Title: Criminal procedure of a drug dealer Mr. Robinson Clark.
A man known as King, by the real name Robinson Clark was referred to as the best drug dealer, but the society knew him as the best business oriented man in the town since he owned many businesses and also was known for his donation to the needy people. He was always working alone and made lots of money, until some other groups of drug dealers tried to stop him since he was taking over the business in the town; due to that, it lead to murder which took place at his house, he was then caught in a robbery act by the police. (O'Connor,1997) By that attempt, it led to the revenge since the other drug dealer insulted him thus leading to killing almost all those who were in his place of the business. After doing so the other partners of the dealers joined him in the firm. For those people that had been killed, it was planned to be tricked as an accident, so they were no trace of him as he walked free. It did not take long for the police to find out that he was dealing with drugs.
The investigation was carried out and one day the police got the king’s partner doing the business as usual. Fortunately they found few members whom they questioned about the matter. In that process police did not get much information on King since most of them did not mention him in the talk but only spoke of the business and its operation. The little information got by police concerning king was not enough to identify whom he was, therefore police went ahead to search for a concrete evidence concerning king’s dealings. They took a step of taking some video and pictures that provided a proof that King is dealing with drugs and by that he was arrested (Pauscley, 1987). After the arrest of king, he underwent a serious process of questioning and police got all the information about him including his business dealings, his business partners and his personal information. Police also recorded the suspect’s crime and informed him of why he was arrested. It started with the record search of the criminal background and this was to take quite a longer period so as to gather evident information. This was his first arraignment which did not require him to remain in jail but to continue with his normal activities as investigation was being carriod out about him secretly without his knowledge.
During that time when king was arrested, he asked for the lawyer who would be handling his case, even if it was a shock for people to know he was a drug dealer comparing him with his status in the society. The evidence the police had was proven to be a business meeting with other colleagues, but that did not stop the office from carrying further investigation concerning him (Livni, 2016). Some months later he was spotted with same people on the video and according to the research the police had on those people, it was that they were the top drug dealers in the town. This gave the police a chance to search his building, but they did not have anything suspicious.
Since they didn’t find anything they can use against him, the officers suggested to release one of the men they arrested and make a deal with him, this issue was taken to the officer in charge and he was to discuss it at the meeting and finally the Bureau agreed, the one to be released was to sign a contract to bring in king in exchange of his freedom.
One of the men from the group was chosen, his name is John Wing. He agreed to their terms but was supposed to have a handle in the case he intends to run away and a tracker of 2miles radius. When king and another member came to know that there is a new dealer in the town of which John had attracted attention by stealing their drugs and selling them. This made the king furious because his business would go down and to avoid that he decided on two things which were either to recruit him or kill him. John was lucky for he was recruited; at first king did not trust him; he gave him a task to perform such that if he succeeded he would earn some trust from the other members. The task was to steal from the new source and bring to him. Luckily he realizes and finally joined them. (O'Connor,1997)
As the operation of the business went on, King realized that the government is following their movements and that led him to conclude that there should be one of the men spying on them. He decided to investigate the traitor among the members; he decided to plot evidence against one of the member and by doing so, the king killed that man. This was a shock to the others since no one expected King to kill one of his members. After that, the operation of the business continued as usual. That is when John was planning on how to have evidence on King, but King was always careful with his plans since he never lives a trace. They came up a big deal in the business which caused the King himself to attend the meeting that was taking place at a hotel (Pauscley, 1987). This was a big chance for John, he put a recording that captured everything in the interaction. When they specified the delivery, John informed the police about it. The delivery was to happen using a van, the police followed that van and arrested the driver. The van contained heroine as one of the drugs and through further investigation police found out that the van was registered by one of the King business. According to the report by the driver, it revealed that King was responsible of ordering for the trailer and that is how finally King was caught and arrested according to Miranda Rights leading to John’s freedom.
In this arrest of King, he underwent a stage of arraignment where after reading his criminal charging, he asked his attorney Mr. George Matthew, the one who will support his case so as to start pleas. The attorney gathered all the necessary evidence for the case to avoid the sentence to jail. King’s case was forwarded to the court where the trial would be taking place and where he was then brought to his second arraignment. Under this arraignment, king was now expected to begin a plea. After this arraignment, the court organized for a pre-trial conference where the accused and the defendant were prepared for a trial. To go for a trial, the two parties were expected to get lawyers and they presented the names of their lawyers.
Through a grand jury, videos and picture were brought before the court to speak for king’s crime. The video and pictures brought to prosecute King were not enough for his sentence. Therefore king entered the stage of trials and during the first trial, his lawyer said it was a business meeting with the other board of members, and to those who were not available in the meeting, Mr. King decided to go and meet them, and the evidence was brought forward by his attorney, stating the other board of member’s signatures. That was not enough either for him to go free. Another trial was arranged to be two weeks from that time. (O'Connor,1997)
During the second trial the prosecutor had some prove that showed that King was the one who murdered the drug dealers. The witness stated that when those killings were happening he saw them since and he just came out a survivor. He said the whole story of how they wanted King to move away from business and thus planning to kill him and that was the time the killings happened in his house. His attorney pleaded not guilty of the charges hence defended him by asking for more prove since when the dead bodies were found, they were no trace of him. The King’s attorney accused that witness of being paid to testify against him. The second trial again ended without enough evidence for the King arrest.
The judge did not let go of the case since they were so many things going on that had no end, thus leading to the third trial which was to happen two weeks again after. During that time, the King’s attorney asked the King if there was anything that can contradict the case but the king didn’t know of anything that can make it go wrong.
During the third trial the attorney against King brought forward evidence, which was from King’s former business partner. It was some recording that was used to threaten the King’s spouse from saying anything about the company he was operating. This was due to King’s partner who refused to join his business after he told him about it, and since he could not do anything about it he decided to keep calm deal with his business without King’s help in anything. (Livni, 2016)
That was concrete evidence against the King’s case, and they were nothing to oppose the evidence with. Evidence from another incident was brought forward; it consisted of a video clip from King’s house of which the killing took place. The video showed when the drug dealer entered the house with armed weapon and took the family of King as hostage. The King was demanded to stay away from the business or else the entire family would die. To protect his family, King agreed to their demand. It was after this that King defended himself from those dealers but he killed all except the one who serviced and freighted away.
The judge asked if there was any other evidence to oppose or support the case, and one person from the back stood and said he would like to contribute to the case. He was called Gabriel age of twenties, with him, he had some video clips and pictures taken some months after the arrest of King.
They were brought forward to the judge, and he was allowed to speak, he started saying that “without people like King in the world people like me cannot survive especially with the current economy” by that he attracted the attention in the room, as he started narrating his story. He said he belonged to a group of street children where they only survive from the world. King once passed by where they used to live as he was on his way to the business and saw them with the rags of clothes. He came out of his car, greeted them and bought some food and clothes for them and also promised them a safe shelter and basic needs. Some of the members of his company were happy about that information but some thought it was just a bluff since many people including the politician had said the same thing, but no one had bought them anything until that time. A few months later he come again accompanied himself with a bus to carry them, and they were taken to that their new home which contained everything as they were promised. A few days later they were admitted to school, and some private trainer were hired for those like him older to lower classes.
He said that Mr. Robinson may or may not be dealing with drug dealers but for what he has shared with the people in need, many rich people usually don’t think about them the needy people even those with their fullest wealth. (Pauscley,1987)
Mr. King saved them from the life they have and gave them a bright one full of hope. He continued and said without him they will just go back to their other life full of suffering. He requested the clips to be played for people in the court to see he was not lying. The clips and the pictures indicated it was true; they had taken pictures from where they first lived and their new home even indicating the location of the place, and the video showing the celebration of opening the new house and celebrating the happy birthdays which they dedicated as one day for all of them.
It had reached where the board court has to decide on the matter brought forward. The judge had to take a break and continue from later. During the break, the board of the court sat to discuss the matter and finally made the conclusion about the case. (O'Connor,1997) They oversaw the struggle those children would face without the help they were gaining from Mr. Robinson, and since they did not have any other support apart from him, his sentence would be fair for the sake of those children.
The judge now had to finalize the case, and according to the evidence against Mr. King, he was accused a sentence to jail for twenty years, but due to the generosity that Mr. Robinson Clark gives to the society and a plea from the street children in general, his sentence was reduced to five years with a fine of one hundred thousand dollars, and the case ended with Mr. King taken to jail. (Pauscley,1987)
In conclusion, Mr. Robinson Clark was analyzed as a good person besides the drug business which he was involved in. If it was not for the board court which decided to shorten his sentence because Gabriel’s story and his support for the needy people as the society know him he was to be given to jail sentence.
References
Pauscley, M. (1987). 20 Years In Prison For Cocaine Charge. tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Retrieved 18 April 2016, from http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-12-18/news/8503270775_1_undercover-agent-kilos-sentence(Pauscley,1987)
O'Connor, M. (1997). Featured Articles about Undercover Agent - Page 3 - tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Articles.chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 18 April 2016, from http://articles.chicagotribune.com/keyword/undercover-agent/featured/3(O'Connor,1997)
Livni, E. (2016). When Is Sexting a Crime?. FindLaw Blotter. Retrieved 18 April 2016, from http://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2016/03/when-is-sexting-a-crime.html (Livni, 2016)
