He does have “buddies”. People from his place of employment that he associates with, mostly when drinking. The client has two boys ages 6 and 8, and has been married for 10 years. His father, whom he says was abusive toward him, his mother and his brother, heavily used alcohol until his death. A death that likely occurred…
deemed to pass successfully, but if being a jerk is what lands them into prison, then it will only effect poorly on their future. Stomping out bullying by using prison will only postpone the problem, and not completely solve it. John Gleissner, a attorney and author of Prison & Slavery - A Surprising Comparison, states that “The public agreed to the idea of prisons because it got rid of the problem temporarily and seemed better than capital and corporal punishment.” The media or public thinks…
We all remember the images of birds covered in heavy black crude, and the hundreds of thousands of fish and other aquatic life floating above a decimated ecosystem, dead. Soon after these images were made public on every news outlet of the time, the PR machine at one of the largest fossil fuel companies went to work. With spin and confuse tactics, paying off “everyday folks” to say they stood by British Petroleum and appreciated so much that they were there to help. The year was 2010, an oil rig…
The Life of Scarface Al Capone was a very famous American gangster. He gained his fame during the prohibition era and to this day he is still famous. He never really did have good schooling as a child, but he ended up having a multi-million dollar business in crime. Throughout his life in crime, he did many illegal things and only ended up going to jail a few times. Al Capone was a gangster “murdered his was to the top of the Chicago mafia before being sent to Alcatraz” and that was one of the…
LL.B. from the Stanford Law School. O'Connor served as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona from 1965 to 1969, and was then appointed to fill a vacancy in the Arizona State Senate. She became the first woman to serve as its Majority Leader. In 1975 she was elected to the Maricopa County Superior Court and in 1979 was elevated to the Arizona State Court of Appeals. On September 25, 1981 President Reagan nominated O’Connor as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, making her…
Capital Punishment, a cruel way to end another human’s life would you not say? That is the opinion of eighteen states in the United States. As of April 30, 2015, there have been a total of 1,407 executions since 1976 (www.deathpenaltyinfo.org). Capital punishment dates back to 1976 where the Supreme Court used death penalty as a way of maintaining the minorities after the Civil War (University of Richmond Law Review, Stephen Bright, www.deathpenaltyinfo.org). Essentially, capital punishment…
By just reading the title, one might assume that the article is merely an informative piece attempting to clarify the specifics of a suit popularized on social media, a place where the truth can be easily misconstrued. After fully reading the article, it is clear that there is a hint of support for Kesha, although the author tries to maintain neutrality. This is first noticed in the arrangement of the questions McCarthy proposes. Instead of clarifying the identities of the people involved at the…
Smile for the Camera February 26, 2016, Sanford Police received a call to the scene of a crime. A 17-year-old African American boy, Trayvon Martin, was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain. Coming home from a convenience store with a can of soda and some candy, Martin was seen as suspicious. George Zimmerman, accused of the murder of Trayvon Martin, later walked out of the courtroom with a "Not Guilty" plea. Zimmerman waived his right to the "Stand Your Ground" law. In the release of…
In 1998, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani reported from 1993 to 1997, felony complaints decreased 44.3 percent. This included a 60.2 percent drop in murders and nonnegligent homicides, a 12.4 percent drop in forcible rape, a 48.4 percent drop in robbery, and a 45.7 drop in burglary. Mayor Giuliani credited Bratton and his "zero-tolerance" policing as a major factor in crime reduction. Mayor Giuliani and Commissioner Bratton also acknowledged that "Compstat", which was developed by Bratton,…
winter coals to prospective supporters. In the process he cheated the public out of millions of taxpayer money, which went into the strongboxes of tweed and his associates. Political cartoonist, Thomas, Nast brought much attention to Tweed's corruption, by reaching both literate and illiterate audiences. Samuel Tilden, a zealous attorney, convicted Tweed and his rule came to an end in 1876. Tweed mysteriously escaped from prison and traveled to Spain, where he was spotted by someone who…