Was it the mother, the brother, or an actual murderer that killed JonBenet Ramsey? JonBenet Ramsey was a six year old girl who was brutally murdered. Today, the murderer still hasn’t been found. Was it her own parents as an accident or even her brother from being angry? This cold case has different theories and is still incorporated into pop culture today.…
It was circumstantial evidence that led jurors to decide that Scott Peterson murdered his wife. They agreed it was premeditated even though prosecutors did…
Laci Peterson was eight months pregnant when her husband Scott Peterson reported her missing in December. It was not until April that her husband was arrested and held for two counts of murder. It was rumored that Mr. Peterson was having an affair with his massage therapist. Attorneys mentioned that it was a possibility that Laci was kidnapped and murdered by a satanic cult. Investigators do not believe this theory.…
Steven Avery was accused during 1985 of a sexual assault towards Beerntsen. Due to many evidence shown during those 18 years that Steven Avery spent in prison that didn't prove to people that he was actually innocent. Steven had gained a reputation that not many of his community seemed to like. During his time as a young adult he had committed “small” crimes that made him look as a worse person as time passesmd by. After 18 years of imprisonment he was finally released due to evidence that automatically proved he was never the sexual attacker of Penny Beerntsen.…
“Trial Lawyers to Jurors’ Demands for Visual Evidence” states “Carney, a former prosecutor, noticed over a decade ago that juries weren’t grasping evidence in criminal cases and his office wasn’t…
The Dred Scott case was a very important time in United States history, politics, and American Law. In the 1800’s, unlike the northern part of the country, southern states underwent slavery. The Dred Scott case was a case that dealt specifically with slavery; the case began with a slave wanting freedom for he and his family. Like most slaves Dred Scott was born into slavery, in 1799 and didn’t get out until Emancipation Day.…
Emmett Till’s murder tells the people that racism is inhuman, unjust, terrifying, hateful, and disgraceful, to the African American community. I believe the progress has been uneven in the U.S when talking about moving beyond the conditions that prevailed in the 1950’s, however the changes has been moving in a forward motion to embrace all people. Till’s murder showed how much hate the whites had toward the African American people and how inhuman the whites were. Stated in the Documentary “ The Murder of Emmett Till” enforced by law, black men were not allowed to look at white women and if a white women said a black man did look at her, there were consequences for that man.…
Columbine shooting This story is about some kids that went in to a school and killed people with machine guns. This school is currently the most popular high school in the worlds. There were 12 students and 1 teacher killed. They killed a girl named Rachel that was a senior and she was such a nice girl she started a chain reaction that is all over the world. The kids that killed Rachel killed themselves at the scene.…
Ana Sofia Garza Mrs. Williams English II Pre-Ap 02 November 2016 Justice Many people have committed crimes. Some because that is what they do best and some because they don 't know any better and even some who commit crimes out of love, believing the crime is for a greater good. The United States criminal justice system should not allow for exceptions in the application of law due to the fact that justice should be applied equally to all. Even though a person might be disabled, a violation of the law or murder still remains as an illegal action.…
In Cold Blood Argument Essay In Cold Blood focuses on the effects of the murder of a family in a city in Kansas as well as the interactions between their murderers. The book focuses a great deal on Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, the Clutter family killers. Perry is painted throughout the book as a very complex character, the farther into the book one reads, the more details about his childhood and family are revealed. His childhood was traumatic for him and later in the book, that is explored as the reason for his behaviour.…
People are a lot of things. For example, I am seventeen. I am a girl. I am a tennis player, as well as a cheerleader, math-lover, and a student, but most importantly, I am a kid. As a kid I am also the future.…
August 9th of 2014, an African American male who was eighteen years of age named Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri. It was shown that minutes before his death Mr. Brown was earlier at the local liquor store stealing cigarillos. Mr. Wilson, of 28 years, was the police officer that picked up on the situation as he saw someone to appear as to what the suspect looked like. Once stopping Michael, and him cooperating onto the sidewalk, there was later an altercation between Mr. Brown and Officer Darren Wilson, who is of white heritage. Moments later, Michael Brown was shot and killed by Wilson, after having the officer chase him.…
November 22, 1963 is a day that will forever be a mystery. This was the day that President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. The Warren Commission says that the killer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a Soviet defector who sympathized with the Communists in Russia and Cuba. However, many Americans believe that Oswald couldn 't have done this alone. Theories range from multiple gunmen, to the shots being fired from a different location, as well as those who agree with the Warren Commission.…
That 25.5 percent is a huge increase and needs to be stopped, and it can be stopped. Homicides is one of the biggest reasons why I believe that the population should start to decrease. As a community, we have to be more careful; lock our cars, stay in safe neighborhoods, and be careful what we are doing. Some might say that the population growth is helping Colorado and helping it in better ways, but facts show that more people are dying. More people dying is not what I would call helping Colorado.…
For this assignment, I will create a flowchart that will identify the vital changes to stalking and intimate-violence laws. I will also compare and contrast research laws and techniques with the processes used in the OJ Simpson case. In addition, I will recommend preventions for future cases as well as illustrate the connection between stalking, intimate violence, and homicide. Furthermore, I will apply the victimology and criminology theory that best fits the case and explain the use of lethality or danger assessments by law enforcement.…