Cleveland Vs.

Wall Street
The case Cleveland against Wall Street denounces a real problem of society in United State of America: the growing expulsions of owners who cant pay off their loans. Each actor, banks (which use the money directly from Wall Street) or evicted owners, has his share of responsibility. But the judgment is realized in a binary way. Are banks guilty or innocent? Even though the lawyers explained very clearly the facts to the jurors, those last ones did not take it into account, and preferred trying according to their own convictions. The aim of this trial is to balance the pros and the cons, in order to determine if banks are responsible for these expulsions. All the testimonies show that it is difficult to define a guilty and an innocent party. Indeed, the banks accused the evicted owners to want what they could not treat themselves to buy: Wanting to buy a house is great, but blaming the banks because they cant afford to it, is absurd Mr. Fisher, the Wall Street lawyer explained. But the evicted owners accuse the banks to take advantage of their credulity and their lack of knowledge in the subject: Those people understand absolutely nothing to the financial world. They did not do a business school a black woman juror said. To me, they are both right, so they are both responsible. Consequently, to define a guilty among them, amounts to define the guiltier among these culprits. However the trial was not that useful, because the majority of the jurors tried with their own convictions, and not with the facts explained. For instance, Irene, the old white woman explained that she pleaded banks non guilty according to what her heart dictates. Another example could be the white man who has a military son who is in the Near East. Indeed, through Wall Street he condemned the government and the war, but not necessary this case.

To conclude, it is difficult to have a discussion on this case because it is based on own convictions. However, if I were a juror, I would plead the banks guilty because even if people are not always as credulous as they said, banks manipulated and harassed them in order to fix a high interest rate on the loans whereas they knew perfectly well that people can not pay off them.