Capital requirement

Twenty year-old Manitoba native David Michael Vincett was gunned down at around three in the morning on September 25th, 2011 during a gang related shooting. According to the Winnipeg police, Vincett didn’t have any gang affiliation to their knowledge, but the shooter who will remain nameless due to the Youth Criminal Justice Act was supposedly tied to the Indian Posse. The Indian Posse is one of the largest street gangs in Canada, reportedly claiming over 12,000 members. It was stated in the…

According to The Yale Law Journal article titled, “Mandatory Sentencing and Racial Disparity: Assessing the Role of Prosecutors and the Effects of Booker,” by Sonja Starr and M. Marit Rehavi. In the Supreme Court case, United States v. Booker, regarding sentencing guidelines, a federal district court judge enhanced Booker’s sentence based on the facts the judge determined. Booker appealed the enhancement as in violation of his Sixth Amendment rights. In another case, according to sentencing…

Behind closed door deals, bribes, scandal, trades, mass corporations, sounds like the next top crime show, but this is no show. This is the Oil Reserves Scandal also known as the Teapot Dome Scandal. The Teapot Dome Scandal took place in the early 1920s. It was the secret leasing of federal oils by the Secretary of Interior, Albert Fall. After President Harding switched the oil reserve lands from the Navy to the Department of Interior in 1921, Albert Fall secretly gave Harry F. Sinclair from…

How would you feel when you know something is truth, but someone claim it is not? That is exactly how many people feel when they knew Jodi arias had killed Travis Alexander. She did not know that there was enough evidence that proved she was guilty. The evidence included a gun, pictures, e-mails, clothes, memory cards, x-rays, and even a check. Lawyers on both sides utilized this evidence. On the one side, Jodi’s lawyers attempted to convince the jury by making them think Travis Alexander was a…

I believe that the high courts should not require a specific standard for a citizen having to use deadly force to protect themselves.If you are to the point of your life where you are threatened by an outside force then you need to defend yourself by any means necessary.One case that I would like to go back to is the case where George Zimmerman saw a black male by the name of Trayvon Martin. He was unaware why Martin was in the area while it was dark out.He decided that he wanted to pursue him…

Bowling alone by Robert Putnam is primarily summarized as our disengagement from the involvement in our communities. Putnam describes to the reader a decline in the civic engagement initially through our politics, particularly in the decline in “turnout [of] national elections over the last three decades,” “attendance [of] a public meeting on town or school affairs,” and “attending a political rally or speech, serving on a committee of some local organization, and working for a political party.”…

“We old fellows have a lot of time in town and that is where we sit down.” People had to known something because people talk. We already seen the observation of Anna Brown and Henry Roan were killed the same way. So I think they were killed by the same person or people. A.W Comstock is a new suspect in these killings because he was an quardian to the Osage so he was close to them. If you seemed to be a killer to one of your coworkers on the case, then you probably had something to do with it and…

Villisca Axe Murders “On the morning of June 10th 1912” the town of Villisca, Iowa was shaken by the murder of eight victims beaten to death with an axe. The murder happened on June 10th around midnight. The murderer used an axe and beat the all victim’s heads in “using blunt side of the axe and hit 20-30 times” with the axe. Six of the eight victims was known as the Moore family. Joe Moore 43 and Sarah Moore 39, married and had four children the oldest Herman Moore 11, second oldest Kathryn…

Weldon Angelo was a 22 year old music producer, whose music career was bringing him a lot of nationwide recognition. He was the organizer of the Utah-based rap mark, Extravagant Record. While at Extravagant Record he composed and created tunes with well- known artist. Angelo sold weed to a childhood friend who ended up being a police source. Today, Angelo sits in government jail 10 years into a 55 year sentence. Since the required sentence was excessively brutal the sentencing judge called…

Plea bargaining is right and proper and should be continued. In the United States plea bargaining is considered an essential part of the criminal justice system (Terrill, 2013, p. 82). I consider plea bargaining a necessary evil. With overwhelming court dockets, a plea bargain allows the prosecutor to streamline the court docket as well as minimizing costs (Savitsky, 2009, p. 9). It would be impossible and take entirely too much time to take every case to trial. When a defendant receives…