Reflection On Murder On A Sunday Morning By Chris Statics

The film “Murder on a Sunday Morning” is a documentary on the murder of Mary Ann Stephens. This murder took place on May 7, 2000, in Jacksonville, Florida. Mary Anne Stephens was at the Ramada hotel with her husband when a dark male wearing a dark shirt, shorts, and a flat brim hat approached her and demanded for her purse. Within 5 seconds she was shot in the face by the bridge of her nose and killed. It was later that day hat Brenton Butler was stopped by police and identified by husband of Mary Anne Stephens. Brenton Butler was taken into custody where he remained for the next six months facing charges of murder in the first degree and armed robbery. Through evidence such as the clothes Brenton was wearing on the day of the murder, an alibi of going to blockbuster to hand in an application, and lack of forensic testing, Brenton was found not guilty in the case of Florida v. Brenton Leonard Butler after the jury convened for forty-five minutes on the twenty-first of November in 2000. The Jacksonville grand jury also decided not to file criminal charged against the three officers. After the case on March 12, 2001 the forensics department retrieved the purse to process all parts of it to find fingerprints matching to Juan Curtis who admitted to shooting Mary Ann Stephens. The Butler family planed to sue the sheriffs officers in an $8.5 million civil rights lawsuit.

August 9th 2014, Ferguson Missouri, an unarmed black teen Michael Brown was shot, and fatally wounded by a white police officer by the name of Darren Wilson. As a direct result of deciding not to indict Officer Wilson, the black community was out raged! Riots, looting, and damage to businesses soon followed the judge’s ruling. The trial was unlike normal trials which were treated with more expedience in the process, the grand jury in Officer Wilson case met for three months and 25 days. (Buchanan, et. al. 2014)

African American males are overrepresented in the criminal justice and many times are subject to harsher sentences than their Caucasian counterparts. African American males also experience racial profiling and have more negative interactions than any other population in the United States. Ibie, Obie, and Obiyan states, “African Americans have continued to be the repository for American crime and to be treated as amalgamation of presumed group trait rather than as individuals”. This topic is important because African American adolescents are less likely to be referred to rehabilitation or diversion programs and more likely to be sent to juvenile and/or prison. History has not been kind to African Americans and the injustices experienced by African Americans in the criminal justice system is extremely high. According to Weatherspoon, “The Supreme Court condoned and perpetuated many of the present day stereotypical biases concerning African Americans in the landmark decision of Dred Scott v. Sanford”. Over that past few years, with the advent of social media, the world is becoming more aware of the injustices and brutality suffered by African American males in the justice system. Many view this as a new phenomenon, but others know this abuse has always occurred, it is just now there are cameras taping the violence. Many people are waking up to what is occurring, but there are many others who are denial and who refuse to acknowledge the oppression and racism

The OJ Simpson murder case was an event that transfixed the nation over 20 years ago, with everyone who was around back then having some recollection of the whole ordeal. Today, that same case in entering back into the public consciousness, as a new television series dramatizing the events, entitled “The People vs. OJ Simpson”, just premiered. In an op-ed for the New York Times, John McWhorter pens an argument that the case was symbolic of race relations between the police and the African-American community. McWhorter, an African-American, goes into detail about how he did not understand why his community was cheering back in 1995 about Simpson being acquitted. McWhorter even believed that Simpson was guilty. However, he does now

The purpose of the event was to speak on truth and reconciliation, race, and the justice system within today’s culture. The conference began with a discussion centered on the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the Charleston shooting and Ferguson. The panelists shared their thoughts on these issues while the audience concentrated. The Charleston shooting hit close to home for Representative Sellers; he knew someone who was shot and killed in the shooting. “He was the only one to make it to the hospital alive before he died”, Sellers reflected. Dr. Ray brought an unfortunate element to my attention: “People talk about the tragedies for a few weeks and then it’s like nothing ever happened”.

I picked David Cole 's article to write about because I would like a job somewhere in the field of Criminal Justice. The author 's view on inequality in the American Criminal Justice System is mainly based on the court case of O. J. Simpson where the jury consisted of nine African American citizens, two Caucasian Citizens, and one Hispanic citizen. In David Cole 's article he mentions that O. J. Simpson is tried for double murder, the evidence admitted into the court includes DNA evidence of Simpson 's blood at the scene of the crime, and DNA evidence of the victim 's blood in Simpson 's car and house. The majority African American jury denied all evidence and voted O. J Simpson not guilty, and accused the police of planting the evidence at the crime scenes. According to David

First there should exist a non custodial alternative to pre-trial as to free up space in prison for people who are not yet convicted. This will free up valueble prison space as well as avoid mishaps to people awaiting trial. The existence of a pre-trial lock up policy means that many times trials will be delayed and takes away precious time and resource from both suspects and government (PenalReform). Second, some minor cases should be taken out of the criminal justice system altogether. This policy now exist in many countries, where the police not only arrest but try to help parties who are involved in the incident to come together to form a peaceful agreement so to avoid making arrest for minor issues. This is not only a compassionate way to address many problems, but help to build a society of trust and understanding, also helps to reform the image of law enforcement so that people do not view them with such hostility as most do now days. Lastly, began developing ways to prevent crimes instead of merely responding to crimes. Politicians needs to find ways to turn bad neighborhoods into good ones instead of just ignoring some streets. In order to truly deter crime and lower crime rates, the root of the problem must be found and solved. Crime rate will not truly drop until the source of the crime is gone. If people have access to good education, food, and opportunity,

Similar to this theme is the story “To Kill a Mockingbird.” In TKM, Tom Robinson was a man that was found guilty of a crime that he did not even commit. He basically lost the trial and was convicted because he was black. Another case where Joe McKnight’s shooter admitted to being guilty and still was not convicted. In contrary, a case where Rodger Batiste, a black man, killed Shane Vicknair, a white man, and was sentenced to five years. In these couple of sentences alone justice is clearly not on African Americans side.The fact that the roles were switched goes to show that society will do anything in its power to wipe African Americans out. With these examples, it can be seen that there is pure injustice in society, the courts, and everywhere. Nothing has been resolved or fixed in a racism standpoint. Being that Trayvon Martin was a young black kid that looked “suspicious” did him no

The 1995 trial of OJ Simpson, a famous football player, created a “media circus” which enraptured the United States and the world. In this trial, Simpson was accused of the murder of his wife and Ronald Goldman. His trial came into the limelight during the car chase leading to his arrest; an estimated 95 million people watched on television. Yet, the car chase was not the only reason for the case’s popularity. Simpson, his lead attorney Jonnie Cochran, and many jury members were African Americans. This led to the division of those involved, the nation and any other people watching the trial, on racial lines. Defense Attorney Jonnie Cochran appeals to the African American side as he lays out all the vital facts in this argument. Cochran uses a combination of all three appeals, although he relies heavily on the logical and emotional, to persuade the jury of the prosecution’s impractical defense and of OJ Simpson’s innocence.

In John McHale’s Unreasonable Doubt, video documentary is used to promote justice for Joe Amrine who was wrongfully accused and placed on death row. The first theory I will address is Critical Race Theory. This theory identifies and demonstrates that racism is still prominent in today’s society and that it is common, ordinary, and normal. This theory can be applied to Unreasonable Doubt under the pretense that Joe Amrine is a black man in prison. One could

Back in February, Michael Dunn was tried for the murder of Jordan Davis, a seventeen year old student, who happened to be black. “It was Jordan Davis who kept escalating this to the point where I had no choice but to defend myself,” Mr. Dunn said.2 There was no firearm found in Jordan Davis’ car, and the medical examiner testified it was unlikely Davis was standing when he was shot.3 It appears that this young man was posing no threat to Dunn, he was just playing loud music, as many teenagers do, when they are with their friends in a car. After Dunn shot at the teens ten times he left the scene of the incident, it is shocking how little regard this man has for the life of a group of young people. His actions were unjustified, so why did this happen? The facts of this case are undeniable, Davis was a young black man that was profiled by Dunn to be as a kid that was doing something wrong and Dunn acted on his anger quickly and with little or no provocation. Afterwards, he was so indifferent to what he had done he did not call the police but instead fled the scene. What causes an individual to believe that it is acceptable to treat other human beings with so little regard? Cases such as these paint a picture of the opinions and thought processes of the general public. They tell us, the life of a young boy is lessened because of his ethnicity. How can we, as a nation, even consider racism as a declining issue when there are occurrences such as

Almost every member of the black community in Maycomb County is admirable in their personalities and innocent in their nature, and this generalisation makes the crimes against the black community all the worse. Tom Robinson, a man discriminated and accused of a crime that he didn’t commit has come forth to the justice system. The color of his skin determines everything from his background too if he’s guilty or not. A black man’s life is unable to prove innocence because of his race. Poverty has affected many people back in the 1960’s but, if a black man or women were to experience this they would be put on the white

A situation I would change is the education system in the prisons. I would have an incentive system to encourage inmates to go out for the GEDs as well as higher education or technical knowledge. I would raise funds to update the texts required for these courses. I would also encourage inmates to help tutor other inmates in these subjects. Just like they have a group of inmates who are the prison advisors for inmates in trouble I would build a system similar to that.

Is there anything more tragic than an innocent person going to jail? Although some may say no! I believe that it is truly a tragedy. Yet there are situation that can be considered far more dreadful, fighting for your freedom as well as your life is a catastrophic. In the French documentary “Murder on a Sunday Morning,” was directed by Jean Xavier de Lestrade.

"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens is a piece of work that represents a struggle with the loss of belief in the Christian God. The woman in this piece concludes that nature, instead of religion, is divine and religious. Wallace Stevens expresses this through his statements about the woman's actions and thoughts.