Court Case Of Ciny Jones (CPD)

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To recap the case of Ciny Jones, the young woman was found strangled in her car outside a grocery store in Centervale. In the past five years, the Centervale Police Department (CPD) has been working countless leads to identify a suspect. Centervale’s Police Department received news in the last year of a DNA sample recovered on Jones’s purse strap connected to a young man by the name of Jason Rivers. Due to prior drug abuse, Jason Rivers was found incompetent to stand trial. After a while, the State Mental Hospital cleared him of substance abuse and was competent to be placed on the docket for trial. The jury selection was chosen by how the potential jurors felt about television shows related to law enforcement. This may have something …show more content…

The defense attacked Centervale’s Police Department due to a former detective working the case, had been convicted of domestic violence and assault of a woman since the murder. During the trial, Rivers did not take the stand and the defense had rested on the claim Rivers’s DNA made contact with Jones’s purse strap when he accidently bumped into her at the grocery store in the checkout lane (Goepfert, 2015). The case of Cindy Jones has been continued and the fate of Jason Rivers was six years in prison for the death of Jones. Rivers was convicted of second degree murder and after serving three years in prison. Rivers was released due to a new law the state legislature created, releasing offenders who serve half their sentence if the offender had no infractions within a ninety day period to the time of release. After Rivers was released, his parole was revoked to a brutal assault on an elderly woman who he attempted to rob from. Rivers became …show more content…

Recently, it has become a popular story on the news where more and more poilce officers across the country are being arrested for innapropiate behavior. Cases where officers are using aggressive force to kicking a peron in the head, tackling a pregnant woman to the ground and pulling a weapon on teenagers at a pool. With some cases where a wrongful death occurs, riots from the community start to grow. Obviously, riots indicate a significant collapse in stability and order within the community and could be viewed as a sign of social breakdown. While such community turmoil could not constantly be concentrated on law enforcement behavior, it, undoubtedly, is the responsibility of the authorities to balance the cost of free speech with the damage it may cause. Without the support and approval of society, police officials can rarely meet the demand of their job (Argosy University,