Question

Criminal Justice - short writting- Plea bargaining

Between 2002 and 2004, Ariel Castro kidnapped three young women and held them prisoner in his Cleveland, Ohio home. Held against their will for ten years, the women were beaten, raped, and starved. In May 2013, one of the women screamed for help when she saw neighbors through a screen door. Hours later, the two other women were rescued and Castro was arrested. Over the course of two months, 977 charges were brought against Castro including kidnapping, rape, and aggravated murder for the intentional induction of five miscarriages. Castro pled guilty to 937 of the 977 charges in a plea bargain that spared him the death penalty.

As we noted in Chapter 10, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and defendants often agree to plea bargains, in which the prosecutor and the defense work out a mutually satisfactory agreement that is subject to court approval. In this case, Castro pled guilty to the kidnapping, rape, and aggravated murder charges in exchange for consecutive life sentences, plus 1,000 years with no eligibility for parole. He subsequently committed suicide while in prison. Conduct some independent research on this case. Considering what you have learned about plea bargaining in Chapter 10 (Criminal justice by siegel) , please answer the following:

How could a man in a urban area kidnap and hold 3 women against their will for 10 years? Was this case an example of the effective use of plea bargaining? Explain.

(250 word minimum response required)

Answer 1

The case includes an urban criminal who gave threats to three girls and friends as mentioned that he will murder and kill all three of them if they expose his ways of emotional living and personal enjoyment and sensitivity in a small house in Ohio in USA.Incidentally, the culprit Castro was a bus driver who had a history of marital discord,abuse, hitting wife and psychologically disturbing his four children and disturbing his parents and his wife's parents.The three girls tried to intervene in the personal affairs of the driver Castro and incidentally all three of them got trapped in the house of castro where he convinced the girls to conceive as he was a marital discord with prove evidence of male fertility as he had four children from his previous wife, and further disrupted the girls by threatening that he will kill all three of them if they do not oblige to again raise his family and gift him a child to overcome the troubled marital dispute with his previous wife.Incidentally one of the girls DeJesus was a friend of daughter of the criminal Castro so emotionally some feelings of sorrow developed in the mind of all of these female friends leading to a obsessive form of life with erotic enjoyment which was heartly accepted by all the three friends for many years as long as they were still alive living alongside a criminal until someday as the situation demanded will lead to their freedom on informing the police officials.