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Case Brief Case Name: Commonwealth v. Cheeks Citation: 423 Pa. 67, 223 A.2d 291 (1966) Vote: The Majority in Favor Author (Opinion of the Court): Justice Eagen Concurrences: None Dissent: Justice Cohen Facts: On October 11, 1963, Joe Henry Howell was stabbed and robbed by four young males on a public street in Philadelphia.…
Case Summary & Background Patrick Marlowe, who is a former correctional officer of Wilson County in Lebanon, Tennessee, was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges relating to violations of the civil rights of inmates at the Wilson County Jail. Mr. Marlowe was the supervisory corrections officer on the evening shift of the Wilson County Jail from 2001 to early 2003 (Burke, 2006). He and several former correctional officers were convicted at trial of conspiring to violate the rights of inmates at the jail by assaulting and depriving them of medical care. Over the course of two years Mr. Marlowe engaged in routine beatings of detainees, these counts included convictions for assaulting inmate Walter Kuntz (Hunter, 2007). After seriously injuring Mr. Kuntz, Mr. Marlowe failed to call for medical care for several hours as Mr. Kuntz lay unconscious on the floor of the jail.…
Bishop Richard Harvey Cain (April 12, 1825 – January 18, 1887) was a minister, abolitionist, and United States Representative from South Carolina from 1873–1875 and 1877-1879. After the Civil War, he was appointed by Bishop Daniel Payne as a missionary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina. Richard Harvey Cain was born to a black father and a Cherokee mother in Greenbrier County Virginia, which is now in West Virginia. He was raised in Gallipolis, Ohio, a free state where he was allowed to read and write. He attended Wilberforce University and attended divinity school in Hannibal, Missouri.…
There were eight different women that were involved in the cases that Daniel was found guilty on, which means he was found not guilty on the cases of five of the women involved. Four of the counts he was found guilty on were first-degree rape. Holtzclaw did receive 30 years for each of the rape cases. Were you surprised by the verdict in the case of ex-Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw? Sound off in the comments below on your…
The adventurer Meriwether Lewis explored the west Louisiana territory. He came back efficacious and became a national hero until he died under suspicious circumstances on October 11, 1809. The brave man died in his room at an Inn called Grinder’s Stand from a gunshot to the back of his skull and to his chest. The death was pegged as a suicide but, before his death Lewis was going through psychological and physical health problems, financial problems and bankruptcy. Meriwether Lewis’ untimely demise was considered a suicide for an extensive period of time, but what essentially occurred based off the evidence gathered is that the unidentified black man who was voyaging with Major Neely was employed by Nelly who was appointed by General James Wilkerson to assassinate Meriwether Lewis.…
Additionally, in this trial, the implications of an elected versus appointed judge can be seen. Judge Horton did the right thing by overturning the conviction of Haywood Patterson, he did so at great risk. Horton, an elected judge, basically ended his career with this move. It is this situation that leads me to believe that judges should be appointed rather than elected. Not every judge, especially when put in a situation like this, would have the integrity to ignore the political ramifications of their decision.…
Nathan Thomas a 21-year-old white male is a resident of Houston, Texas. He was born in a very strict and religious Baptist home, whose parents lived by strong religious values. His family was very popular among the community. His father a well-known politician and his mother a well-known doctor, were considered the elite in Texas. Thus, when his father became mayor of Houston, he kept secrets from his family in regards to his sexual orientation to uphold his family’s name.…
Opinion Ms. Justice Martinez delivers the opinion of the court. Appellant stands convicted of murdering Mr. Thompkins and possession of an illegal firearm. The Supreme Court of New Jersey found the conviction valid based primarily upon the confession unlawfully obtained from the appellant and the evidence brought to the court which was also unlawfully collected at the victim’s home. On December 24, the Ocean County Sherriff’s department was called to a wellness check of Mr. Thompkins.…
As is commonly known, a portion of today’s trials that take place are accusing the wrong person. But how long has this been a problem? There have been multiple trials in the past that have had the same thing occur, and many individuals are tried for crimes they did not commit. A large portion of those people are even found guilty and wrongfully thrown in jail. Unfortunately, Eddie Joe Lloyd was one of those people.…
For Bozella this case was extremely hard to fight. In the beginning stages of trying to find you ever committed this crime they had Bozella as a aspects. The only factors that were holding Bozella close to the case was that he was know to be around the area and the lies fabricated by two inmates. Once they saw that Dewey wasn't at fault for this crime they dropped any charges against him. Even though Bozella was released of being a primary suspect in this case he was brought back six years later.…
In 2001, a fourteen-year-old juvenile by the name of Lionel Tate was charged as an adult with murder in the first degree. In relation to the Criminal Justice System, multiple articles and other numerous sources, such as Michael J. Dale (2004), state that Lionel Tate “was considered the youngest person in the United State to have ever been given the sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.” At the age of 12, Lionel Tate murdered a little 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick in Pembroke Park, Florida 1999. On July 28th of that year, Tiffany’s mother asked her long life friend, Lionel’s mother Kathleen, if she would watch Tiffany for the evening. After dinner, Kathleen had withdrawn from the kitchen to upstairs leaving the children to watch…
Meriwether Lewis Murder or Suicide Essay Meriwether Lewis was a national hero of the United States and one of the greatest explorers in history. He played a major role in the Louisiana Purchase and in discovering the lay of the land with his crew. After the expedition, he became the Governor of Louisiana and was Thomas Jefferson’s protégé. Lewis was on his way to Washington D.C. to collect his money from the government that they owed him.…
Eyewitness identification relies upon the eyewitness memory and the ability for him or her to retain that information and reporting it straight to the police. Memory is considered as evidence because information is being gathered and encoded in memory. Over time the storage holds in the encoded information in the brain until retrieval occurs so the brain can have access to the information. Although memory is not accurate, errors can occur throughout the process of encoding, storage, or retrieval. Even images and sound can deteriorate over time, which makes it hard to recall them back.…
In the book “Ordinary Injustice” by Amy Bach, chapter four titled “Show Trial”, describes a number of different cases showing wrongful convictions being processed through the criminal justice system based off of false confessions. In Chicago, there was a nine-year-old girl named Lisa Cabassa was found raped and killed in the back of an alley a couple miles from her home. Two months after the rape and murder of Lisa, a witness named Judy called the police to give her testimony on the crime. Her statement consisted of her telling the police the people involved with the crime were named Michael Evans and Paul Terry, whom were teenagers from the neighborhood. She spotted them with Lisa that night.…
Today, there are only three different countries一Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iran, who sentence the death penalty to people that have yet to turn eighteen. Before the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Roper v. Simmons, the United States used to be on that list. After the Supreme Court’s decision, anyone who was on death row for crimes that they had committed prior to turning eighteen were put off death row. Instead, they were sentenced to life without parole. No Choirboy written by Susan Kuklin, looks into five different stories of people who were affected by the death penalty in the United States prior to the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision.…