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The Star Chamber Criminal Justice
Although I am not a criminal justice student at UNH, I believe understanding justice and the law are imperative because we are all bound by the law of the land. Being ignorant of it is no defense. Even if we do not understand it or aren’t aware of it, it does not matter, the law applies to every citizen. The movie “The Star Chamber” touches on the ethics of criminal justice, which is the moral philosophy of the law. It questions what is right and what is wrong and how that does not fit into the law over a technicality.

As we saw in the movie, justice and the law do not equate. This is shown in the movie when two men who tortured and murdered a little boy were caught and almost convicted until their defense attorney argued that they were unlawfully pulled over. His first argument was the cops were told they had warrants out for expired paperwork which gave them …show more content…
While chasing this man for quite a while they saw the man throw something out in a trash barrel in the midst of running. The officers stopped and knew they were not legally able to search the trash can without a warrant. They waited until the garbage truck that was on the street dumped it into the truck because then they wouldn’t need a warrant, for it would be common trash. They searched the truck and found a gun and they knew it was his since that trash was not mixed with the other trash
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