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This 3 page paper discusses the Dred Scott decision, one of the worst miscarriages of justice in history. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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mistakes made in trials all over the world in the last 200 years. About the Topic This subject is insane! Nobody can possibly tackle anything this broad, so the students
immediate task is to narrow it down. First of all, if this is really what the professor gave, then he (or she) should know better; but second, it leaves the
field wide open so the student can discuss anything that interests him. That said, lets go. Discussion We are going to talk about mistakes made in trials anywhere in the
world, at any time from 1807-2007. Geez... well, it would seem that famous trials would be the place to start. And since the paper is extremely short, lets take just
one, and well make it distant enough in history so there is a greater likelihood that we have the facts and are not dealing with emotion (i.e., we wont be
talking about Saddam). Instead, well examine the Dred Scott decision, which was a brutal miscarriage of justice and is often cited as being one of the causes of the American
Civil War. Dred Scott Dred Scott was a slave who lived with his master, Dr. John Emerson, in both slave and free states; Scott "lived for a total of
seven years in areas closed to slavery; Illinois was a free state and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had closed the Wisconsin Territory to slavery" (Cozzens, 1998). After Emerson died,
Scott became the property of Mrs. Emerson; he brought a lawsuit against her because she had, according to his statement, "beat, bruised and ill-treated him" and then imprisoned him for
12 hours (Cozzens, 1998). He sued for this mistreatment, and "also declared that he was free by virtue of his residence at Fort Armstrong and Fort Snelling" (Cozzens, 1998). (Fort
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