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In response to all three of their deaths, protests erupted throughout downtown Atlanta. The day of the protest, my grandma and I were both watching the news, seeing everything that was happening. In the midst of us watching the news, she mumbled "damn, 50 years later and ain't none changed". It then began to dwell on me that when it comes to police brutality, protesting has not changed anything. Even back in 1992, when the LA riots occurred after the Rodney King beating, all of

called, “High School English Teachers On Why Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Endures,” says To Kill A Mockingbird “‘is a book that helps us grow and move towards becoming a more understanding and tolerant society, which is ultimately what we would all like to have happen’” (Crum). High school English teachers continue to teach To Kill A Mockingbird because they believe that the novel conveys good morals to students. For instance, in the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus explains to Scout, “‘You

The Civil Rights movement was a social, economic, political and legal battle to end discrimination and gain equality for African-Americans. Although this struggle had been going on for centuries it didn’t peak until the 1950-60’s. The Jim Crow laws are what ignited the movement. Jim Crow laws were, “the laws that arose in the South after the Civil War that allowed discrimination against African Americans to continue.” In turn those laws lead to the renowned case of Brown v. Board of Education of

Are juries fair? Cheryl Thomas Ministry of Justice Research Series 1/10 February 2010 Are juries fair? Cheryl Thomas This information is also available on the Ministry of Justice website: www.justice.gov.uk/publications/research.htm Constitution and Access to Justice – Analytical Services supports effective policy development and delivery within the Ministry of Justice by providing high-quality social research, statistics and economic analysis to influence decision-making and

Jury members play an important role in our American criminal justice system. Many criminal cases never make it to trial because plea agreements are arranged. The cases that do go to a trial are normally serious cases such as first degree murder, manslaughter, etc., which could either put someone in prison for a long time or even invoke the death penalty. Jury members have the ability to determine whether someone lives or dies. If someone has that much ability, it’s important that the jury members

the laws”, as well as the 6th Amendment, which the defendant in the case will have a “speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury.” The courts need to properly select its jury that is racially diverse. So how the court protect the people and select a fair and impartial jury? Short Answer: It is the court’s responsibility to ensure that there is fair number of juries that equally represent the people on trial. The courts should ensure that there is an equal number of people representing the

Again it is in the novel when an all-white jury is made up for Tom Robinson’s case. This novel also relates to racial tension in the United States of America. In Kentucky judge Olu Stevens is treated unfairly for his decision to get a balance jury for a black man’s case. This event goes further than in the courtroom it also leads to the hallway,thats where a white man calls the judge the N-word. Also having an

Many minorities are convicted more often and more severely than white defendants for the same crime or even for a less severe crime as seen with James Banks. Studies agree with this as well, according to the NAACP “5 times as many Whites are using drugs as African Americans, yet African Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of Whites”, this illustrates the wide disparities in sentencing. If more white people use drugs then why are black people still being charged more

A Time to Kill Literary Response Overcoming all odds in the movie A Time to Kill, Carl Lee Hailey, a black man in a racist south during the civil rights era, was acquitted of two murders. At his trial, the jury was composed of all white people. He had a ten year-old daughter, Tonya, who was raped, beaten, and left for dead by two white men. While at the courthouse on trial for the rape, the two men were gunned down by Carl Lee. Carl Lee’s attorney, Jake Brigance, argued that Carl Lee was legally

given an all white jury, or they would get convicted, or white's get away with murdering blacks. So African Americans would not get a fair trial in a court on a murder case. Blacks would not have gotten a fair trial because whites thought they were lesser people. In 2000 Johnny Bennett was sentenced to death in South Carolina for killing a white man. During the court case one of the jurors called