in court as an item of proof‚ to impeach or rehabilitate a witness‚ and to determine a sentence. This paper will examine two murder cases‚ O.J. Simpson and Daniel Taylor. Perhaps the most famous case in the 20th century was the O. J. Simpson double murder trial. On June 12‚ 1994‚ two people were brutally killed. Those two people were Nicole Brown Simpson‚ O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife‚ and Ronald Goldman. O.J. was arrested the next day and charged with their murder. O.J. pleaded innocent to murder and
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Toni Asterino Starcher Law 211 Intentional Tort Case The case that I researched was O.J. Simpson verses the Goldmans. Prior to this case O.J. Simpson was arrested for the murder of his Ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. O.J. did plead not guilty and after a 133 day trial‚ he was found to be not guilty of the crimes on October 3‚ 1995. On October 23‚ 1995 in the state of California Simpson was back in court for the wrongful death case; where the parents of the deceased Ronald Goldman
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results of DNA test showed that skin and hair fibres‚ that belonged to several key detectives‚ were on the murder weapon; as a result of contamination‚ the police was accused by the media‚ and the jury of evidence tampering and trying to frame Mr Simpson (Wood‚ 2003). The evidence suggests that the chain of custody model prevents any unnecessary handling of the evidence that can lead to the contamination of vital evidence. This means that the chain of custody model can preserve evidence in an effective
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Desensitizing of the Mass Media Donna Scyoc University of Phoenix SOC/105 DR. Brand Bowler August 28‚ 2010 Desensitizing of the Mass Media Most people who hear‚ read and or see about events like‚ the violence on television rarely give it a second thought. TV is just one way the mass media changes us. Violence overseas‚ in America and in third world countries are constantly in the news. You see dead people lying in groups‚ you see bomb destruction and horrific situations and
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Andrea Simpson suffers from Binge-Eating Disorder (BED)‚ 307.51. There are several things about her case that make this clear. She has had periods of time in her life when she ate a great deal of food in a short time and she states that she would eat until she was uncomfortably full. When she was in college she never felt out of control during a binge—she always believed she would stop when she finished the piece of food she was eating. However‚ she reports that this seldom happened‚ and that usually
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for criminal investigators. As a society we have witnessed several cases that have had an unjust outcome because of tampered evidence or evidence that was gathered without a warrant. Some cases that were affected by tampered evidence where the OJ Simpson Murder Trial‚ The Ex-Massachusetts chemist gets three to five years in tampering case‚ the mishandling of DNA evidence in Rape Cases‚ and many more. Each of these cases were different but they all dealt with inadmissible evidence. They all have
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On December 9‚ 2001 Kathleen Peterson‚ the wife of Michael Peterson was found dead in a pool of blood at the bottom of a staircase in their mansion home located in Durham‚ North Carolina. Kathleen was a business executive‚ engineer‚ and a philanthropist. Michael Peterson was an American novelist who was convicted in 2003 for murdering his wife‚ Kathleen Peterson. It was known that Michael had called for help shortly after finding his wife unconscious who seemed as if she had fallen down the stairs
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Not only was John Matuszak a big NFL star but the world of Hollywood drew him in. John got his first major role in the film North Dallas Forty in 1979 playing a football player. While he was on injured reserve in 1982‚ he started to consider acting as the next chapter in his life. He had special appearances on television shows. These included: M*A*S*H‚ The A-Team‚ and Miami Vice. Since these were just one or two shows at time‚ Matuszak starred in other movies as well. One movie most people recognized
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There are three major mistakes police made in the investigation process. First of all‚ the crime scene investigation. After identifying the victims and finding 2 children remaining at the scene‚ the police officers decided to notify their father Simpson about what happened to his ex-wife and ask him to take the children home. Four police officers left the crime scene and went to Simpson’s place. Blood from the scene might be carried to Simpson’s place. While collecting evidence and protecting the
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Section I: Presentation of Traits This essay is based on the fictitious character Bart Simpson from the series the Simpsons. Bart is the 10 year old son of Homer and Marge Simpson. He is the eldest of three children; he has two younger sisters Lisa and Maggie. Bart possesses many personality traits; however‚ this paper will analyse the trait of aggressiveness. This paper will firstly provide two behavioural examples that support Bart’s trait and then analyse this from Jung’s Neo-Freudian‚ Eysenck’s
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