Theresa Hughes Race and Ethnicity Final Paper Sean Bell Case Injustice is defined as the absence of justice or the violation of right or of the rights of another. Many people feel that a lot of cases are proved to be unjust or never receive justice because of the people involved. Race has become a very serious issue and is often brought up in court cases more than people tend to believe. The Sean Bell case is a prime example of case injustice. To start off the Sean Bell case was an example of Police brutality.
Is Congress a watchdog or lapdog? Personally, I believe that Congress is a watchdog, whether it is a united or a divided government. However, many people may disagree with this because they may believe that whether or not the Congress is a watchdog or lapdog depends on the government being divided or united. The reason for this is: if it is a united government, Congress will not want to embarrass the President by constantly putting him into account. However, this is not true because the Congress is both an independent and co-equal branch of Government.
Andrew Mondrus Professor Varon Civil Disobedience: The State and Law 10 December 2014 Beware of the United States Supreme Court Democracy has been defined as a “government by which the supreme power is vested in the people” by the U.S Department of State’s Bureau of International Information. Unfortunately, the judicial branch has acted oppressively. The design of United States judicial system is indeed flawed, allowing the courts to become undemocratic. Consequently, the courts have become an oppressive figure in American politics. The erroneous nature of the judicial branch has led the court to become authoritarian.
The publicity of the case and the one-sided role of the media caused a majority of people, internationally, to be biased and influenced. This impact then led to numerous problems and difficulties in being treated fairly, such as finding an impartial jury. This factor of having preconceived idea meant that the jury had already decided Lindy Chamberlain’s fate, opposing the justice being “served,” legitimately. Wiping away any chance for Lindy Chamberlain to prove her innocence creates an inevitable outcome. The Chamberlains being judged under a heavily biased jury influenced by the media, therefore shows the maltreatment of the case by the justice system and the society.
DISCRIMINATION UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM STUDENT NAME ‘All Judges are familiar with certain types of litigant that occupy a disproportionate amount of court time. Yest they also know that some people with just causes lack the means even to approach the courts’. * Murray Gleeson A fundamental concept of the rule of law is that the law is applied equally to all members of a society. Australia, as well as other common law nations around the world, aspires to the rule of law. If it is the case that ‘some people with just causes lack the means to even approach the courts’, this must be a fundamental injustice, directly in contradiction to the principles of the rule of law.
For example, there are multiple reasons why I disagree with Ambrose Bierce’s quote: “Un-American, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.” First of all, in this country, all citizens are entitled to their own opinions. Second, just because some don’t agree with other’s opinions doesn’t give them the right to declare them wrong. And also, even someone doing the bare minimum is still doing something to help. In the United States of America, the people are protected by a group of laws called the Constitution.
To answer the question, many things are done daily to prevent police brutality. Nearly every case of police brutality presents a legal dynamic of related but separate civil and criminal cases. Once a citizen claims police abuse, there is almost always a contradictory allegation by the police accusing the citizen of being the initial aggressor and primary criminal actor against the police. (Lawson T.F. 2013) Police often blame the victim of police brutality when accused of being too brutal with their use of force.
The right of “innocent until proven guilty” is one of the most important rights we Americans have. Regardless if these people are enemies of the Country, they stillhave the same rights under our laws. Freedoms of Americans are spelled out plainly in the Constitution, guarded by our laws, and the treaties we have with other countries. Torture violates all of these guidelines. If we do not show these freedoms to people of other countries, then we do our whole country a dishonor.
Freedom is not free yet. It means responsibility and has many consequences. Some may argue that America is a democracy and a free country, but as I am growing older into adult hood, I have realized that this great land that we live in is not truly the home of the free but rather the home of the still oppressed and peoples of minority status. Freedom is a relative term where only certain people are regarded as human beings and thus deserve unalienable rights. Every day that goes, the media is constantly showing the realities of this cruel and oppressed country giving off vibes of racial inequality as pictures of the ghettos appear across the screen.
According to Tappan’s (1947 p.100, quoted in Muncie et al 2010 p.4) “crime is an intentional act in violation of criminal law (statutory or case law), committed without defence or excuse and penalised by the state as a felony or misdemeanour”. In other words crime may be known as an act deliberately committed which breaches legal conduct punishable by state. This is a common understanding of crime today but unfortunately crime is not as simple as being a breach of law. The study of crime is vast and under constant debate. Crime is ever changing varying culturally, globally and historically.