Molly Wright was a 73 year old citizen that was found lying dead in a pool of blood in her own kitchen. Many have had their own speculations of what could have possibly happened, but the prosecutor was convinced that she was killed by blunt force trauma by the hands of her son-in-law David Hill. David Hill and Molly Wright were business partners in a market trading company. It is said that David was in severe debt and that days before her death she mentioned to David that she thought the bank was making errors on their joint account and that she was going to look into it.
1. Facts: “Tennessee vs. Garner” - the decision of the Supreme Court of the USA in 1985 (471 US (1985), which deals with the application of the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution . According to this decision, a police officer pursuing a suspect should not endanger life-saving escape, if the fugitive does not pose a threat to the life and health of others and / or the policeman himself. October 3, 1974 around 22:45 the officers police Memphis Lesli Rayt and Elton Haimon were on call on a burglary. Haimon walked around the house, while Wright maintained contact with the police station with the help of a walkie-talkie.
The court cases Goldberg and Wheeler do not stand for the proposition that only welfare benefits for people in extreme circumstances are entitled to pre-termination hearings. However, this is one situation where cutting off benefits with little or no notice could affect the well-being of the family or person. Any programs that offer they type of assistance people rely on to survive could benefit from pre-termination hearings, not just the welfare program. Welfare is one of the main public assistance programs, although I think housing assistance and food stamps might fall into the welfare category, they are also in need of a pre-termination hearing. In the Goldberg and Wheeler cases, California and New York did not want to give anyone a hearing
Andrew Davis September 27, 2016 Forensics Mr. Malgeri Ronald Cotton Case Ronald Cotton was sentenced to jail in 1995, after serving ten years for a crime he didn’t even commit. Eye witnesses are considered to be the best form of evidence in an unsolved case. Mr. Cotton was convicted primarily by an eyewitness named Jennifer Thomson-Cannino, who was sure she identified the right male. Years go by and the case was re-ruled and the jury ruled Jennifer 's description as a misidentification.
Gideon V. Wainwright 372 U.S. 335, 83 S. Ct. 792, 9 L. Ed. 2d 799 (1963) is the case I have chose to brief. According to US courts website “Clarence Earl Gideon was an unlikely hero. He was a man with an eighth-grade education who ran away from home when he was in middle school. He spent much of his early adult life as a drifter, spending time in and out of prisons for nonviolent crimes. ”The Petitioner within the case was Clarence Earl Gideon.
Business Law Case Study Essay: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, 573 U.S (2014) Facts: The Green family runs and owns Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a national arts and skills chain that has over 500 stores and they have over 13,000 employees. Other facts of the case are that the Green family has been able to organize the business around the values of the Christian faith and has explicitly expressed the desire to run the company as told by Biblical principles, one of which is the belief that the utilization of contraception is wicked. Also, the facts show that under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), occupation -founded group health care plans must offer certain sorts of preventative care, for example, FDA-accepted contraceptive approaches.
State of Georgia V. Marcus Dwayne Dixon (2003) Marcus Dixon was a highly recruited high school football player. His life suddenly took a tragic turn when he was falsely convicted of raping a 15 year old girl. The elements around his false conviction could have been avoided with some reform to the criminal justice courts system. Dixon initially had many charges against him but were narrowed down to statutory rape and aggravated child molestation. There was much racial disparity surrounding the jury on Dixon’s case, in that the county that Dixon committed his “crime” was a predominantly white population.
Lindsay Weeks Legal Brief 1. Title and Citation Clinton v. City of New York 524 U.S. 417 (1998) 2. Facts of the Case This case dealt with the introduction of the Line Item Veto Act which merged two primary acts that caused immense controversy among Congress. The first provision “gave the president the power to rescind various expenditures, it established a check on his ability to do so”.
According to the New York Times, nearly half of those exonerated of crimes since 1989 are black. These exonerations were murder, rape and drug related crimes. In the same fashion, the Huffington Posts states that about 20 percent of exonerations in 2015 were for convictions based on false confessions. The cases were mainly homicides that incriminated defendants who were mentally disabled, and or under 18. In the case of Fifteen- year old Brenton Butler, he was a victim of Third degree interrogation which lead to a false confession.
Michael Morton woke up from bed on August 13th, 1986 and began to get ready for the day, just like any other normal day. He then left for job as a head of the pharmacy department at a nearby Safeway in Austin. After work, he routinely went to go pick up his son from daycare. This is the time when Morton realized that something was up. His son, Eric, was not at the sitter house, and he became worried.
The aftermath of the Kansas-Nebraska Act began the violence known as Bleeding Kansas, which was the result of countless conflicts of pro-slaver and anti-slavery settlers. To make matters worse three years later, the Supreme Court issued its decision on the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney stated, “… the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. The right to traffic in it, like an ordinary article of merchandise and property, was guarantied to the citizens of the United States, in every State that might desire it, for twenty years. And the Government in express terms is pledged to protect it in all future time….”11
Case Gone Wrong: Anthony vs State of Florida Case No. 5D11-2357 If ever there was a botched case it was this one with inconsistencies on the part of the State being overwhelming. I watched this trial intently and read everything available.
The legal action before the court is a case that describes conflict with the People v. Smith concerning the laws that expunge a young offender’s juvenile criminal record. The defendant was charged with unlawful entry onto property and with being a repeat offender of offenses that are in violation and punishable by law. It was determined by the court that Smith is a habitual offender and he received a sentence of imprisonment. Point in fact is the defendant made a guilty plea to charges of breaking and entering and being a repeat offender by his own admission. Smith’s attorney stated the ruling was put in place to protect the people living in society and to be an example in order to discourage others from perpetrating the same kind of illegal or dishonest behavior.
Tom Robinson, a black man, is on trial for rape. He has a very good chance of winning the trial because the prosecution "has not produced…medical evidence…that the crime…took place" (Lee 271). With the overwhelming evidence that the defense has provided the jury has no valid reason to convict Tom Robinson.
When a murder occurs, it usually is not clear exactly who did it. The murderer may be a normal person, and nobody has any idea they’re guilty. Or maybe they had committed crimes before. No matter who they are, it never is easy to find the criminal. But eventually, evidence will point to somebody, and then the person who did it is forced to confess.