Background info
Lloyd Rayney was accused of murdering his wife Corryn Rayney after she got home from a dance class, however wasn’t convicted because the evidence was too circumstantial and in place by sheer chance.
court music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEjC8LggMXk
Intro
The Lloyd rayney case was a bit different from others as both the victim and the accused were involved in the legal system and were high up at that. This meant that everyone else had to be brought in from outside the state. While justice had been upheld for most of the case the police didn’t treat him fairly and some of the evidence seemed planted. The principles of justice are:
Fair treatment by police: Everyone has to be treated fairly by the police no matter what the police think they are to treat them the same.
Innocent until proven guilty: Everyone is innocent unless proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
Everyone is equal before the law: Everyone should be treated equally before the law no matter what race, sex, political opinion.
Rights to a reasonable appeal: Everyone has the right to ask for an appeal if reasonable and not trying to get the appeal from something impossible.
Fair Treatment by Police
Firstly, the police gathering evidence for the case almost immediately turned their attention to Lloyd meaning they didn’t look for other suspects and named him the prime and only suspect in the case despite the fact that he wasn’t. The police found the body upside down which was said to speed up decomposition in the head though that didn’t work and the police that checked the body found no weapon marks meaning they had no weapon tie, however they did find a celebrity heads tag with “Lloyd rayney” on one side however there are no records of dna testing done at all in this case meaning that it would have been easy to plant. The only other evidence possibly tying rayney to the murder was liquidambar seed pods in corryns hair which supposedly meant she had gotten home before the murder however they only appeared after the initial body search. There were many things wrong with how the police acted, however they could be improved on in the following ways:
- dna testing
- changing the police officers leading the case after defaming Lloyd
- looked for other suspects
All in all fair treatment by police was compromised because of their actions.
Innocent until proven guilty and everyone is equal before the law
While the police weren’t great however the next two principles of justice – innocent until proven guilty and everyone is equal before the law – did better as he was treated fairly by having no jury, as being a human people object to murder completely, giving him an unfair trial if one was to be involved and by having everyone else involved in the court brought in from over state removing bias for or against him. However the planting of evidence would make it seem as if someone wanted him to seem guilty even though he wasn’t, possibly compromising this principles of justice and it could have been improved by the ways mentioned earlier, but otherwise it is pretty supported.
Subtitle 4
The last principle of justice – rights to a reasonable appeal – however were definitely supported as there were no signs to compromise it as it wasn’t needed due to the fact that he wasn’t found guilty.
Conclusion
In conclusion the police were overall bad and its because of that, that they compromised that principle of justice. The principles of justice everyone is equal before the law and innocent until proven guilty were mainly supported however the planting of evidence did almost compromise them. The other 3 principles were completely supported however. As a whole justice was upheld for a good portion however the police were really bad, the best bit being the fact that he wasn’t convicted because of murder as the judge didn’t find him guilty because of their bad job.