Danielle Waldner December 7‚ 2015 Professor Custis Case Brief MAYNARD‚ WARDEN‚ ET AL. v. CARTWRIGHT‚ 486 US 356. June 6‚ 1988 Facts: The evening of May 4‚ 1982‚ Charma and Hugh Riddle were in their living room watching television. Mrs. Riddle proceeded to leave the room to go to the bathroom‚ but was surprised to find “respondent Cartwright” in the hallway with a shotgun in his hands (1). Charma Riddle fought with Cartwright for the gun‚ but Cartwright was able to shoot Mrs. Riddle twice in the legs
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The Death of the Iceman As the world was transitioning from the stone age into the copper age a tragic death took place; Oetzi was murdered for power. Oetzi‚ also known as the iceman‚ is the world’s oldest unsolved murder. Scientists suspect he was 45 to 50 years old when he was killed. There was a flint arrowhead found in his shoulder and weapons were found near his body. He died more than 5‚000 years ago in the Italian side of the Alps and his body was not found until 1991 by hikers trekking
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Let me take you back to one of the darkest days in American history. Monday April 5th‚ 2013 in Boston Massachusetts two men by the names of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnaev partook in an act of terror on US soil. Two trash can bombs were planted nearby the finish line of the annual Boston Marathon‚ and the damage these bombs did will forever live in infamy. After the attack‚ a man hunt through the streets of Boston took place tracking down the men who had commit a mass crime
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After reading about how the Scottsboro Boys lives ended‚ I would say that some of the boys did receive some justice‚ is that the cause of majority of the deaths and the imprisonment of the Scottsboro has been caused because of their own fault. For example the imprisonment of Patterson‚ the text explains‚”Patterson escaped prison twice‚ including once in 1947 after which was arrested in Detroit after a bar fight ended in a man’s death.”(first bullet point) This shows us that Haywood did not receive
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Lucian Staniak was a young man in Warsaw‚ Poland who lost his sister and patents in a fatal car accident. The time of the accident was not documented. The driver‚ a young wife of a Air Force officer was released of all criminal charges. For Lucian his parents dying in vein was not an option. He sought out look alikes of the woman and killed them because killing her would be to obvious. His killings started in 1964 and ended in 1967. He was found guilty of the murder of six women but he confessed
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Opening: Are you experiencing mental instability? Can you just not seem to do away with those pesky emotions? Well then an ice pick and a hammer are the perfect tools for you‚ sure they are not licenced medical tools‚ in fact‚ I kind of just picked them up at my local hardware store but‚ why spend all that extra money when these two tools will do just fine. After a heavy dose of electroconvulsive shock‚ your patient should be sufficiently subdued‚ from there all you have to do is lift the patient’s
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Homicide is the deliberate and unlawful killing of an individual by another person. In general‚ there are four types of criminal homicide that varies with respect to the level of severity. These types include capital murder and manslaughter as well as murder and criminal negligent homicide. All these are punishable by law‚ but the degree of the penalty varies. The most dangerous homicide is capital murder‚ which is also known as first degree murder. This is because it is killing‚ which involves situations
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Juvenile Court Case Summary Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Juvenile Court Case Summary Roper Vs Simmons Case Roper (2005) is a United States Supreme court ruling related to capital punishment for juveniles under the age of 18. The case stands for the proposition that it is unconstitutional to sentence to death juveniles who are charged with murder before attaining the age of 18 (Roper‚ 2005). In this case‚ Christopher Simmons‚ a 17-year old boy‚ was convicted and sentenced to
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4. Professor Johnson’s death penalty IBE- E0- The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution asserts that states do possess the ability to deny a person their life‚ if the due process of law is followed. The due process clause. E1- The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution also asserts that all US citizens‚ born or naturalized‚ shall have equal protection of the law. The equal protection clause. E2- The 8th Amendment to the United States Constitution asserts that no
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“Ross W. Ulbricht‚ 31 years old‚ is the founder or mastermind of Silk Road‚ a notorious online marketplace for the sale of heroin‚ cocaine‚ LSD and other illegal drugs” (Weiser‚ 2015‚ p.1). Ulbricht created a subversive website that made it easier and safer to buy and sell illegal drugs or anything else. The online drug marketplace made more than $200 million in sales. The Silk Road case was new to law enforcement and “Operated on a hidden part of the Internet called the Tor network‚ and only accepted
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