innocence
The presumption of innocence is a cornerstone of the American legal system and a right that should not be taken for granted.
Waiting
As I sit here in jail and the day tick off the calendar inching closer to my release date, I am thinking of what and how I will do and survive. My sentencing date is January 3, 2022. I am to be sentenced to fifteen years probation at the age of sixty-one. My court is scheduled at 1600 hours on this date. I have been down this road before with the courts of you are getting out to where I didn't order any library books and had nothing to do. This time I ordered the books.
By Lawrence Edward Hinchee4 years ago in Criminal
Protected Valkyrie ...
Someday she would not have to remind herself that the words and actions of her “friends” and the people who had hurt her had happened. She still did every day just to remind herself it wasn’t her fault, and it had all happened even if no one would even return an email and do the right thing. No one should not have to live with the things that happened to her and everyone should have listened and done something. They were things no one should ever be put through or forced to carry with them every day. That would always be the case. It would never change that it happened and everyone she trusted and loved had turned their back on her. Until someone listened she would always have to do it because it was what happened and continued to be. She hadn’t changed, she had been forced to see the uglist side of law enforcement, EMS and have no one that should be making sure it didn’t happen to anyone else or keep her from being afraid .
By Justice for All4 years ago in Criminal
James Saltmarshall Wrongly Accused of Gruesome Crimes Against Infant Daughter
James Saltmarshall sat inside a jail cell the day his 8-month-old infant daughter, Janiyah, was laid to rest. Accused of killing his daughter, James did not get the chance to say goodbye. Two months later, an autopsy revealed what James had said all along: he was innocent.
By Criminal Matters4 years ago in Criminal
Broken Mirrors
Elias pulled out her lighter, flicked the igniter. Watched the flame temporarily displace the darkness around it, temporarily displace the quiet with an indignant hiss, temporarily displace her rabid thoughts. The sirens were closer now, almost outside. She tucked the lighter into her occupied pocket.
By Vian Hendi4 years ago in Criminal
Brittany Smith Stood Her Ground
In the early morning hours of January 16, 2018, 32-year-old Brittany Smith stepped into a Stevenson, Alabama, Mapco station. Brittany’s neck was red and her face was stained with tears. She had what looked like blood on her chin and fingernail broken off, exposing blood on her pinky.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
Freedom has Rung: Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted on All Charges
If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wanted freedom to ring throughout this land, we can be thankful for liberty chiming in Kenosha, Wisconsin. For Kyle Rittenhouse to be a defender of justice and pride, he’s going to be coming home with all of his charges dropped.
By Skyler Saunders4 years ago in Criminal
Prison Time for Man Convicted of Reckless Eyeballing
Matt Ingram, an African American tenant farmer living in North Carolina, was accused of and prosecuted for the crime of “reckless eyeballing,” or improperly looking at a white person with sexual intent, in June 1951.
By Criminal Matters4 years ago in Criminal
Playing Devil’s Advocate with the Voices in My Head
It's easy to drill a hole in someone else's mind and come up with your own good idea, but as a satanic advocate, you can succeed in fulfilling your responsibility to be obedient. To answer the demonic worship downwardly, assign someone who will be asking difficult questions when making important decisions. Two nominees attend Cabinet meetings to play the devil's lawyer, or, militarily, the "red party," in political talks. \
By Diya Kumari4 years ago in Criminal
Kelly
It was Kelly’s 10th birthday on that eventful day. Her mother, Betty, was a single mom, and they lived in a small single wide trailer, which they were lucky to have. Betty’s only source of income came from State Disability. She was not a beautiful woman, quite average in looks, and extremely overweight. But that was not always the case. Ten years ago, she was a beautiful, full figured woman with long red hair and pouting lips. Now, she is 30 years old but looks more like 40.
By Jim Patterson5 years ago in Criminal
A Stone's Throw
Part 1 Michael Perez sat alone at the end of Packy’s bar, a dark, dingy dinosaur of a public house near the docks in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Except for him and Sam the bartender, it was empty on this spring afternoon. He was hunched over, uncomfortable in his Gucci black suit, and was swirling the rest of his amber colored whisky in a stout glass that had probably been used to celebrate the end of World War II. Sam was absent mindedly drying some beer steins, while his eyes flitted back and forth from the door to twisting gray rag.
By Noreen Violante5 years ago in Criminal
