2011년 9월 6일 화요일

Mock Trial Competition-Closing Argument for the defense

This is a Witch Hunt. A witch hunt.

     From the start, as soon as the police learned that Mr. Caldwell was in debt, they started hounding after him, and him only. Case closed. Why bother looking for other suspects when you already have one? Right? You heard Det. Quinn Waller today. You heard him openly admit today that the police had no other suspect other than Robin Caldwell thorough out the entire investigation. Gee. How can that be?
     Certainly not because there wasn’t any other possible suspect. There are numerous people other than Robin who could have committed this crime- the staff, the secretary, and other relatives. They had motive as well-they all would inherit money from her death. It could even have been someone from the outside. Elisabeth Congdon was a rich person-what’s not to say that this crime was originally a burglary? Did the police investigate any of these possibilities? No, they did not. Why didn’t they?
     Certainly not because of eyewitness, since they don’t really have any. Can you really believe beyond all reasonable doubt, with a certainty enough to condemn a person’s entire life, that an old lady with bad eyesight could identify a person in the dark after having woken up just a moment ago? So why didn’t the police investigate any other suspect?
Certainly not because of foolproof evidence, since their own forensic scientist, their own guy, admitted the possibility that someone else might have been in that house. Chris Sorum admitted that nothing of Robin Caldwell, no footprint, no hair, not even a single fingerprint, was found at the scene. Instead, he found someone else’s hair at the crime scene. He found someone else’s fingerprint on the weapon that was used to bludgeon Shelby Martinez. He admitted that someone else than Robin Caldwell might have been in that house on the night of the murder. The prosecution has no evidence whatsoever that puts Mr. Caldwell at Glensheen on the night of the murder.
The police screwed up the entire investigation. They showed absolutely no regard for the protection of crime scene. Remember- no log, no gloves, and no protective clothes. Their lead detective Quinn Waller, who prides in calling himself “Justice”, left a palm print on important evidence-as far as I know, that’s obstruction of justice. Other police were actually using the evidence at the crime scene as their ashtray- simply outrageous! They were terrible investigators, making terrible conclusion, with terrible reasons.
We all know, even they know, that the prosecution didn’t really have a case against Robin Caldwell. So why are they doing this? I’ll tell you why. The entire town’s attention is on this case. It received the most exclusive media spotlight. The police didn’t want to be seen as useless, powerless. They needed to find somebody to take that blame. The police was running out of time and resources to catch the real murderer, until they got so desperate, catching the real murderer didn’t matter to them anymore. They just framed Robin Caldwell-the poor, broke, out of town guy that nobody really cares about. How convenient! How ingenious!  What a Witch hunt.
Well, guess what. Robin Caldwell isn’t a witch.
Jail is not a place for the innocent. To ensure this, the prosecution has the burden to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that they got the right person. They failed terribly in doing so. This case is screaming with reasonable doubt. Remember what prosecution was like today. The only thing that the prosecution had really proved today was that Robin Caldwell was a poor man, and in debt. Okay, so what?
Are we really going to let the prosecution convict this man of murder because he was in debt?  
Are you really going to make yourself part of this ludicrous witch hunt?

In the name of justice, let us not sacrifice one’s lifelong liberty in purpose of a witch hunt. 

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