On July 15, 2008, two year old Caylee Anthony was reported missing by her grandmother, Cindy Anthony. Cindy notified the 911 operator after realizing she had not seen the girl in a month. Casey Anthony, Caylee’s mother, gave police several different reasons for the girl’s disappearance, including the story that the girl had been kidnapped by a babysitter. On December 11, 2008, Caylee’s remains were found in a Florida swamp near the Anthony home. Duct tape found with the body, the odor analysis done on Casey’s car trunk, a human hair found in the trunk, and the lies Casey told law enforcement in an attempt to explain her child’s disappearance led to Casey Anthony being tried for the first degree murder, aggravated…
The case of Lizzie Borden, who allegedly took a hatchet to her step-mother and father, took place in 1892 and to this day has yet to be solved. To solve a case like this one there has to be a substantial amount of physical evidence that leads to the suspect. In the late 1800’s there were not many forensic tools available to police and investigators. Fingerprinting, lie detection, and hair testing were among many of these tools that were not available. This being said there were different tactics used by police, some of which were helpful and others which were not.…
In the early 1980’s in a small Podunk town of Ada, Oklahoma, a young woman named Debra Sue Carter, was savagely raped and killed in her own apartment after work at the local cocktail bar. Quickly, the town drunk was arrested in relation to the rape and murder with nothing more than a single “eyewitness” that placed him at the woman’s job that night. Many regulars to the bar said that “they would know if Ron Williamson was at the Coach Light and he wasn’t there.” They, in fact, named another man: Glenn Gore, the prosecution's main witness. Gore was also the man that Debbie’s friend said that she was afraid of and he was supposedly at Debbie’s apartment the night of the murder, according to the friend who received a phone call that night from Debbie. Gore was also seen being pushed away by the victim at the victim’s car the same night as the murder.…
“How Kristen Died” is a case study that clearly depicts the deep-rooted bureaucratic issues regarding miscommunication or in this case no communication, and its disastrous implications on society. This case is the story of Kristen Lardner, a 21 year-old aspiring artist, who was ruthlessly murdered by her boyfriend, Michael Cartier, a nightclub bouncer. The study portrays the inefficiencies concerning communication and relationships between organizations and how the system failed both Kristen and Michael. The lack of coordination and organization within agencies and among agencies affect not only the individual within the system, but also the public at large,…
I chose to answer the question “Did Texas execute an innocent man?” Todd Willingham may have had a grim personality but he was still innocent of the alleged fire tha the had been accused for. He was put on trial for starting a fire and killing his three children--not for being a ghastly husband and a thug.…
adopted niece, known all together as the Rez sisters. Each one of these women are on…
For many years people have been fascinated with murder cases. There have been many cases throughout the U.S. that many people have been interested in. Such a case is the Lizzie Borden case. Evidence has proved that Lizzie Borden murdered her parents because; of her poor relationship with her step-mother, her resentment of her father, and her mental instability. On August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden committed the gruesome atrocity of bludgeoning Andrew and Abby Borden to death. (Linder, 2004) The reason behind this was, she had a poor relationship with her step-mother, Abby Borden. During her interrogation she told detectives when they referred to Abby as her mother, “She is not my mother, sir, she is my stepmother. My mother died when I was a child.” (King, 2016) This shows that Lizzie never viewed Abby as her mother. Moreover, Lizzie and Abby hardly spoke. Lizzie hadn't eaten with her parents for five years. (King, 2016) This shows Lizzie had a tense relationship with Abby for quite some time. In conclusion, Lizzie's relationship with Abby had been tense for years. Lizzie also happened to resent her father, Andrew Borden. For instance, she resented her father for giving Abby more things than her. Andrew gave Abby a property which made Lizzie resent her father and loathe Abby even more. Furthermore, Andrew killed pigeons in his barn that Lizzie had built a roost for. (Linder, 2017) Lizzie was said to of yelled at her father. All in all, Lizzie also had the motive to murder her father. Lastly, she murdered her family due to her mental instability. She was accused of committing crimes before the murder. In 1891 Lizzie…
In order for a trial to be brought, the police and prosecutors might be able to prove that the elements of the particular offence are present. In this criminal case both Actus reus, Mens rea as well causation was clearly shown through the behavior of Katherine Knight.…
Only after Ying-ying realizes that she has passed on her passivity and fatalism to her daughter Lena does she take any initiative to change. Seeing her daughter in an unhappy marriage, she urges her to take control. She tells Lena her story for the first time, hoping that she might learn from her mother’s own failure to take initiative and instead come to express her thoughts and feelings. Lena, too, was born in the year of the Tiger, and Ying-ying hopes that her daughter can live up to their common horoscope in a way that she herself failed to do. Moreover, in this belief in astrology Ying-ying finds a sort of positive counterpart to her earlier, debilitating superstitions and fatalism, for it is a belief not in the inevitability of external events but in the power of an internal quality.…
Charatan, F. & Eaton, L. (2002). Woman may face death penalty in postnatal depression case. British Medical Journal, 324(7338), 634. Retrieved October 14, 2011, from ProQuest Health and Medical Complete. (Document ID: 113049818).…
As an example, one of severe case of cyber-bullying according to nobullying (2017) is Amanda Todd Case. Based on the story told by the article Amanda began using video chat in the seventh grade to meet new people online, and one stranger convinced the teenager to bare her breasts on camera. However, the stranger attempted to use the photo to blackmail Amanda, and the picture began circulating on the internet, including a Facebook profile that used the topless photograph as the profile image. Eventually Amanda posted a video on YouTube entitled “My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm,” just to tell about her experiences of being blackmailed and bullied. After little over a month after posting the video on September 7, 2012, Amanda…
The description of the type of the crime as it was analyzed from the report that was provided, shows us that the murderer suffered from mental disorders, which led him in to doing this action. The case refers to a 13 year old girl from Island Harbor in Wessex named Amanda Bell that was reported to be missing on Thursday 5th July 2012 after she went for a bicycle ride in order to practice for the school sports day. Her parents in cooperation with the police that joined the search started looking for her and finally managed to find her dead the next morning. The fact that she was found partially clothed being naked from the waist down, with her hands bound behind her back, a ligature round her neck and a sanitary towel pushed in to her mouth…
This Organisation is a non-profit Legal organisation dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustices. The Innocence Project was established in a landmark study by the United States Department of Justice and the United States Senate in conjunction with the Benjamin N.Cardozo School of Law, which found that incorrect identification by eyewitnesses was a factor in over 70% of wrongful convictions. The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University .It then became an independent non-profit organization in 2003, but has strong institutional connections with Cardozo. As I have said, The project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. As a clinic, law students handle case work while supervised by a team of attorneys and clinic staff. There are many organisations across the world. The Innocence Project is a member of the Innocence Network, which brings together a number of innocence organizations from across the United States of America. It includes members from other English-speaking countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and our own Country - Ireland. The Irish Innocence Project (Tionscadal Neamhchiontachta na hÉireann) was officially launched at Griffith College Dublin by Doctor Greg Hampikian, director of the Idaho Innocence Project and DNA expert for the Georgia Innocence Project. This is the first…
My heavy eyes ached as I closed them listening to music. I was nearly asleep when the song I was listening to paused and my familiar message tone sounded through my headphones. I picked up my phone just as the song faded back in, my eyes blurred as they adjusted to the light of my phone screen but the only thing I could see was Josie’s name. I sat up in shock and re-read the sender name a few times before believing it. I opened the message and started reading. ‘I’ve missed you so much Jacob, this is so hard and everything I do reminds me of you, I really want to see you again.’ I stared at it for a moment in shock before a huge wave of emotion came over me. I kept reading it over and over thinking I must be in a dream. I didn’t know what to do or say. My mind was soon crowded with thoughts and suddenly I felt wide awake. Every day that passed I thought how I wished I was good enough to be with her, because in reality I wasn’t over Josie and I really missed what we had. When I did reply I wrote ‘I need you in my life Josie, I can’t bear not having you next to me anymore, I miss your company and want to see you’ I pressed send and anxiously waited for a reply. I heard another buzz so I picked up my phone. ‘Meet me at Subway at 12’ she said.…
If you have ever had the opportunity to act in a play, it’s an experience that you will remember for the rest of your life. I would say acting in “Susan and the Scissor Women”, was definitely worthwhile, I met many new friends, had a boat load of new experiences, and just had fun.…