The Tell-Tale Heart Is Guilty

| Shows no emotion to the murders and crimes that he committed. A heartless selfish man.

May it please the court, your honor, opposing council, and members of the jury. No murderous intent but he murdered. A person accidently killed the friend, he does not have any motivation and purpose though. He is murderer, and he has to be judged by the law. Ladies and gentleman, today you will hearr about the tragic death of Jonathan Guerrero, a college student who was addicted to meth and died due to Hofschneider’s blunder. Hofschneider is also a college student who are addicted to methamphetamine which makes him to have no murderous intent but make him murder.

This is case that faces Mary Barnett. The issue in this case is that On January 23, the litigant, Mary Barnett, left Chicago to visit her life partner in San Francisco having left her six-month-old little girl, Alison, unattended in the apartment. Mary Barnett returned home a week later to find that her child had died of dehydration. She called the police and at first, to let them know that she had left her kid with a baby sitter. She later expressed that she had left the child and she didn 't mean to return, and that she knew Alison would die in a day or two. She has been accused of wrongdoing of second-degree murder; purposeful homicide without intention. In the event that she is sentenced, she could face up to eighteen years in prison. This piece of writing tries to give the verdict of the case after critically examining both prosecution and defendant side.

The defense side might claim that the tragedy was just an instantaneous accident caused by a normal heated argument between the couple and by the defendant’s benign attempt to prevent our victim from hurting herself. However, the truth is that Mr. Diamond had been pondering upon committing this killing a while before it actually took place. Before Mr. Diamond proposed going to California, he secretly looked over Trudi’s private records that described her unpleasant past, the period of time in her life that she wanted to eradicate. Trudi “promised to think it over, but didn’t commit herself to going”. Apparently, Mr. Diamond was compelling Trudi to make a decision that she was reluctant to make. What’s more appalling was that the defendant threatened our victim to death. With the excuse of helping her get through her traumatic past, Mr. Diamond said, in these exact words, “if anybody’s going to kill you, it will be me”. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is this a common and appropriate way to encourage someone to get through a sorrowful experience? Up to this point, he already had a dangerous thought in his mind. The defendant left two choices for Trudi: to go to California with him or to get killed by him. In common sense, the impact that those words could impose on Trudi would be similar to the feeling of a knife stabbing at your heart. These words could have added more

In some victimless crimes, motive plays an important part in determining the type of crime and degree of guilt. Assisted suicide, for example, could be a victimless crime if the motive was to end suffering. In such a case, the murder is committed to end suffering for which there is no future end except in death. The person who is murdered has given his or her consent and the motive can be said to be altruistic. In a case where the murderer was motivated by a potential inheritance, the crime does have a victim and is seen in a more serious light.

After reading “the Innocent Man” by Pamela Colloff’s who write a long journalism about Michael Morton, who was found guilty for murdering his wife Christine was sentenced for fifteen years in prison. Later founding that Michael was Innocent after reinvestigating his case, capturing DNA testing and finding new evidence was able to help prove his innocence. The theme of this essay a widow husband who seek to fight for his freedom in prison and staying connected with his son. Michal son Eric gave him a reason to have hope that they would one day reunite and his son would know for himself that he did murder his wife. The point of view of this essay although a man is falsely accuse for a crime he did not commit he is self-determined to fight.

In The Tell-Tale Heart, guilt is proven to be the theme by conscience and the narrator’s sanity.  The narrator kills the old man because of his “evil eye,” but then immediately afterwards feels guilty about it. The short story illustrates a fast paced downwards spiral of the narrator’s subconscious, proving that he becomes filled with guilt.  At first he is very proud that he got away with murder, yet when the police arrive, he calmly and collectively shows them the old man’s room. After the police started to show up and started to look around the old man’s room, the narrator’s guilty conscience started to really go into effect. The ringing in his ears represented the shame and guilt. It was a low, dull, quick sound which represents how he is filled with guilt. It slowly becomes

“The Tell-Tale Heart” Writing Assignment The man telling the story of “The Tell-Tale Heart” is accused of murdering his roommate. I am his defense attorney, and therefore, I will prove my client’s, innocence due to mental illness in this case. My client is not a mentally stable person, and therefore, he is unaware that killing someone is not ok.

“The Tell-Tale Heart,” a riveting short story by Edgar Allen Poe, contains evidence that the narrator is guilty of premeditated murder. The facts that the narrator planned the murder, the killer waited 8 days, the narrator claims that he is not mad, and he chopped up and hid the body once he killed the old man with the vulture eye lead the reader to conclude the narrator is guilty of premeditated murder. First of all, the narrator is guilty of premeditated murder because he planned the murder. What legally separates premeditated murder from someone who is criminally insane is the fact that the murder is planned instead of the killer doing it without a plan and just solely on instinct. Some people who do not know their legal matter may say that the killer

The first reason he is guilty of first degree murder, is because he planned the attack, and stalked the old man every night. He hadn't just come up with his actions. "… and so by degrees, very gradually, I made up my mind to take the life of the old man," (39). So he slowly decided to do it, and it wasn't impulse. The fact that he planned to kill the old man is just one of the reasons why the narrator is guilty of murder.

Heart confessed his side of deliberation in his testimony, which concludes that not only we have premeditation on him but also deliberation against him. First of all, what is the denotation of deliberate? Deliberation means a carefully weighed; studied; intentional consideration. An example of deliberation is when Mr. Heart’s Testimony says “You should have seen how wisely I proceeded - with what caution ----- with what foresight ---- with what dissimulation I work”(Poe 1). This shows that Mr. Heart was very conscientious about what he was doing making sure Mr. Dan wouldn’t hear him while asleep. Another statement in Mr. Heart’s Testimony that shows deliberation is, “Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. A watch’s minute hand moved more quickly then did mine. Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers of my sagacity”(Poe 2 ). To explain this, Mr. Heart was very meticulous in how he was entering the room upon the eighth night since he was planning on carrying out the murder then and Mr. Heart claims he has sagacity during all of this. What is sagacity, you may ask? Sagacity is wisdom, like quick and wise in understanding judgement: kind of based off on the denotation of the word prudent which also means wise. All of this evidence shows how guilty Mr. Heart is and how much he should be thrown in jail for first degree murder but for some reason nothing has been done to punish this

To begin with, the narrator is guilty of premeditated murder because he planned to dispatch the innocent man. Throughout the short story, Edgar Allan Poe describes the events leading to the confession and made some points clear that he is guilty of premeditated murder. For example, the narrator tells the readers that he has been stalking the old man for seven nights just at twelve. “I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him … to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked upon him while he slept.” (Poe) As you can see, the narrator is clearly devising a plan to kill the old

He had the reasoning and understanding of what he did, but he still went through with killing an elderly couple.

The murder was pretty confident about getting away with the killing. When the police showed up at the door he had a very light heart, thinking no one could discover what he had

“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.” ~Lois McMaster Bujold. The deceased cannot tell someone to provide justice, only law enforcement can. This short story is one of many of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous stories. This story is about the narrator that takes care of an old man on a day-to-day basis. One day, he realized has been deeply disturbed by the old man’s eye for a while, which has a vulture-like cataract on it. He became so bothered that he slowly decided to kill the old man. He watches the old man sleeping for seven nights until the narrator makes a sound on the next night, and the old man wakes up and, in fear, opens his eyes. The narrator, upon seeing the eye, invades the old man’s