Supreme Court Case Analysis

The part that shocked many people was there was no physical evidence connecting either McCollum or Brown to the crime scene. Only thing was a witness said they had suspicion, and that was it. When the two brothers were taken into custody they were interrogated hard. Brown’s brother didn’t have a lawyer present, and the police just kept interrogating him. Finally he decided he wanted to go home, and told a story on killing the girl. The police told Brown that his brother admitted to the murder, and so after five hours of hard interrogating he finally just signed a statement also.
When their case was heard in the courtroom, they changed their story and said they were innocent. They tried to say that they were forced into confessing, because of
Thus, the total number of appeals depends on how many courts are "superior" to the court that made the contested decision, and sometimes what the next higher court decides the appeal's basis” (Find Law, n.d.). Larger populated states, might only have three or even four levels of courts. Less populated states, might only have two levels of courts.
“There are important differences in the rules, time limits, costs, and procedures depending on whether the case is in Federal court or state court. Also, each state has different rules. Finally, even within a single state one may find that different rules for appeals depend on the court in which the case originated.” (Find Law, n.d.).
Since Jodi Arias was convicted in Arizona she will go by there appeal process. “Arizona has two appellate courts: the court of appeals is the intermediate appellate court and the Supreme Court is the court of last resort” (Arizona Judicial Branch, n.d.). This means that Jodi Arias can try to appeal her conviction only twice in the state of Arizona. In the latest news about her she is in the process of appealing her conviction. We will see in the future whether they find enough evidence to re-trail or set
In cases where the defendant admits to committing murder, I believe in my own opinion is sentenced them to life in prison. I don’t believe there should be second chances for appeals, and I probably say this because a family member got murdered in my family. The guy that murdered are family member has been fighting to get out for at least 15 years. My family is scared that he might actually get out sometime in his life.
The thing that bugs me about the court system, is it seems to either be a very slow process, or giving to many chances to let the individual get out of prison. As we learned earlier in the chapters of our books about many options out there. Split sentencing was the one I believed worked the best, and shock probation the least. Split sentencing is defined in our books as, “the use of both incarceration and probation to rehabilitate and punish offenders" (Schmalleger, 2014).
Shock therapy will make the individual believe that there crime wasn’t as bad as they thought. It just doesn’t sound like a good way of doing it for me. It also ties up the justice system, having to have another hearing and so forth. If you do the crime, you are going to do the time. That is what I believe should happen to these