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Religion Essay Guilty. They had to be guilty, I thought as I saw the evidence which was laid in front of me. 2 rape charges, 2 accounts of theft and 1 murder charge. Apparently, 2 black men named Tyrone and Uniqua have been charged with these crimes. According to the report I received from the police, these 2 men under the influence of alcohol or other unauthorized substances went into their local store to buy some cigarettes. Once in the store they waited till everyone was out then attempted a robbery but failed when a customer came in. In shock, Uniqua shot and killed the man at point-blank range in the head before making his escape with Tyrone in an apparently stolen 1925 Chrysler Sedan. Once on the road, the 2 men stopped by a party, picked up 2 women and proceeded to rape them. …show more content…

They were seen in daylight by the same clerk they tried to rob. The two men were immediately apprehended and were subjected to multiple questionings and gruesome torture by the police. At first, they claimed to be innocent but when the two women that were raped came in, they identified the face of the Tyrone. The police knew they found the men they were looking for. I Judge Enoch am now taking this case in 2 days. As I read the case and information provided to me by the police, I felt something was amiss. I decided to look closer into the subject to find out that there was no further information on any of the men. There was no information of the accused men alibis or any missing Sedan reported around that time in the

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