Essays on Law

I believe Adnan Syed should not be imprisoned due to the lack of concrete evidence against him. The state does not have a single piece of credible proof nor do they have a reliable witness. The state’s case against Adnan is built on the statement…

Has anyone ever accused you of doing something wrong like breaking a mug? Imagine being accused of something much bigger, like murdering someone. That is what happened to a 17 year old named Adnan Syed in 1999. This is what happened, On January 13, 1999…

Would you not feel that everybody should be fairly judged on the charge of an offence? Approximately 20 years ago, on 13 January 1999, Adnan Syed was charged with manual choking of the young woman named Hae Min Lee Min Lee at Woodland high school…

The due process is the right to be treated equally it is granted to us by the judicial system and the United States Constitution. We can refer to the fifth and fourteenth amendment. The fifth amendment says, ‘that no one shall be deprived of life,…

Amongst the legitimate goals of the government is to punish those who go against the rights of others by committing forceful or violent acts, such as robbery, theft, trespass, burglary, or rape. Nonetheless, the matter does not often end there, as proper inquiries must be…

The criminal justice system is flawed, and it is letting many people take advantage of it. One reason they can do that is a defense tactic called the criminal insanity defense. The criminal insanity defense is used in court to lesser the blame on a…

The insanity defense can be characterized as the offender, who has mental defects or diseases can influence his ability to form mens rea – to have a guilty intent to commit a crime. It means that the defendant has committed the crime but there is…

For many years now, society has accepted the need to distinguish between people charged with an offense who are responsible for their acts and those who are not. This is what we now call the insanity defense which was put in place to make that…

During the Nixon presidency many movements like the Hippie Movement, The Protest on Alcatraz by members of “Indians of All Tribes”, and the Women’s Rights Movement started to arise. Former President Richard Nixon was a strong supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment that would have…

Imagine if everything you did on your phone or computer was being watched and monitored. This kind of activity in the government is what Edward Snowden exposed. The government had a data mining tool that they used to collect metadata, as well as worked with…