CRIMINOLGICAL REVIEW OF MURDER ON A SUNDAY MORNING

CRIMINOLGICAL REVIEW OF MURDER ON A sunshine MORNINGMurder on a Sunday morning is a documentary film based on a authorized emotional body politic ensuant that occurred in Jacksonville, Florida in the May of 2000. This 111-minute movie was directed by the French documentary film generater Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and was originally released under the title Uncoupable ideal. It won the Oscar award for the best documentary in 2002.The film brilliantly depicts an smutty delusive judgment of conviction of an innocent 15-year old for a crime he never committed, the cover-up of the real culprits behind the crime, and finally the clemency of a public defender coming to his rescue in the courtroom.The plot originated from the incident of Mary Ann Stephens, a 65-year old phaeton from Georgia being savour dead by a black assailant. The police arrested the first well-provided black culprit available, a black African American teenager, Brendon Butler, who was on his way to a job interview . The teen was ensuantly denied the right to make his ph unity call or contact an attorney, interrogated mercilessly for an unreasonable descend of time, threatened, racially abused, throed physically and psychologically, and forced to sign a false avowion admitting to having committed the crime. The dead womans husband, though having caught a glimpse of the real culprit during the shootout, was forced by the police to publicly identify and connote Butler as the assailant. The motive behind the forceful arrest and the subsequent psychological torture of the innocent Butler was simply the preservation of the tourist trade in the state.A public defender, Pat McGuinness, however, operates up the incident and defends Brendon Butler in a case that is extraordinarily riveting. The courtroom scenes enacted by McGuinness could probably be counted among the top classics of this genre. The well-written trial speaks volumes about the perils of instant legal expert meted out or more apt ly, averageice of convenience that is as putting green as real nicety these days.A criminological analysis on why Brendon Butler was framed should take into account the circumstances that his residence was just about a mile from the sic of the incident he was an African-American, a member of an ethnic group historically infamous for being convicted in racial crimes and his locality being a lower-class urban one, with higher(prenominal) crime rates. The dupes husband, a white man in a state of trauma, might as well lay down been under tweet to identify the victim with unclear images of a black man shooting his wife.The next interrogation to be answered is about the instantaneous arrest and conviction of Brendon. Could they not have made a broader search? The answers may be obtained when one considers the fact that in Florida, tourism is a major industry. The people who earn their documentation from this industry would definitely not want Florida to be known as a risky plac e to visit. The image of a family oriented place was to be associated with Florida at any cost. The police would have been under push to dispose off the case as quickly as viable to create an image of a strong and efficient administration. Also the fact that the victim was a tourist and the news of the murder being report by the media might have put the police under a lot of pressure to come up with a suspect who would at least approximately match the descriptions available at that time.Another dubiousness to be answered is the gruesome way in which the teenager was tortured. It could be guessed that the officers ar often puppets in the hands of their superiors. They are put under pressure to clear as many cases as quickly as possible. As per the law, as soon as an arrest is made, the case will be considered cleared notwithstanding the truth behind the crime. As far as they were concerned, the killer was caught. However, this argument does not prove the meticulousness of the pol ice.We may also look at why the whole bunch of the police team up was so unequivocal in putting the blame on Brendon and pain him to the uttermost(prenominal). The incident details show that the main third degree interrogator was the son of the sheriff of the area. Hence, he might have had the unofficial authority to take decisions on the kind of interrogation and on seeing this the others would have matt-up that they are solely respecting their superiors authority in joining hands to torture him.The only saving grace is McGuinness, who played a major realm in this case by defending Butler. Butler was fortunate replete to acquire such a savior in his time of extreme distress. Not all defenders are so gutsy or articulate. It was only because of McGuiness skills and dedication that Brendon Butler was proved to be innocent. Usually, it is seen that in such cases, the conviction of an innocent is used by the system to maintain their pride.Though there are hues of a racial kind of movie of the likes of Cry Freedom, when one sees that the main interrogator who was instrumental in making Butler confess a crime he never did is himself a black man, the analogy ends there. The basic and most convincing underlying message is that of a slurred and ingrained insincerity in the US administration in matters of justice and a business-like attitude towards the commercial progress of the country which makes them place it above everything else.Obviously, there are quite a lot of unanswered questions in this episode. A more sensitive and unbiased approach to such incidents would be the first step towards molding a perfectly upright society.ReferencesDooley, B. and Delisi, M. , 2007-11-14 racial Profiling Rhetoric Or Reality? Paper presented at the one-year meeting of the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia Online . 2009-05-23 from http//www.allacademic.com/meta/p201257_index.html