Steve Harmon's Murder Of Mr. Nesbitt

James King is guilty. As a member of the jury, there are many reasons to support this verdict. Mr. King was one of the four men involved in the robbery and murder that took place in Alguinaldo Nesbitt’s drugstore. When brought to the stand, Bobo Evans provided evidence that proved James King as guilty. He testified that James King was the one who shot Mr. Nesbitt. Mr. Evans was the man inside of the store with Mr. King. “I looked over and saw the guy falling down and King was holding the chrome. We grabbed what we wanted and split” (Myers 179). Mr. Evans also testified that he and James were the ones who planned the robbery at the drugstore. A prosecution witness, Lorelle Henry, was inside of the drugstore right before the crime was committed.

Investigator Sam Reilly will also be called to testify, in that he was the first investigator on the scene. Shortly after the murder, Officer Reilly went to the defendant’s home at 2435 Damen Street, apt #2B and forced down Mr. John Hudsons’ and Dale Buckner’s door. While at the apartment, Officer Reilly Recovered a .38 revolver (matching the gun from the crime scene), a black leather jacket, and a newly registered Black Cadillac Sedan; which matched the description of the getaway car. Due to officer Reilly’s work, pertinent details of the defendant’s background and belongings have been brought to trial and will help us prove that the defendants did, beyond a reasonable doubt murder, and assist in murdering Mrs. Sara Lazar. Upon arrest, the defendant’s both refused to make a statement concerning the killing of Mrs. Lazar.

If you read page 245, O’brien’s closing statement reads, “The State did elicit from Steve that he spoke to Mr.King about basketball. The conversation were short, and without substance. At no time did the State establish any conversation between Steve and anyone else about a robbery.”. Even though Steve has had small talk with James, there is no proof that they’ve talked about planning the robbery. On page 51, there’s a flashback between a woman named Peaches, a man named Johnny, King, and Steve. King did mention the difficulties of getting money and the only thing Steve did was agree to just that. Nothing more, nothing less. Then, Peaches, Johnny, and King spoke about is money.

This is case, at times, appears as proving Steve as innocent, but other times is seems that Steve is guilty. For example, Bobo Evans had said “I’ve been knowing King my whole life. Just met the other guy the night before the robber went down”. This is making Steve seem guilty by including him in the crime. If Bobo had just said that he had known King his whole life and had not mentioned Steve at all it would have made Steve look like he had not participated in the robbery. The quote “Me and King planned a get over and we done it” portrays Steve as innocent because it does not mention him help plan the crime. Unfortunately for Steve the testimony from Bobo had hurt him more than it had helped. Another quote that had hurt Steve’s case was “He was supposed to tell us if anybody was in the drugstore. He didn’t say anything so we figured it was all right”. This had flat-out said that Steve had been a part of the robbery and had done his part. Bobo had also continued on to say that they had seen Steve leave the store, as planned, before they had entered the drugstore. Therefore, because of the evidence, Steve’s case is evidence that not everything is as it

Christopher Simmons was charged with burglary and the murder of Shirley Crook. He and his two friends plotted to break into her home rob and murder her. One of his friends decided not to go through with the plot, but his other friend helped. They went in the middle of the night into her home bound her and threw her over the bridge. At trial with the evidence, videotaped confession from Simmons, and the testimony against him from his friend proving that it was a premeditated plan the jury recommended a death sentence. He appealed his case with counsel and felt his past history of a clean record and his troubled background should have been a factor in the sentencing. Simmons’s case worked its way to the courts and it was eventually overturned. According to Birckhead (2008), “With its decision in Roper v. Simmons,11 invalidating the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who were younger than eighteen when their crimes were committed,12 the Court has, perhaps, heralded yet another shift in the perspective of the legal system-and the culture at large-towards adolescents who commit crimes”(p.389). The Supreme Court ruled that the punishment now violates the Eighth Amendment 's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. Thus, they sentenced Simmons to life imprisonment without parole.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Today we have a very serious charge before you. We have Dr Richard Kimball, who is before you on the charges of first-degree murder. However, he is not guilty based on our success to provide reasonable doubt that Kimball planned and deliberately kill his wife or that he was provoked into killing his wife in the heat of passion.

Imagine being on trial for a crime you did not commit. In the book Monster, by Walter Dean Myers, Steve Harmon, a nice sixteen-year-old boy living in Harlem, New York was in a situation just like this. Steve was on trial after being accused of being a lookout during a robbery and murder at a neighborhood drugstore. Steve is innocent because he never gave a signal to the robbers that the store wasn’t clear of people and he did not know Bobo, one of the other suspected robbers. Steve was just in the store shopping for mints at the time of the crime.

In Garden City, two men named, Richard Eugene Hickock, 28, and Perry Edward Smith, 31, convicted of murder on Tuesday. They were condemned to hang. The Clutter’s were a very wealthy and happy farm family. They were all shot point blank in the head on November 15. They proclaimed they killed the clutter family because they did not want any witnesses in the robbery. Their plan was to steal the safe in the Clutter’s house they heard while they were serving time in prison at the Kansas Penitentiary.

Monster: Guilty or Innocent? In the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Steve Harmon a black 16 year old who lives in Harlem. He is on trial for being the lookout for the robbery of a drugstore, resulting in the murder of Mr. Alguinaldo Nesbitt, the store owner. At the end of the book, the jury rules Steve not guilty.

On page 150 king said,”All we need is a lookout. You know, check the place out, make sure aint no badges copping some z’s in the back. you down for it?” This shows that Steve could have been part of the crime. There is no evidence shows he agreed but there is a 50% chance that he did agree to it. Also this shows that Steve was lying about not talking to king in december.On page 225 Petrocelli said, “ When was the last time you talked to king?” Steve responded saying,” I don't know exactly , but it was during the school year.” This shows that Steve was lying. Once a liar always a liar.

In America there are millions African american males who are accused of serious crimes. In the book Monster there are some young men accused of these actions. Steve Harmon is one of these young men on trial for robbery and murder. Steve was not in the robbery and did not participate in Mr. Nesbitt death because Bobo stated he never talked to steve harmon about robbing the drug store , steve claimed he wasn’t there , and James King was the one who pulled the trigger. First of all Steve was not the lookout in the robbery because bobo said he never talked to steve.

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The case is about a crime that was committed a few days before Christmas in which a drugstore owner, Alguinaldo Nesbitt was robbed and brutally murdered. Four main witnesses are called to the stand to give their testimonies. Richard “Bobo” Evans, a known thug in the neighborhood (who was already doing time for selling drugs) admits that he has known James King (the other person on trial