Double Jeopardy In How To Kill A Mockingbird

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While our Justice System is better than most countries it still has its flaws that hurts the american people in the long run. Our sixth amendment states that a person can't be tried without a jury, so someone decides your fate, and everyone can make mistakes. Another issue in our justice system is double jeopardy. Also another flaw is how police has a higher voice in the courtroom.
Our sixth amendment states that someone can't be tried without a Jury. But is having a jury a good thing? In a case there are usually two vertices innocent and guilty, So there a fifty, fifty chance someone can win or lose, we are humans we do make mistakes. In the book How to Kill a Mockingbird with the court case with Tom Robinson, there is significant evidence that the Ewells were lying and Tom was innocent but the Jury convicted him anyway. On a Christmas eve Ezekiel Gilbert hired Lenora Ivie Frago as an escort, but he believed it was payment for sexual intercourse. When she refused to Gilbert shot her in the neck and she died several month later. His jury acquitted him because his attorney. It is disgusting that we give people the power to decides another human's fate. …show more content…

While this was put into place to protect us it also does not ensure the justice some people lose. In the Book How to Kill a MockingBird Tom Robinson was found guilty, so because of double jeopardy they can not redo the case. On August 28, 1955 a 14 year old boy named Emmett Till was beaten up by two white men because he spoke to a 21 year old white woman and her husband and her brother in law went and killed him. When they went to court they were acquitted and later admitted they killed Till. Therefore as much double jeopardy protects us from being harassed by the courts it also denies people the justice they

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