Weblog Part 1

Weblog Part One

From using what I heard in class, I think it is all about if the prosecutor can make a emotional presentation to make the accuser really look like a victim. In the fast food case, I never felt sympathy for the victim because it was a conscious choice for the family to eat there, and McDonald’s is obviously unhealthy for you. But, in the affirmative action case, I felt sympathy towards the victim, and felt like I was going to fix the wrongs by helping her out. In When Law Goes Pop, when the story of the man who killed the Marshalls is brought up, the defense makes him look like the victim, and the wrongs will be righted only if he is found innocent. This feeds to our sense of right and how we want to be heroes in our own way, and helping a victim in court is a much easier way of doing that than putting on a costume and acting like a superhero. By playing to this sentiment of heroism seems to be the most important way of changing someone’s opinion. Robin Williams’ character did the same thing in the episode of Law and Order: SVU when he talked to the jurors about not being sheep and having opinions of their own. This makes the jurors feel more important that just voting to put a sex offender in jail, it makes the heroes standing up to the corrupt police trying to put a good man in jail.