Steve Avery Case Study

The Juvenile justice system has changed over the years. Before the first establishment of this system, courts and judges treated juveniles as adults and sometimes received the same punishment as adults. For many years, there were debates on if children before the age of 21 were responsible for their actions seeing as they aren’t fully capable of understanding their actions. This murder of Jamie Bulger created an uproar all over the world on children at such a young age know right from wrong and also violence. Backgrounds, and family upbringing and violence in the media had played a

Clarence Harrison and David Ranta cases are similar due to the fact that it shows the main goal for our criminal justice system is to seek justice. Harrison was wrongly convicted of a crime due to a flawed eyewitness testimony and DNA blood test. His armed robbery conviction at the age of nineteen also played a major part in his case, because it allowed his face to be put into a lineup of suspects. The victim who was sexually assaulted picked out Harrison as the man who attacked and raped her at the Marta Bus station. Sophisticated DNA blood testing was not even available during the time of Harrison’s conviction. The blood test administrated could only rule that Clarence was one of the eighty-eight percent of the population who could have committed the sexual assault. Unfortunately, Harrison had no clear alibi, and eyewitness testimony the jurors found him guilty of rape where he served seventeen years before he was later exonerated.

This past legislative session saw a major win for the wrongly convicted with H.B. 48. H.B. 48 creates a commission to review convictions after exoneration and aims to prevent wrongful conviction. This bill is a supported across the political spectrum on the part of author Ruth Jones McClendon (D) and Sen. Rodney Ellis (D) along with joint authors Rep. Jeff Leach (R), Rep. David Simpson (R), Rep. Abel Herrero (D), Rep. Joe Moody (D) and The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice.

Prosecutors in the United States have “tunnel vision" they work to convict suspects without reviewing the evidence that may indicate the suspect may be innocent and the problem with this is that an innocent person can be convicted and go to jail for the rest of their lives. There are a number of things that contribute to this issue one being if a prosecutor with a weak case which focuses on an accused rather than considering alternative suspects precisely because tunnel vision has set in. Given what we know about the Duke Lacrosse investigation, the criminal investigators should change their tactics to ensure a fair and partial investigation by questioning the accuser’s statements if there are obvious contradictions as there were in the Duke Lacrosse case, also the police line-up process which was said to be severely flawed. Police when conducting line-ups should not advise victim or the witness of who she will be looking, a police lineup should involve placing a suspect among people not suspected of

Many of these mistakes were based around DNA. DNA testing wasn’t a thing in the past so there was not the sureness of innocence or guilt (Lindell). This shows that we had to rely more on witnesses and confessions then we did science so a wrongful conviction wasn’t to hard to get. We developed the technology to test DNA a little bit after Morton was convicted. The DNA proved that he was innocent of the murder (Lindell). If we would have haven DNA testing the judicial system probably never would have given Morton a guilty verdict. We can’t just blame the fact that there was no DNA testing we also have to look at the prosecutor of the case. The prosecutor, Anderson, was an amazing attorney and award winning for 16 years, but even he made a mistake (Lindell). Even though he was suppose to be this amazing prosecutor who doesn’t mess up, he still ended up messing up. Everyone can make mistakes, it happens but his changed the life of a man and how much of his mistakes weren’t accidental? Anderson was supposedly withholding evidence and ignoring witness statements lead to the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton (Silver). This shows that the prosecutors arrogance of thinking he had the right man lead to him being dramatically wrong at the expense of a man's life. His mistakes may come back to hurt him though. Anderson is being questioned on

Just last week Lamar Odom was found unconscious in Dennis Hof's brothel Love Ranch outside of Las Vegas. Now Hof is speaking out and saying he wants the $75,000 that Lamar owes him and he is willing to sue for it. Lamar actually did pay the bill on a credit card, but Dennis is afraid that something could come up, such as a dispute on the credit card transaction. Radar Online spoke to Dennis Hof and he will do whatever it takes to get his money. He knows that Khloe can afford it and now that these two are not getting a divorce Hof wants to be paid. There is also a chance that more could be added to Lamar's bill that wasn't taken care of before he left the brothel in an ambulance.

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4. I believe that it had detrimental effects on the offender’s family. First of all, the case was all over the media showing the offender in a negative way, which could cause a lot of stress for the family members. Everyone felt remorseful for the victim so it could be a tough time for the offender’s family. You can tell that it was a tough time because Matthew Cordle made a video expressing how sorry he was and how he wished he never killed their family member (Ng,

Upon collecting blood samples at a crime scene, it must be handled properly. The samples should be dried thoroughly at room temperature or frozen to avoid bacteria growth in the blood. In the video an experiment was conducted where one sample was at room temperature, one was frozen, and one was in a slightly warm oven. With the frozen sample, human DNA was found, however the samples not frozen contained no human DNA. The bacteria had destroyed the DNA in the blood. This is a similar problem to the OJ Simpson case. If I were working on that case, I would have stored the blood evidence properly, kept a visitor log at the crime scene, and the other evidence collected would have been kept secure with a chain of

It has been a few months since the renowned basketball player, Lamar Odom recovered from a coma due to overdose of a drug. Thats when he indulged in activities that got him into trouble. A few weeks back, Lamar was caught on video while he was on drugs and that was one shameful event.

After thirty-three years Keith Harward come out of the prison on this Friday. He has spent all those years of his life aimed at a murder and rape he did not commit. After he has been trying almost all of his routes, in 2006 he knew about the Innocence Project then he spoke to them. Earlier this week, Virginia's Attorney suggested doing the DNA testing, which was not available at that time when he was arrested. The case went to trial and finally exonerated him. “My parents died before they can see me an innocent man” he answered media people when they asked him what was the worst part in prison. Studies done by Innocence Project said that around 5% of all prisoners in the U.S. are innocent. Thereupon, a state must recompense people who are unjustly

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Another appeal we see in both parties is to our sense of authority. In many communities, police are considered beacons of hope and justice. However, these articles question that. Those that feel police corruption is not present are keeping the beacon lit another day. Those that feel police corruption is present are hesitant to keep the beacon lit. This hesitancy isn’t purposeful, rather, it is an effect of looking into police corruption. If we question their authority, or what they do with that authority, we aren’t protecting the beacon anymore. The locals of Manitowoc County are keeping that beacon lit, because they believe that Steven Avery and Brenden Dassey are guilty of the crimes. However, those that side with the stance the documentary