Court case I will be sharing is State of Missouri V. Michael Sutton. The defendant Michael Sutton was convicted for forcible sodomy, felonious restraints and two counts of armed criminal action. Missouri Statue 566.060, 565.120, and 571.015. Michael Sutton was sentenced 67 years in DOC.…
Furlow, 04-CV-5887 Our File No. 5-987 Statement of Facts: John Brown sued his dentist, Dr. Thomas Furlow, claiming he was injured as a result of Dr. Furlow’s failure to extract an infected tooth on August 3. John Brown ignored Dr. Furlow’s recommendation to return because his tooth was infected. Mr. Brown then went on vacation and while on vacation he passed out due to infection, pain, and the infection spreading. Mr. Brown incurred medical expense and loss of wages. Furlow was served with a complaint on March 1.…
In this case of Illinois v. Wardlow, Sam Wardlow, a 44-year old black man was wrongly searched after he was apparently seen acting ‘suspicious’ when he ran after he saw four police cars driving up. He was then chased by Timothy Nolan, a veteran police officer, as he believed Wardlow as guilty. The officers believed him to be in a ‘high crime area’. They caught up to Wardlow and frisked him. During the search, they found a handgun.…
The United States Congress established a federal Bank of the United States through a legislative act. The federal Bank had created a branch for operation in the state of Maryland. According to Maryland laws, any bank within Maryland without a state charter will be imposed a tax by the Maryland state government, and the branch of the Bank of the United States is one of the non-chartered banks. McCullough, a cashier for the Second Bank of the United States, was operating in Maryland and issued banknotes without paying the tax. The State of Maryland sued McCullough for not paying the tax in an argument that the Bank was unconstitutional due to the lack of specification of the power to create a bank in the Constitution .…
I too think that having a gun on school grounds is a serious crime. In the case of United Sates v. Lopez it should have only been up to the state to punish him, but that wasn't the case. Lopez's crime should not have been punishable under the Commerce Crime and that was exactly what the ruling upheld. The Commerce Crime had nothing to do with the Gun Free School Zone Act and therefore it was unconstitutional. Great discussion.…
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.…
Filed by Mr. Timothy Pigford in 1997, Pigford v. Glickman was a class action lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), alleging racial discrimination in the form of farm loans and assistance during the years between 1981 and 1996; settling on April 14, 1999. A reported $1 Billion was has either been paid or credited to more than 13,000 farmers. After the settlement funds were disbursed to the 13,000 African-American Farmers that filed a claim, another 70,000 farmers complained that they had either never heard of the settlement or filed a claim late. The USDA reopened a period of time to allow ANYONE who felt that they were discriminated against by the USDA to properly file a claim.…
In the case of State v. Evans, 671 N.W.2d 720, (2003). , we see the distress of the victim that suffered from both harassment and stalking from her predator for a period that span more than three years (Brody and Acker, 2010). The harassment aspect that Hubert Evans summited the victim, Rebecca Arnold, to started out at a very slow rate with it become more intense and leading to stalking over years leading to the arrest of Mr. Evans and criminal conviction for harassment and stalking (Brody and Acker, 2010). The criminal charges were heard by a judge and jury where Mr. Evans gained a criminal conviction for the charges that he faced in the trial. The criminal conviction of Mr. Evans lead to his appeal to the State of Iowa Appeals court to evaluate the case as it relates to the state statute for harassment and stalking (Brody and Acker, 2010).…
Breed v. Jones (1975) In 1975, Gary Jones whom was 17 years old at the time was found guilty of armed robbery with a deadly weapon and was tried as a juvenile and adult (Merlo, Benekos, & Champion, 2017). At Jones’s hearing the courts determined that Jones needed to be tried as an adult as well. Jones did not agree with the courts and petition for habeas corpus. Jones complained that the criminal trial would then put him in double jeopardy (Oyez, 2017).…
The case of Obergefell v. Hodges was a crucial case that made same-sex marriage legal. It was a major case that stood for the ever changing times this era is going through. This case impacted everyone and changed many lives. To fully understand how this case came to be requires the person to look back to other cases that might have influenced the ruling. Obergefell v. Hodges was a case that required the judges to look back at the past, and other cases that related to the concept of this one.…
California v. Greenwood: Case Brief California v. Greenwood established that items set out in a public space and which are available for the public to inspect are not granted the Fourth Amendment right to require a search warrant before searching or seizing that property. Facts Police Officers in Laguna Beach were conducting a drug trafficking investigation. The target of the investigation was Billy Greenwood. During this investigation the Laguna Beach Police Department asked the trash collector of Mr. Greenwood's trash to place it separately from the other trash they normally picked up.…
Attorney Harris is a Criminal Defense Attorney who just started practicing a little over two years ago and she is now representing her most difficult client to date. This would be her first serial killer case, and it is definitely unsettling. Her client is charged with ten murders, but they have only found three of the bodies. As a part of attorney-client confidentiality, her client tells her where the other bodies are, but he does not say he is going to kill any others. Harris knows she cannot break this privilege without having repercussions, but she is struggling to keep this information to herself.…
The case of Gregg v. Georgia starts with a man named Troy Gregg. Troy was imprisoned by the state of Georgia after he was found guilty of armed robbery and murdering two people in 1973. Following Gregg’s trial, the jury found Tory Gregg guilty and sentenced him to death. Troy challenged his remaining death sentence for murder, asked for an appeal, and claimed that his capital sentence was cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the 8th amendment. The Georgia state court ruled that the death penalty was for murder.…
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.…
The Obergefell v. Hodges case lasted around 6 years. The petitioner was James Obergefell, et al. and Richard Hodges, Director of the Ohio Department of Health, et al. This case took place in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division. The deciding court was Roberts Court in the years of 2010 and 2016.…