Case Study Of Steve Harmon's Guilty Of First Degree Murder

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On December 22 Alguinaldo Nesbitt, was murdered when Bobo Evans and James King were trying to rob his drugstore. Steve Harmon allegedly went into the drugstore to check for cops. We the jury have decided that Mr. Harmon is in fact not guilty of felony murder Mr. Nesbitt. Many testimonies stated that Steve Harmon didn’t participate in this crime.

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The main reason many readers believe Steve Harmon is guilty is because near the end of the book he starts to question his innocence. Steve states,“I want to look at myself a thousand times to look for one true image.” (280-281) This is important because if a person knows he or she is innocent without a doubt then why would he or she have to relook over himself or herself about the

In today’s society, there a lot of young men put in bad situations. In the book Monster there are several young men who has committed a crime. Steve Harmon are one of those young men who is facing life in prison on trial due to a robbery and led to a shooting. Steve was not responsible for Mr. Nesbitt’s death, because he said wasn’t there. Also, he didn’t give a signal and he didn’t kill Mr. Nesbitt.

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Steve was not an accessory to this murder. There is no witness that puts Steve at the crime scene when Mr.Nesbit was killed. There is also no established conversation between Steve and anyone else about a robbery or being the lookout at a Harlem drug store on December twenty second. Without evidence, a voice recording, of Steve agreeing to be involved in this crime or any hard evidence that Steve agreeing to helping these boys out, there is nothing he can be charged with. The only job “Bobo” claims Steve had in this set up, is to be the lookout but as we can review in his testimony, he never got that signal. Steve Harmon did not get a cut or take anything from that drug store, the only person who profited was Mr.Evans, from the cigarettes he stole and then

Steve was found innocent because he wasn’t recognized by any of the witnesses, his teacher defended him on the stand and Bobo Evans (who was involved in the crime) couldn’t confirm where Steve was when Mr. Nesbitt got shot. In the end this case can be used as an example of how innocent people can be blamed for a crime they didn’t even commit or have a part in. In today’s world, anybody can be accused of a crime and can be taken to jail without any further investigation or evidence to help or hurt their case. In Steve’s case however, all the evidence and testimonies proved his case of being

The fact that these men know what they did and have the chance to lessen their charge by blaming on a supposedly guilty sixteen year old African American teenager doesn’t help Steve’s case. Especially because of the fact that they know Steve and know he can be an easy target to blame. With this evidence being provided this does nothing but lead us to believe that Steve’s age and his acquaintances did nothing but hurt himself and put him in this situation.

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This crime does not fit Capital Murder. Capital Murder is murder involving Police Officers, firefighters, or a paramedic. Manslaughter is a crime of killing a human without malice aforethought, circumstances not amounting to murder. Criminally Negligent Homicide is a criminal charge brought against a person who through criminal negligence, allows another person to die. Murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. That’s exactly what Scott

One reason I believe that Steve is guilty is because of his journal. In Steve’s journal he says, “Anybody can walk into a drugstore and look around.”(115) This proves that Steve was helping to be a lookout in the crime, which means he was an accomplice, and that he was in the drugstore when the crime happened. “It was me, I thought as I tried not to throw up, that had wanted to be tough like them.” Steve also writes in his journal (130). Steve is writing that he wanted to be tough like King and his friends. This proves that he wants to be like King, which might have influenced him to help with the crime. Steve also writes in his journal, “I knew she felt that I didn’t do anything wrong. It was me who wasn’t sure.” (148). Steve wrote this after talking with his mother. Steve is doubting his own innocence, if he is doubting his innocence, then is he really innocent?

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However, Steve was not at the drugstore when Mr. Nesbitt was shot. He might have been at the drugstore, but by the evidence, he was not there when Mr. Nesbitt was shot. So Steve was not in charge of the murder but, he could’ve been the lookout. Bobo also said Harmon left before Mr. Nesbit was killed. I was waiting for him to come out’’ (196)