Criminal accusation

Crocker v. Pleasant Kalei Webb MTS 120 Mortuary Law Carl Sandburg College The case Crocker v. Pleasant is an example of the negligent to use reasonable means to contact the next of kin of Jay Crocker and therefore violating the Crocker’s right to due process. This paper of awesomeness will discuss the allegations of the Crocker family against a police officer named Pleasant for his failure to use reasonable efforts to notify the next of kin for the recently deceased Jay Crocker. As…

The idea of a tragic hero is far from being just an idea within literature. The tragic hero is found all throughout the modern day; seen in sport injuries and wrongful jail sentences. In these situations, a person makes a decision which eventually leads to their downfall. Things Fall Apart, is a novel written by Chinua Achebe, which takes place in Africa. Inside Africa are the people of the Ibo tribe, where Achebe thoroughly describes the complexity of the customs and traditions. His novel…

Expectation breeds motive, perhaps even the motive to murder. The rights people feel entitled to sculpt the basis of their decisions. Some people merely justify procrastinating; others, murder. It’s extremely easy to self-justify, particularly due to expectation. This expectation is the stereotypical American Dream, which is extremely open to interpretation. This relentless desire for ‘stability’- for this fallacious sense of material comfort- expresses itself in different characteristics. In…

After reading the Devil’s Knot written by Mara Leveritt and watching the trial in class and analyzing all the evidence in the case I’m sure a lot will agree with me that in this case the evidence was very poor. The sentence was not justified or supported with enough evidence. In a case with this magnitude in which minors were involved people would think that the jury would take a close look at the evidence and lead the decision from there which in my opinion did not happen. Most people were…

Although adultery is a punishable crime, Hester Prynne took much more of the blame then what she bargained for. This statement can hold truth to many other encounters in Nathaniel Hawthorne's former love story, The Scarlet Letter, of which occuring in the late 17th century. Similar encounters that took place throughout this descript plot can be seen in today's world. Encounters such as the distinction between faith and instinct, the fear of admitting to sin, and the toll of gossip are seen in…

In modern society we do not think sin is atrocious as the Puritans thought it was. When people commit sins in modern society they do not get punished as harshly as the Puritans did. But in the Puritan society if people committed sins they would be punished heavily for their sins, and if they were not they would punish themselves. The scarlet letter takes place on a colony in the 1600s, which is now Boston, and in this book we learn about the Puritanistic perspective of sin. This novel is…

Question Presented Was Vandenbosh’s gesture and oral statements sufficient to satisfy Michigan's armed robbery statute, which requires a person to lead another person to reasonably believe they have a dangerous weapon or who represents orally or otherwise that they are in possession of a dangerous weapon, when Vanderbosh patted his lower back and stated that he was “handy with a hammer?” Is the police officers testimony as a lay person admissible under Michigan’s Rule 701, which requires…

In Joshua Strickland’s policy speech, “Prison Reform”, he discusses the present prison reform in the country. He shares his views while exploring possible solutions in effort to improve the conditions and the penalty system inside prisons all over the country. Strickland starts his speech with an analogy requesting his audience to do three things. First, he requested his audience to close their eyes and visualize the world as it is today, secondly, he solicited them to imagine their own perfect…

criminologists, the question of why individuals commit crime is central to our study, research enables us to formulate ideologies and typologies of offenders and their behaviour. For example; Lombroso, (1876) believed that it was possible to distinguish a criminal from the way that they looked. He came to this belief after years of research into post-mortem examinations. Although Lombroso’s research was somewhat nonsensical, it asked the very important question of ‘who are…

Case 1 : Name of case: The kidnapping of three young women Victim(s): Sofia Silva, Kati and Kristin Lisk Suspect: Richard Marc Evonitz Overview: One day, Sofia Silva was kidnapped off of her front porch and found 5 weeks later in a nearby creek. Just 8 months later the same happened to Kati and Kristin Lisk who were the found floating in a river five days later. After investigating Kati and Kristin’s body, pink fibers were found on Kati’s body. Then in June of 2002, the killer struck again…