In the Case Brown v. Mississippi, the petitioners were Ed Brown, Arthur Ellington and henry Shields and the correspondent in the case was the State of Mississippi. The defendants were appealing a ruling that had been made with regards to them having been found guilty of having murdered Raymond Stuart. Their appeal was based on the fact that the evidence that was used in the case was primarily based on confessions whose extraction did not follow due process. This is because they were tortured…
Killing an Innocent Individual is a Crime Killing an innocent individual is a big crime that is not condoned by any state or any court of the law. Killing is, therefore, a far-reaching crime for an innocent person. This is to mean murder is judged by the courts of law as a crime. The killing act might be acceptable only if done through several rules and demands such as the need for the courts of law (Goel & Dolan, 2004). For instance, a person judged to murder by the tribunal of justice because…
A team of scientists has discovered unusual, mysterious underground structures in a French cave. The researchers suspect that these structures were probably built by Neanderthals, nearly 176,500 years ago. The structures discovered possess two stone rings located deep inside the cave at Bruniquel in southwest France. The researchers believe that these structures suggest how Neanderthals were far more complex organisms that previously thought by archaeologists around the world. An analysis of…
considered illegal and cannot be used as evidence against the person being charged (staff and staff). However, if an officer was to arrive on scene and the suspect started to tell the officer that they committed that crime and continued to give information freely and voluntarily, then that evidence will be allowed into the court as evidence. The suspect was not in custody, nor were they being detained at the time of the officer arrival,…
The officers obviously don’t know if the suspect is going to listen or stop when they’ve ordered them to stop. By the suspect’s behavior, they should continue to use their force because they don’t know if the suspect is actually going to obey them. Once the person is taken by the police, they should do what the officer ordered. By statistical research, it shows that the police…
The suspects has varied with doctors jotted up, slaughtermen (the removal of the victim’s organs implied knowledge of body structure and insides), Jews, or other foreigners living in Whitechapel’s large community of immigrants. Research on the potential candidates are often dated back to 1959, the year when the book titled ‘Macnaghten Memorandum’ was published. In it names three Scotland Yard suspects: “The three chief suspects named in his document were Montague Druitt, ‘Kosminski’, a Polish…
a conversation with Cedric about race. They continue to ask and answer each other’s questions. “‘But, like, that’s the point,’ says Cedric. ‘He was a suspect from the first day he became mayor,’ cause he’s black. A black is a suspect, no matter who he is. And eventually they got him.’ Zayd nods at this. ‘Yeah, definitely, blacks are racial suspects and that skews the equation.’” (p. 205). As of this moment Cedric then realized that he could have a place among the non-black. He could talk to his…
person go (Flanders & Welling, 2016). Many states have moved to pass laws that would follow the wording of the Garner case (Flanders & Welling, 2016). In the Garner case, a felon was running away from an officer who had identified himself, and the suspect was shot in the back. Now, police need to judge if it is…
On Friday, September 11, 2015, at approximately 12:45 AM, Memphis Police Department Officers responded to a shooting call at 4345 Mallory in Mt. Moriah Station. Responding officers located a male who sustained multiple gunshot wounds. The male, Robert Irby, stated he had just arrived home when an unknown armed male wearing black clothing approached and demanded money. The armed male shot Robert Irby and fled on foot. Medical personnel transported Robert Irby to Regional 1 and on Monday,…
the right to stop and frisk an individual based on reasonable suspicion.” By law, the officer must have reasonable suspicion that a crime has been, is being, or is about to be committed by the suspect. If the officer reasonably suspects that the suspect is armed and dangerous, the police may frisk the suspect, meaning that the officer has the right to give a quick pat-down of the suspect's outer clothing” (Cornell…