Roper V Simmons
Roper Vs. Simmons
By: Alyssa Rosales
Instructor name: Ann-Marie Delgado
Course: Constitutional Rights/ POSU 344
Roper v. Simmons 543 U.S551 (2005); it will specifically address the arrest, trial and the legal issues it raised. It will explain and identify the holdings of the lower courts, as well as the decision of the U.S Supreme Court, and where the law should be headed.
Christopher Simmons, who was seventeen years old, and two of his friends by the name of Charles Benjamin (fifteen years old) and John Tessmer (sixteen years old) had a detailed conversation about committing a murder. Christopher Simmons had a premeditated plan, which included, burglary (breaking and entering), robbery and murder. Simmons wanted to bond and tie the victim and discard her off the bridge. Simmons convinced his two friends that they would not be convicted for these acts because they are still considered juveniles “under the age of eighteen”.
On September 9th, at approximately 2 a.m. the three young men met up with each to carry out Simmons plan to murder the victim. Tessmer left the group after changing his mind, shortly after they met up. Simmons and Benjamin still decided to carry out the plan; they broke into the victim’s home by reaching through an open window and unlocking the back door.
When Simmons and Benjamin were in the house, Simmons turned on the hall light, which woke up the owner/ victim, Shirley Crook. Shirley asked, “Who’s there?” Simmons followed the voice and went to her bedroom. Upon arrival, he recognized her from a prior car accident they both were a part of. Simmons and Benjamin gained control over her and duct tapped her mouth and eyes closed, bound her hands together and placed her in her own minivan.
The two young men then drove Shirley Crooks to the state park. When they arrived, they made sure that the tape was still secured tightly around her wrist and placed a towel over her head and led her to a railroad bridge over the Meramec River. When
By: Alyssa Rosales
Instructor name: Ann-Marie Delgado
Course: Constitutional Rights/ POSU 344
Roper v. Simmons 543 U.S551 (2005); it will specifically address the arrest, trial and the legal issues it raised. It will explain and identify the holdings of the lower courts, as well as the decision of the U.S Supreme Court, and where the law should be headed.
Christopher Simmons, who was seventeen years old, and two of his friends by the name of Charles Benjamin (fifteen years old) and John Tessmer (sixteen years old) had a detailed conversation about committing a murder. Christopher Simmons had a premeditated plan, which included, burglary (breaking and entering), robbery and murder. Simmons wanted to bond and tie the victim and discard her off the bridge. Simmons convinced his two friends that they would not be convicted for these acts because they are still considered juveniles “under the age of eighteen”.
On September 9th, at approximately 2 a.m. the three young men met up with each to carry out Simmons plan to murder the victim. Tessmer left the group after changing his mind, shortly after they met up. Simmons and Benjamin still decided to carry out the plan; they broke into the victim’s home by reaching through an open window and unlocking the back door.
When Simmons and Benjamin were in the house, Simmons turned on the hall light, which woke up the owner/ victim, Shirley Crook. Shirley asked, “Who’s there?” Simmons followed the voice and went to her bedroom. Upon arrival, he recognized her from a prior car accident they both were a part of. Simmons and Benjamin gained control over her and duct tapped her mouth and eyes closed, bound her hands together and placed her in her own minivan.
The two young men then drove Shirley Crooks to the state park. When they arrived, they made sure that the tape was still secured tightly around her wrist and placed a towel over her head and led her to a railroad bridge over the Meramec River. When
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