The United States v. Lopez case was about Alfonzo Lopez, a 12th grade student from San Antonio, who came to school carrying a hidden weapon. Under Texas law he was charged with possession of a firearm. Later on he was dismissed of this violation and was later charged with “federal criminal statute”. He was found violating “ The Gun-Free School Act”, which was created in 1990. His sentence was 6 months in prison and two years of being supervised while being released.
II. The Cases of Jamie Melendez and Christopher Mirasolo A) Course of Events In 2009, a man named Jaime Melendez (nineteen at that time) raped a fourteen year old high school student, who is mentioned as H.T. in court documents, several times in the victim’s house in Massachusetts. The victim has conceived a child in one of these horrifying incidents and gave birth to a baby girl in 2010. After entering a guilty plea in 2011 and sentenced to sixteen years probation, Thomas Mcguire (Norfolk Superior Court Judge) ruled Melendez to go to the family court, which ordered Melendez to pay the mother an estimated 110 dolars for child support on a weekly basis.
For the Portfolio Project I am choosing Option 2; Refuting that “justice” was achieved. I will draw upon my own concept of justice, the legal concepts of justice, studies, articles and empirical research to allow for my conclusion. Furthermore, I will consider the victims, (plural), and the impact of Richards sentence on his life. The Case of Richard Mijares At the outset of this class we were instructed to watch videos of Richard Mijares, a youthful offender who shot and killed his mother when he was aged seventeen years.
The case, R. v. Morgentaler, was a case in which three doctors, including Dr. Morgentaler set up a clinic where they performed abortions for women who did not have the approval from a therapeutic abortion committee of an approved hospital. Abortions done without this approval were considered illegal. The Supreme Court of Canada concluded that the abortion provision in the Criminal Code was unconstitutional because it violated section 7 in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Texas v. Torres This case is different than most of our other cases involving the death penalty. Here we have two men who have been sentenced to death (Torres, who held the victim down & Dempsey, who pulled the trigger). Torres spent this tragic night with two friends, Rogelio Hernandez and Stuart Dempsey. The record shows that Torres and friends had been drinking and using methamphetamines.
Charged with the rape and murder of Gail Miller, a nursing assistant, David Milgaard was sentenced to life imprisonment on May 30, 1969 – he was only sixteen. Milgaard with his friends Ron Wilson and Nichol John were driving to Vancouver to Albert Cadrain’s house – another one of Milgaard’s friends. Police built a strong case against Milgaard for the murder of Gail’s murder based on several witnesses. Milgaard was convicted for murder due to the evidence and given statements by his friends. Milgaard’s friends first gave their statements and became Milgaard’s alibis but after multiple interrogations changed their statements and one of his friends went as far as saying they even saw Milgaard stab a woman.
Steven Avery fights to prove his claimed innocence. Steven claims that "they set him up," when he was investigated and was told that he was not a suspect. The investigation of Teresa's death resulted in finding an essential in Steven's residence, EDTA test being done, and log documentation of officers. When searching Steven's home, a key that linked to Teresa's Rav 4 was found.
Mr. Pena, who is divorced from licensee, alleges licensee has committed various violations of the physical therapy statues. Mr. Pena made a similar allegation in 2011. New allegations include parental neglect by not reporting, to child services, abuse of their Autistic son by school personnel, not seeking medical treatment for their child, threatening to kill their child and arrest of the licensee which she didn’t report. Licensee states she has reported to child services any abuse and she did not threaten to kill their child.
After several days of no communication and concern about Travis Alexander’s wellbeing, a couple of his friends went to his residence in Mesa, Arizona. They did in fact find their friend but he was lying in a pool of blood. One June 9, 2008, Travis was found with many wounds, including a slit neck, multiple stab wounds and a gunshot in the head. Police investigated the crime and came to the conclusion that he was killed five days earlier.
Caption: Castro-Martinez v. Holder, 674 F.3d 1073 (9th Cir. 2011). Facts: Mexican native, Rafael Castro-Martinez (“Castro”), resided in the U.S illegally since 1995. Castro, who is homosexual, was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 2004. In 2007, he went back to his native country for two weeks.
SGT Gonzalez failed to achieve course standards due to violation of course honer code, during L225 Communicate In Writing performance evaluation. He performed well below the expected standard in Army writing. SGT Gonzalez didn 't demonstrated behaviors that are consistent with standards expected of student coursing BLC in order to become an effective leader. He got along well with others and supports soldier team concepts. SGT Gonzalez actively fostered a climate of dignity and respect while attending the Basic Leader Course; adhered to the policies of the SHARP program at all times.
In November of 2014, a man, Gary Fellenbaum, and his girlfriend, Jillian Tait Thursday, are charged with murdering the girlfriend’s 3-year old son. Authorities were called under the false pretense of an unresponsive child, when EMTs arrived, 3-year old Scott McMillan was reported to have suffered from bruises, lacerations, and puncture wounds all over his body. Fellenbaum, Tait, and Fellenbaum’s wife, Amber, confessed to police, “…that the little boy had been beaten with blunt and sharp objects, whipped, taped to a chair with electrical tape and beaten, hung up by his feet and beaten, leading to his death.” (Unknown). Tait later explained to the police that the beatings began because Scott refused to eat his breakfast.
Dred Scott was a black slave that traveled to the Illinois and Wisconsin Territories with Dr. Emerson, his master. While Dred Scott was located in the free territory, he was considered a free man. Eventually, both Scott and Emerson moved to Saint Louis, Missouri, a slave state, which meant Scott would no longer be considered free. When they arrived in Missouri, Dr. Emerson died leaving Dred Scott in the hands of Emerson’s wife. Dred Scott sued Mrs. Emerson in 1846, to defend his claim that he was no longer a slave.
The key issues behind the toxic relationship between many African-Americans and the police, are the police pulls over African Americans (males) because of their race. I don't think it’s more so African American itself its males period. If an officer see African Americans in a white neighborhood, the officer will stop that person and ask them to come to the car, and search them and ask what are you doing in this neighborhood? I have seen it done before and it's sad. They will do it to any race, the same why if they were in an African American neighborhood.
Walters was convicted of rape and sentenced to 63 years for child abuse resulting in death and rape, and Steven Lopez received a 57 year sentence for rape and neglect resulting in death. Both are eligible for day for day good time and credit for time served in jail awaiting trial. Although convicted of negligent child abuse in connection with her daughter's death, Stephanie Lopez was sentenced to 27 years, but was released after serving only 13 years. In addition, Walters's mother and brother were also sentenced to 60 days for failure to report child abuse (“Mother in horrific,”
