Criminal Justice System Flawed Essay

“The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws” - Ben Whishaw. Case after case after case could prove this statement. The O.J. Simpson Trails, The State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman, the fictional Tom Robinson case from To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Case of Emmett Till are all examples of our flawed Justice system. So yes, our justice system is flawed. On June 12th, 1994, O.J. Simpson was charged with the murders of his ex wife, Nicole Brown and her Partner, Ronald Goodman. During his trial Nicole’s sister had came forward and said O.J. had abused her sister several times during their relationship. O.J. Simpson’s legal defense team ( who were also known as the dream team) portrayed Simpson as a loving, caring, family man. A witness for the prosecution said he sold O.J. a knife a week before that looked exactly like the murder weapon. O.J. Simpson was found as innocent due to lack of evidence. Months after his release he wrote a book called If I Did It which is a hypothetical confession about the murders. This proves that our justice system is flawed because there is no way that Simpson was innocent. If they could have gathered more evidence, he would not have been a free man. Another case that shows how flawed our justice system
Emmett Till was a fourteen year old african american who was beaten to death for flirting with a white women. Milam and Bryant were accused of murdering him, but were found innocent. It was all white jury and during this time period if you were black and committed a crime of any sort you were at fault and it didn’t matter who you were up against. After Bryant was found innocent, he made a statement that admitted to killing Emmett. “It became clear that the injuries were too extensive for Till to survive, so they decided to put him in the Tallahatchie River.” This also proves how flawed our justice