Examples Of Being Wrongly Convicted
Wrongly Convicted
Imagine a world of people who were accused on a crime they didn’t do but had to serve punishment because there was no way out of it. Being accused of committing a crime that was not attended but still being wrongfully convicted even with innocence has affected the United States as today. People should pay more attention to thousands of these wrongly convicted criminals because thousands of these suspects are unable to afford lawyers, lack the need of DNA testing & lawyers not doing their jobs correctly.
There are plenty of reasons why wrongfully convicted criminals are an issue to me. I myself had personal experiences dealing with being wrongfully accused when my uncle and I were pulled over due to a mechanical problem of the car, we received a fix-it ticket where a certain part of a car must be fixed and renewed. My uncle was taken to court to brief …show more content…
This is a very important action to do because if they take time to conduct more DNA Test it can prevent a lot of wrongly convictions.
An example would be, Brandon Moon of Kansas City, Montana who served nearly 17 years for the rape of an El Paso woman before DNA test determined he was not responsible. Another example is when Ryan Matthews a Louisiana man who sat on death row for five years before he was exonerated. More than 150 people who were convicted in 31 states served a total of 1,800 years in prison for crime s they did not commit. All were exonerated due to DNA evidence. Lawyers are not doing their job right. Lawyers choose to refuse to new work cases, if workloads are so excessive that it would impair their defense preparation. In the South of United States, quoted, “meet ‘em and plead ‘em lawyers” where lawyers often negotiate a plea agreement the first day they meet their clients. These lawyers are not hired from the clients but given to the
Imagine a world of people who were accused on a crime they didn’t do but had to serve punishment because there was no way out of it. Being accused of committing a crime that was not attended but still being wrongfully convicted even with innocence has affected the United States as today. People should pay more attention to thousands of these wrongly convicted criminals because thousands of these suspects are unable to afford lawyers, lack the need of DNA testing & lawyers not doing their jobs correctly.
There are plenty of reasons why wrongfully convicted criminals are an issue to me. I myself had personal experiences dealing with being wrongfully accused when my uncle and I were pulled over due to a mechanical problem of the car, we received a fix-it ticket where a certain part of a car must be fixed and renewed. My uncle was taken to court to brief …show more content…
This is a very important action to do because if they take time to conduct more DNA Test it can prevent a lot of wrongly convictions.
An example would be, Brandon Moon of Kansas City, Montana who served nearly 17 years for the rape of an El Paso woman before DNA test determined he was not responsible. Another example is when Ryan Matthews a Louisiana man who sat on death row for five years before he was exonerated. More than 150 people who were convicted in 31 states served a total of 1,800 years in prison for crime s they did not commit. All were exonerated due to DNA evidence. Lawyers are not doing their job right. Lawyers choose to refuse to new work cases, if workloads are so excessive that it would impair their defense preparation. In the South of United States, quoted, “meet ‘em and plead ‘em lawyers” where lawyers often negotiate a plea agreement the first day they meet their clients. These lawyers are not hired from the clients but given to the