Justin Jethroe Ms. Allen Intro to Corrections April 12‚ 2013 Roper v. Simmons U. S. Supreme Court March 1‚ 2005 543 U.S. 551 Statement of Facts This case in Fenton‚ Missouri involves 17 yrs. old Christopher Simmons born in 1993. Charles Benjamin and John Tessmer were Christopher Simmons friends and accomplices. Christopher Simmons planned and committed a capital murder along with Charles Benjamin. The plan was to commit burglary and murder by breaking and entering‚ tying up Shirley
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Rubber bands are worthless and unreliable. They cannot be trusted to repeat a performance even under identical conditions. If one decides that they will risk a grade on the reliability of a rubber band‚ they are setting themselves up for dire results and disappointment. The assignment was to create a small car‚ built mainly from cardboard‚ powered by rubber bands. The rubber bands were wound tightly around an axel. After the car was released‚ the elasticity of the rubber bands would pull the
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Bracelet The Rainbow Loom is a fun way to make rubber bands into a cool bracelet. The founder‚ Cheong Choon Ng‚ created this in 2011. The supplies needed in order to create this bracelet are rubber bands‚ a loom kit‚ and a Rainbow Loom hook. When all the supplies are prepared‚ it is time to start. First‚ make sure that the red arrow is facing outward. Also‚ make sure that 25 rubber bands are supplied‚ with at least two different colors. Take a rubber band and wrap it around the first middle peg.
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Case Name: Maryland v. King (October 2012) Facts: Maryland police arrested a man named Alonzo Jay King‚ in 2009 for first and second degree assault charges and booked into the Wicomico County‚ Maryland‚ facility‚ where booking personnel took a cheek swab (“buccal swab”) to take a DNA sample pursuant to the Maryland DNA collection Act. The swab was matched up to an unsolved 2003 rape case. The police had collected the 2003 DNA sample from the rape victim who underwent a sexual assault forensic exam
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The case about misappropriation of a trade secret that I researched is Best Buy Co. v. TechForward Inc. What happened was that Los Angeles-based TechForward sued Best Buy for misappropriating an original TechForward trade secret for the Best Buy “Guaranteed Buyback Program” (Star Tribune). The issue with the lawsuit involves what TechForward’s business does for its consumers. What they do (a much smaller business than Best Buy Co.) is calculate the buyback value of various consumer products such
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bonuses. The appellant admits that the threshold for reviewing a jury’s award is set very high‚ requiring that the verdict is so inordinately high that it must be a wholly erroneous estimate of damages. Relying on the cases of Howes v. Crosby [1984] O.J. No.3127 (C.A.) and Snushall v. Fulsang [2005] O.J. No. 4069(C.A.)‚ the appellants defined “inordinate “as too high or too low by 50%. Legal issue: Was the jury’s award for damages of $40‚000 patently excessive and out of proportion
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Jersey Boys is a Broadway musical produced by Dodger Productions‚ which portrays the life and musical careers of the singing group The Four Seasons. During the 1960s‚ The Four Seasons were the Americans answer to the British invasion‚ singing such hits as “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”‚ “My Eyes Adored You”‚ and their biggest hit‚ “Sherry.” The group consisted of four members‚ each one representing a different season. Tommy Devito was spring while Nick Massi was fall; Frankie Vallie was winter‚ and
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Allen v. Dalk CITATION: Supreme Court of Florida No. SC01-2 (2002) PARTIES: Allen (Niece) v. Dalk (Half-sister) FACTS: Ms. Dalk‚ disputed the validity of a will claimed to be that of her half-sister‚ the decedent‚ McPeak. Decedent signed four originals of a living will‚ three originals of durable power of attorney‚ but failed to sign her will. PRIOR PROCEEDINGS: The lower courts determined that the will was invalid. ISSUE: Whether the will of the decedent McPeak was properly executed
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Tennessee v. Reeves. 917 S.W.2d 825 (Supreme Court of Tennessee‚ 1996) On the evening of January 5‚ 1993‚ Tracie Reeves and Molly Coffman‚ both twelve years of age and students at West Carroll Middle School‚ spoke on the telephone and decided to kill their homeroom teacher‚ Janice Geiger. They agreed that Coffman would bring rat poison to school the following days so that it could be placed in Geiger ’s drink. After that ‚ they would steal Geiger ’s car and drive to the Smoky Mountains. On the
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Joanne Casillas Advanced Legal Writing June 2‚ 2014 Gonzalez ex rel. v. Reno‚ 86 F. Supp. 2d 1167 (SD. Fla. 2000) Facts: The parties in this case are Elian Gonzalez with Lazaro Gonzalez and Attorney General Janet Reno. In November 25‚ 1999 the United States Coast Guard intercepted two fishermen who had rescued five- year- old Elian Gonzalez floating on an inner tube in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast from Florida. Elian’s mother had died during the voyage from Cuba to
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