Adam Casey Case

1. A student who came to the rescue of UBC assault victim testifies

The article explores the witness Adam Casey’s experience when a fellow student, Mary Hare, was being assaulted in her dorm. During a chief examination, he stated his actions throughout the whole ordeal. Several panicked women rushed into the residence’s common building and reported the issue, Adam Casey, asked if they’d called 911 and the women responded that they had then he ran to where the assault was occurring. He tries to pry the assailant’s hands off the women’s neck but was unable. He put him in a chokehold and waited until others could arrive and assist them. During cross-examination, Casey said the assailant did not particularly smell of alcohol and he wasn’t resisting

Teenage boys surrounded a girl and groped her as she walked home from school, court hears.

A teenage girl was sexually assaulted on her way home from school after a swarm of teenage boys crowded around her preventing her from leaving. Two unnamed minors were charged with false imprisonment and the older on of the two was charged with sexual assault. The co-accused had come the trial with their lawyers and mothers who had no intentions to participate in a plea deal. The judge will be adjourning the case until a later date in June. 10. Dameon Marmolejo pleads guilty to beating girlfriend for downloading snapchat

Dameon Marmolejo, 21, was charged aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and has pleaded guilty. Marmolejo severely beat his girlfriend for redownloading the snapchat phone app. He accused her of cheating and the argument escalated. After the relentless assault, he called the police and left. She received 15 staples on her forehead as well as three stitches, the police and forensics were also able to identify the shoe Marmolejo was wearing from the bruising pattern left on her body which assisted them in finding Marmolejo

There were many trends i found in each case. Specifically, throughout the analysis it shows that men are more likely to assault women, seen in article 1, 9 and 10. Also, recently people are starting to care about their mental health and rights, seen in article 4 and 7. I made many course connections while reading the articles, I was able to understand the terms used and more. For instance, in article one the trial is brought up with the main question, whether or not the accused had the intent to kill and what might be disorienting his ability to understand what he’s doing. In this course we learned Mens rea and Actus rea which means a guilty mind and the guilty act, although he did the guilty act did he really have a guilty mind while doing it. Another example is the third article it tells us the story of the three former railway employees who were acquitted from criminal negligence. Throughout the third unit we learned what criminal negligence was an all the different types of negligence you can be charged for. In article 5 it showed us that the accused was granted a trial without a jury which is something we learned in class. Another example of these articles being so closely related to the things we learned in class is article 6, in the article the author is bashing Alex Jones for spreading fake news and not taking responsibility for it. In class we learned when it is okay to ask questions and when you’re spreading false information which is illegal. The