The Case Of James Richardson

The criminal justice system plays an important role in this society, it is meant to protect and serve. This “system” is also meant to maintain the peace and enforce the laws set by the government. However, the criminal justice system is not even close to perfect. It has many flaws, some of which are: police brutality, death penalty, mass incarceration, gun violence, and especially wrongful convictions. A majority of the flaws that the system has can be easily fixed and can be set straight. For example, the issue of wrongful convictions has been relevant for quite some time and has the potential to decrease its probability of occurring by focusing on the importance of scientific evidence, rid of faulty witness testimonies, and make sure that the lack of evidence and/or government misconduct, if applicable, does not determine the outcome of the case.

Before proposing a reform to the American criminal justice system, we must first examine the problems that plague the process of justice on all levels. American society plays an important role in shaping the criminal justice system. Their beliefs and values determine the type of deviants and the consequences of the crimes. Often their beliefs contradict each other.

The overall problem with our criminal justice system, I believe is that at its core it is founded on the idea of redemptive violence, and that is because as a society we believe in this idea and perpetuate it all the time. This is a concept as old a civilization and rottenly plays in most of are media and fiction, even are daily thinking habits. The concept is

When we think about prisons, jails, and courthouses, our minds are meant to draw a connection to cold, hard, justice and fair punishments for guilty and deserving parties. Yet, in our judicial and prison systems around the world, this idea is nowhere close to reality. From inhumane punishments, to mass incarceration, and “trapping” people in the system based on race or financial status, justice is far from being served.

The criminal justice system used today is to follow principles that protect and establish equality for all and while the United States criminal justice system may strive to follow these right of the people, but unfortunately, this is where the system falls short of fundamental American principles. Repeatedly the criminal justice system does the adverse of what it’s supposed to do. It does not protect the many liberties the people should have. Some may argue that the criminal justice system is indeed fair for

nation, the criminal justice system has detrimentally affected the lives of those it was created to

Today our Justice system is not perfect, but nothing is. Everything has its pros and cons, its ups and downs and its strengths and flaws. There are things that we can appreciate from how our Justice system is ran and of course there is some that we would like to change. I believe that our Justice system works but that there are things we could change or fix to make it even better.

The United States criminal justice system have been known to be one of the most injustice system in the world. Criminal justice is known as the system of law enforcement, involving police, lawyers, courts, and corrections, used for all stages of criminal proceedings and punishment (Dictionary.com). One of the most heartbreaking things that happen in the United States every year is innocent people being condemned for crimes that

During recent studies from several researchers it has been concluded that there is a fault within our criminal justice system. Researchers discovered there is a high wrongful conviction rate within the United States judicial system. After, extensive research, it was found that wrongful convictions are caused by eyewitness error, false confessions, flawed forensic science, an informant, bad lawyering, and government misconduct. Without a doubt, this issue has shocked society, due to the fact we rely on the system for pure justice. Within my findings, it is apparent that victims of wrongful convictions suffer numerous affects when

Almost every day, we hear about justice being served upon criminals and we, as a society, feel a sense of relief that another threat to the public has been sentenced to a term in prison, where they will no longer pose a risk to the world at large. However, there are very rare occasions where the integrity of the justice system gets skewed and people who should not have been convicted are made to serve heavy prison sentences. When word of this judicial misstep reaches the public, there is social outcry, and we begin to question the judicial system for committing such a serious faux pas.

Since 1923, when Judge Learned Hand said that the American judicial system “has always been haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted,” the issue of wrongful conviction has been acknowledged to man (Halstead, 1992; Huff, Rattner, Sagarin, & MacNamara, 1986). After the judge made his innocuous statements, serious study of this phenomenon began. Contrary to the statement the judge made, time and technology have revealed that an unquantifiable number of wrongfully convicted persons have served prison terms and even been executed for crimes they did not commit and some that did not even occur. Research into wrongful conviction was virtually nonexistent until Professor Edward Brochard of Yale University published his book Convicting the Innocent in 1932. This book documented 65 such cases, addressed the legal causes of miscarriage, and offered suggestions to reform. Subsequently, numerous other researchers began conducting case studies and publishing findings that affirmed that wrongful conviction represents a systematic problem within the American judicial process (Huff, 2002).

Though the criminal justice has plenty things that I like, it also has some things I strongly dislike. My biggest dislike doesn’t have anything to do with the system today but it has a lot to do with its past. A group like the Innocent Project has exposed a great flaw that our system use to have and still has today. A lot of innocent people have served time for a crime they didn’t commit. In the past a lot of young black amil have gone to jail a long period of time for a crime they didn’t even commit. Groups like the Innocent Project have given them a second chance to tell their side of the story and truly be heard. There are plenty of people in jail today still waiting on their constitutional right to a fair and speedy trail. Even though I know it’s next to impossible for them to go back and reexamine every case from the past I feel like they should at least try to do the ones with the greatest flaws within the case.

The problem of judicial corruption in United States is immense. The Sixth Amendment in the United States Bill of Rights refers to the right to a speedy, fair and public trial. Unfortunately, our judicial system does not always maintain these rights. The United States judicial system is very corrupt and most of our country’s citizens do not know how corrupt it actually is. When thinking about the judicial system, words that come to mind are justice, morality, and fairness. Sadly, these words are not accurate descriptions of this system. Correct depictions of today’s judicial system are corruption, rigged courts, extortion, and phony trials. Our legal system does not bring truth or justice to our courtrooms. Overcoming this corruption is not

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From the very beginning, people have fought. Rather it be over food, shelter, land, or money, these disagreements have remained ever-present in our societies. Where there is disagreement, there must eventually be a solution. Most of the time this solution can come from the individual, or individuals, involved in the disagreement. When necessary, a third, impartial party is to step in and fairly decide what is to happen. Out of all the commotion, no one ever stops to think, “What do I want to happen here,” or better yet, “How do I want this to happen?” In a country christened land of the free, home of the proud, it is appropriate to assume that everyone gets a fair trial, that everyone is treated equally in the eyes of the law, and that the government does everything in its power to protect the innocent and prosecute the bad guys. But that’s not exactly the way things work in America. In the land of the free, home of the proud, the court rooms continue to be influenced by personal prejudice and the poor, the uneducated, and the mentally ill continue to remain unrepresented. In efforts to better the nation, the principle of the nation must be upheld and the values of America must be preserved.