Manslaughter

way, the decisions made were not based on evidence. In a modern setting, this level of disregard for proper judicial due process would not stand. The case would have never seen a court room, much less a conviction. Huey Newton was convicted of manslaughter. However the court’s decision was repealed in 1970 by the California Court of Appeals. The case went back to court twice and, both times, ended in a mistrial. The juries, in both cases, could not come to a decision. Eventually, after the…

Some may say “The shot heard ’round the world” began the American War of Independence On the night of August 26, 1765, an assault on Thomas Hutchinson, chief justice and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts was a small episode in a series events that launched a half-century of protest and political upheaval throughout the Western world. This historic era that came to be known as the Age of Revolution. The true crisis began in 1760 when George III claimed the throne of Great Britain. No one on…

In the recent issue of Officer Peter Liang, many Asian elders have argued about the discrimination of the court verdict. The elders compared Peter Liang with other white officers who did not get charged for second degree manslaughter crime on an African American citizen. The elders describe the guilty verdict for Peter Liang as “making an ethnic minority American a scapegoat to satisfy the political thirst of a few and to pay for the police brutality that has troubled the American society for a…

Prison is hard because oftentimes people are institutionalized with little do to except try to survive. In many cases including one close to my family where a student of someone I know personally ended up serving a seven year sentence for vehicular manslaughter. He himself had many things going for him, but lost the better part of a decade of his life due to an incident that ended up with someone else losing their life on a highway. I digress while he was serving his time he found it extremely…

the Boston Massacre was Crispus Attucks, who was a sailor of mixed of mixed race ancestry. In time, Attucks would be known as the “first martyr of the American Revolution.” Thanks to John Adams, only two of the British soldiers were convicted of manslaughter while the other seven were found not guilty. Paul Revere, however, helped stirred things up by producing a mass amount of prints that inaccurately depicting the Boston Massacre. And by 1770, British merchants approached the ministry and…

Six different scientists and a government official quickly dismissed his claim and the word spread that his findings were incorrect. After the 6.3 magnitude earthquake took place in 2009, the six scientists and the official were charged with manslaughter and misinforming the public. They were sentenced to 6 years in prison, but released in 2014 after they appealed. Following the calamity of the 2009 earthquake, the mayor promised that the town would be rebuilt swiftly and up to modern code.…

He is responsible for the death of another human being, and by definition, qualifies his action to be a homicide. If he were to appear in front of a jury today, he would be convicted and sent away. It is possible that the jury may convict him of manslaughter, but that is still a form of murder that some have been sent away…

Capital Punishment in Texas Murder, felony manslaughter, espionage, genocide, and treason. Lethal injection, gas chamber, firing squad, electrocution, and hanging. If you commit one of the horrible crimes in the first list, you could end up choosing your method of death from the second list. Does knowing the possible consequences of capital offenses deter individuals from committing the crimes? Did it make you stop and think? In the US the death penalty is used as a form of punishment for…

Introduction Authorities are investigating what seems to be an indication of murder after an infant child was discovered stuffed in the microwave early morning by relatives. Elizabeth Renee Otte and Joseph Anthony Martinez Sr., the mother and father of infant baby Joseph Lewis Martinez Jr. lived with the father’s elder parents in a small, one brick rancher in Lenexa, Virginia. Elizabeth Otte, who apparently suffers from severe epileptic seizures and blackouts up to 50 minutes, claims that she…

Another negative effect from fame and success is the involvement with crime. Not only are serious crimes a massive problem in the world, but one especially hears a lot about professional athlete committing crimes. Professional athletes are idolized more than people realize. Professional athletes are influential leaders that need to be disciplined by following codes of morals and ethics. If they do not follow the standards, than other people who want to be like them are looking up to someone who…