In the Baze v. Rees case, two inmates named Ralph Baze and Thomas Bowling were convicted for murder and sentenced with the death penalty. In 1992, Ralph Baze killed a Kentucky County Sheriff with three shots fired in his back, and also killed a deputy sheriff with two shots in the back and one in the back of his head (Rushford). The other inmate, Thomas Bowling rammed into a car in the dry cleaning parking lot; he got out of the car and shot the couple and the two-year-old child in the car and drove away in 1990 (Rushford). Baze and Bowling had claimed that Kentucky’s lethal injections is cruel and unusual punishment which is a violation of his Eighth Amendment rights. The lethal injections is a process that includes a dose of Diazepam which…
MILLERSBURG — A local woman was arrested Wednesday after she allegedly conspired with a Millersburg man to assault and restrain her boyfriend, preventing him from leaving an apartment at which they were staying temporarily. Jamie L. Spears, 26, who is currently without a permanent address, is charged in Holmes County Municipal Court with abduction and domestic violence. The abduction charge is a third-degree felony punishable by up to three years in prison. Spears, who remains incarcerated in the Holmes County Jail, with bond set at $10,000, is next scheduled to appear in court for a Feb. 23 preliminary hearing.…
I. Name: Sillasse Bryan v. United States II. Legal Citation: 524 U.S. 184 (1998) III. Statement of Facts: On trial was Mr. Sillasse Bryan for a conviction of “willfully” dealing guns without a federal license. The Firearms Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) was added to the Criminal Code to prohibit anyone from "willfully" dealing firearms without a federal license. If proven guilty of conviction, a fine or imprisonment may be imposed against anyone who "willfully" violates certain requirements of the Firearms Owners' Protection Act.…
Q1 The main inquiry in Baker v. Carr was in the case of redistricting was a legitimate issue the courts could deliver proactively to revise manhandle or a political issue. The state contended that it was a political issue, so the courts had no purview. The case demonstrated a standout amongst the most debilitating in the Supreme Court's history, with the choice held over for re-contention on the grounds that the court couldn't achieve a lion's share choice. Equity Charles Evans Whittaker was so resentful about the case, he at long last recused himself from the choice, and the worry over the choice may have added to his initial retirement from the Court.…
Briggs v. R.W Elliott - South Carolina: In 1951, in Clarendon County, South Carolina, twenty courageous African-American parents filed a lawsuit against school officials, for their own children received unequal education services compared to the all-white schools. In South Carolina, young African-American children had to walk far distances to attend schools. Some students even had to walk an eight-mile distance to school. They were not allowed to travel on school-provided transportation such as normal school buses!…
The Tinker v. Des Moines supreme court case was very tricky but at the end the result of it was that the school didn’t have the right to suspend the two kids. There are a couple of reasons why. They were exercising their rights, they also didn't cause distractions, and their argument was weak First of all, The Des Moines didn't have the right to suspend the students that wore the armbands. The argument that the dissent had was and should have been strong enough to win the jury’s anonymous vote. The argument had some strong points, one of the strongest was their constitutional rights.…
Dating back to the 1770s, there has been a significant amount of support for strong national powers by our nation’s government in regards to interstate commerce. The scope of the Commerce Clause outlines that, “Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes” (Art. I, S. 8, Cl. 3). Interstate commerce encompasses any work involving or related to the movement of persons or materials across state lines or from foreign countries. The parameters of the policy were tested in the Supreme Court case of Gibbons v. Ogden, decided by John Marshall in 1824.…
Does the Constitution only apply in certain situations? Is it a document in which one can pick and choose what to enforce? In the court case of Tinker v. Des Moines Mr. J. Fortas and Mr. J. Black have very different outlooks on the topic of freedom of speech and whether a few students could or could not be protected by this law. In December 1965, a group of students in Des Moines held a meeting in the home of 16-year-old Christopher Eckhardt to plan a peaceful, silent, protest on their support for a truce in the Vietnam war.…
The ruling, which occurred during the Vietnam War, granted the students the right to express their political opinions as long as they did not disrupt the classroom. Their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights could not be restricted based on a “general fear of disruption,” which is what the administration argued. According to Justice Fortas, who wrote the majority opinion, the protest was a “silent, passive expression of opinion.” Though a few hostile comments had been made to the students who were wearing armbands, there had been no threats or acts of violence. Also, there had not been any findings that the armbands would substantially interfere with school operations or more importantly, harm the rights of other students.…
Birchfield v. North Dakota (DUII refusal without a warrant) In Scotus blog, the United States Supreme Court judges against a common foe were at their best. It was very easy putting doctrinal clodhopping aside in trying out the amateur court team. Birchfield v. North Dakota a Wednesday court case involving laws imposing on motorists criminal penalties for being suspected of drunken driving (Birchfield v. North Dakota, 2016). This occurred when a chemical test, especially for breath or blood, was rejected.…
g Head: The corruption in the New Orleans Police Department Although police officers take an oath to protect and serve citizens in our society. we have some officers that our corrupt and willing do anything just to protect themselves from being exposed from their unethical behavior. In 1994 three officers from New Orleans police department committed an unspeakable crime murder for hire and a violent drug gang. The killing of Kim grove’s was thirty-two years old and was gunned down by police officer that was there to protect her instead they killed her.…
Evan Miller has had a rough upbringing. He has had emotional abandonment from his alcoholic and drug abused mother, his abusive father and forced to be placed in multiple foster cares throughout his childhood. Miller is a prime example of an abandoned, troubled minor, whose true destiny has been destroyed due to these circumstances. The problems he has faced steered him to being depressed and unsatisfied, using drugs, alcohol and four suicide attempts to trying and fulfill the emptiness he has been feeling his entire life.…
Ralph Woodley and his son Harvey went to visit the local zoo. After spending few hours there visiting the various exhibits, they decided to visit one final exhibit building. Although this building looked like all the rest at the zoo, it was set apart from the majority. Upon walking up to the building, they spotted a large dog that seemed friendly at first and it nuzzled them. In a playful manner, the son made a snowball to throw at his father, who ducked and inadvertently the dog got hit.…
In the Tinker v. Des Moines court case the majority opinion believed that students need to have restrictions in place dictating what they can and cannot wear, and the teachers should effectively enforce the rules. Essentially, the majority agreed with the school principal's action to prohibit groups of students from wearing black armbands in support of the Vietnam war. Any student who proceeded to go against these rules would be suspended until all pieces of rules breaking clothing was removed. The Supreme Court did not agree with the view of the majority as it is their duty to uphold the freedoms the constitution grants.…
Why is police brutality more prevalent nowadays? Accusations of the use of excessive force by the United States police department continue to generate headlines more than two decades after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which brought the issue to mass public attention and urged some Law enforcement reforms. According to the article written by John Wihbey and Leighton Walter Kille, excessive-force complaints against law enforcement officers, internally generated, have more than doubled from 2003 to 2008, which are the most recent statistics available. While some citizens argue that police officers are doing their job, is police violence more prevalent because of social media dramatization, lack of proper tactical training, or is it the vigilante…