Daniel Holtzclaw's court case has been going on for weeks and today they finally came to a verdict. This ex-Oklahoma City police officer was charged with 36 various counts including sexual battery, stalking and more. After 45 hours, the jury finally came to a decision on December 10 and Holtzclaw was found guilty on 18 of the 36 counts. This jury obviously took their time making up their mind. Once they started trying to decide, they were not allowed to go home and took breaks only when it got really late at night, but then started over again in the morning.…
The case that I am researching is the Rod Blagojevich case. Rod Blagojevich was the 40th governor of Illinois from 2003 - 2009. He was charged with corruption by Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. The case was criminal case and was originally heard in a court in Illinois, but later was brought to an appellate court. Along with corruption, Rod was also charged with solicitation of bribes in exchange for Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat, mail fraud, attempting to bribe the Chicago Tribune with state funds, and abuse of power in attempting to gain campaign contributions from Children's Memorial Hospital.…
Prosecution: Chase Covington Theme: Follow the briefcase...follow the truth. The briefcase will lead us to the truth because it is the only piece of evidence that we can test for fingerprints. By testing the fingerprints, we can prove, as the prosecution that Covington did exchange briefcases with Avery Bancroft at the poker table. Accepting the bribery of two-hundred and fifty thousand to issue Bancroft a gambling license.…
The Buck v. Bail court case during 1920's, is concreted to be one of the worst rulings of the Supreme Court in the history of American law. During the 1920’s court case in Virginia, the Supreme Court supported sterilization of so-called mental defectives or imbeciles American’s. The First person who was reported to undergo sterilization was a young poor woman by the name of Carrie Buck. According to the Buck v. Bail video Carrie Buck was confined in the Virginia State colony for the epileptics and the feeble-minded though she was neither epileptic nor mentally disabled, eight judges ruled that the state of Virginia had the right to sterilize her, her mother Emma and as well as her Daughter Vivienne (Democracy Now).…
Wrongful Conviction On the morning of August 10, 1984, Deborah Sykes was brutally stabbed, sexually assaulted, and eventually killed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The man convicted for her murder was Darryl Hunt, a 19 year old boy that would go on to spend 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Hunt was convicted based on eye-witness testimony and informants, but was later exonerated based on DNA evidence that matched a man that was caught just a few months after the murder took place. This case is an exemplar of the strength of DNA evidence and the fragility of eyewitness testimony.…
Courtroom 302 provides the reader with a real time view of criminal processing. Steve Bogira begins this work from the earliest moment that a person is entered into the criminal justice system, the arrest. Bogira then takes the reader on a step by step reading tour of criminal processing, following alleged offenders as they progress through the system. Bogira introduces the reader to every character that he follows, sharing with them a background of the character, perhaps in an attempt to garner understanding of the character to the offender.…
Student’s Introduction There is more than one interpretation to this hypothetical and so more than one IRAC is used. These IRACs use a combination of FYLSE style along with some extra citation content from the open book perspective. The IRACs here are arguments of potential solutions to the call of the question. The Subject Statement is used to infer the Subject and then the Rule.…
Last week Be Shapiro said we need to wait for evidence on the Seth Rich case. This is utter nonsense. No, conservatives should not pause and give conspiracy theory nonsense the time of day. Conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory, we see advocated discover ground breaking evidence, and time after time it is shown to be our-right false, a misrepresentation or just wrong. If something seems crazy, it probably is.…
As I reflect back on the modules we covered during this semester, two particular topics really grabbed my attention “Wrongful Convictions” and “Justice Reinvestment.” These two particular topics provided me another perspective how America’s adversarial system has some deeply rooted flaws embedded it. In which, these flaws have created loopholes in the legal system to allow the local, state, and federal agencies to manipulate the people’s ‘due process and protection against self-incrimination’ during questioning of investigations by law enforcement agencies. In which, walks a fine line with these loopholes in the adversarial system to violate people’s Constitutional rights in the 21st century.…
Beyond Reasonable Doubt Adnan Syed was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of Hae Min Lee, and sentenced to life in prison plus thirty years on February 25, 2000. But this story started a year earlier, when Hae Min Lee went missing on January 13, 1999. Her disappearance turned into a murder investigation when her strangled body was found February 9, buried in a shallow grave in Leakin Park, Baltimore. This case wasn’t a big news back then, but it was reignited when Serial’s host Sarah Koenig meticulously evaluated the case during a 12-part podcast series in 2014. Since then, it has been exposed the weakness of the state’s case.…
1. “Pain and suffering” and “mental suffering” are elements of damage in personal injury and malicious prosecution cases, they should be in emotional distress cases, as well. 2. The bodily effect of emotions and sentiments produced by stronger emotions are now visible to the professional. 3.…
WRITE UP #1 CASE 3-1 WHO PAYS THE PRICE? 2 Write Up #1 Case 3-1 Who Pays The Price? Having read the scenarios presented, the question of how to decide whose view to accept is posed.…
Serena Pang Professor Karl A. Boedecker BUS 301 April 6, 2017 I. Court(s) visited: San Francisco Criminal Divisions of the Superior Court, which is located in 850 Bryant Street, San Francisco. II. Day(s) and Time(s) Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 1:30 p.m. III. Judge: I could not hear the name of the Judge.…
In the early 1880s, Elmer Palmer murdered his grandfather, Francis Palmer to ensure that he would be unable to change his will. The younger Palmer believed that his grandfather was going to lessen his inheritance after being remarried. While the criminal case against Elmer was without any controversy, the question soon became whether he would be able to receive the inheritance from his grandfather. This issue was resolved when two of Francis’ daughters, who would have only received a small inheritance in comparison to Elmer, brought a civil case against him to have the will invalidated. The decision in Riggs v. Palmer (1889) became one of great importance, not because of the decision itself, but because of the reasoning behind the majority opinion.…
There are multiple stages of the criminal court process that create a burden of proof that contribute to criminal justice investigations. Every court process begins with a crime allegedly committed to determining its legal status. Law enforcement and detectives determine if the crime was illegal or legal due to the investigations. They investigate a crime by interviewing victims, witnesses, and suspects. They also gather physical evidence by taking pictures, fingerprint, and DNA samples.…