Both examples show how prejudiced the city in the South actually was. b. Depression happening at the time as well. j. In a court case, a black man named Tom Robinson was ruled guilty by an extremely racist jury. He was obviously (due to the evidence) innocent, but racist southerners of the jury ruled him guilty anyways.
The book To Kill a Mockingbird is directly comparable to the movie 12 Angry Men. Both Texts show the theme that true understanding takes time, study, and effort, but To Kill a Mockingbird shows what happens when people do not take the time to obtain a true understanding. In the book Tom Robinson is convicted for allegedly raping a teenage girl even though there was sensible doubt that Tom did not rape the girl and there was no concrete evidence. In the film a teenage male Puerto Rican was accused of murdering his father. All the evidence and the defendant weak testimony made him look so guiltily that 11 out of 12 jurors voted guilty in the preliminary vote.
Zimmerman had no right to pick a fight Trayvon and declare that he was in act of the stand your ground law. He did the opposite of stand his ground and got away with it due to a racial bias jury. Secondly, justice was far from served in the Trayvon Martin Case. There was a plentiful of evidence to put Zimmerman away for the crime he committed. According to CNN Library (2013), “George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida, calls 911 to report "a suspicious person "in the neighborhood.
Jem and Scout stats to become aware that all this is caused by segregation. Since Atticus is defending Tom Robinson in court Mrs. Dubose starts to insult Atticus for ‘lawing for *******’ which infuriates both of his children. [Theme: The injustice of racism and segregation] 2. “There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads- they couldn’t be fair if they treid. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s word, the white always wins.
Dollree and her attorney said that based on founded laws, the police had no right to come in to Dollree Mapp’s residence without proper warrants to search. The police only showed a piece of paper, not close up, and couldn’t provide a copy of the warrant at the time of her sentencing. The pornographic materials thus obtained, were illegally obtained and should not have been held as evidence in the case. Dollree had first appealed to the Ohio State Court, but to no avail. She then appealed to the US Supreme Court, who decided that what the police had done was unconstitutionally wrong.
When it came to the court, the courthouse was filled with people, and when Atticus actually proved that Tom was innocent, people were furious. Because Mayella had bruises on the right side of her face, arm, and neck, but what people didn´t know was that Tom couldn´t use his left hand , because it was shorter than the other and it hung dead by his side, and he therefore could only use his left hand, so he couldn´t have hit Mayella or raped her. It had probably been done by someone who had been left handed, most likely Bob Ewell, her father, Atticus then claimed that Mayella had lied about the rape because she broke the „code“ that says white women cant be attracted to black men, and Atticus proved this in front of the jury that Tom Robinson was innocent, but that wasn´t enough, the jury still found Tom Robinson guilty, just because he was black. After that, Tom Robinsons tried to escape, he tried to run away and climb over a fence, and got shot trying to run away and was killed, when Atticus found out, he personally went to miss Robinsons house and tells her that Tom has died, anybody else would have sent a messenger to do that, because a white man should not spend time in a black neighborhood.
First of all in To Kill a Mockingbird, the jury walked into the courtroom about to deliver their verdict, and Judge Taylor says, “Guilty...guilty...guilty...guilty” (211). This officially shows that Tom Robinson was determined guilty by the jury, and that Atticus Finch had lost the case. Atticus fought hard, and even though it was obvious that Tom Robinson was innocent, the jury was still ignorant and determined Tom Guilty. Also because Atticus fought so hard for Tom, the African American community gave Atticus mounds of food. Atticus was honored in the end.
Jack The Ripper Who doesn’t recognize Jack the Ripper as one of the most notorious killers of all time? He was never caught and was one of the first serial killers to prey on innocent citizens. I don’t believe that it was the fault of the police for not capturing Jack the Ripper for many reasons. Apart from the lack of technology which limited the police to witnesses there are many other significant reasons for never finding and stopping the Whitechapel murderer. Although there is overwhelming evidence to say that the police did their best there are still two sides to the argument.
In the end, after a long trial, he was pleaded guilty, even though his lawyer, Atticus Finch, proved he did not do it. He was accused of such a crime because he was a black man. Which in the thoughts of many, made it impossible for a white girl to defend herself against him. Not only did coloured people get picked on, but white people did, too. “You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here - they got their church, we got our’n.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus defends Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman, in a court trial. The town of Maycomb turns against him due to this. Atticus, furious about the reaction from his town, explains, “…why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand” (Lee 88). Atticus does not have any racial biases, and he does not agree with the views of the majority of the people of Maycomb. Atticus, describing his beliefs to Jem, “…The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be