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United States v. Place, 462 U.S. 696 (1983) Capsule Summary: Seizing a person’s luggage for an extended period until a warrant is obtained violates the Fourth Amendment as beyond the limits of a Terry stop, but, a sniff by a narcotics dog does not constitute a search for Fourth Amendment purposes. Facts: The respondent Raymond Place was stopped by Federal Agents (DEA) upon his arrival into LaGuardia Airport on a Friday afternoon. The respondent refused to consent to the search of his luggage. His luggage was seized by the agents under suspicion they contained narcotics. The respondent was informed the agents would be obtaining a search warrant from a judge.
The Case of Leighton Hay Leighton Hay was a 19-year-old Jamaican-born Canadian citizen who was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder in 2002. This started with an altercation that broke out at midnight when four men and a woman tried to enter a nightclub without paying a cover charge. Later, those intruders left but three men with handguns came into the club and two of them made it into the kitchen where they shot Colin Moore eight times who was the brother of the person who was organizing the event that was taking place that evening (Roger Moore). In the kitchen, there were two more people aside from the brothers, Colin’s wife (Jennifer Moore) and a friend (Leisa Maillard). Jennifer ended up identifying one of the shooters as Gary Eunick.
Worcester v. Georgia By Sydney Stephenson Worcester v. Georgia is a case that impacted tribal sovereignty in the United States and the amount of power the state had over native American territories. Samuel Worcester was a minister affiliated with the ABCFM (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions). In 1827 the board sent Worcester to join its Cherokee mission in Georgia. Upon his arrival, Worcester began working with Elias Boudinot, the editor of the Cherokee Phoenix (the first Native American newspaper in the United States) to translate religious text into the Cherokee language. Over time Worcester became a close friend of the Cherokee leaders and advised them about their political and legal rights under the Constitution and federal-Cherokee treaties.
Facts: Evan Miller beat and robbed Cole Cannon (his neighbor). He was only fourteen years old when he and his friend Colby Smith committed the offense. On July 15, 2013, Miller and Smith illegal enter Mr. Cannon home looking for narcotics when they did not find any drugs they lifted baseball cards and left. Later on the same day both boys went back to Mr. Cannon home and robbed him while he was sleeping. Mr. Cannon woke up during the robbery and attacked Miller.
In The People vs. Paul Dickson, the defendant has been charged with Murder One (Premeditated). To begin, Paul Dickson will be receiving this charge due to an overwhelming amount of evidence demonstrating consideration and deliberation of the murder of Jim Kendall. Some time before any thought of the hunting trip. Jim Kendall played a prank on town resident Julie Gregg. Kendall pretended to call Gregg Doc Stair, which lured her to his office.
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.
People v. Smith, 437 Mich 293, 470 NW2D 70, 78 (1991) addresses public policy conflicts and balance as it relates to the juvenile justice process (Elrod & Ryder, 2014). The issue presented in People v. Smith (1991) by the Supreme Court of Michigan is whether the inclusion in the presentence investigative report of an expunged juvenile record, in this case of defendant, Ricky Franklin Smith, requires, under MCR 5.913, presently MCR 5.925(E), that Smith be resentenced (People v. Smith, 1991). The issue involved was that Smith argued that he should be resentenced due to the inclusion of the pre-sentence investigative report of his previously expunged juvenile record. In People v. Smith (1991), it is stated that, “The purpose of the court rule,
Recently, state-issued photo ID has been required in order vote since the law passed in the Texas legislature. This law has caused controversy as it brings up the question over the state’s power in the regulation of elections. “While pending review within the judicial system, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Shelby County v. Holder, which effectively ended all pending litigation. As a result, voters are now required to present an approved form of photo identification in order to vote in all Texas Elections” (votetexas.gov). The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the Shelby County v. Holder case.
There were claims on the Manton case study that Dixon had prior history of engaging in sexual activity at his high school, which led Dixon to be suspended twice for the prior sexual acts. At the time of this incident, Dixon was 18 years old, and the “victim” was 15 (Manton, 2005). Following this factual information, Dixon at that time claimed that the sexual act was consensual and accused the girl of fabricating the story because of fear of her parents finding out and punishing her for sleeping with a black man (Manton, 2005). Several charges were suggested for Dixon which included: statutory rape, aggravated child molestation, rape, sexual battery, false imprisonment, and aggravated assist (Manton, 2005). Dixon was then acquitted of a majority of the charges and found Dixon guilty of statutory rape and aggravated child molestation (Manton,
In People v. Fuller, 1. On February 20, 1977, Fuller and another person broke into four vans in a car lot and took their spare tires. An officer observed them rolling tires into their car and approached them. Fuller and his accomplice got into their car and fled. While fleeing, they ran a red light and hit another car, resulting in the other driver’s death.
In the past two years (while on administrative suspension), Sgt. Brown has excelled. All report that she has taken her administrative duties seriously, and is performing rather well under closer supervision. Accordingly, Public Safety planned to place PO Brown at the Academy or make her Chief 's pick.
The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects any person within their jurisdiction of their due process and equal protection. The Equal Protection Clause under the 14th Amendment requires the states to apply their laws equally to any person within their jurisdiction. The equal protection clause aims to provide equal application of the law. It is also crucial to the protection of civil rights. There should be no discrimination in its application.
The Due process in the 14th amendment is the same as the due process in the fifth but it regards the states. “It acts as a safeguard from arbitrary denial of life, liberty, or property by the Government outside the sanction of law” (). The due process clause has been upheld and seen in many Supreme Court cases. The most influential and infamous was Roe v. Wade which said the right of privacy under the due process clause of the14th Amendment extended to a woman 's decision to have an abortion. Due
Social workers have several responsibilities. They have to provide service, justice, and dignity to a client. They have to possess integrity, competence, and patience. Social workers need to possess knowledge of human rights, and how to perform scientific inquiry. Social workers occasionally have cases in which problems ensue and a solution is not found within a certain time frame.
Thurgood Marshall was instrumental in ending legal segregation and became the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court. Marshall started a Thurgood Marshall college fund helps students acquire a high-quality college education at an affordable cost, develops leaders of tomorrow and connects high performing students with top tier employment opportunities. The TMCF also provides a pipeline for HBCU to get access to top employers, scholarships, conferences, internships programs, and more. This session opened doors for many students and previously accepted many over the years from our own university, The University of Maryland Eastern Shore. This program helps students apply concepts to real world encounters.