Two police officers, while cruising near noon in a patrol car, observed appellant and another man walking away from one another in an alley in an area with a high incidence of drug traffic. They stopped and asked appellant to identify himself and explain what he was doing.…
Drew Peterson was born on January 5, 1954. He graduated from Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois in 1972. He was a cross country runner at Willowbrook High school. After graduated from High School he joined US Army. Before moving to Falls Church, Virginia to train as a military police officer he briefly attended the College of DuPage. Peterson had a 30-year career as a police officer. In 1977, he began working with the Bolingbrook Police Department in Illinois. He was assigned to the Metropolitan Area Narcotics Squad in 1978 and in 1979; he received a “Police Officer of the Year” award from the department. He married four times, he divorce with two, one disappearing and one got killed. In 2009, Drew Peterson was indicted for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen savior (who died in 2004) and he is convicted in 2012. Currently he is being held at the Will County Adult Detention in Joliet, Illinois.…
Freedom suits took place in 176 in Ispwich, Massachusetts when a black person named Jenny Slew felt that freedom was being restricted. Therefore, Spinster Slew file a suits against their master John Whipple because it was only righteous that his family was entitle to freedom and Slew’s wanted to claim what was rightful theirs. Subsequently, to what John Whipple believe the Judge granted the Slew’s their freedom and gave them a suffice winnings for negros in those times.…
Martin Luther King Jr headed the Montgomery Improvement Association. At a local Baptist church the role was to rally that night for freedom, attendees voted to continue the boycott until they were treated with the level of respect.…
The State of Louisiana began before Judge John Howard Ferguson in the state criminal district court. It had been only four months that Ferguson was serving for New Orleans when Plessy case came in front of him. The defense were not wanting to win in the at the local court, and also expected to lose appeal to the Louisiana Supreme Court, as they wanted to take their case to the US Supreme Court, and spread the message of opposing Segregation across the whole nation. Lawyers from both the sides had given the concise information about the case to Judge Ferguson, and now at the court the lawyers would present the arguments on that in front of Ferguson and he will decide and announce that should the case go to trial or if it should be sent away. Defense advocate James C. Walker claimed that Plessy’s imprisonment offended his constitutional rights, especially Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.…
A very controversial court case in American history was Texas vs. Johnson (1984). In 1984, a man named Gregory Lee Johnson followed a group of anti Reagan protesters to oppose the American exploitation of third world countries. This act of rebellion resulted in the burning of the American flag. Out of a total of approximately one hundred demonstrators who were involved in this ordeal, Johnson was solely charged with a crime. Johnson was arrested under Texas law, which made the burning of the United States or Texas flags crimes. Johnson was convicted and sentenced to one year in jail and fined two thousand dollars for his crime in restitution. Texas reasoned that the police were preventing the breach of peace; consider the flag a symbol of national unity. At Johnson's court trial, he was convicted of aiding, abetting and encouraging the burning of the Texan flag. This, in turn, made Johnson guilty under Texas state law.…
Hero or criminal? John Brown was a radical abolitionist who was born on May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut. He was one of the so-called worst and the greatest abolitionists of his time. Brown believed that violence was the one and only way to bring an end to slavery. He provoked the slaves to revolt against their owners by giving them guns and support. Also in 1859, Brown and his 21 men army seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in the hope of gaining guns and supplies for the slaves. The attack was not a success because he was captured and both of his sons got killed during the fight. After a speedy trial, he was convicted to death, which in this case was not even such a huge surprise according to all the blood that he shed in the…
More than a decade later, in 1807, Wilberforce wept as the law was passed to abolish slavery. Fellow politicians, as well as President Abraham Lincoln, gave Wilberforce credit for the end of the slave trade. Wilberforce’s abolitionist endeavors, while outstanding, were part of his overarching goal of moral reform. Today, there are awards, forums, universities, museums, alliances, documentaries, books, and now, a movie all in honor of William…
In the story "John Adams and the Coming of the Revolution”, author David McCullough discusses how John Adams was asked to defend the British soldiers in court of the soldier’s accusation of man slaughter, following the Boston Massacre. Being such a problematic case that could ruin his reputation, John Adams accepted to defend the soldiers because of his experience in difficult cases, and his strong principles and beliefs. John Adam’s reputation did not even tarnish because of how skillfully he handled the case gaining the respect of the people of Boston.…
In 1857, Dred Scott lost his case proving that he should be free because he had been held as a slave while living in a free state. The Court ruled that his petition couldn’t be seen because he did not own property. But it went further, to state that even though he had been taken by his 'owner' into a free state, he was still a slave because slaves were to be considered property of their owners. This decision furthered the cause of abolitionists as they increased their efforts to fight against slavery.…
On March 13, 1925, the Butler Act was passed by W.F. Barry and L.D. Hill. It was soon approved by Austin Peay. The Butler Act prohibited the teaching of the Evolution Theory in all schools in the state of Tennessee. Basically it states that it is, “unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”…
The 1960’s was an evolution of change in American history. When Earl Warren became Chief Justice of Supreme Court in 1953 it made the most dramatic changes and held a far more liberal view than any other Supreme Court before. Some of its most important rulings were on African-American civil liberties. The Supreme Court changed American law on segregation in schools, criminal procedure, and privacy rights. Before the Warren Court the American law treated blacks as second class citizens, and by the end of Justice Warren's term racial equality was inevitable.…
Robinson trial; (2) prejustice and its effects on the processes of the law and society; (3)…
The Scopes Trial is one of the most known trials in American history. It is one of the most known because it is the perfect example of the conflict between science and religion. In the summer of 1925, a high school biology teacher named John Scopes was on trial in Dayton, Tennessee for violating the law against the teaching of evolution. The prosecutor was a very famous attorney named William Jennings Bryan, who was a three-time Democratic presidential nominee. Clarence Darrow, who was agnostic, represented the defense. The American Civil Liberties Union had newspaper advertisements offering to defend anyone who violated the law. George Rappelyea, a Dayton booster, realized that the town would get an enormous amount of attention if a teacher…
Accused of being guilty during the trial. Many characters could be picked in the story, to kill a…