Giufa And The Judge Sparknotes

Chapter 11, Saco and Vanzetti, in After the Fact begins with a story of an armed robbery in a bank and an armed robbery and murder to a man on the side of the road in Massachusetts during the time of the nativist mood in America. The Braintree and Bridgewater crimes, in 1919 and 1920, seemed to show a patterned and drew attention to Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists, where were soon arrested for the crimes. After a long trial, suspicious evidence and six years of appeals the two were convicted and sentenced to the electric chair. Moving on in the chapter we are introduced to another story, around the same time as the previous one, of employers going on strike and radicals creating an uprising in the labor industries.

This journal graphically and briefly describes the work and life of Judge Parker and the men who reported to him throughout his career. In the article it presents many personal references of how the Judge was perceived by the public and the government. The journal takes you through the process of understand Judge Parkers career which led him to Fort Smith where he became the “Hanging Judge”. George Maledon is referenced in the article as “instrumental in Parker’s career” (Riggs, 1955). In the journal it mentions “that although Parker had respect amongst the community at that time it was not the same for his deputies including and most of all Maledon” (Riggs, 1955). Riggs describes Maledon as “a perfectionist”, “German born with little

The case of Sacco and Vanzetti sparked a national outcry for justice as well as a national debate over American values. Two Italian immigrants, shoe operative Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were falsely accused robbing Braintree’s Slater and Morrill Shoe Company and murdering two of the factory’s workers (After the Fact 256). At the time of the Braintree holdup, the police were investigating a similar crime in Bridgewater. In both cases a gang was involved, and the suspects escaped in a car. Eyewitnesses believed the criminals to be Italians. So, when Sacco and Vanzetti appeared at a parking garage near Braintree and drove off in a car police suspected was getaway vehicle in both crimes, Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested

Sacco had taken a day off from his job at the shoe factory. The alibi was supported by the Italian consulate in Boston (Frankfurter). Bartolomeo who was a fish peddler had said he was selling fish on the day of the murder and his alibi was supported by thirteen witnesses who he had sold fish to. The witnesses who claimed that the men in the car who shot the paymaster and his guard were Sacco and Vanzetti but their testimonies were unreliable and did not prove the accusation against the two men. All that was known about the suspects were that they were two Italian men. Judge Thayer gave up the identification of the men in the van but still announced the two to be guilty. At the height of the public’s outrage, the Judge publicly stated this, “This man [Vanzetti], although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable because he is an enemy of our existing institutions… The defendant’s ideals are cognate with crime” (Boyer 668). By saying these things, Judge Thayer openly admitted his bias against the Italians, simply because they were radicals. Thayer also supported his conviction by claiming that Sacco and Vanzetti had acted guilty during their interrogation. However, their behavior was most likely due to the fact they spoke very poor English and misinterpreted many of the questions (Frankfurter). The public demanded a new trial for the case, which the Judge adamantly

On the run from the U.S. authorities and the Mob, an American gangster in Rome offers information expecting a reduced sentence, however, smuggling him out of the country is no easy task for the Persuaders despite a young photographer’s aid.

The great american melting pot of the industrial age was reaching its boiling point. Slums were overcrowded and the factory workers were just replaceable parts of a commercial machine that kept wages low and revenue high. Any uncooperative worker was replaceable at an even lower cost due to the heavy flow of migrants to the United States. These poor newcomers worked at any rate, which put many Americans out of jobs. The unemployed were angry and upset that they had been replaced by immigrant workers, and it became apparent in hate crimes, political parties such as the nativists, race riots, and police brutality. One day in Braintree, Massachusetts, two italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were arrested for an armed robbery of a shoe factory with two deaths (Kronenwetter). The two men claimed that they were innocent, yet the prosecution accused them relentlessly. Of the 33 eyewitnesses brought to the stand during the length of the trial, only seven people identified sacco, and four recognized Vanzetti. Every person that claimed to see sacco said he was wearing something different. The prosecution brought 16 men who thought they recognized sacco, but only 7 really did. They also brought 4 men that recognized Vanzetti, but they were very weak,

The Third Shot by Carlo Lucarelli is a classic Italian crime fiction piece that reflects on many of the current issues surrounding Italy at that time. Diving deeper into Lara’s story as a cop on the Flying Squad in search of her partner’s killer, many themes from Lucarelli’s prologue are expanded upon. Using some focus in class, three major themes stood out that will be further explored in this paper. Gender-based power imbalance and sexualization of women. Corruption of seemingly noble positions by mobs and gangs.

Moreover, he argues that "much of the confusion concerning the Italian experience in American crime is related to unclear and imprecise terminology used by writers" (Preface).

The Sicilian Cosa Nostra , is a companionship of organized-crime chemical group based in Italia and America, evolved over centuries in Sicily , an island ruled until the mid-19th one C by a long air of descent of foreign invader . Sicilian arrest ’s together in chemical group to protect themselves and carry out their own justness . In Sicily, the term “mafioso,” or Mafia member, initially had no criminal connotations and was used to refer to a person who was suspicious of central authority.

So here I am, once more, in trouble. I always keep forgetting that I am (occasionally) a bad thief. Gay Perry always warned me. Now I'm strapped to a chair, facing a couple of angry guys shouting at me in Spanish, especially some dude dressed all in black like he's some sort of Spanish Johnny Cash. I have no clue what they are saying. What I do know is what they are saying isn't on a Taco Bell menu. Damn. Wait a minute, dear reader, let me back track before I got into this predicament. Yeah, I'm a terrible narrator but I'm the only one you got so deal with it.

Antonio Ricci needs a bike for the job he was offered with the council of the city. His wife Maria pawned their sheets in order for Antonio to get a bike for the job. Once Antonio gots the bike for the money they got with the sheets he begins his day's work the next morning. Bruno, Antonio’s son, made a comment that the bike was dent and mistreated. His father did not care because it was a bike. Just from the beginning of the film you could tell Bruno was more detailed ordained then his father was. On the first day of work Antonio was putting up a sign and some thief stole his bike. Antonio went to report his bike stolen to the officials of the city. THe observation of Antonio and Bruno seems kind and that they love one another but the

Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thieves is a simple story set amidst a post-war Rome. It is a neorealist film characterized by setting the story amongst the poor and working class. The film surrounds the difficult economical and moral conditions of post WWII Italy, reflecting the conditions of everyday life: Poverty and desperation, with the implicit message that in a better society, wealth would be more evenly distributed. The plot is simple, surrounding a man, his son and a bicycle. The film tells a story of Antonio Ricci, an unemployed worker who finally gets a job to paste advertisements in the city of Rome. To keep this job, he must have a bicycle, in which his wife, Maria had to pawn their bed linens to get money to redeem their

Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thieves is a simple story set amidst a post-war Rome. It is a neorealist film characterized by setting the story amongst the poor and working class. The film surrounds the difficult economical and moral conditions of post WWII Italy, reflecting the conditions of everyday life: Poverty and desperation, with the implicit message that in a better society, wealth would be more evenly distributed. The plot is simple, surrounding a man, his son and a bicycle. The film tells a story of Antonio Ricci, an unemployed worker who finally gets a job to paste advertisements in the city of Rome. To keep this job, he must have a bicycle, in which his wife, Maria had to pawn their bed linens to get money to redeem their

During much of the twentieth century, the Italian Mafia seemed to never be out of the headlines and was portrayed in a somewhat glamorous light by Hollywood and even by the media. Call to mind Al Pacino’s masterful performance throughout The Godfather series and images of the citizens of New York lining the streets to watch the John Gotti funeral procession. Even though the Mafia sent ripples through pop culture in the 1970’s and 1980’s, the members of the Mafia are not men to be admired. The only things that Italian Mafia members have on their minds in obtaining more power and wealth. The Italian Mafia was able to gain and maintain power and prestige through their control over public officials, infiltration into the community, and a strict

IV. Fijnaut, C. (2012). Twenty Years Ago: The Assassinations of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 20(2), 131-136. doi:10.1163/092895612x13333546844590