In 1991, the outbreak of the news regarding the gruesome Vizconde massacre circulated in the Philippines. “On the morning of June 30, 1991, a mother and her two daughters were found slaughtered in their own home.” (De Guzman, 2008). After nineteen years, composing of numerous trials and appeals, the primary suspect, Hubert Webb, along with six others were acquitted. ‘Trial of the century’ was used by most to refer to the case due to the long process it took. A year before the suspects of the Vizconde massacre were acquitted, mass graves where found in the province of Maguindano. Until now, the trial is still on-going, and according to Harry Roque, the lawyer representing the families of the victims, “it would last more than 100 years at the present pace of the trial, by which time all the defendants would be dead.” Another infamous case remains unresolved, which is of the involvement of the 14th President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and her husband, Mike Arroyo. These popular cases, one of which almost occurred for two decades, would make anyone question the quality of the justice system the Philippines has. With the country swarming with new cases almost year-by-year, one would desire to go deeper in the context of such system. The curiosities regarding the freedom of Hubert Webb and others accused despite having various evidences and witnesses, clamors of families of innocent victims, and the thirst for justice are the reasons for the creation of such documentary. A film which is to be entitled “Hustisya”, is a documentary which focuses on the quality of justice system the Philippines has mainly based from those who worked and are still working under the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court. In order to... ... middle of paper ... ...ically, everyone, to notice the rotting and, ironically, unjust justice system that solely promotes corruption and bribery in the Philippines. It is not just a film that would be quickly forgotten, it is a rare and moving clip that would make even the most callous or apathetic person care for the nation and start to desire for change. People should not just conform to what the rich and powerful want. Everyone should start to work for development and stop being oblivious to the evident acts of dishonesty and injustices. No one should just keep silent if they are mistreated, no one should get frightened in delivering the truth, and no one should be satisfied with the kind of government our country has. “Hustisya” aims to expose the truth to the continuous “red tape” happening in the unstable and lopsided judicial processes the Philippines has forever been stuck with.
In the article “The Interview” and the documentary “The Central Park Five” both showed injustice and how corrupted the judicial system is in terms of the human experience. Having justice is having equality for all and being fair about it, but in the “The Interview” and “The Central Park Five” it showed the opposite of what having justice is. They proved that the judicial system can be unfair and that innocent people can be arrested for crimes they did not commit even if there are evidence proving their innocence.
Billy Joel once sang, “Only the good die young”. In life, it is true, the young and innocent seem to touch more lives around us than anyone else. In the Casey Anthony trial, Anthony was a suspect in the murder of her daughter Caylee. Caylee’s life shouldn’t be counted in years, it should be counted by how many lives she affected, the love she has gained, and the support the country has given her to find out what really happened. In the play, Twelve Angry Men, a boy killed his father; however, both cases were challenged by the obvious and the abstruse evidence. Large cities towards the east coast, in 1982, Twelve Angry Men, and 2008, Casey Anthony Trial, affiliated with two major trials able to modify the lives of the living and the dead. For that reason, during the Casey Anthony case, jurors were conflicted throughout the trial.
History usually forces itself into the present in Juan Jose Campanella’s film “El Secreto De Sus Ojos” (The Secret in Their Eyes). Although it was filmed in 2009, the story is an attempted memorization of the violent reality in 1970-1980s Argentina, an era in which the country was rapidly sinking into military rule-ship. Campanella offers flashbacks into Argentina’s dark days, a period where violence homicide, rape and injustices ruled. Through memory, the film narrate a era in which it was impossible to be an innocent person as the innocents were falsely accused, tortured and even murdered for crimes they never committed, all these for the whims of those in power. Even though, the film is set in the 1970s, it does not call immediate attention to the animosity, the hopeless feeling and the constant struggle between the desire to forget vs. the attempts to remember the chaos and confusion of these years. However, through the use of memory Campanella allow the views to portray an almost perfect picture of what happened in Argentina.
Initially in the documentary, we can exhibit, before the murder of Rita’s father, a failed attempt/lack of assistance from the cops of all illegal action in Sicili. This is including murders, corruption an amalgamation of violence and the abundance of financial resources gained with illegal activities and exertion of control over local market sectors. There are two reasons for the lack of assistance of the cops;
In the story “In Camera, Saadawi illustrated how women were treated by the legal system in Arabic country when they did something against the system. The protagonist, Leila Al-Fargani, who was a young woman on trial for calling the “mighty one”, which is a respective title for the President of their country, a stupid man. Moreover, during the time she was waiting for the court date, she was brutally beaten and raped by ten men who seem to be the guards. At the time she was in the court, she was still suffering from the pain both in physical and mental way, but she did not collapse. When the time the judge and those with him declared that ten men raped Leila and also her father’s honor got trampled. (This is the way we torture you women- by depriving you of the most valuable thing you possess”). For the response she said: “You fool! The most valuable thing I possess is not between my legs. You are all stupid. And the most stupid among you is the one who leads you.” In one hand, this quote completely showed that the man thought this sexual violence was totally right when the woman had committed a crime. In anther hand, it also showed that in the very deep of Leila, the...
Theme three focuses on the Filipinos use of culture as a resistance or domination. In this context, Filipino culture and tradition is used as a method of maintain Filipino identity while resisting assimilation into the concept of ‘whiteness’. Specifically speaking, Filipino culture is used as a tool to point out the flaws they see in American culture. Additionally, it is a tool they use to steer their children away from the temptation of acting in a way that American culture is said to act; that is,
Convicted for the murders of his wife and two kids, thirty-four years ago, Dr. MacDonald still endures the agony of being accused of killing his family. Even after twenty-four years of imprisonment and several unlawful court hearings, additional documentation continues to up hold Dr. MacDonald’s testimony.
In closing, the criminal trial process has been able to reflect the morals and ethics of society to a great extent, despite the few limitations, which hinder its effectiveness. The moral and ethical standards have been effectively been reflected to a great extent in the areas of the adversary system, the system of appeals, legal aid and the jury
These murder cases stayed unsolved for decades, and their resolution may give some sense of closure to the long-suffering families of the victims. But these triumphs are largely symbolic. By congratulating ourselves too much for them, we risk neglecting the challenges of the present.
Mr. Maglovski pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder, but pleading guilty to manslaughter with the defense of provocation. In the months prior to her death Mrs. Maglovska had been becoming more and more independent, and on the day that she decided to leave Mr. Maglovski she allegedly spat in his face and told him that she didn’t want to live with him anymore. The fight that ensued resulted in Mrs. Maglovska’s death. After his wife’s death a very calm and collected Mr. Maglovski called ‘000’ and then proceeded to show the emergency services officer’s the crime scene. During his trial Mr. Maglovski shared with the courtroom a little about his culture, he explained the understanding within his culture that behavior such as his wife’s would demand a “ritual cleansing of the family of the shame” . Neither this, nor any other mitigating factors, was enough to reduce Dragi Maglovski’s charge to manslaughter, however, and he was charged with the murder of his wife, Mrs. Maglovska.
The aim of this paper is study the same primary sources that other historians have studied and see what conclusions if any can be drawn from them. The primary sources that will be used in this paper include but are not limited to online transcripts of the trial records, and other material written by the many historians of the years.
D’Alembe, Talbot “Understanding the Death Penalty Study Commission Report” Raising the Bar in Capital Cases. 34.2 ( 2007): n.pag. Web. 24 Jul 2014.
The lead investigator was Tom Agnos. He, nor anybody in the state, had ever had to process such a terrible and devastating crime against humanity. According...
In this paper, I propose to talk about how all the three parts of the criminal justice system works and also delve a little bit on the issue of racism in context of the criminal justice system as a lot of people believe that the system most of the times acts keeping the individual’s race in mind.
With in this courtroom observation paper I will form two articles and classroom knowledge to show the relevance they play within courts today. First, local legal culture, in "court culture" concept is based on dimensions of solidarity and sociability, the intersections of which create four cultures with associated case management types: hierarchical culture (rule-oriented case management); networked culture (judicial consensus); autonomous culture (self-managing); and communal (flexible case management). The second being, court guidelines and the sentencing structure, how’s it work, and why out comes different areas that defer from Kalamazoo and Southwest Michigan as a hole.