Works Cited12 Angry Men. Directed by Reginald Rose, MGM Studios, 2007. A young boy is accused of shooting his father after an argument. People claim they saw and heard the ordeal, which got him arrested. After the judge explained the situation, 12 jurors were chosen to decide the boy’s fate. The 12 jurors argue over what should happen to the boy but ultimately choose to make him innocent.Alexander, Michelle. “Go to Trial: Crash the Justice System.” The New York Times, 10 Mar. 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/op...ce-system.html. Throughout the world, people are charged for crimes they never committed, arrested for no reason, and sent to prison or given the death penalty for those crimes they never committed. A civil lawyer named Michelle Alexander talks about her experience with a certain suspect, a woman named Susan Burton, who got addicted to drugs after a police officer ran over and killed her five-year-old son. She jumped through many legal hoops, going in and out of prison. She finally gets better and helps women just like her. Her story is just one of many that shows how corrupt the justice system is.Fraser, Scott . “Why Eyewitnesses Get It Wrong.” YouTube, 3 July 2013,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TQETLZZmcM. Accessed 22 Jan. 2020. A father goes outside and yells at his children late at night while it’s sort of foggy. A car comes out of nowhere, and the person on the passenger side shoots the father until he’s dead, and drives away. The children are mortified. Upon questioning, the kids point to one man and say he did it. Immediately that man is sent to trial and found guilty. His wife and family were devastated. A lawyer named Scott Fraser helped the man prove that he was innocent by showing how our brains fill in the blanks in our memories.Lee, Harper. To Kill a Monkingbird. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007. Within Maycomb, Alabama, lives a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, otherwise known as Scout. She lives with her brother, Jeremy Atticus Finch(Jem), and Atticus Finch. Atticus is a lawyer who tries to help those tried for unfair crimes they didn’t commit. Tom Robinson, a black man, was accused of raping and attacking a white girl named Mayella Ewell when it was her father who did that to her after he saw his daughter begging to be kissed by Tom when he came in to help chop up some old furniture. Atticus sadly fails because no one thinks that a black man couldn’t have done that, and Tom is killed when he tries to escape.Mahoney, Barry. “Justice System Change – a Personal Retrospective.” International Journal for Court Administration, vol. 15, no. 3, 2024,
https://doi.org/10.36745/ijca.644. The justice system has never been easy to work around. There are so many instances of corruption and “no one gives a crap.” From horrible bail systems to force people to be arrested to using fake evidence to make an innocent person look guilty. It’s all about how to look at other people. This article talks about a lawyer who explains their perspective on how the justice system changed and what needs to still be changed..Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy. One World, 2019. Deep in Montgomery, Alabama, a black man named Bryan Steveston works as a lawyer to help those falsely accused of crimes. The book itself is split into two segments. The odd chapters focus primarily on the Walter McMillian trials. A black man named Walter McMillian is charged with killing a young girl named Ronda Morrison, who was found dead in a store. Even though Walter had an alibi that was 100% true, he was still found guilty and given the death penalty. Thankfully, he was freed. The even chapters follow smaller stories of unfair justice, where some of the falsely accused people are sadly killed, even when Bryan tries to help.Stone, Nic. Dear Martin. Ember, 2017. Justyce(Jus) is a kind black kid. Tries to help others, is always there for his friends, and even develops a crush on a white girl named Sarah-Jane(SJ), and his mama is not happy about that. His closest friend is a white male named Emmanuel Julian Rivers(Manny), and they bond closely. However, one faithful day, while blasting music in Manny’s car, a white off-duty cop gets annoyed that the teens didn’t turn down their music, and shoots them, killing Manny and severely injuring Jus. Jus is heartbroken and barely gets over this. Throughout the book, Jus writes letters in his diary to Martin Luther King Jr. as an experiment, but he thinks it has failed.Trivedi, Somil. “Coercive Plea Bargaining Has Poisoned the Criminal Justice System. It’s Time to Suck the Venom Out. | ACLU.” American Civil Liberties Union, 13 Jan. 2020,
http://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-la...-the-venom-out. Accessed 8 May 2025. People are wrongfully accused of things every day. One such case is a woman named Lavette Mayes got into a fight with her mother-in-law and was arrested. She had no criminal background but was still given jail time. As this went on, her health started to decline, so instead of fighting while sick, both mentally and physically, she pleaded guilty and took the full force of the punishment. Another such case is a man sentenced to death for murder in 1994. The court refused to do DNA tests which would have proved his innocence to the world.Vazquez, Jose. “Race and the Criminal Justice System.” Equal Justice Initiative, Oct. 2014, eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-race-and-criminal-justice/. Accessed 8 May 2025. Even since slavery was abolished, people of color are still treated differently because they have colored skin. The justice system takes full advantage of that and uses black people to point fingers at crimes and get them arrested for things they never did.Webster, Richard A. “An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.” ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2025,
http://www.propublica.org/article/ti...lvin-alexander. Accessed 8 May 2025. People with disabilities of any kind are never treated well at all, and even worse when they are in prison. This article talks about an old man who was nearly blind. He was serving a 20-year-old sentence due to drugs. And suddenly he received a letter that said he was deemed “Moderate Risk” and was no longer able to do parole. Over 10,000 others like him were also given the same letter..
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