About 12% of deaths in the United States are ruled accidental, but how many are actually accidental and how many people are just getting away with murder? On April 26, 2015 at around 2 am in Delaware around the Odessa area, a young 20 year old man was profound dead at a party. Ty Sawyer, a friend of mine and a lover to my best friend, and Patrick Downey have had brewing up a fight over a pair of speakers that Downey says were stolen by Sawyer. Downey hit Sawyer and made him collapse to the ground unconscious and he stopped breathing. Hours later, Ty Brion Sawyer was pronounced dead in the hospital. Weeks later the autopsy results of Sawyer’s body came back and was ruled accidental, according to the state’s Division of Forensic Science. Sawyer’s father, Terrence Garnett, told the News Journal that his son had been on the street drug “ecstasy” and “molly” which they say caused his death because these drugs are known for heart failure. So the question is, did the drugs really kill Ty Sawyer? Or was it Patrick Downey? …show more content…
The police gathered witnesses and questioned them to see what really happened and also gathered some pictures and a video of the fight.
But, officers say the video was not enough evidence to prove that Downey was the cause of Sawyers death, and once the autopsy came back proving that drugs were in Sawyers system the case was ruled accidental. In the text “Trial Lawyers Cater to Jurors’ Demands for Visual Evidence” the jurors demand and expect more visual presentations of trial evidence to rule if the prosecutor is guilty or not, and I agree. With this case, I believe there was not enough evidence to prove that Downey is guilty. The drugs may have played a huge role on his death, but the drugs are not what made him unconscious, the punch from Downey
was. Downey already has a criminal record with abuse filed by his ex-girlfriend three times. He never got placed in jail and always got out of the situations. Articles show that Patrick Downey’s mother is a police officer for the Delaware State Police and some say that plays some kind of role for why he was ruled not guilty but it is not proven. I believe the information in the text does hold true for my case because there was not enough visual evidence to prove whether Downey was guilty or not. The case did not go on long enough and the amount of “what if” questions are still not answered. So, I agree with the text, visual evidence should be used a lot more for cases because I believe is really helps prove whether a crime was accidental or not. Also, in this situation, the jurors had trouble grasping evidence because it was so scarce and there are two possibilities for how Ty Sawyer died. Visual evidence has helped jurors in court cases greatly and made ruling someone guilty or not a lot easier to do. But, in some cases, they do not use as much visual evidence that I believe is needed. I truly believe my case shows how visual evidence is important because it lacked high amounts of it and makes it very difficult to really prove what caused the death of Ty Sawyer. And even with this case ruled accidental, we still will always wonder, what if?
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...t I do not think that the evidence presented is enough for a conviction to sentence any man or woman to death.
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