought I was stealing them. They handled it the wrong way accusing me of something I hadn't done. They should've instead done something else like make sure if I actually stole but no they jumped into conclusions all over something I didn't do well you can imagine how I felt.
I, Amadeu Candido Moreira Junior, single, holding the National ID M2133038, Taxpayer ID 396.885.186.-20, resident at Rua Das Hortencias, 50, affirm that I have been an eyewitness of violence suffered by Elizabeth Katia Maria Leao Silva on August 22, 2012; the attacker, Marcelo Moreira Da Fonseca, her ex-husband; the next morning, on the 23rd, there was the necessity to succor her because same had a cardiac infarct, she was asking for help, as we were neighbors, where, I myself, afraid of revenge, as the attacker is a military man, being able to provoke problems for me and my family. In Brazil it is not possible to trust the police, however since what this lady had suffered, I was not able to deny help because the lady was so injured and with
When I was a school boy in kindergarten I got in trouble one day for kicking a ball over the fence. I had to the principal office and talk to him. I got a lunch detention and my parents were really mad. They were mad at the principal for overreacting
Innocence Oblivious to my surroundings, I blindly walk down unknown streets, animatedly clicking away on my overly-bejeweled cell-phone while snapping back replies to my enthusiastic confidants 200 miles away. It was a warm, July night and I was completely lost, in a completely different state, with completely unfamiliar roads.
Murder is Murder Murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human by another. In other words, it is plain awful and not correct. Murder should be punished the same way no matter your gender, religion, age, etc. If someone was brave enough to commit the crime, they should be brave enough to face the consequences. Just because certain people are younger than others does not justify their actions, therefore nobody should acquire special treatment. We should all be trial equally. Even though every teen goes through a massive brain lost, have problems with their parents, it is not a justification to perform as they done. Not pushing them enough is equal to telling them what they have done is correct. If they do it once, they will do
I’ve done some things I’m regretful off. I try to run away from my past every second of everyday and I feel like it’s catching up to me. I shouldn’t be so afraid because I was just a victim as he was. I was as innocent and as vulnerable as he was. I carry this weight of guilt every time that I think about everything that I’ve been through. It’s eating me up alive and I’m afraid that these secrets will come out to the light. I don’t think I’ll ever be ready to look back and face the past again. I just want it to all end but if it doesn’t I think I might will.