The case involves a double homicide that occurred at 379 Waterford Loop, Rineyville, Kentucky on September 11, 2007 between the hours of 2am and 6am. The report came in to 911 dispatcher around 12pm on 9/11/07 by 9yo Matthew Peterson, who called and reported that his mother and grandmother had been shot. The victims were identified as 53yo Karen Green and 31yo Tracy Smith. During the time of this incident inside the home were both victims, Matthew, Eion, and Reagan. Crime scene evidence shows the attacker approached the home using the back porch entering through the kitchen area.…
FACTS: On December 20, 1973, defendant/appellant Charles Goodseal accidentally killed James Warren Hunter when appellant slipped in the snow and a gun he was holding discharged. Appellant had a previous felony conviction; under Kansas law possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is itself a felony. HISTORY: Defendant was convicted at a first trial of unlawful possession of a firearm (from which no appeal was taken), and was convicted at a second trial of murder in the first degree, done in the commission of a felony. The collateral felony was unlawful possession of a firearm after a felony conviction.…
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.…
“Experience,” was the message Susan Theall voiced at a forum held at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Tuesday afternoon. Theall and Vanessa Anseman were initially scheduled to debate but Anseman was not able attended after a district judge Alonzo Harris ruled Monday she was ineligible said moderator Ian Auzenne who is the vice president of the Acadiana Press Club. “Yesterday district judge Alonzo Harris of St. Landry parish ruled Anseman was ineligible to run,” he said. “Anseman filed an appeal on his ruling and because the appeal is a lengthy process she will not be able to attend.”…
Fred McNeill’s story is a familiar one. He played football for 22 years, 12 in the NFL as a linebacker. Years after he retired, CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, symptoms started including: depression, memory loss and eventually, deterioration in motor skills and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He died at 63.…
What emotional intelligence qualities allowed Amy Cuddy to be successful after the accident? Of course having her IQ decreased as a consequence of a car accident did not make Amy Cuddy’s life any easier. Sometimes, if not always, life does not work the way we want; the answer a person with a very high IQ might have then is just not the right one to solve the problem and to make things work again as planned. When all that happens, the successful goal one meant to achieve, if everything occurred as planned, will just not be achieved.…
Unethical behaviors are made by many corrections officers, police officers, judges, and defense attorneys that make up the criminal justice system. Unethical behaviors are behaviors in which a person acts upon an unfair or unmorally decision. Usually these behaviors result in the defendant going to jail and end up being set free because of being wrongfully convicted. Facts on Michael Morton’s Case Michael Morton was a normal 32 year old father and husband. His wife, Christine Morton, was attacked and killed in their home in Williams County, Texas.…
Dean Corll recruited two teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley, to help him commit: abduction, rape, torture and murder of young boys from the Houston Heights area. The victims were invited to parties by David and Wayne, there they were given drugs and alcohol and tied to a torture board. Dean destructively, castrated, emasculated, sodomized and mutilated his victims. The Houston Police Department had listed the boys as "runaway" children. This allowed Dean and his accomplices to continue their active string of carnage.…
Before I cover the evidence that was used in the Timothy McVeigh case, we must first understand the definition and function of the questioned document. The questioned document is a written paper form of evidence that the suspect wrote, typed, or obtained in a document that may or may not be related to the case against him/her. Furthermore, the evidence may be related to the current case, however, it can be related to previous cases; for example, cold cases. Certain law enforcement personnel that handles questioned documents are forensic document examiners (James, Nordby, & Bell, 2014, p. 454). These examiners utilize and perform various types of examinations while analyzing questioned documents; i.e., comparison of handwriting and signatures, photocopy manipulation, etc.…
After 37 years, and numerous suspects, Antioch's oldest open homicide cold case, on record, had a huge step forward in its case. Mitchell Lynn Bacom, 63, was arrested, by Antioch police, as a suspect in the kidnapping and killing of Suzanna Bombardier, 14, while she was babysitting her nieces on June 22, 1980. Bombardier disappeared from her sister’s townhouse and was found days later, by a fisherman, in the San Joaquin River. The police detained Bacom, a known acquantaine of the Bombardier family at the time of the crime, outside of his home in Antioch. In 2014, a friend of Bombardier and her niece met with two retired detectives, Gregory Glod and Ron Rackley, who were originally assigned to find Bombardier’s kidnapper and killer.…
The issues started when McCleskey, an African American, was convicted of two charges of robbery and one charge of murder and was sentenced to the death penalty. These actions were taken on the account of McCleskey robbing a furniture store in Atlanta, Georgia and murdering a Caucasian police officer in the process, by shooting him with a gun. Later witnesses brought in the gun he used, and one of the bullets that were fired that night. The jury did find him guilty and charged him for the things he did. McCleskey tried to defend himself in court by stating that they were violating the eighth and fourteenth amendment, which both explain things about equal protection rights, and cruel and harsh punishments, given to those who are tired.…
Kearon and Leach (2000) examined burglary and the changes within the home when the boundaries become obscured. Burglary destroys the privacy of the home, jolting the sense of safety and relaxation within the home. The ownership of the home because a central issue when the home is invaded. Kearon and Leach states how the objects within the home are significant as there is an emotional relationship between a homeowner and their possessions. The possessions have a symbolic identity; they make up the territory of home and add to the personal aspect of the domestic space.…
On the evening of July 15, 2003, Cole Cannon went to the home of Evan Miller to make a drug deal with Millers mother (Miller v. Alabama, 2012). Evan Miller and his co-defendant Colby Smith followed Cannon back to his own trailer where all three of them smoked marijuana and played drinking games. After a while Cannon passed out and Miller stole Cannon’s wallet. Miller and Smith split $300.00 between them (Miller v. Alabama, 2012).…
You may have heard of Braxton Miller, he's a two-time Offensive Player of the Year for the Big Ten, and a former Heisman Candidate. Well, this past month, the self appointed best athlete in college football, decided to switch positions to a hybrid wide receiver, amid shoulder injuries and a three way quarterback controversy, that college football has never seen the likes of before. With Wilson and Marshall out, Miller will get thrown into the spotlight at H-Back sooner than maybe thought, and he'll be a dangerous weapon. If you thought Urban Meyer did great things with Percy Harvin, imagine what he can do with Miller, who already knows the playbook, maybe a better athlete than Harvin, and Meyer has said that Miller will be a "impact player", and is working hard to get better even calling him a top five "grinder" on the team. Plus, Miller won't be the number one option like Harvin, as defenses will have to account for Ezekiel Elliot and whoever lines up at quarterback as the first two…
Convicted of 1st degree murder, Adnan Syed has been spent half of his life in prison, since February 28th, 1999 for the death of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. Serial Podcast have tried to unveil whether Adnan Syed is guilty or innocence. Many members of Serial, such as Sarah Koenig have tried to unfold this tremendously difficult case. To this date, many investigators are still trying to unfold this case and are still unsure if Adnan Syed was truly the murder. If you would like to listen to the full podcast of Serial, click here.…