Misdemeanor murder

The Case of Zack and Amber The case of Zack and Amber is a prime example of how the decisions of others can have far reaching effects. This case has several individuals involved. Zack is a police officer who fatally wounded his wife Amber after he discovered what appeared to be an act of adultery with Dallas. Dallas, who is also a police officer, struck a school aged child with his vehicle while fleeing. Finally, Megan was a nine-year-old student who died from being struck by a vehicle…

serial killers that met on 1976 in a soup kitchen. They soon started a sexual relationship. Together they started a serial killer behavior. The story of what happened after that is unclear, but it is believed that they were responsible for over 200 murders. Exactly how many people they killed is unknown. One of their most used methods to kill was arson. It was reported that they also enjoyed cannibalism. In 1983, Toole was sentenced to 20 years of prison for arson. Two months later Lucas was…

Introduction Paragraph-1 Johnny, and Pony-boy should not have ran away and hide in the church. Johnny, and Pony-boy should have went to the police, that way it would not be considered murder, but self-defence. What if someone started drowning your friend and it was 1 to 5 and one of them had a knife, what would you do let them beat you up and kill your friend, or kill one of them in self defence? In some people's opinion it was a good idea to run away instead of turning themselves in, and yes I…

Second degree murder is reversed for cases where it cannot be proved that a killer planned a specific killing with intentions that the victim die because of his or her own actions. Second degree murder is also considered to be known as “crime of passion” or the “heat of passion”. Individuals who are convicted of charges pertaining to crime can face life in prison with or without the possibility of parole depending upon the state’s regulations and the situation’s and circumstances (What are the…

Most states have enacted statutes, which limit the time in which crimes can be prosecuted. These time limits are referred to as "Statutes of Limitations." Once the statute of limitations has expired, it becomes an absolute bar to prosecution. Out of the fifty states in the nation, only two do not have a statute of limitations when it comes to criminal cases. South Carolina and Wyoming. What is a Statute of Limitations? A statute of limitation is a law that prevents a person or government…

Under criminal law, felony is a category of crimes that is classified as the most serious types of crimes the majority of the time. These crimes have no specific identification; they can be either violent or non-violent. Under the traditional common law, felonies were back then called “true crimes,” and it normally included serious offenses. Some of the offenses consisted of homicides, rape, burglary, robbery, escaping from a prison, and even assisting in a felony crime. The most important thing…

During the 1920s in Burma, a boy in his mid-twenties whom was raised within a brothel as put on trial for the crime of raping and possible murder of a local girl. To the villagers it was an open-and-shut case of a young girl, a virgin, being found naked and injured in the arms of the brothel boy, as he did not flee the scene of the crime. The scene and the victim showed apparent signs that the girl had struggled during the rape, which had caused her to hit her head on a sharp rock. The girl was…

The word “death” is adept at sending a cold, frightening shiver down the spine of any human. It is a major fear factor that has been lurking around the corner since the beginning of time, for governments have been using death to their advantage to threaten and bend people to their own will since the eighteenth century B.C. The threat towards one life for not adhering to government laws is called capital punishment, and it is still very much active in present day society. In fact, the death…

felony. Voluntary manslaughter occurs when a murder charge is reduced to manslaughter because of justifying circumstances like heat of passion or moderated capacity to reduce a charge (England, n.d). Vehicular manslaughter is a crime that is charged to a driver who had no intent to kill or cause bodily harm while operating a vehicle. This act itself is viewed as criminal negligence, also known as gross negligence during the commission of a misdemeanor caused death to an individual. (England,…

AMENDMENT 8 You’ve been on the death row for the past 20 years, after your conviction for a triple murder, yet the brief states that an injection would impose “cruel or unusual punishment” on you. Your attorneys have talked to health professionals and they have stated that the lethal injection would cause you major painful seizures. Well all this is all happening to Ernest Lee Johnson; ABC news stated that in 2008 doctors removed part of a brain tumor found in his head. They also stated that…