He spent nineteen years on death row and, after three set execution dates, was executed in 2011. Given that almost all of the witnesses who testified against Troy Davis at his trial withdrew or contradicted their testimony, there were serious questions surrounding
Current Event: Family member calls teen's shooting an accident, Meridian Academy Sophomore, Tristan Fenton was shot on Saturday, October 17th. Tristan Fenton was shot and pronounced dead Saturday, due to a fatal gun wound. Tristan was shot by a former friend he called a “brother,” David Provencio, on accident with a gun he thought wasn’t loaded. David and some other friends called the police immediately reporting a possible suicide. Police later found that David pointed what he thought was an empty gun at Tristan, pulled the trigger and soon realized what he had done.
Trevor Jones has been skipping school, doing drugs and previously charged with DUI. Trevor’s plan was to sell a handgun then steal it back, so he would end up with the gun and all of the money. When he went to sell the gun, the gun discharged and killed Matt. The following morning Trevor turned himself into the police. He was found guilty ‘robbery’ and “reckless manslaughter:, which resulted in felony murder.
Summary of the Incident Only eleven days into his new job as a New Jersey State Police trooper, Justin Hopson witnessed an act by his training officer that would challenge his moral convictions and change his life forever. During a traffic stop in March 2002, Hopson watched his partner arrest a woman for drunk driving who had not even been behind the wheel. Throughout the court proceedings in this case, Hopson chose not to violate his principles, and refused to validate his partner’s version of events surrounding the arrest. From that point forward, Hopson was targeted by fellow officers in an effort to silence him about this event, and other alleged police misconduct.
After spending the last 18 years of his life behind bars, Anthony Graves left prison as a free man. Graves was convicted of assisting Robert Earl Carter in the murder of Bobbie Davis and five others in Burleson County. There were no physical evidence that linked Graves to the murder and eyewitnesses confirmed his alibi at the time of the killing. But, Carter pointed out that Graves was the killer, and his testimony alone led to Graves being convicted of the slayings and was later sentenced to death. Graves’ life was spared when the case’s lead prosecutor, District Attorney Charles Sebesta, shed light to Carter’s previous confession admitting that he alone was the murderer.
In September of 1961, a woman from District of Columbia had an intruder break into her apartment. While the invader of the home was there, they had taken her wallet, and also raped the woman. During the investigation of the crime, the police had found some latent fingerprints in the apartment. The police then established and processed the prints. The prints were then connected back to 16 year old Morris A. Kent.
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On November 1. 2017, 47-year-old man named Scott Ostrem walked into a Walmart in Thornton, Colorado and calmly opened fire on the customers shortly after 6 p.,m. Then left in a red Mitsubishi Mirage. Surprisingly, a Thornton Police Officer believes that the shooting was random and there was no motive found yet. Scott Ostrem is accused of walking into a Walmart in Denver on Wednesday of November 1, and fatally shooting a woman and 2 men.
February 29th, 2016, Jeffrey Bernard May was charged with four counts of sexual assault on a victim below the age of 12 and two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior. For case 2016 CF 1120 A (8) May was discharged but two other sexual assault cases still follow. The victim and in the case versus May was Erica England, May’s stepdaughter, who claimed to be sexually assaulted by May at the age of eleven. May married Erica’s mother, Lynn May, in October of 2000 and filed for divorce in 2015.
Charged in the murder of a local boxing legend, Tycorion Davis, 18, was arrested after a Crime Stoppers tip helped to put him behind bars. Former boxer O 'Neil "Supernova" Bell died as a result of a random street robbery, and police are seeking four men accused of his murder. The robbery occurred in southwest Atlanta after O 'Neil Bell stepped off a bus, right before the day of Thanksgiving. As a result of the robbery, Bell died when he attempted to fight back, and they left another person injured. Investigators of criminal law have called it an opportunistic crime, and police put out surveillance footage to solve the case.
On Nov. 14, 1989, Jones and another man were seen pulling into the parking lot of Zell's liquor store in Point Blan Claude Jones was executed by lethal injection in Texas on December 7, 2000. On Nov. 14, 1989, Jones and another man were Claude Jones
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?
Bobby Frank Cherry was charged for murder in 2002. Robert Edward Chambliss was charged for murder in 1977. Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. was charged in 2001. When this happened, Thomas Blanton was only 25 years old and was the youngest of the killers.
Brief Prepared By: Kahla Rosenfeld Case: Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation, 429 U.S. 252 (1977) Procedural Overview: Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation applied to the Village of Arlington Heights for rezoning land to build a racially integrated, low and moderate housing project. The request was denied and the respondent, MHDC, sued the petitioner, Arlington Heights, for injunctive and declaratory relief on the grounds of racial discrimination. The District Court ruled in favor of the petitioner; however, on appeal, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed the District Court’s decision. The Petitioner appealed to the United States Supreme Court and writ of certiorari was granted.
“We know the wealthy extremists who pushed this case want to limit the ability for workers to have a voice, curb voting rights and restrict opportunities for women and immigrants,” said Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union. The case was brought by the Center for Individual Rights, a libertarian group that pursued an unusual litigation strategy. Responding to signals from the Supreme Court’s more conservative justices, the group asked the lower courts to rule against its clients, a Christian education group and the teachers, so they could file an appeal in the Supreme Court as soon as possible. Terry Pell, the group’s president, said he was disappointed with Tuesday’s tie vote. “With the death of Justice