{"id":3942,"date":"2020-11-04T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2020-11-04T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:24:16","slug":"tess-keating-blog-for-11-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/04\/tess-keating-blog-for-11-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Tess Keating Blog for 11\/9"},"content":{"rendered":"

The movie <\/span>Just Mercy<\/span><\/i> is a great depiction of how corrupt the legal system is and how it is so hard to change. It shows just how much is stacked against the black citizens of the United States. Although this movie is based in the 1980s, we still continue to see these issues and people fighting for them. The media has been able to expose more injustices in the legal system and police departments, making the whole country aware of it. The movie not only depicts racism towards criminals and people convicted of crimes, but Bryan, a lawyer from Harvard, too. Something sad to me was just how discouraged Johnny D (McMillan) was in the beginning of the movie, in his first conversation with Bryan. I can\u2019t even imagine knowing I didn\u2019t do something but feeling as if the odds were so stacked up against me that it wasn\u2019t even worth it to fight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Something that stuck out to me was in the beginning of the movie when Eva and Bryan were talking about why they decided to go into this career. Eva states \u201ca lot of the folks on death row either had shitty representation or none at all\u201d. This was sad to me because it shows just how corrupt the legal system is. It is made so that if you get a good enough lawyer you have a better chance of getting a more favorable sentence, but good lawyers cost a lot of money. Not everyone can afford an expensive lawyer, and because of that they suffer and potentially get killed. This should not be how it is. A person should be judged based on the level of their crime, not how well their fancy lawyer argues for them. Johnny D, who was convicted of murdering a teenage girl, was only convicted because one man stated that he did it, and everyone believed it. The reasoning behind his conviction is completely unreliable and shows how if a white man said something about a black man, people were likely to believe it. I also just don\u2019t understand the purpose of convicting a man of a crime he didn\u2019t commit, because that leaves an actual criminal out on the streets. The logic makes no sense and shows the deep rooted racism in the justice system. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The movie Just Mercy is a great depiction of how corrupt the legal system is and how it is so hard to change. It shows…<\/p>\n

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