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are that an 18-year-old black man named Timothy Foster was charged with murdering a white woman. During the trial the prosecutor rejected four black jurors without giving a reason but later gave non-racial reasons as to why he rejected those jurors. The court decided that the reasons were good enough and did not violate race discrimination under the precedent set by Batson v. Kentucky and a jury composed of all white people decided that Foster was guilty and gave him the death penalty. Afterwards Foster

The right to trial by jury in the modern times originates from twelfth century England during the reign of King Henry II. This system may originate from an “ancient right for an accused to be tried only “by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land”” (Thomas). In the United States, trial by jury is mentioned in Article Three of the Constitution and the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Amendments. For many people, the jury system seems to be the fairest system and most unbiased way of determining

There are many ways the criminal justice system plays a huge role in the discrimination against all people of color. Mostly, there are a wide range of studies within the African American communities that expresses concern, prejudice, and even racial profiling in the criminal justice system pertaining to blacks. Judges, jurors, police officers, and even marriages are key roles of the societal disadvantages African Americans have. African Americans are even being arrested more than any other race in

learn more about Jem and Scout’s father, Atticus Finch and his job as a lawyer. We start to hear about a case that Atticus is defending the defendant Tom Robinson, a black twenty-five-year-old man, for the case raping and beating Mayella Ewell, a white nineteen-year-old girl. The trial for this case takes place in a courtroom in Maycomb, Alabama in the summer of 1935. Throughout the trial we see Atticus questioning the victim Mayella Ewell, the witness Bob Ewell, the sheriff Heck Tate, and the defendant

three of the elements from Aristotle’s Triangle that enhanced Atticus’s convincing speech in the jury of Tom Robinson’s innocence. During the time that Atticus was in court, racism and hate was strong as equality did not exist among the negroes. Knowing that he could fail miserably and be judged negatively, Atticus Finch attempted to save a negro from being guilty. Therefore, Atticus almost convinced the jury with a strong stance as he incorporated Aristotle’s Triangle in his argument. For instance,

reason I will explore is how racism relates with To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM). For example, it was very important that the jury of Tom Robinson was honest and truthful. The police play a huge role in our society all the way from to protecting, to getting involved with the culture and society. In the book TKAM Harper Lee does a splendid job of showing racism within the jury of the Tom Robinson case. The police are like the glue to our society, they keep everything where it should be. In the case

The trial scene was very important because it was one of the first times Scout experienced major racism especially when they took a white man’s word over a black man just because he is white, there was undeniable evidence proving that Tom was innocent, and how it took the jury 5 hours to come to a consensus. In To Kill A Mockingbird the Ewells are considered “white trash” meaning they didn’t have any authority. In the book It says “Maycomb’s Ewells lived behind the town garbage dump in what was

Blacks were being discriminated inside the courtroom in many ways, such as facing an all-white, racist jury that was sure to provide a quick trial and usually, an unfair decision that sent blacks to jail for crimes they did not commit. In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled that blacks could not be systematically excluded from juries to help solve this problem. However, not only did blacks continue to be left out of juries, but people who committed crimes against blacks were being acquitted, showing

involving herself and Tom Robinson, actually happened. Nevertheless, when Atticus made the case proving that Tom Robinson did not commit the crime he was accused of, a jury of white men all ruled that he was guilty. Furthermore, what does this say about the jury, the defendant, the plaintiff, and the lawyers involved in the trial? Did the jury decide guilty because of the information provided by the lawyers or was it because of the color of Tom Robinson’s skin? When Mayella Ewell is questioned by Atticus

In the past year, the whole world has had its attention drawn to domestic conflicts between white police officers and black civilians. Since the invention of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in 2013, there have been over 50 million posts on Twitter alone under the hashtag. The recent incidents, largely prompted by the shootings of Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, and the murder of Eric Garner by white officers, has brought both the topics of racism and the militarization of the police into public discourse