To start this article, Wayne K. Durrill, tells of how four freedmen by the names of Jim and Lewis Coppedge who are brothers, Ned Myers who is Coppedge’s step-father, and George Chambers kill James W. Redfearn. Redfearn is the owner of a general store called Whites Store in Anson County North Carolina. It is believed that the freedmen committed crime because the KKK was coming to the store. Testimony was used to convict Lewis and Ned of Murder. This same testimony was used to convict Jim as well, but at a later time.…
1. Name of Case Texas v. Johnson 491 U.S. 397, 109 S.CT. 2533 (1989) 2. Facts of Case Gregory Johnson joined a protest in Dallas, Texas during the 1984 Republican Convention. During the protest Johnson burned a flag as others chanted.…
Consultants. To show our appreciation towards Jeremy N. Berman’s, a Findlay local prosthetist, help with instructing three class periods of the physical and occupational therapy prosthetic course, we would pay Berman for his volunteer time by paying him the average volunteer wage in Ohio. According to Independent Sector, the average wage for a volunteer’s time in Ohio, based on the hour, is approximately $22 (The Value of Volunteer Time, 2015). Therefore, for this grant we would need a total of $66 to pay Berman for his time helping the OT and PT students learn. The cost for the consultant is listed in Table 3 below.…
our honor, the prosecution respectfully requests that the defense motion be denied and the statement made by the defendant Cameron Awbrey be admitted into court. In today’s case, the officer’s actions did not violate the defendant's 4 and 5 amendment rights. The statement should be admitted into court for three reasons: The connection between the illegal stop and the statement were attenuated by an intervening circumstance, Officer West was acting in good faith, and Cameron Awbrey voluntarily made the statement at his own free will. This statement should be admissible due to the attenuation of the illegal stop and the defendant’s statement.…
Facts: David Riley was pulled over by the police for a traffic violation. Because Riley was driving with a suspended driver's license the car was searched and impounded. The police found inside the car two loaded guns. Riley was arrested for the possession of firearms. While searching him the officer also seized the suspect’s cell phone.…
Dred Scott and his wife was a slave of an army surgeon, John Emerson, after Dr. Emerson bought him from the Peter Blow family of St. Louis. Scott accompanied his owner during Dr. Emerson’s duty at Illinois, Wisconsin and back to Missouri in 1838. Later when Dr. Emerson died in 1846, Dred Scott and his wife, with the help from John R. Anderson, the minister of the Second African Baptist Church, filed petitions in the Circuit Court of St. Louis for their freedom. According to State Historical Society of Missouri on the article, “Dred Scott Case”, it was the Blow family that help him sue against Emerson’s widow for his liberty. They argued that Scott’s living in Illinois and Wisconsin, two free states according to the Missouri Compromise, with…
Within this case a student Brian Schaffer, who has been diagnosed with a learning disabilities and speech-language impairments has been under the IDEA program since prekindergarten through seventh grade. In which time he attended a private school and struggled academically (Goldberg, Schaffer v. Weast, 546 U. S. (2005), 2012). In 1997, school officials informed Brian's mother that he needed a school that could better accommodate his needs. Brian's parents contacted respondent Montgomery County Public Schools System (MCPS) seeking a placement for him for the following school year.…
William Golding's fictional novel Lord of the Flies and Maria Mauro’s article “Children Who Murder: Jordan Brown, Eric Smith and Others: Jordan Brown: Too Young to Kill?” depict the horrific behavior of children in order to show the world that society must require consequences to deter such atrocities from happening. Mauro discusses a 13 year-old named Eric Smith, who murdered 4-year-old Derrick Robie in a park in Steuben County, New York. Eric dropped two big rocks on Derrick's head which caused his death. According to the text, “Eric was tried as an adult and was sentenced for 9 years-to-life in prison”(Mauro 1). Eric’s punishment was fair because his crime was brutal even though he was diagnosed by a psychiatrist with intermittent explosive disorder, a mental disorder that causes people to act out violently and…
In 1990 Donald owned 96% of the company and other valuable assets including companies that builds homes and offices. With all of this he was worth around $2 billion. However the CEO of Wells Fargo at the time claims that no one really knows how much the land is really worth. Since Donald Bren now single handedly owns the most property that one man has ever own in the United States following 1994. Donald has a plan for this urban development and wants to create the ideal American community for the United States.…
Even though the fictional town of Ellis was racially and a biased community, this town indeed made significant growth as a result of their experiences. After the Japanese had arrived and Susan Reddick was murdered, the town did start to slowly grow to accept the Japanese. The town truly did accept them after the death of Danny Spano, the arrest of Bobby Archuleta for the murder and rape of Susan Reddick, and several other experiences and sufferings. This town has let go of the emotions of war, and their mind is now straight.…
On April 25, 1980, Bobby Moore, aged 20, was involved in a robbery of a grocery store in Houston, Texas with 2 accomplices, where he accidentally shot a grocery store employee. On July 15, 1980, he was convicted of robbery and capital murder. On appeal, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed his sentence in 1985. On February 14, 2001 he was given a new sentence hearing and again given a capital sentence. In 2003, Moore challenged his 2001 hearing and sentence, one of his 48 claims being "allegations that the Eighth Amendment barred his execution due to his intellectual disability under Atkins”.…
9. Laura’s allegations a. Fact: Laura found the shortfall and repayment, she reported to Robert Calloway, the Chair of the Audit Committee. Robert arranged a meeting with Tony and Doug to look in to Laura’s allegations. They lied and denied all the allegation and Robert believed them without investigation.…
In 1976, a man named Troy Leon Gregg was charged and convicted of armed robbery and murder of Fred Simmons and Bob Moore. In accordance with the Georgia procedure in capital cases, the trial must be in two stages, a guilt stage and a sentencing stage and after both stages, Troy Gregg was ultimately sentenced to death for the murder of Fred Simmons and Bob Moore. Unfortunately, due to the 1972 case, Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court established that the death penalty system was unconstitutional and violated the eighth amendment of no cruel or unusual punishment. Which in turn, raised the question for the courts; does Georgia’s new sentencing procedures have the required prerequisite to sentence someone to death?…
In 1992, Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted of arson and murder that caused the deaths of his three children. In 2004, he was given capital punishment. According to the Texas Forensic Science Commission, it was demonstrated that the evidence had been misinterpreted, and that none of the evidence that had previously been used against Willingham was valid. The new evidence showed that the fire was accidental. As a society, we should not allow capital punishment to be legal in the United States.…
Innocent Scott Bradshaw is innocent due to the regulation of reasonable doubt. According to dictionary.com reasonable doubt is defined as “uncertainty as to a criminal defendant's guilt; the level of certainty a juror must have to find a defendant guilty of a crime.” Due to the facts of the case and the forensics report, there is enough reasonable doubt to keep Bradshaw from being convicted of one murder count. The other murder count is of Jeff Booker and he was shot inside the store and ran down the street bleeding out and dying 2 blocks down the street. Reasonable doubt was put into the criminal justice system to attempt to ensure that a defendant was not wrongly accused.…