Murder on a Sunday Morning is a documentary that shows the problem in our judicial system concerning the juvenile being accused of a crime. This documentary follows the trial of 15-year-old Brendon Butler from Defense attorney Patrick McGuinness’s and Ann Finnell point of view as he works to prove Butler innocence. This case became America most misleading Cassie's because of its lack of evidence on Mr Butler Butler. This accident took place on May 17, 2000, out of Jacksonville Florida many people say that this case was not handled properly by detective and officers could also represent that the young black teen time to be a stereotype base under skin colour.…
The homicide of John Hossack will always be a mysterious cold case. The person who truly killed John will never be known from the very little evidence left in the bedroom. Though with very little evidence all fingers pointed to Margaret Hossack and Mrs. Wright for the killings of their husbands. Therefore, Margaret and Mrs. Wright story didn’t add up to how their husbands were killed and were incarcerated for life. There are two sides to every story, but only John, Margaret and Mrs. Wright knew what happened that very night.…
The story of Logan Marr and her murder is a sad story that should be taught to all child protective service workers and social workers everywhere so the same mistakes are not repeated. However, when establishing who is at fault for Logan's death in this case I think everyone is partially at fault. Logan's mother could have tried harder to get her life in order and regain custody of Logan but she waited until it was too late. The newly employed CPS worker Allison Peters should never have been investigating a case that was already closed based off of an unreliable rumor and she should have also reacted to Logan's signals of distress that she was sending to her mother at their meetings. Sally should have known better on how to treat disruptive children because she had worked in the DHS for many years before adopting Logan.…
A lot of people want to blame the parents of the offenders, asking “what did you turn your child into?” 36% of serial killers were physically abused, 26% were sexually abused, and 50% were psychologically abused (Mitchell and Aamodt 45). Many people have logically come to the conclusion that just because someone is abused, it does not mean that they will become a serial killer; or even a murderer; which is true. In the general population (people who have never committed murder) only 6% are physically abused, 3% are sexually abused, and 2% are psychologically abused (Mitchell and Aamodt 45). The dramatic difference of abuse frequency between people who are serial killers and people who are not seems evident enough to support that serial killers are created.…
In some schools across America, the mass murder of Native Americans in California during the nineteenth century is taught as an inevitable, necessary evil (Discussion). However, this notion is false. The mass murder of the Native Americans was systematic and calculated, carried out by white settlers through attacks on the lives, livelihoods, homes, and cultures of the natives. According to both Raphael Lemkin and the United Nations, these actions were genocidal. In the work, Murder State, by Brendan Lindsay, Lindsay, using the definitions created by Lemkin and the United Nations, effectively categorizes this mass extermination of the Native Americans in California as a genocide.…
The film Murder on a Sunday Morning was a murder case in Jacksonville involving a 15 year old teenager being accused of 1st Degree murder and theft. In the video, it showed the process of the trial and both sides of the case. The lawyer in the video was defending Brenton Butler, the person accused of the incident and the lawyer truly believed that Brenton was not the person that committed the crime. Patrick McGuiness, the lawyer, went out of his way to not only prevent Brenton from serving life in jail, but to also get the real criminal that committed murder. In the end, McGuiness was able to prove to the jury that Brenton was not guilty and that the real murderer was still on the loose.…
Paul Child met Julia while they were both stationed in Ceylon during WW II. They were members of the Office of Strategic Service. They got married in 1946 after they returned to the U.S. As amazing as it might seem, if you know how popular Julia Child became with her cooking, is that at that time Paul realized that she didn’t really know how to cook. She had grown up in a household that had a chef. Once Julia started cooking she discovered that she really enjoyed it.…
The definition of murder under the common law has not changed very much. Common law defines murder as death by poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, starvation, willful, deliberate, and premeditation killing. A homicide occurring during arson, rape, robbery, or kidnapping is also included under murder. First degree murder is defined as specific intent to kill, second degree is general intent to kill. Punishments for murder were life in prison without parole, and the death penalty; only if convicted of first degree murder.…
Planned and executed murder is not just conspiracy, it is murder. In 1964 the civil rights movement was moving across the country. Black men and women were given the right to vote by our Constitution, but Jim Crow laws still denied these men and women their American right to vote. Howard Ball writer of Murder in Mississippi retells the story Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman. Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman were civil rights activists working in Mississippi during 1964.…
There are many traits that can be linked to mass murders. According to this article, mass murders are usually lonely White males in there 30’s or 40’s that are single, separated or divorced. These men, according to the article, have a history of frustration, a target, and/or are mentally ill. Other traits of a mass murder can also include, coming from a dysfunctional family and an absent father. In mass murders, there is almost always a motive.…
The 1920’s were not the time to piss off a beautiful, wealthy, white female in Chicago (unless you had a death wish). As seen in The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry, the press encouraged women to murder by glorifying crimes to fabricate sales. Perry’s book focuses on the achievements of an inexperienced news reporter, who faces sexism in her field of work. What seems like an enticing story about murder turns into a monotonous history textbook.…
The definition of murder is, “To kill someone unlawfully with premeditation”, now take out the words unlawfully and you have abortion. I stand here with such antipathy today because I choose to denounce this practice that has led to 55 million deaths over the course of 50 years. We can’t keep this problem in our peripheral forever, when approximately ⅓ woman by the age of 45 have had one. Yet you find most who’ve had one decide not to talk about this subject because they are emotionally scarred from this medical complication experiment. How could one even come to the thought of this as an option one might say?…
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.…
How to Get Away With Murder It seems everyone has fantasized about how to commit the perfect murder. It may be while watching one of the many murder series on television, or having a conversation about a recent news story. They could be imagining how they would commit the perfect murder if they were the villain in a mystery they are reading. Or it may even cross their mind when they are exceptionally angry with someone.…
The stench was overwhelming, foul meat, maybe, but Joey didn 't give a damn, he 'd been staking out a nightclub and searching for the weapon responsible for the murder of a stripper. Undercover cops were used to diving in dumpsters, he wiped the spoiled food off the butcher’s knife and bagged it, just another day on the job for the stocky built Irishman, a fireplug, with a relentless pursuit of bad guys. His back-up pulled in the alleyway, with the disposition of a talk show host, before his morning coffee. He barked at Joey about some stupid shit, handed him a cup of brew, and sped down 4th Street, they were on their way to the rear entrance of the police station. "Park here Tony, the morning crew isn 't in yet.…