The murder cases can be related to the Criminal Procedures, Section 5 in chapter 10. In all three of the cases, there was a mention that when the policemen had gotten a call at the station from witnesses or bystanders, they had a probable cause to go and investigate the crime scenes and search households of the accused defendant. Usually there would be a need for a warrant, but because of the bystanders and evidence that were shown (surveillance camera, audio record, witnesses, etc), policemen are able to go and investigate without a need to get a warrant. All of the evidence that was presented to the people of the court were obtained legally and to be established that the defendant’s guilt is “beyond a reasonable doubt.” For Johnathan Sanchez murder trial, there were many stolen goods that were involved before …show more content…
In his case, it can also be related to the Insanity defense that was in his opening statement a few days to a week ago. It was said that he had suffered from a mental illness that drove him to the point that he was not in his right mind when he was stabbing his teacher in order to avoid a heavier penalty; however, they still need some more evidence to show that it either have to do with his mental health or his age during that time. For Derek Medina case, it was said that he murdered his wife due to self-defense, like how it stated under Justifiable Use of Force that is also in Section 4 of Defenses to Criminal Liability. Derek Medina had said his wife had a knife in her hand and was trying to “harm” him at that time and because of that, he shot her. However, like it said in the textbook. it was used as a deadly force and in some cases it would not be justified as a reasonable