A decision held that under the Sixth Amendment, the defendant’s counsel had not met the standards of reasonable competence required of a defense. Even if a defendant and their family suggested that no mitigating evidence was available, it is required to use reasonable effort in obtaining and reviewing materials that the counsel expects prosecution to use as evidence during sentencing. The reasoning behind this decision argued that Rompella’s trial counsel did not make sensible efforts to examine the files on Rompilla’s prior convictions for rape and assault. The Court stated that the counsel should have known prosecution would present those files to the jury during sentencing, and that the information on Rompilla’s prior conviction would have found mitigating evidence about his mental health, childhood, and alcoholism that could have been used for a proper
On August 4, 1961 Clarence Earl Gideon was arrested for stealing money and drinks from a pool house in Florida. When he was arrested he was tried for his crimes. The 6th amendment states that if a defendant is too poor to provide a lawyer than he should be provided one by the Court, but Gideon was not given a lawyer. He was not given a lawyer because it says in the Florida law that lawyers are only provided in big felonies, not misdemeanors. So Gideon should have been provided a lawyer and was not.
434 (E.D. Va. 1990). The defendants argue in response that, under the analysis set forth by the United States Supreme Court in the case of DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, 489 U.S. 189, 103 L. Ed. 2d 249 , 109 S. Ct. 998 (1989), "a State 's failure to protect an individual against private violence simply does not constitute a violation of the Due Process Clause." Id. at 197. In the case of In Swader v. Virginia, 743 F. Supp. 434 (E.D. Va. 1990), this Court examined whether the special relationship analysis retained any viability after Deshaney.
The California appellate court denied his motion, concluding that he had waived his right to remain silent during interrogation. On appeal, the California Supreme Court reversed the decision, concluding that Michael’s request to have his probation officer present constituted a per se invocation of his Fifth Amendment rights just as if he had requested an attorney. Justice Harry A. Blackmun reversed the state decision based on the state law that requires probation officers to represent the interests of juveniles. He
The Bernie Mac show is about a rich comedian who has adopted his sister three children to raise because his sister went to rehab for drug usage. In the show Bernie demonstrates real life situations that people go through when parenting or even dealing with someone else’s kids but sacrificing a change in his life to help out a family member. When the show begins Bernie is sitting on a chair smoking a cigar and the first thing he say is “I’m going to kill one of them kids.” Most parents can relate to because they have stated those words to their own kids before.
Emmett Till, and Tom Robinson 's stories aren 't all that different. In TKM Tom Is accused of raping a woman named Mayella Ewell. Emmett Till was accused harassing a white cashier lady. These two events aren 't all that different, except one is fake. Emmett Till was accused of touching, and whistling at a white cashier lady in Mississippi.
When he submitted the piece he requested it to be sent out to fellow Hollywood names, like Spike Lee. He believes this is where the Production Company got ahold of his content and from it, developed the PJs. However, at the time of the court ruling there had been no confirmation that the Oprah Winfrey Show had passed on the content (). In judgment, Murphy submitted videos that he had created to juxtapose against videos of the PJs to prove his argument. After viewing the tapes, the court ruled in favor of the defendants on three grounds “(1) the two works were not substantially similar; (2) there was no evidence that the defendants had access to the videotape; and (3) there was uncontradicted evidence of prior creation” ().
"America 's Dad, Bill Cosby, Sexual assault charges and the ruling that still hasn 't been decided" Long time comedian and beloved moralist has faced trial and charges for sexual assault against 50 different women. In October 2014 Andrea Constand came out with accusations against Cosby and pressed charges for sexual assault. Since then over 50 different women from as far back the late 1960 's have came to public saying they too have been drugged and raped by the comedian. Cosby has denied since the beginning that he did not rape any of them women but did admit that he bought Quaalude, a narcotic drug, to have sex with women but said he did not give them to any women without their knowledge of it.
With the public’s bias, this court case was
A judge should be the only one able to decide a person’s fate because they use fact over feelings. For
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you are here because one person in this courtroom decided to take law into her own hands. The defendant, Mrs. Dominique Stephens, murdered the man that she vowed to love. This sole act by the defendant is violation of all morals and her husband’s right to live. Afterwards, she even felt guilty about this violation of justice and called the cops on herself, and she later signed a written statement stating that she is guilty of the murder of Mr. Donovan Stephens. Then the defendant later recanted this statement and said that she only killed Mr. Stephens in self defense.
The journalist is claiming Cosby as innocent and anyone who questions his allegations are automatically blaming him. In contrast to WorldNetDaily, a CNN news report leans more towards liberal and why Cosby is an alleged rapist. For instance, the article focuses on how Cosby openly admitted possessing drugs while having interest to have sex with women. The report stated, “ Cosby admitted that he acquired seven prescriptions of sedatives with the intent to give them to women he wanted to have sex with” (CNN 2). This concludes how Cosby legitimately possessed drugs at the time with the intention to have sex with these women.
It was like no one cared about millions of people getting slaughtered. After WWII people has said never again. Well it happened again, no one did anything about it. For that the US and UN should have at least said some kind of sorry. President at the time, Bill Clinton, actually went to Rwanda to apologize.
He says the defendant accused of murder was let off and “eight years later they found out that he’d actually done it, anyway” (12). Prejudice clouds a person’s judgement and does not allow the individual to see all the facts. It only allows them to
The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this courtroom is" (Harper 203). This
