what is justice?

November 17, 2008 Jesssica Lucas

            Justice is describing what is fair for a committed action, or if it’s the wrong thing there is a punishment. I don’t believe that life and American Society is fair because there are a lot of injustices happening each day. People that are guilty are sometimes rewarded and people that do and live in being fair are sometimes punished. Justice is not equal there is always inequality. The component that separates the people is money. If a person is accused of murder and he is rich, he can hire a good lawyer to prove his innocence and a private detective to find evidence to prove his innocence. If the person is rich he can find many resources to not go to jail, even if he is guilty he can prove he is innocent because he has the money to pay people to save him instead another person goes to jail paying his penalty.  If the same situation happened to another person but he did not had money, if he was accused of a murder he could not prove he is innocent because he does not have the money to pay a good lawyer to find evidence to prove him innocent and eventually he will be guilty in front of the judge and the jury, even though he is innocent he will go to jail. I thin that the punishment for a crime should be that  almost same if it was accidentally or intentionally  because the person knew it was an accident but that does not mean he is going to get a warning and that it he should be punished so he can learn for his mistake. I think that age should not matter when a person is being trailed because he/she was mature enough to do what he/she did then they should be mature enough to confront the consequences, I think that at the age of like fourteen or fifteen up the person should be trailed as an adult. Like if two boys are in a gang and one kills he other, the boy that killed the other should have the same sentence as if it was an adult. Something that happen that I think was unfair was when I was driving and a cop stopped me and he gave me and infraction and I have to go to court and I was considered a minor but I did not get a warning even though I recently got my drivers license three months ago and it was my firsts time being stopped by a cop. What I learned from this experience was to drive with more caution and to check my lights before I went to the outside driving.

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