...Case Citation: Kennedy v Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008) Case History: A man by the name of Patrick Kennedy who resided in Louisiana had been found guilty of raping his eight-year-old step-daughter. The case had been brought to the attention of the Louisiana Supreme Court due to the death penalty being unconstitutional since the child was not killed nor had been attempted to be killed during or after the rape. The parties that took part in this case were Patrick Kennedy who opposed the state of Louisiana in a criminal case that resulted in the decision of the death penalty. The case itself had gone through a typical trial court to the Louisiana Supreme Court and then on to the United States Supreme Court. Kennedy appealed the ruling of...
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...to come into her house. Mapps refused them to come into her home with out a warrant. The officer then had forced their way into her home. The Cleveland police officers found some lewd that they call books so Darllee was arrested but, she did not get charged for the photos that they have found because they disregard Mapps 4th Amendment right of the Constitution in the United States. The Second High Profile court case will be the Brady v. Maryland case. John Brady and his accomplice committed Murder during a robbery. Brady was tried separately from his accomplice. Both of the men were convicted and sentenced to death. Brady lawyer thought that Brady should be convicted of murder but, not for the death penalty because his accomplice had already confessed to the crime that was committed. The Maryland court had applied for a retrial for Brady conviction but overturned the death sentence and incarcerated for a new penalty and trial.the US supreme court can to a conclusion that ruled a 7 to 2 vote that Brady is definitely eligible for a new penalty trial and the evidence that was kept out of the other trail that his accomplice's confession that was given to the police of him being the killer had denied Brady due process of the law. The third high profile case is Terry v.Ohio. the detective of the Cleveland police department saw the plaintiff(John Terry) and two other men casing a downtown store for a robbery. After he got throw watching the men suspicious movements for a few minutes...
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...Racial discrimination is prejudice towards a person due to his or her race. Discrimination occurs due to the fact that one race believes that they are better than the other races. Most kinds of discrimination are violence, segregation, and biased judgment. Another kind of discrimination is stereotyping, which is where a certain race of people are all believed to have a particular idea or way that they act, and have an oversimplified image. My chosen story is “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee and is about Scout and Jem Finch, two kids in the 1930s, who watches the trial of Tom Robinson, an African American, who was accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white girl. Even with all the evidence and the obvious fact that Tom was innocent, the jury and judge both chose to say...
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...be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” A fairly recent court case Kennedy v. Louisiana, June 25, 2008 violates the 8th amendment. The background information about this case is that, Patrick Kennedy was sentenced to death for raping a child. Now, the child didn’t die from being raped. The court decision definitely violates the 8th amendment because, Kennedy didn’t kill the poor child, he simply raped her. Not that I’m saying raping a child is ethical, but, the child’s life wasn’t taken away, just sexually assaulted is what happened. The court took it to a whole other level by sentencing him to death. Why go out of your way to kill him, there’s certainly other ways to punish Kennedy, but taking his...
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...The novel To Kill a Mockingbird and the Scottsboro trials both took place during the 1930’s. There was a lot of segregation. Segregation is the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. Blacks were treated much worse than whites. Punishments to black people were much worse than for white people. The court case in To Kill a Mockingbird and in the Scottsboro Case, both took place in Alabama. In segregation was involved in Alabama. In To Kill a Mockingbird, there was a black man named Tom. Tom was a very reliable worker/ man whose arm got caught in a cotton gin when he was younger. All of the muscles were torn and his whole left arm was 10 inches smaller than his right. He was accused...
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...Some examples of the Jim Crow laws are, no colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women; two different races cannot be in the same room when buying beer or wine. If these laws are disobeyed for black people then they will have to under go brutal punishments. If blacks did not follow the laws they then risked their homes, jobs, and sometimes their lives. One of the most violent punishments for the Jim Crow law was lynching. When the colored were lynched they would be shot, burned, hit with clubs, or physically beaten to death (Pilgrim 5). There are many examples of the Jim Crow laws used in the novel. One example of the laws is the colored balcony. This balcony held all colored people that wanted to see the trial. They are placed up there because it was the next best spot in the courthouse (Lee). Also the whites thought it was distasteful having to sit near them during the trial (Lee). Lastly, blacks are not supposed to have contact with whites. Atticus was being called a...
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...Death Penalty In today’s times crime is ever increasing and as it does so should the penalties. A lot of people tend to be against the death penalty until they have a loved one taken from them. I look at the death penalty as what fits the crimes that have been committed and when you have adults that have killed another human being or have done such a hennas crime that would warrant this kind of punishment then I am all for it. I look at it as if you take a life then you have given up your life. So because of this I have taken the Moral Pluralism point of view. The death penalty is a term used to describe the act of putting a person to death, after judgment by a legal system. Either as an act of retribution, or to ensure they cannot commit future crimes. The early use of the death penalty was often for penal purposes, and as a result the methods used to put people to death were horrific. Drawing and subdividing people, for example, or flaying them alive or burning them, were not uncommon in Medieval Europe or in much of the world. There has consistently been a movement towards abolishing the death penalty, as well, although different cultures have arrived there in different times. China, for example, banned the death penalty in the mid-8th century, only to restore it after 12 years. In 96% of the states where there have been reviews of race and the death penalty, there was a pattern of either race of victim or race-of-defendant discrimination...
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...the Mockingbirds, the innocuous birds for people’s lives. However, these birds often were killed without any guilt just like the black people were shot and lynched by the white people even though they were innocent. It was the fate for the black people in the South who lived in the 1930’s. Especially, through the court scene in “To Kill a Mockingbird” which was about the trial of Tom Robinson, a married black man, who was sentenced for raping Mayella, a white woman, Harper Lee emphasized deeply the injustice for the black people. Indeed, the black people did not have any justice in the South in 1930’s. Tom Robinson was the defendant who was accused of raping Mayella on the night of August 21st. The truth was that Tom did not do anything bad to Mayella. On that day, he only passed by Mayella’s house and came in to her house to help her as she requested. Suddenly, she hugged him around the waist and kissed his face. She made him so embarrassed and afraid that he had to run away. Although Tom did not commit a crime, he was still accused of raping Mayella by her father, Bob Ewell, just because he was black. In fact, Tom only wanted to help Mayella and he also knew where the black and the white people stood; so he always tried to keep himself in the right position in the society. He never had...
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...a huge injustice in chapter 21 of To Kill a Mockingbird: He’s found guilty of raping Mayella Ewell. In The Untold Story of Emmett Till, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam are found not guilty of the murder of Emmett Till even though there is some pretty damning evidence against them. In A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon, Carolyn Bryant’s home life is riddled with little gender boundaries. The difference between boundaries and injustice aren't that different from each other when living down South. Being Black in the South, especially in Alabama, in 1935 is bad enough, but when you throw being accused of raping a White woman on top of it you’re already dead. Tom Robinson’s verdict is one of the biggest disappointments in the book, even though it’s known from the get-go. The jury chooses Bob and Mayella Ewell’s word over Tom’s even though they are seen as the scourge of the town, as implied when Atticus Finch tries to sell his...
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...The events of the “Rape of Nanking” The raping of nanking is the most unknown event in history. The rape of nanking was an example of gendercide against men & women . It’s mainly known for the mistreatment done to the women. They were brutally injured ,traumatized or killed. Defenseless men were made POWs, murdered or used for bayonet practice. They were also burned and buried alive. The raping of nanking violates human rights because no one is subjected to torture or cruel inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment. This event violated article 5. (Source 8) Japan & China had several feuds prior to this incident. Japan and China went to war in 1884 to gain control of China’s trading ports. Between 1899 and 1907 a city called the Hague in netherlands agreed to to prohibit the mistreatment of POWs and civilians. By the 1930s Japan thought it was their destiny to conquer China. Refugees tried to escape crossing the Yangtze river. Due to no transportation they were trapped on the east bank, many tried to swim across. Japanese soldiers arrived firing several shots. A Japanese soldier reported he had seen an estimate of 50,000 bodies adults & children. (Source 2)...
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...Great depression. Although the author, Harper Lee, claims this book isn't an autobiography she does admit that it does depict the unmitigated trail of the Scottsboro case that happen in her home town. The Scottsboro case played an immeasurable part in undermining the structures of white supremacy in the South and even throughout the nation. To encapsulated this appall case, it's simply a case of racial profiling when nine African American males were falsely accused of raping two white women. Even the nine young men were purely innocent their all white jury thought otherwise and for that they were exempt from their freedom and was given life in prison at such a young age. Although they were granted their exonerated it wasn't until over fifty years later it was granted. And by then only three of the nine were still alive and by then most of their life have been stripped from them blindly. This case is the inspiration for the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, case cause just like the Scottsboro case Tom was accused of raping a white women and with a all white jury found him guilty and with that his life ended just like these other nine...
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...Born in El Paso, Texas on February 28, 1960, Richard Ramirez was an American serial killer. The youngest of seven children born to Mercedes and Julian Ramirez. Richard was known for the “Night Stalker.” Ramirez would break into Californian homes, raping and tortured more than twenty five victims, and killing at least thirteen, over a two year rampage. Richard had a troubled childhood by spending all his time with his cousin Michael. Michael was a Vietnam veteran who enjoyed killing and raping the Vietnamese women for his entertainment. Michael showed him photographs of himself raping a Vietnamese woman. The last picture was the same rape victims severed head, held by Michael in his hand. Later Michael taught him how to hold and shoot a gun. One day, Michael got in a fight with his girlfriend and he ended up killing her. Richard saw the whole thing and Michael was sent to jail for seven years. Ramirez's criminal record began in 1977, when he was placed in juvenile detention for a string of petty crimes. He also received a probationary sentence in 1982 for marijuana possession. He soon moved to San Francisco, California, and then to Los Angeles, progressing to cocaine addiction and burglary, and cultivating an interest in weapons and Satanism. While in California his criminal record became increasing by time, from being a rapist person to killing people he sometimes didn’t even know. Theft turned to violence in 1984. Ramirez's first known murder took place on June 28, 1984;...
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...This a paper is over a scene over the movie “ To Kill a Mockingbird” this is where Atticus a character speak on behalf of another character who is black, and his name is Tom Robson. Tom was accused of raping a White women mind you Tom went over to this ladys house to help her with things around the house because she had no one to help her and she has kids running around the house. Atticus feels the petty put on this women but Atticus is also very educated and is going to bring justices and or try to do his best. Many people in the town don’t like Atticus because he is defending a black man Tom but Atticus knew that Tom was innocent and he knew he had to defened him. Atticus already knew that he was going to lose this case before it had...
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...In 1935, Maycomb County had witnessed a tragic trail for Tom Robinson— a 25 year old man of color. He had been accused of raping Bob Ewell’s 19 years old daughter, Mayella Ewell. The trail took place at the village Courthouse, where a huge crowd of people from both races: white and blacks, attended the trial. Mr Gilmer was the prosecutor and the Atticus Finch was the defense lawyer. Judge Taylor and a chosen jury controlled the case. Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson’s lawyer, he had defended the opposing suspects with strong evidence. Unfortunately, Atticus’s evidence was not enough to prove Tom Robinson innocent. The trial ended in favor of the accusers, the Ewell family. The sin took place a year ago, near the garbage dumps of Maycomb. These dumps were once cabins for Negros, and the Ewell’s had lived behind these garbage dumps for years. Mayella was the oldest in the Ewell family, and she had had two or three years of education only. Bob took care of his children in all previous years, alone, since the death of their mother. The trail started with the sheriff, Mr Heck Take, giving his testimony, he was interrogated about the harms that Mayella Ewell has received. Mr. Finch and Mr. Gilmer, the prosecutor, questioned him. Shortly after the sheriff, Bob Ewell, the father of the victim,...
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...After the death, people were starting to wonder why she would wash the infant’s clothing, packed them away long with the other items she had for the baby. This is something she would do any time after the child had passed away, this lead people to think she was guilty of something. About two weeks after her baby dying, her son Joseph was taken to the hospital. Once they had taken him to the hospital, he started to go into cardiac arrest and then later he died. Soon after saying goodbye to her son, a month later her daughter Barbara Ann went to the hospital next. As soon as she was taken to the hospital, her mother wanted and did take her daughter home, the next day she passed away. Her daughter would have been the third child to past away within the two month marks. This time instead of doing her ritual after the funeral of her child, she did before the...
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