Case Study: Guilty Of Manslaughter

Improved Essays
It is clear to see the Samantha is guilty of manslaughter. She purchased the drugs and arranged the accommodations. Then instead of taking Timothy to the hospital when she noticed he was losing consciences, she left him to die! According to People V. Beardsley, the omission of the duty owed resulting in the death of that individual is manslaughter. Simply put, Samantha could have possibly saved Timothy’s life if she would have called 911 or took him to the hospital.
In Sate V. Wassil, three men shot up heroin together. When the diseased, Groleau lost consciousness after injecting himself with heroin the defendant, Wassil, tried putting him in a cold shower to revive him. Then Wassil called 911; however paramedics failed to be able to revive

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    People Vs Diaz Case Study

    • 140 Words
    • 1 Pages

    According to Pozgar, the case People v. Diaz, the defendant who was a registered nurse worked at a community hospital on the night shift; over a month span, 13 patients under her care had suffered seizures, cardiac, and respiratory arrest, which included nine deaths. The defendant is noted to have started working at a different hospital. After three days, a patient died under the defendant care. The defendant was arrested and in the testimony claimed to have injected patients with extremely high doses of lidocaine. After further investigation, the defendant was observed acting strangely the night of the patients deaths.…

    • 140 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In the article the “Wrongful death” Mr.Otis suffered from lower abdominal pain and he fainted at home. His wife called his doctor about pains and his doctor told them to go to the Universty emergency room. So they go to the emergency room. Mr.Otis’s doctor did not show up at the hospital and the doctors did not help him. I feel that it was the hospital's fault because they left him there to suffer.…

    • 287 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    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.…

    • 760 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Murder at the Margin” starts off with a professor from Harvard University Henry Spearman, who taught economics, him and his wife both, were going on vacation to Cinnamon Bay. While on a ferry that was taking them to the island, they meet an old coworker, Professor Mathew Dyke who teaches theology at Harvard. While the Spearman’s were on the islands they meet different type of people. They met a Supreme Court retiree Justice Foote and his wife. Then Mr. and Mrs. Doakes but Mr. Doakes had a strange breakfast ritual.…

    • 1235 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Elmer Beard Case Summary

    • 774 Words
    • 4 Pages

    I. FACTS OF THE CASE Elmer Beard is an eighty-one-year-old patient at the Methodist Hospital who is suffering from a severe stroke, which left him in a coma and permanently paralyzed. Earlier, he was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, angina, diabetes, congestive heart symptoms, gallstones, and cancer of the prostate. Shortly after receiving this news, Elmer fell into the stroke, and was admitted into the Methodist Hospital. Although Dr. James A. Duncan stated that Elmer Beard’s visit would be short, his visit to the hospital stretched from 36 hours to six weeks. Dr. Duncan refuses to let Elmer Beard off of the respirator, and explains that Mr. Beard has “plenty of good brain left”.…

    • 774 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Oj Simpson Case

    • 1086 Words
    • 5 Pages

    January 24, 1995 marked the first day of the events that produced what was nicknamed “ The Trail of the Century” . The first official day of the trial of Orenthal James Simpson versus The People took place in June of 1994 in Los Angeles California when Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found dead outside of Brown’s home. Brown's ex-husband O.J was the first to be notified and questioned upon his return from his Chicago trip. Soon after Nicole’s funeral Simpson failed to surrender to the charges and lead police on a high-speed chase down the 405. After the chase, and much pleading and debate, Simpson “peacefully” went into custody.…

    • 1086 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Hypocritical Taking of Lives It seemed like a normal February night for Wanda Lopez, a single mother, working behind the register of the Shamrock gas station convenience store. That is, until she noticed a man loitering outside the door in the parking lot of where she worked. She called the police to report the drunk who had just come from the bar next door and was told to call back if he came inside. A few minutes later, the man walked into the store holding a knife.…

    • 902 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVNAIA, Plaintiff v. Crim. No. 5678 of 2015 GUETTER BALL, Defendant MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN THE CONVICTION OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER The Defendant has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, this is from his actions on December 12, 2015.…

    • 843 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    One case study that I read is about a fifty-year-old male that was hospitalized for a fever of unknown origin. Patient had been diagnosed with myeloid leukemia in one previous year and has been on remission. In preparation for discharge, a nurse removed his central line. Twenty minutes later, patient starts developing signs of PE (SOB, anxious, and nervousness). After obtaining patient pulse ox, the nurse obtained authority to give patient decedent valium.…

    • 261 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The government in response state that ‘cupable corporate officers and managers could still be prosecuted for gross negligence manslaughter’, a huge difference placed on individual who can be prosecuted under the offence , this taking in consideration on the requirements of evidence of Adomako. Mention health and safety culture in the workplace …. Therefore, it seems the exclusion on individual liability is undoubtedly unfair, and poses drawbacks against the new test in reaching its main objectives.…

    • 145 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Criteria For Accountability In A Wrongful Death Suit: Do You Have A Case? When you're dealing with a death, it's difficult to see beyond the pain of losing someone; however, if that death was wrongful, you have a limited time to pursue a case and many variables to consider. The following questions and answers should help you determine if you have a wrongful death case and how you should proceed. 1.…

    • 944 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Involuntary Manslaughter

    • 268 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Manslaughter is only one step down from murder. Based on the circumstances involved, manslaughter may be labeled as "involuntary. " If it becomes clear the the killing of another person was purely unintentional, they may be charged with this slightly lesser crime. In most cases the penalties are less severe that the penalties for those convicted of murder. However, that does not mean that the consequences for involuntary manslaughter are not severe.…

    • 268 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Unjust Convictions, it Could have Been You Have you ever felt like your parents have punished you unjustly, and you were mad because you couldn 't play with the other kids and it wasn 't even your fault? For some people this injustice is much worse, because instead of being grounded, they are spending their lives in prison for crimes that they didn 't even commit, some have even died without ever finding justice. Besides that is extremely difficult to prove someone 's innocence, although programs like The Innocence Project are fighting for these people; even if you accomplish such an ordeal how do you pay this people back, for the years they lost? How do you make it right?…

    • 1271 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Victimology Case Studies

    • 2026 Words
    • 9 Pages

    Victimology Life Style Exposure The life style that the three victims, Byers, Branch and Moore had would have put them in minimal amounts of situations where they would be exposed to victimisation. As eight year old children they would have had School Monday to Friday, where they would have been overseen by a number of adults and be in the company of numerous children. This means that most days of the week and most hours of the day the victims would have had low risk of exposure to criminal behaviour. There is also little evidence to suggest domestic violence in the homes of the victims, as however, there is only Byer’s fathers transcript in the Case Materials (1993)…

    • 2026 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Criminal Homicide Essay

    • 752 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Homicide is the killing of a human being by another human being. In old common law, the only type of homicide recognized was murder. Today, U.S. law makes many distinctions between each type of homicide, classifying them as justifiable, excusable, or criminal, and gives varying degrees of seriousness to each type. Where criminal homicide is concerned, it can further be broken down into murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. Each subset of criminal homicide has several elements and characteristics that distinguish one from another.…

    • 752 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays