The Unfair Court Case: The Cases Of Unfair Court Decisions

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Unfair Court Decisions
Suppose a special prosecutor tired you on purpose to put you in jail, and you didn’t plead guilty to show that you are truly innocent. Is it fair to you when the prosecutor tried knowingly and willfully while you are innocent? What do you do if you are harshly punished because you do not want to plead guilty to show that you’re innocent for real? This thing has been happening in our court system in criminal cases for many decades. In criminal cases, punishing defendants who didn’t plead guilty harshly creates severe problems to its citizens. To avoid those problems, judges and juries should not lessen the punishments, whether defendants plead guilty, or they should not harden the punishment for people who did not plead …show more content…

So Allmendinger should not have been sentenced more than Oncale because they both committed the crime equally. The only difference is Ocanle agreed to plead guilty, whereas Allmendinger did not. As it is clearly written in the Fifth Amendments, every citizen has a Miranda right. One of that rights is to keep silent. The Amendment does not say this right is only for citizens who are not charged neither says only for innocent citizens. But it generally protects all citizens, whether they are truly criminal or not. So, if it is citizens’ right, why is the government punishing them for practicing their right?
I do not believe that Allmendinger should not be punished for the crime he did, or nor saying he should not be punished for trying to hide assets, but he should not have been punished harshly for not pleading guilty as it is his …show more content…

For instance, Dr. Kruse, John states in his article, “attorneys and scholars predicted that banning plea bargaining would result in…jamming the courts and creating huge backlogs” (28). This idea seems very logical, but before Dr. Kruse became to this conclusion, he should have supported the idea with research. According to an article titled Alaska 's Plea Bargaining Ban Re-evaluated, “disposition times for criminal cases actually improved” (1). There are many factors why the disposition times improved. One of them is Prosecutors start trying defendants when they have evidence which is beyond a reasonable doubt rather than probable cause. As the research showed in the Alaska state, they have not had and any huge backlogs. Suppose research showed that there were huge backlogs in the Alaska’s court system, punishing defendants who do not accept the offer of plea bargain has severe disadvantages. For instance, reducing the sentencing period for people who plead guilty encourages people to do more crime because people know that they will be less sentenced as long as they accept the offer of the plea bargain. We can also use traffic court as an example. I was given a ticket for speeding over the limit. I decided to go

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