"The State of California versus Scott Lee Peterson (Case number 1056770, 2005)", was an interesting case. This case was interesting because Laci was a very beautiful and seemingly young, friendly, and happily pregnant woman with lots of friends. Her husband, although attractive, had a kind of macho tough guy womanizer type of persona about himself. It is hard to believe or fathom someone being so cruel as to kill their pregnant wife, regardless of their marital problems. Laci came up missing on December 24, of 2002, the day before Christmas. Scott Peterson’s lover came forward in January of 2003 and confessed he had told her that he was single and a widower (Library, CNN. 2014). This made the case even more interesting and gave the husband a motive. To add further interesting facts, Scott Peterson was found to have purchased a 250,000-dollar life insurance policy on his wife in the summer of 2002 (Janell Wang, Law research 2002). The sources, in this case, were the Petersons neighbor Rusty Dornin, Amber Frey which was the woman …show more content…
The Jurisdiction of criminal law, in this case, were substantive and procedural. The substantive aspect of the criminal law is concerned with defining a particular conduct as criminal (Schmalleger, Frank. 2012). When Laci first disappeared it was not evident that there had been any foul play. When her body was found four months later in San Francisco Bay, it was evident not only because of the fact that her body was found and had been washed up, but was originally placed in a bag and held down by some kind of weight that foul play was involved. The second aspect of criminal jurisdiction is the procedural aspect. This aspect is concerned with the powers that be placing the defendant on trial, and proving that a law had been violated by
On October 28, 2007, 23-year-old Stacy Ann Cales Peterson, of Bolingbrook, Illinois was reported missing by her sister. Stacy was the fourth wife of Bolingbrook Police Sergeant Drew Peterson, who was 30 years his junior. They married in fall 2003 and had two children together, a son born in 2003 and a daughter born in 2005. The disappearance of Stacy raised suspicion of foul play among investigators, family and friends based on the fact Drew Peterson’s third wife was found dead just three years before (FindLaw, 2015).
golf. Since the disappearance of Laci Peterson the police were constantly tracking him. At the time of his arrest, he was carrying $15,000 in cash, had four cell phones, camping equipment, a gun, a map to Frey's work place that had been printed the day before, the driver's license for John Edward Peterson (his brother), 12 tablets of Viagra, and many other "odd" items. His hair and goatee had been bleached blonde. The police took this as an indication that he had planned to flee, possibly to Mexico.
Laci and Scott Peterson Christmas Eve will ever be the same again. A beautiful family was expecting their first child and the lives of the mother and child were removed permanently from the holiday festivities. Was it his affair that made him do it or was it the future responsibilities of fatherhood? Scott Peterson is a man of mental issues that was sentenced death for a double homicide of his wife and unborn child.
After he killed his wife and child, according to his friends he wasn't bothered by it. Scott Peterson is guilty of committing the crime of first degree murder on his wife Laci and his unborn child, who they were going to name Connor.
Huanchi Chen Ms. Bonner Forensics Period 2 14 January 2016 People of the State of California v. Scott Peterson Scott Lee Peterson, a man who is currently a death row inmate in the state of California was convicted of murdering not only his spouse, Laci Peterson, but also his unborn child in 2002. Peterson’s early life was relatively normal though, he was born in San Diego, California, where his father was a manual labor worker and his mother ran a boutique. He attended high school there as well and eventually went to college at California Polytechnic State University where he would also work part-time as a waiter in a cafe. While working at the cafe Peterson would end up meeting Laci Denise Rocha for the first time. Laci Peterson while eight months pregnant was reported missing on December 24, 2002.
By the time the police found Judd everyone knew what she did and some couldn’t believe it. Just hours after the body was found Judd whole life was aired to the public as soon as the bodies were found. Everyone was out buying newspaper, turning on his or her radios and looking at the electronic bulletin board. “ By the time the morning papers became available… gobble up the details” (52). People all over the city of Los Angeles wanted to know about the woman who killed 2 other women out of anger and
One notorious criminal case is The State of Florida vs. Casey Marie Anthony. In this case Anthony was accused of first degree murder, aggravated manslaughter of a child, and aggravated child abuse; this would be considered her nature
Scott Peterson was convicted of the murder of Laci Peterson and her unborn son, Conner Peterson. He has been on death row for over a decade as he tries to get his conviction appealed. Peterson and his family maintain his innocence, even participating in a docu-series titled, The Murder of Laci Peterson. This has caused quite a stir among viewers who now say they have doubts about his guilt. Could Scott Peterson been wrongfully imprisoned for so long because of circumstances he had no control over?
The events of the 1960s to 1973 in Bronx, New York have shown many similarities and differences to the Dred Scott v. Sanford case in 1857. My viewpoint on the entrenchment of enslavement which helped the creation of the identity of hip-hop, as shown in the behavior of the gangs in Jamaica and the gangs in the Bronx, is that I think it is interesting. The Dred Scott v. Sanford case (1857) is a monumental case in the history of civil rights. Dred Scott was an enslaved African in Missouri at the time. Scott belonged to a slave owner by the name of John Emerson.
During the early-to-mid 1800s, the North and South had begun to seriously argue on the issue of slavery. While the South were in favor of keeping slavery, the North could not wait to be rid of it. The decision of the Dred Scott case would be known as an important event which would spark the friction between the North and South to rise drastically. Dred Scott, an African American slave, sued for his freedom because he had lived in a free state for most of his time in the United States. In the ruling at Supreme Court, Chief Justice Taney had ruled that because he was an African American slave, Dred Scott could not sue for the reason that Scott was not a citizen and that he was property.
The aftermath of the Kansas-Nebraska Act began the violence known as Bleeding Kansas, which was the result of countless conflicts of pro-slaver and anti-slavery settlers. To make matters worse three years later, the Supreme Court issued its decision on the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney stated, “… the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. The right to traffic in it, like an ordinary article of merchandise and property, was guarantied to the citizens of the United States, in every State that might desire it, for twenty years. And the Government in express terms is pledged to protect it in all future time….”11
On April 18, 2003, Scott Peterson was arrested and charged for murder of his wife Laci Peterson and unborn son Conner. December 24, 2002, Scott Peterson reported a missing person report for his wife. During which time Luci was seven-and half-months pregnant. The detective that lead investigator on the case, begin to question Scott Peterson the day he reported his wife was missing. Peterson stated that he went out on his boat fishing about 90 miles from their Modesto home.
Not calling 911 and hiding the body was morally and criminally wrong. The lack of remorse bothered me as an utter disregard for her dead daughter and selfishness unparalleled. I believe that the prosecution’s putting the death
Introduction This case study review is of the 1997 rape and murder of 16-year-old Sarah Hansen, perpetrated by a man named Robert Keith Woodall. The areas of this case that are identified in this review are: description of the crimes that took place, how the evidence led law enforcement officials to identify the Mr. Woodall as the killer, the rulings handed down by three separate levels of the US Court system, and how those courts came to the conclusion that the death penalty was the appropriate sentence for the crimes committed by Mr. Woodall. Lastly, this review identifies the impact that the decisions made by the US supreme Court had on the American justice system.
The present report has been prepared by myself Guadalupe Centeno on the basis of my observations carried out on March 27, 2018, at the Larson Justice Center during the Kelly Cashman VS California court case. This court case trial is being executed since the party Kelly Cashman is being charged with a DUI. The prosecutor is the attorney named Sara Beller, the defense attorney’s name is Mr. Miller, and the judge was named Otis Sterling. During this court case, two witnesses named Christine Rosas and Holy Sanchez. Christine Rosas presented her testimony and three pieces of evidence, while Holy Sanchez also presented her testimony and one piece of evidence.