Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice - Paper 1

Crime happens for different reasons. Some have a motive and some don’t. The three criminal cases I will talk about don’t have a proven motive but they do have speculations.
My cases all involve husbands who have been charged with killing their wives. Of the three cases, two involve celebrities. O.J. Simpson, who’s trial was known to be the crime of the century, was charged with the brutal murder of his ex-wife and a male friend at her Brentwood Estate; Robert Blake, whose trial has not started but who prosecutors say was angry that he was trapped into a marriage due to his wife’s pregnancy; Scott Peterson, who is charged with murdering his wife and their unborn son.
In the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, she was found sprawled face down, left cheek pressing into the ground, her right leg jack-knifed under the gate frame to the left and her buttocks pressed up against the first riser of the four steps that led up to the path leading to t...