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Jessica Scott Mr. Malgeri Forensic Science September 28, 2016 Ronald Cotton It started in July 1984, when a attacker broke into Jennifer Thompson-Cannino's apartment and sexually assaulted her while she was held at knife point. Jennifer stated that when it was happening she just wanted to memorize his face so that if she lived through the horrible crime she would be able to identify him. Later on, Jennifer chose Ronald Cotton, a black restaurant dish washer, out of a photo lineup as the…

also incorporate political parties. The other statewide elected officials in New York state besides the Governor, are: Lieutenant Governor, Comptroller, and Attorney General. The Lieutenant Governor in New York state is Kathy Hochul, who is a Democrat. The New York state Comptroller is Thomas DiNapoli, a Democrat, and finally, the Attorney General is Eric Schneiderman, who is also a Democrat (Ballotpedia n.d.). All four of the statewide elected offices in the executive branch are held by…

advancing to the high schools have a early elementary school literacy level. How can they compete on a GPA ranking system or parents that can provide enough money to for a tutor. This is one reason why dropout rates are at such a high level in these districts. Certain teachers participating in this scandal had been cheating as far back as 2001, while up to 800,000 documents had been discovered dealing with the scandal. It is a lost opportunity to the students who loathed for a chance to attend…

This case was an immigration issue in its time period due, to the attorney gave his client wrong advice in pleading guilty and not giving proper reasons to his client telling him that his immigration status would not be affected. The tragic result was his client losing his immigration status. This case was appealed the…

held at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Tuesday afternoon. Theall and Vanessa Anseman were initially scheduled to debate but Anseman was not able attended after a district judge Alonzo Harris ruled Monday she was ineligible said moderator Ian Auzenne who is the vice president of the Acadiana Press Club. “Yesterday district judge Alonzo Harris of St. Landry parish ruled Anseman was ineligible to run,” he said. “Anseman filed an appeal on his ruling and because the appeal is a lengthy…

asked me if I had any family that would be there to support me and I had to honestly say I don’t know I think they are pretty mad right now. He simply replied “fair enough.” “Well Ms. Barry there isn’t much I can do for you I’m waiting for the District Attorney to see if he’s even going to offer you a plea and we will go from there.” I suppose I would have cried had I had any emotions at all but I was still dull inside from all of the heroin flowing through my system. I couldn’t believe that…

While Speer escaped the hangman’s noose, Rudolph Hess played the psychotic amnesiac. Whether he was truly suffering from a variety of psychosis or not, however, he convinced the Tribunal that he was mentally unfit. This defense was successfully used by Shumei Okawa during his trial in Tokyo and was considered as unfit by Major Kelly. Instead of spending time in prison like Hess; Okawa was sent to a psychiatric hospital for less than two years and was released. While the proceedings of the…

A victim's family or close friends usually want one thing if their loved one has been victimized is that they're killer, abuser or whatever the case is to be fairly punished. When a murder is committed by a minor attorneys tend to avoid an adult conviction for the child since most juries may side with the defense that will argue they didn’t understand what they were doing. There are at least 2,500 children that have been rightfully punished for the crime they have…

False confessions have become more prevalent in today’s world. With all of the technology advances today we have found out that we have convicted people who have falsely confessed. In Marion’s peer review article it says, “Since 1989, more than 1,400 wrongful convictions of innocent people have been exposed in the United States—either through DNA testing or via the discovery of other types of evidence” (Marion 65). However today we have organizations that are trying to help people with cases.…

With a value over $1 billion, JustFab, the owner of many prestigious lines such as Kate Hudson’s Fabletics, Kim Kardashian’s ShoeDazzle and FabKids, has come under fire recently over the accused and justified scandal. Though the ‘hinky business’ have dated back to 2004, the release of Kate Hudson’s Fabletics’s line in 2014 caused am abundance of women to come forward complaining about unauthorised credit card charges coasting the consumers to lose $49.95 per month. JustFab claims the charge’s…