One would believe that justice is found in every law and in every
courtroom, and judges and jurors are the perfect tools to demonstrate such
fairness on every situation. However, not all people receive fair trials
regardless of gender, race, ethnic background or religion as established by
the American judicial system. For example, throughout decades millions of
innocent people have been accused, arrested, tortured, put to trial, and
persecuted for the practice of witchcraft and Satanism.
In her book Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three, Mara Leveritt
recounts the story of three eight year old boys that disappear on one night
and are found dead on near by stream the following day. In her book she
describes the atrocities done to this kids and gives an accurate account of
all the things found in the scene and how three teenagers are accused of
the crime. Although there was little evidence left at the crime scene, the
investigators were able to find sufficient reasons to charge the defendants
The inspectors and investigators negligence is one of the factors that
leads them to form speculations. For example, in the exposition of the case
investigator Gitchell decides to interrogate all of the families. When the
Byers are called to testify, Ryan ,the brother of one of the victims,
recounts the story of what happened that night. In his narration of the
events he tells the police that when his family did not find Christopher,
they went to search for him and on that evening he went to the woods with
his friends to search for his brother, and when he returned home at
midnight his father had sent him to bed. Furthermore, the police interviews
Mark Byers ,Christopher's stepfather. In his interrogation he gives the
same details that Ryan gave except for one thing: he told the police that
when Ryan returned home they both went to search for Christopher. The
officers obviously...