Essays on Legal cases

You can determine someone’s guilt by how they act. Being guilty is an emotion, often expressed as sad or depressed. Guilt isn’t a destructive emotion, but it can be over-consuming if you let it get the best or worst of you. Serial is an investigative…

When someone brought up the name Adnan Syed four years ago, people would say “who’s that?” but now if you were to bring up that name, many would know who that is. The podcast “Serial” that was released in 2014 has opened up many people…

Adolescence is a period in life where teenagers discover their identity, how they want to be and what they want to do in the future. This is the time where they attempt new things, experience amazing moments, experience various adventures and find their first love….

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…

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…

Edward Snowden, born in 1983 North Carolina, was a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor. He worked for both the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and NSA. At the time of his departure from Hawaii in 2013 he was a Systems Analyst with Booz Allen Hamilton,…

Government officials have historically condemned government whistleblowing, though it has played an essential role in the formation and evolution of modern democracies. Although thousands of government whistleblowers have come forward in recent decades, few have achieved the same notoriety as Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden….