Minnesota Duluth Police Department: DPD states that only peace officers who have successfully finished the determined training may be able to use the CEW. They are set to be put in the opposite side of the firearm with marked differences from it. Officers are also responsible for them to be in good working conditions, and they should never hold both the firearm and CEW at the same time. When using a CEW, the peace officer must give the suspect enough time to comply as well as let other officers…
My experience at the prison was very insightful and interesting to say the least. I learned things I never knew went on in a prison like how a good amount of the inmates had televisions in their cells or that they could purchase tablets to download music to by using a program called JPay which is a service including money transfer, email, video visitation, parole, and probation payments to inmates throughout 35 states. I was also very shocked to see in front of a few inmate’s cells that they had…
The Writing Assignment (WA) contains the following four chapter topics: The criminal act, co-principals equally guilty, attempts to commit a crime, encounters and detentions. This WA also contains the following three classroom activities: Pomona video, Nicaragua Court video, and “Gonis gang bank robbery.” Four Chapter Topics: The first chapter topic is the criminal act. According to the authors, an act is simply defined as “an effect produced through conscious exertion of will” (Hunt and…
killing of a human being by another human being. In old common law, the only type of homicide recognized was murder. Today, U.S. law makes many distinctions between each type of homicide, classifying them as justifiable, excusable, or criminal, and gives varying degrees of seriousness to each type. Where criminal homicide is concerned, it can further be broken down into murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. Each subset of criminal homicide has several elements and characteristics that…
Key Points: The defendant, who was an adult criminal justice ASU student instructed a 17-year-old high school student who was her boyfriend to aid her in committing the felony. The defendant had the juvenile accomplice use his body as a shield so as to block her actions from public view as she made her way around my vehicle to cause the criminal damage. When this occurred, another male had attempted to stop the defendant, but the defendant pushed the male friend away and had her juvenile…
Hero's Journey (TKAM and F451) The Call The call is an event which "calls" the character into action or adventure. It is the start of the characters journey/adventure. Atticus' call The call in To Kill a Mockingbird was when Atticus was called or requested by the state to take on Tom Robinson's rape case. This called Atticus to one of the biggest court cases that Maycomb county has ever seen. Guy's call Guy's call wasn't a literal call like Atticus, but instead his call was meeting Clarisse, the…
Adnan Syed, my client, was convicted of first degree murder in 1999. He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Hae Min Lee. Her cause of death was manual strangulation and her body was buried in Leakin park, Baltimore. Adnan was convicted because of one sole witness, Jay Wilds. He testified that Adnan killed Hae and forced him to help bury her body. His details on what they did with the body and what he and Adnan did that day were striking. Because of him, Adnan was convicted even…
Both Caliban from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and the inmates from Shakespeare Behind Bars suffer a demotion due to poor decisions - from free man, to scum-of-the-earth. Caliban is considered friend to Prospero until he attempts to rapes Miranda, from which he is punished and considered slave to Prospero from then on. Similarly, the inmates at Luther Luckett have committed horrid crimes ranging from theft, to rape, to murder. These actions contain consequences that alter one’s reputation…
Case management is an important factor in community supervision. The transition from jail to the community is important and should be taken with care to reduce recidivism. This transition needs help from community based organization, jails, and probation to work together. The Transition from Jail to Community (TJC) is an initiative that helps the community transition. The goals of this transition is to improve public safety and increase the successful of offenders that are released in the…
In the Cantwell v. Connecticut case, Newton Cantwell and his two sons, Jesse and Russell, were convicted of two crimes that breached the Connecticut state law. The Cantwells were members of the Jehovah’s witnesses and claimed to be ordained ministers, due to their religious practices they believed that it was their duty to carry their messages to others. In order to spread their message, they carried along religious materials such as pamphlets, records, books, and also had a record player that…