Justice

Is there really justice in this world? That’s the question I will always ask myself. This is the story of two people…one rich white man, and one poor Hispanic man. The white guy’s name is Christopher Smith. The Hispanic guy is  Carlos Gonzales. Christopher was accused of the murder of his wife Martha Smith, and his daughter Alexis Smith. Carlos was accused of the murder of Mary Cruz, John Simpson and George Figueroa, they were employees at a gas station in New York. Martha and Alexis Smith were shot 2 times in times in the back as they were running for their lives. The 3 employees of the gas station were sliced with a box cutter. The murder weapon on the wife and kid case was found in a trashcan a few blocks outside the house. The Box cutter on the gas station case was left on the scene. Christopher as said before, has a lot of money and could afford the best attorney money could buy. But Carlos on the other hand, was poor and was given a attorney that the law was forced to give him because he could not afford one. Christopher knew he was screwed and that there was nothing he could do to get out of the charges in a fair way. So he decided to cheat, he paid each of the people involved in his case, a amount of $200,000 dollars each. The evidence against him started to either get contaminated or it disappeared. Nobody knew where it went. Carlos on the other hand had no other choice but to admit to a crime he did not commit. The prosecutor tricked him into thinking that he had no other choice. He was told that if he pled guilty he wouldn’t face the death penalty and he would be serving 25 to life. The evidence against Carlos was the box cutter used to murder the 3 people. The box cutter was his, he used it everyday for his delivery job. Obviously it had his fingerprints because it was his own. There was a video tape taken by the gas station’s camera, the face was blurry and he had dark sun glasses on but since he spoke like a Hispanic male and they found his box cutter on the scene, they were 100% sure it was him. Christopher’s attorney claimed that since they didn’t find any evidence linking him with the murder weapon that there was no way he would go to jail. There was no proven motive against Christopher. The police tagged the Carlos case as a premeditated robbery and murder. He killed them at cold blood and he could have just ran away with the money, but he did not, he killed them. According to the police, Carlos had a motive, he had even planned how to do it. He waited for closing time, put a plastic bag over their head and sliced their throat. Christopher on the other hand had a motive, he put a life insurance on his family, including himself, but he was to desperate to wait for the money so he took matters into his own hands. The charges against Christopher had to be dropped for insufficient evidence and no witnesses. Carlos didn’t have the same luck, the video tape and the box cutter was enough evidence to convince the jury that a poor Hispanic male had enough motive to rob and kill 3 people at a gas station for a few hundred dollars. Christopher walked out of there a free man, even though he was guilty, they said he didn’t have enough motive to kill his family over money since he was a rich man. But since Carlos was a poor Hispanic male they said he could have been desperate enough for money to commit the gas station crime, he didn’t walk free…he went to jail for 25 years even though he was a innocent man. A few months went by and Carlos is feeling lonely… he misses his family and his friends. Christopher on the other hand killed himself…the guilt did not let him live. His conscience haunted him everyday…reminding him about all the blood he had spilled for a few bucks. Justice isn’t blind, justice judges you by the way you live, dress, act or speak. Justice is not fair, it never was and it never will be.