What is the legal definition of a fair trial? A fair trial is the best means of separating the guilty from the innocent and protecting against injustice. The right to a fair trial means that people can be sure that processes will be fair and certain (“The Right To A Fair Trial”). A fair trial cannot be done in today’s society due to racial profiling and media bias. Whether in courts with the judge, the jury, or the arresting officers, racial profiling could have been used to bring the suspect into court. With these people making up a story and believing whether the suspect is guilty or not based on how the suspect presents himself/herself could be enough to land the person in jail or on the death penalty line. A fair trial can’t only be present in the courtroom but also in normal daily activities. For instance, police officers picking out people who look suspicious to be a victim of the stop and frisk policy based on their race. The media is also incorporated into how the public views someone on trial. This could be shown through newspaper articles, news reporters, television webpages, and social media. With people reading about how the suspect should be found guilty, this could be a toll on the jury. For example, the well-known case of Trayvon Martin could be a good reason to show how people viewed George Zimmerman as a guilty person without hearing what his point of view or defense about what happened. With the media and news reports telling the public of how guilty he is, the jury would have a different view on him leading to an unfair trial. A fair trial is not possible when a police officer arrest someone due to how they view the suspect. Their viewing could be based on the suspect’s ethnicity, race, or religion. This case is...
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...rial or not based on their race, religion, or ethnicity. Also in the article, U.S. Move Seen to Add Limits over Profiling, it states “the government began a program known as special registration where it required Arab and Muslim men to register with the authorities because of their nationalities” (Apuzzo) and this is wrong because they are making people sign up for things against their own will and didn’t have a choice to not sign up. This is also wrong because the government were only singling out the ones who were Arab or Muslim men. Because of the torture on the Muslim men from the government, “Muslim groups have sued the New York Police Department over surveillance programs that mapped Muslim neighborhoods, photographed their business and built files on where they eat, shop, and pray” (Apuzzo). This is racial profiling because they are only targeting one race.