On Tuesday, 01/03/207, at 1442 hours, I, Deputy Stacy Stark #1815 was dispatched to take a telephone report for a theft. I spoke to the victim, Philip B. Royster (M/W, DOB: 05/04/1961). Royster stated someone stole numerous tools from his shop trailers parked on Boat Dock Rd. I requested to meet Royster in person at the location to take the report, he agreed.…
Jenelle Evans' ex-husband, Courtland Rogers, was arrested and jailed again on Friday, November 20 in Burnswick County, North Carolina.…
Clarence Earl Gideon was a man that was wrongfully convicted of a crime. Clarence had a bad background prior to the trial. His record prior was that he had felonies, and he was in jail for four times already, and he ran away from home, and was found with some stolen clothes on. His background didn’t make it easy for him to be found guilty. Gideon was accused of stealing wine, beer, money, and Coca Cola from the pool room. The charges that were brought to him was Petty theft. The evidence the state used against him was that he was seen by a witness breaking into the pool room. The sentencing that Gideon got was 5 years in a working prison. Gideon’s first trial was not in his favor, because he did not have a lawyer defending him, and he didn’t…
What are five reasons why a company may choose to buy back their own stock? A company will buy back its own stock more a multiple of reason. The company may need to issue shares to its officers and employees under bonus and stock compensation plans. Maybe the company wants to enhance the stock’s market value, by having fewer stocks out in the market the value can go up. A company may be trying to buy another company and in order to finalize the purchase the company may need to promise stocks during the buyout. If the company does not have enough stocks to close the deal it will need to buy back some stocks. A simple reason is buying back stocks has the potential to increase the earnings a share may be worth. The last reason is to avoid a hostile takeover, if a company has many disgruntled investors the company could be on the verge of a takeover so a company will buy back stocks to change the percentage of ownership within the company.…
Manslaughter is a crime that is unjustified, inexcusable, and the intentional killing of a human being, whether it be involuntary or voluntary. This is the criminal charge that Adrian Crump from Jacksonville, Florida had to face. He shot a 15-year-old boy, around 2 in the morning, who was driving around shooting rocks from a slingshot. Adrian heard a noise in his home and thought it was a gunshot. He got up and checked it out, then went back inside and grabbed his gun as well as getting dressed. He then got in his car and pulled up behind the offender’s car, and shot the boy because he put his hands down, and he said he thought the kid was reaching for a gun. During the trial the prosecutor and defense team brought up the two sides of the story. We were asked how we felt about the trial and how we would find him. I took into consideration Adrian’s motivation or intention, self-defense, the witness’ statements, and crimes going on around the city.…
A rare criminal case comes out to court, the case is on an out of hospital birth of two twins. The convict is a 57-year-old Utah midwife who was sentenced to half of a year in prison. The midwife committed manslaughter, the judge finally decided after he calls the trial, the most difficult trial he has ever had to decide. The midwife told the parents of the twins that she could surely deliver the twins safely, but whenever one baby came out purple and unable to breathe, Sorensen used outdated techniques and equipment that was too bulky for the young infant. This resulted in suffocation and the baby did not make it. In the courtroom, Sorensen tried to explain to the judge how she had delivered over a thousand physically fit and healthy babies,…
Those many protests of the 1950s led to a larger civil rights movement a decade later. The Brown case was brought about by Oliver Brown, who argued that his daughter was forced to walk across a dangerous railroad each day rather than going to school close by, which was restricted to whites only. This was the time to attack the unfair doctrine of “separate but equal.” Segregation was said to be “inherently unequal since it stigmatized” one group of people as incapable to associate with the other group (Foner, Edition 4, Page 962). Black children received life-long damage because their self-esteem was undermined by segregation. After going back and forth arguing about this case, a decision was made that “separate but equal” no longer has a place…
The 1995 criminal trial of O. J. Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman has been called "a great trash novel come to life,".No one can deny the pull it had on the American public and the fans of the great O.J. Simpson. During the early reports of the murder of the wife of the ex-football star, and the cunning , head turning sports announcer had not caught people's full attention, Simpson's surreal Bronco ride on the day of his arrest most definitly did. Police accumulated enough evidence against Simpson to indicate that he was guilt of the murders and they sought and obtained a warrant for his arrest. But there was an agreement worked out with Simpson's attorney, Robert Shapiro that Simpson was to turn himself in…
This was a rather catchy song. While I’m not typically a country music fan, this song got stuck in my hard for far longer than I care to admit. The chorus of the song sees Chris Knight repeating that he was framed for the murder of his wife’s presumed lover. I might even have believed that he was framed, except for the section where he states that the “man took his wife, he was hell bound. Even if he did shoot him down, I was framed.” He attempted to justify his actions by blaming the shooting victim and saying that he wasn’t the only one to blame for the situation that occurred. This song is a rough parallel to the OJ Simpson trial. OJ Simpson was accused of killing his wife, Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman. Prosecutors unsuccessfully…
The Criminal Justice System is the system of law enforcement that is involved in apprehending, prosecuting, defending, sentencing, and punishing those who are suspected or convicted of criminal offenses. The history of the Criminal Justice System goes back to ancient times before the United States was even founded. Back then each colony had its own court system. Americans have developed to enforce the rules of the society and if someone does not follow these rules they will be punished. Today these functions are carried out by the police, the courts, and corrections. During a trial a case continues with the court system which will weigh the evidence to determine if the defendant is guilty. If the person is guilty the corrections system will…
The most controversial issue in this story is probably the Thomas Robinson trial. The entire town of Maycomb was involved in this trial, and each took sides. I am certain that Thomas was innocent because all of the evidence pointed back to the “victim” and her father. I am 100% certain that Thomas is innocent because the bruises on the victim, 19-year-old Mayella Ewell, could only have been caused by a left-handed person. Thomas, however, lost all mobility in his whole left arm after a cotton gin accident as a child resulted in his entire left arm to be crippled.…
Early Modern European considered sodomy an affront to society that it was a capital offence. Although this was a rather harsh punishment, most cases of sodomy never made it into trial. Those that end in a trial include an additional element that brought it to the State’s attention. The case of Earl Mervin Touchet, on April 25, 1631, involved a nobleman who faced a trial for rape and sodomy. His peers presided over the case and sentenced him to hang. In a different case, Thomas Rivers’ trial occurred on December 11, 1667, in which his apprentice accused him of sodomy, causing his near execution. The king ultimately pardons Rivers. Captain Edward Rigby was charged with sodomy for soliciting sex toward William Minton on December 7, 1698. His punishments…
The Jenner Trial "The smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the bighearted maiden objects of horror to the lover" (Macaulay). Imagine walking down the busiest street in 1700s London, and you only saw a dozen people. In every window, bodies swelling with bumps were everywhere. Dead, ravaged bodies were tossed aside. No one could escape smallpox’s destruction.…
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, racism is the belief that some races of people are better than others. In the American classic, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, racism is evident all throughout the book taking place in the south during the 1930’s, a time when racial injustices and discrimination was turbulent in America. Harper Lee weaves the truth of racism through the eyes of a young, innocent child looking at the differences in society.…
The HM case study opened many doors in the medical and scientific worlds. Henry Molaison was affected by epilepsy at a young age due to a head injury. By the time he was 16, Henry suffered from severe epilepsy causing him to have multiple seizures in a single day. By the age of 27 his epilepsy was so bad he couldn’t get a job so he went to go see Dr. William Beecher Scoville at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. From that moment, Henry Molaison agreed to take part in a highly experimental surgery that would cause him to lose his ability to form memories.…