Who Saw Murder Didn T Call Police Summary

The facts were not at all clear to the Police Officers or the attorneys who will soon face this case. The players involved where many, but to name just a few: William M. Kunstler, a very popular and well-liked lawyer, he represented James Richardson. The Author of the book was the prosecutor in this case; he was young and unprepared to becoming an assistant district attorney for this case. But I do have to add that the work he did performed was excellent, but again William Kunstler he was a well-seasoned attorney.

The most puzzling part of the story is how the narrator ended up sitting in the back of a civilian police car and his description of the two police officers. This can be seen in the following quote “And I’d spent all night in this bogus taxi with about 850 pounds of white beef”. In this quotation, the narrator tells us that he has spent the whole night in a “bogus taxi” with two police officers which he describes as “white beef”. This bursts his objective view throughout the story, therefore making him a subjective narrator. A point which has not been mentioned yet is how the police had allowed a writer to ride with undercover officers, which is very puzzling since the writer can interfere with the officer’s

The film “Murder on a Sunday Morning” is a documentary on the murder of Mary Ann Stephens. This murder took place on May 7, 2000, in Jacksonville, Florida. Mary Anne Stephens was at the Ramada hotel with her husband when a dark male wearing a dark shirt, shorts, and a flat brim hat approached her and demanded for her purse. Within 5 seconds she was shot in the face by the bridge of her nose and killed. It was later that day hat Brenton Butler was stopped by police and identified by husband of Mary Anne Stephens. Brenton Butler was taken into custody where he remained for the next six months facing charges of murder in the first degree and armed robbery. Through evidence such as the clothes Brenton was wearing on the day of the murder, an alibi of going to blockbuster to hand in an application, and lack of forensic testing, Brenton was found not guilty in the case of Florida v. Brenton Leonard Butler after the jury convened for forty-five minutes on the twenty-first of November in 2000. The Jacksonville grand jury also decided not to file criminal charged against the three officers. After the case on March 12, 2001 the forensics department retrieved the purse to process all parts of it to find fingerprints matching to Juan Curtis who admitted to shooting Mary Ann Stephens. The Butler family planed to sue the sheriffs officers in an $8.5 million civil rights lawsuit.

One phrase is repeated throughout the passage: “And still you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.” (Rankine 109) This quote from this piece in the novel refers to how even though the victims of police brutality are often innocent, they are still labeled as guilty. This ties in with stereotypical racism. Blacks are labeled as criminals due to their skin color, and the fact that they are still repetitively targeted as criminals despite the removal of segregation proves that we as a society have no made as great of advancements as we thought we have. The police are allowed to brush off their mistake as “harmless” because they claim that the victims of police brutality looked like perpetrator of the crime, as if that is a good enough reason to forcefully arrest a person with no explanation to that person. When they are caught making these mistakes, they claim they were attacked first, despite the common evidence of proof that was not what happened. This phrase is repeated numerous times throughout the seemingly short passage. The phrase is repeated for emphasis on how the speaker was just a civilian, who was wrongfully arrested for a crime he did not commit, just based on his minority status. If police had some kind of protocol to follow before their arrests, then this situation could have been avoided completely. If the police are really here to help us, then they would have sought for what was in the best interest of the person who was arrested. There is an urgent need of change in our justice systems, starting from the arrests themselves. Blacks and other minorities are being dehumanized and targeted randomly every

Murder on a Sunday Morning is about an African American boy who was wrongly convicted of murder. He was only fifteen years old when his life changed forever. While first watching the documentary, it seems to the audience that Brenton Butler, the convicted boy, is guilty. Mr. Stephens, husband of the victim, Ann Stephens, claims that Butler came over, tried to take Anna Stephens’ purse, and then before she could comply, he raised his gun and shot her in the face. Sadly, Mr. Stephens was the only eye-witness, which is a major red flag, as he is connected to the victim. After being forced by the detective, Butler confesses. Once defense attorney, Patrick McGuinness is involved, he has Butler tell the court of his innocence and thus beings the criminal proceedings for Brenton Butler.

Surviving a shooting is unthinkable and to have to go to trial as a witness and relive the shooting is even more unthinkable. Josie deals with going to the trial and observes all the grieving. Josie’s mother Alex begins to date Patrick, one of the detectives on Peter’s case. While on the stand, Josie breaks down and tells everyone she killed Matt Saab, her former boyfriend. The jury deliberates and finds both Peter and Josie guilty. I evaluate why Josie went to prison, predict that Alex and Patrick will get married, and question why Josie shot Matt.

2) This article is categorized as the victim because an innocent man was killed by the actions of another person. If the driver accidentally hit Jamie from the lack of visibility at night, stayed at the scene or called for help this would have been a different story. However, the driver left the scene of the crime which is illegal. There were no prior interactions and it was clearly another person's fault for Jamie's death..

Fifth, I have realized from the story that they portrait or described lawyers as cheaters, dishonest, and immoral. I think that this is not a good example to those young aspiring lawyers to be. I have learned that as of today being a student aspiring to be a lawyer in the future, I would do my best to practice law in a lawful and in a moral way. I would also start to respect the law by putting God first so I would be guided on what is best way to solve without being a distraction to the society. I think that if lawyers do the right thing with good and moral intention then we could have a peaceful society and justice would be given fairly. I have learned that being a lawyer with good moral character is what a lawyer should be proud of and not the multiple numbers of cases he had won because at the end of the day people do not usually care about you but you instead could make yourself proud of what you did.

Martin Gansberg in his article “Thirty-eight Who Saw Murder and Didn’t call the Police” uses irony to prove to the readers that the witnesses didn’t care about the murder of Miss Genoves. An example of irony is when the Assistant Chief Inspector Frederick M. Lussen states “...but because the “good people” failed to call the police”. This is ironic because if the people were indeed good they would have called the law enforcement and not just let Mrs. Genoves get stabbed three times and die. They heard noises and some even got a glimpse of the assailant but not one person called the police. Even them not calling the police is ironic because most people call the police when they hear a disturbance or a commotion near them. “Oh my God he stabbed

This was the first time Kimberly had ever been in jail. The process was not only completely foreign, but also scary. She was going to be booked and put in a cell with other women to await a bail hearing. Some of whom might be in jail for what she’s accused of doing. During the transfer to the police station she pleaded with the officers in the front seat. She tried to explain, but all they commanded her to do was be quiet and to tell it to the judge. Kimberly knew she was doomed. People were desperate. They wanted a face to put to the serial killer and they had picked hers. She was guilty in their eyes and nothing was going to change it. When she came to that realization, she slumped in her seat. She answered all the questions they asked when

The murderer intended to kill her. But there were thirty eight witnesses and nobody attempted to help her. It is unimaginable. There was a psychological issue that is called bystanders. Most people when hearing about this sort of thing react with horror not so much in the direction of the crime, but rather at the actions of the bystanders. The bystander effect is a psychological phenomenon in which someone is less likely to intervene in an emergency situation when others are present than when a person is alone.

In the documentary , Making a Murderer, they document the story of Steven Avery’s accusation of the murder of Teresa Halbach. Thrown into the mix is Brendan Dassey, a confused teenager with a low intelligence. He is put in an interview with a persuading cop and no parental supervision. These circumstances alone are reason he should not be tried for the murder of Teresa Halbach. The documentary and other evidence clearly show that he has a low I.Q. and is lead by the cop to the conclusion that he did it.

This is case that faces Mary Barnett. The issue in this case is that On January 23, the litigant, Mary Barnett, left Chicago to visit her life partner in San Francisco having left her six-month-old little girl, Alison, unattended in the apartment. Mary Barnett returned home a week later to find that her child had died of dehydration. She called the police and at first, to let them know that she had left her kid with a baby sitter. She later expressed that she had left the child and she didn 't mean to return, and that she knew Alison would die in a day or two. She has been accused of wrongdoing of second-degree murder; purposeful homicide without intention. In the event that she is sentenced, she could face up to eighteen years in prison. This piece of writing tries to give the verdict of the case after critically examining both prosecution and defendant side.

I think you did a great job summing up your opinions and also making them easy to understand at the same time. I agree with you that the relationship between both the victim and the offender is important when trying to understand what went horribly wrong and also what led to the murder suicide situation. I also agree that the fatality review team approach should hold offendersaccountable for their actions as well. However I do not agree with you as far as your opinion on officers not being in danger when responding to domestic violence calls. I think they are in great danger because they do not know what the end result of the call will be. For example in my post at the end I mentioned how a rookie officer was killed following up

A police procedural requires the author to focus on realism. The story could've been true given how it is written. George Simenon wrote this story as if it actually happened,