Moore is an old American man who has been wrongfully accused in China of the death of a Chines women who the government officers have found in his room dead. Instead of reading him his rights and to ask Moore questions on what happened to the young lady found dead. The officers arrest him and appoint him an attorney who could care less if he gets the death sentence. None other than young women Shen Yunlin his new attorney steps in and pleads guilty of murder. In her defiance, she pleads guilty under the law because she says” they will give a man a less crucial charge then if he were to plead not guilty even if he didn’t do the crime”. I believe her role in The PRC Criminal Justice is to give the best alternative situation to her party. At first, she was not listening to what her client wanted even though she was appointed to him and choose to be on the case. She felt like he did do the crime without asking him herself of figuring out what really did happen.
In U.S Criminal law you’re innocent in till proven guilty. In the U.S., we are able to dig deeper into what really happen to
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He thought it would be more applicable to be his own attorney, even though he already had a lawyer. Being that the laws were different the government part was making it hard on Moore to defend himself. It was less likely that the facts were going to give him justice from day one the courts mind were to have him shoot to death. Not only had this but they struck fear into him and his attorney. The head judge was giving him the hardest time. At the end of the movie when Moore was questioning on of the soldiers who he believed killed the young lady the judge didn’t want him asking questions. The soldier was being nonchalant about answering any of his questions. This made it harder for the judges to hear what Moore had to say because his emotions were getting in the
In America we believe in the saying “you are innocent until proven guilty” but we the people are remarkably swift to point our fingers at someone we believe that committed the crime. This habit is frequently displayed within our criminal justice system when a crime is committed we quickly assume it has something to do with the first person we can link the crime to. We tend to naturally feel sympathy for the victim therefore; if the individual accuses one for a crime the jury has no reason not to believe the victim. Society does not bother to care if the individual did not do the crime because as long as someone was caught and accused of the wrongdoing, then we the people can proceed on with our lives knowing we punished someone for the crime
... to the husband. Yet the reader is presented with woman Wang, who ran away with another man from her husband, Jen. Some of the reasons of her departure could have been neglect from her husband, that she had bound feet and that she had no children. Her actions contradicted any moral wife at that time. After relentless pursuit of happiness woman Wang returned home, there she met her death. The Legal Code justified certain parameters of vengeance on behave of the husband toward his adulterous wife. Nevertheless, Jen was not allowed by the law to simply slaughter his wife. Moreover Jen accused an innocent Kao, for which Jen could have been sentenced to death. Were woman Wang's actions right is for the reader to decide.
Among the many differing cases of wrongfully convicted Canadians, the case of Guy Paul Morin is very interesting. There were many issues that caused an innocent man from Queensville, Ontario to be convicted of the murder of Christine Jessop. We’re going to look at how the police failed to conduct a thorough investigation, how the court system failed, and how cases like this can be preventing in the future.
or public danger. No one can be put on trial again for the same crime.
...chievement. The beliefs that have been engraved into the Chinese society for centuries will not easily be changed, but remembering that girls were once considered useless, brings to light the true strides that have advanced Chinese society in the form of legal recognition. Securing the equality of women and men, in law and in fact, is the great political project of the 21st century.
Walsh, James, and Dan Browning. "Presumed Guilty Until Proved Innocent." Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN). 23 Jul 2000: A1+. SIRS Issues Researcher.
A major cause for the insufficient human rights that structures China's society is their incompetent judicial system. Lying within their system of justice is a dense proportion of corruption. There is no enforcement that keeps the government from neglecting their constitution and other written laws giving agencies and people within, the ability to do as they please. The results are black prisons that are used as a secret place to detain parlous criminals. Many of the captives are there for miniscule crimes; others did not even commit the crime. The methods of such prisons are to take the accused person and beat a confession out of him, as in Qin Yanhong's case. “On the fourth day, he broke down. 'What color were her pants?' they demanded. 'Black,' he gasped, and felt a whack on the back of his head. 'Red,' he cried, and got another punch. 'Blue,' he ventured. The beating stopped.” (...
It has been demonstrated the one in seven people, or fourteen percent, who are put on death row were innocent of their convicted crimes. The American society is outraged when an innocent person is killed, the fourteen percent would not have to suffer if the death penalty was illegal throughout the country. There is no way to tell how the more one thousand people, possibly more, executed since 1976 may also have been innocent, courts do not generally entertain claims of innocence when the defendant is dead. Wrongful convictions and executions can be made from many of the following factors: mistaken eyewitness testimony, faulty forensic science, fabricated testimony or testimony from jailhouse informants, grossly incompetent lawyers, false confessions, police or prosecutorial misconduct and racial bias. Many of the people who are resentenced from death to life imprisonment may be innocent and rotting behind bars, since without the imminent threat of death, no one will take up their case to exonerate them. Along with the con of the death of innocent people, the elimination of the death penalty proves as a more effective way to deter
The death row not only consists of murderers, but it could also include a large number of innocent people whose lives are at risk. In the past 35 years, over 130 people have been taken out of the death row because of new evidence proving their innocence. This shows that the death penalty process is very faulty and contains many errors when it comes to convicting a person of a crime. There was an average of three exonerations per year from 1973 to 1999 which soon rose to an average of five per year between 2000 and 2007 ( Cary, Mary Kate). The ...
Garrett, Brandon. Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2011. 86. Print.
Convictions. Now Juries Expect the Same Thing – and That's a Big Problem.” U.S. News
The authors constantly remind the reader that there is nothing inevitable about the innocence frame that now shuts out alternative interpretations. The innocence frame packs a wallop, but a list of murderers and their victims would dwarf the roster of the unjustly convicted. For now, however, the interlocking features of the innocence frame- the regular discovery of mistaken convictions, the rise of DNA testing, the proliferation of media stories filtered through the new frame, dramatic revelations of criminal shortcuts taken by police or crime labs, the spread of innocence projects- all fit together and dominate the debate. The cascade of innocence stories has begun to reshape public opinion (support for the death penalty has dropped dramatically) and public policy (fewer death sentences and executions). (Baumgartner, De Boef, & Boydstun,
criminals escape justice, whether it is because of a cold case or botched police work, and hunts
?Sheet after sheet, article after article, each da-zi-bao was a bitter accusation. One was titled, ?Teacher Li, Abuser of the Young.? The student had failed to hand in her homework on time, and Teacher Li had told her to copy the assignment over five times as punishment. Another student said his teacher had deliberately ruined his students? eyesight by making them read a lot, so they could not join the Liberation Army. Still another accused Teacher Wang of attempting to corrupt a young revolutionary by buying her some bread when he learned that she had not eaten lunch.? (42)
...sults show that in most cases, innocent people are harmed and convicted for no truthful reason at all.