I am a detective with the Baltimore Police Department working on the Hae Min Lee murder case. I’m not the lead detective, I'm more of the underdog. This case is starting to screw with me, it’s so twisted and none of it makes sense. An 18 year old girl leaving school disappears without a trace and four weeks later shows up dead in Leakin Park. It’s not out of the ordinary to find bodies in Leakin Park, because it's Leakin Park.
Chloe Liu East Asian Straton 5 April 2024 China’s #1 Daddy: Judge Dee At the front of the city gates, the heads of beheaded criminals dangle on the wall. This grim spectacle was a common scene during the Tang Dynasty and is also portrayed in the novel, “Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee.” From 618 to 906 AD, the Tang Dynasty, also deemed as the Golden Era, rose to power in Asia. The dynasty was founded by Li Yuan, a military commander who declared himself Emperor Gaozu after garnering supporters amid a rebellion during the Sui Dynasty.
According to the Maryland Criminal Law Code 1-301, an accessory after the Fact of Murder is a felony that can be charged with up to 5 years of jail time. Jay Wilds, a supposed contributor to the murder of Hae Min Lee in 1999 Baltimore, was guilty of accessory after the fact of murder but was somehow only charged with 2 years of probation. Who in the world would let this happen, many may speculate, but that is a notorious aura called corruption and bribery in the case of Hae Min Lee’s murder. Adnan Syed, the accused murderer of Hae Min Lee, has had to endure an erroneous trial while suffering from backstabbing lawyers, all while fighting for his freedom. This paper examines the benefits and disadvantages given to Adnan Syed during his 1999
Bridget Bishop had “a singular character, which was not easily described,” and she was born between 1632 and 1637. Bishop was married three times, and she had no child in any of her marriages. Although Bishop was accused by more individuals of witchcraft than any other witchcraft defendant. On April 18, 1692, when a warrant was issued for her arrest for witchcraft, and when she went to the courthouse she knew everybody. In 1680 she had been charged of witchcraft, and on other occasions she had ended up in the courthouse for violent public quarreling with her husband.
Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong In Brandon L. Garrett 's book, Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong, he makes it very clear how wrongful convictions occur and how these people have spent many years in prison for crimes they never committed. Garrett presents 250 cases of innocent people who were convicted wrongfully because the prosecutors opposed testing the DNA of those convicted. Garrett provided simple statistics such as graphs, percentages, and charts to help the reader understand just how great of an impact this was.
Both Emily and Robert are prematurely judged by the narrators in both stories, and the assumptions are so far fetched from the reality. Miss. Emily is perceived to be a lonely old woman, whom nobody ever spoke with. Since they never talk with her or learn anything about what is going on in her life, the townspeople begin to gossip to make up for this. They knew her father had driven away any man from becoming close to her, and they just thought to themselves, “ poor Emily” (32).
Case Report for Kim Chan Patient Presentation: Kim Chan arrived to her appointment at the outpatient clinic on time. She was oriented x3. She appeared to be clean but you could tell that she had not brushed her hair. She wore a wrinkled dress, tights and shoes.
(Christie 72). However, later on she finally tells Vera Claythorne what she had done. Emily’s servant, Beatrice Taylor, got pregnant before she was married, so Emily kicked her out of her house and took everything away from her. Because of this, Beatrice killed herself. Emily said this, “Her action-her sin…”
Emily’s situation consisted of loneliness and natural causes of death in her family. Her father had died and she had no family there to support her (80). Emily’s motivation was to provide herself with someone that would always be there, even if her intention was morbid. The murder committed by Emily was not out of anger nor spite, it was simply carried out to give her some feeling of not being abandoned. Matt’s situation, on the other hand, was quite different; he had just experienced the loss of his son and was seeking vengeance on his son’s killer (89).
After Emily’s father passes away, she begins to live life on her own terms. It is evident that she seeks power because her father limited her from having any. Emily disregards the law by not paying taxes, she does not allow numbers
She told them her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body." (247) This stubborn act is not only disturbing but displays the true madness of not only Emily but the tradition of the Old South as
The townspeople covered Emily’s actions, as her name was part of the town’s tradition. Conserving reputation is a characteristic of old southern towns which is where the story takes place. The town considered Emily’s reputation more important than the law thus ignoring and covering her crimes. The townspeople were fully knowledgeable of Emily’s
The townspeople had made her into the scapegoat, which is a lamb whose sins are all placed upon and all the town’s knowledge of this killing was placed upon Emily. During the timeline of the story, Emily lived in a romance and a myth, because every white southern woman was to conform to the town’s traditional social status as a well-dressed and obedient Eve. Emily refused to acknowledge her father and lover’s death and kept them at home, because she idolized and idealized both of them beyond the life of death due to her desperation for companionship. The reason why Emily was never troubled by the town alderman when she refused to pay the taxes, because women of class were not to be bothered by worldly obligations. The judge rejected the complaints of the neighbor’s for her didn’t make to make it an issue, because you don’t just tell a lady to her face that she smells bad.
Knowing the historical period can help account for Miss Emily’s behavior.
Emily kept her house the same way it had always been and was letting it decay while she stayed in it. She refused to clean or change the house at all to preserve it in the Old South. She did not want to accept the death of other people. When Emily’s father died, she refused the town from taking his body and burying it. She wanted to keep her father’s body with her and the town was “about to use law and force, but she broke down, and they buried her father quickly” (453).