...The investigation of Laci Peterson began on Christmas Eve, 2002, Scott Peterson called police to report that his 27 year old wife, Laci Peterson, was missing from their one-story, ranch-style Modesto, California home (Noe, 2010). Laci was seven and a half months pregnant. Doctors had given her a due date of February 10, 2003. A sonogram had shown the fetus to be a boy; the parents planned to name him Conner. Little did everyone know eventually Scott Peterson would be behind the disappearance of his wife and unborn son, Conner (Noe, 2010). At first Scott seemed to play the role of the loving, caring, and devoted husband. This was the cause of Scott not being considered a suspect early on. Investigators focused on other leads, which gave Scott the ability to eventually try to disappear. Things started to unravel when police noticed Scott’s story was not adding up about his whereabouts the morning of the disappearance. Scott’s secrets did not last long. Soon the affair he was having with Amber Frey was well known and now caused him to be under closer suspicion in the disappearance of his wife (Noe, 2010). Amber Frey contacted the police when she learned that Scott was married and admitted that he had lost his wife weeks prior to her disappearance. Amber agreed to let the police tap the phone lines in hopes of trying to have Scott to confess to the crime but Scott never stated anything on the recordings that could incriminate him (Noe, 2010). He either knew that he was trying...
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...Negligent homicide CASE Facts: Around 10:30 p.m. one night after Kelly Hallett and Richard Felsch had drunk to intoxication, they drove to a highway intersection which has stop signs. However, they bent over the stop signs. Then Hallett removed and relocated with another stop sign.The following morning Krista were driving on that highway and when she drove to the intersection where she didn’t see the stop sign, an accident happened. Krista collided with a car driven by Betty Carley. Carley then suffered injuries and die at a hospital. Hallett was charged with manslaughter. Analysis: In this case, Hallett will be charge with criminal homicide. There are three kinds of criminal homicide, Muder, Manslaughter and Negligent homicide. Murder is defined as the killing of one human being by another intentionally with malice aforethought, In many states can by punished by the death penalty because Murder is graded as felony. However in this case, Hallett could not be guilty of murder. Because the evidence showed that Hallett was not premeditated remove the stop sign. He didn’t intended to cause the injuries of Carley. So due to the definition of murder. Hallett can’t be guilty for Murder. In determining whether one should be charged with manslaughter the crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought, or otherwise in circumstances not amounting to murder. Moreover. Whether the person could be charged with the same offense which cause him has had to defense.,In this...
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...Macbeth: Act 3 Scene 4 ‘They say, blood will have blood’ ‘Lesser than Macbeth but greater,’ theses are the words which make Macbeth start to think about whether his bestfriend, Banqou, can be trusted. In one of the first scenes of the play the three witches tell him this after he killed King Duncan. The words start to drive him insane as he starts to believe that Banquo or his son, Fleance, may take the throne away from him. His sanity leads him to killing Banquo, making him so guilty that he breaks down at the State Banquet. Act 3 Scene 4, the Banquet scene, is one of the most significant scenes as it shows Macbeth has finally cracked as he goes insane in front of all his guests. I will be discussing how violence, the supernatural, masculinity, ambition, guilt and prophecies effect Macbeth throught the scene. The supernatural is one of the most biggest themes in the play. It starts off in Act 1 Scene 1, with the 3 witches and carries on with the prophecies given by them, which i believe make macbeth insane, believing that he can be all powerful. The supernatural links into this scene because, when Macbeth looks over the banquet he says ‘the table is full’ and sees the ghost of Banquo sitting in his chair. Macbeth speaks to the ghost, ‘Thy gory locks at me,’ the ghosts ‘locks’ of hair as described as gory because as the guest enter the first murderer tells him that Banquo diesd with twenty gashes on his head. Interestingly, if this does link into the theme of supernatural...
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...24 year-old American student Amanda Knox was yesterday acquitted of the November 2007 muder of her former housemate Meredith Kercher. Seattle raised Knox and London based Kercher shared a house in Perugia, Italy whilst both studying on university exchange, before the brutal attack which left Kercher lifeless. Yesterday’s courtroom of six lay jurors and two judges saw what was described, by on onlooker as, ‘an Oscar-worthy performance’ as Ms Knox implored for her freedom. The final verdict was reached, and Knox was allowed to walk free, serving only four of the twenty years imprisonment she was originally sentenced to. New evidence was presented to the jury, contradicting the prosecution’s case originally presented at the November 2008 trial. Knox’s legal team was able to verify the whereabouts of Knox at the time of the murder, and rule out the supposed motives for murder. A representative for the Kercher family yesterday released a statement expressing the dejection experienced by relatives of the victim, “we are saddened to see the release of Amanda Knox. Contradictory evidence was also presented, indicating Knox’s guilt, but was overlooked.” The statement read, “We as a family, and a community are going to continue to strive for justice for Meredith.” Locals whom dealt with both Knox and Kercher on a regular basis rallied outside the courthouse following the acquittal. The upset group hurled the words ‘shame’ and ‘murderer’ at Knox as she left...
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...Being able to to face you fears is a challenge. Overcoming your fears is another challenge. If we dont face our fears they will consume us if we don't overcome them. ' The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' is a novel written by Mark Haddon it is about a fifteen year old boy, Christopher Boom who has aspergers syndrome. Christophers Aspergers syndrome makes understanding humans, and becoming independent a hard challenge. Theses are are all challenges Christopher faces in this novel. Christopher writes a book about the muder of a dogbut it is not just about the mystery of who killed Wellington but what Challenges Christopher faces and overcomes. Being Independent is ais what teenagers strive for. Being independent is about being...
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...flu) pandemic. The estimated transmissibility of the current virus is also not far from the norm. Depending on the methodology used, the calculated basic reproduction number (R0; the number of secondary infections produced by a single infected individual) is 1.2-1.6. This number is similar to that seen with seasonal influenza, while comparable estimates of R0 for the 1918, 1957, and 1968 pandemics ranged from 1.4-2.0. The WHO, however, suggests that there may be a much higher secondary attack rate. ■ COMMENTARY 2. 3. 4. 5. Government Pandemic Influenza Site: http://www.PandemicFlu.gov/ U.S. Government Pandemic Influenza Site: http://www.PandemicFlu.gov/ World Health Organization http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html Human/Swine A/H1N1 Influenza Origins and Evolution (Wiki) http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/groups/influenza/ http://www.thelancet.com/H1N1-flu The recognition that the initial perception of a high mortality rate was apparently spurious has led to some relaxation of concern. This may, however, be premature. While we have completed the usual influenza season in the Northern Hemisphere, the season is just beginning in the southern latitudes. Furthermore, previous pandemics have come in waves, with the second or third wave sometimes being associated with more severe disease than the original portion of the epidemic. While this was not true of the 1968 pandemic, it was true in 1957-1959 and, especially, in 1918. In fact, concern has been raised about...
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...been caught in the cross fire betweeen to gunmen in the car park she was crossing through, and died outside Stunnel House in John Williams Close. The two gunmen in question were seventeen-year-old Armel Gnango and “bandana man”. The apparent casue of the gunfight was a debt that was less than £100. Scientific examination demonstrated that "Bandana man", not Gnango, had fired the fatal shot. After Magda was shot, both Gnango and "Bandana man" fled the scene. The killing was widely reported in the media as an example of a "Wild west" shoot out Outcome Gnango appealed against his conviction for the murder of Magda and made a renewed application for leave to appeal against the minimum terms of the senteces Imposed upon him for the attempted muder of “bandana man” and possession of a...
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...Throughout the novel the boys constantly battle losing themselves to savagery in many different scenarios.In the Lord of the flies,loss of identity enable the boys on the island to commit evil actions that they would normally not do. Throughout the novel we witnesshow gradually the boys start to lose humanity and end up killing eachother at the end of this process.’’There we no words,and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws’’(chapter 9 pg 139).Life on the island was being striiped away of civilization and the killing of simon was the last link of any civilization the boys had in themselves.Through this brutal animalistic murder of simon the smallest ounce of good they had left in themselves was quickly ripped away.Due to this event the boys all had become inhumane savages and lost who they really were....
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...Brady v. Maryland Heading: Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) Certiorari to the court of Applels of Maryland. No. 490. Decided on May 13, 1963. Petitioner claims he was denied due process of law after he confessed to helping in a crime that ended in muder, but was never shown evidence that his partner had confessed to the actual killing until after he was convicted. Procedural History: One case that is mentioned during the Brady trial is the Mooney v. Hola ham case in which the principle is " not punishment of society for misdeeds of a prosecuted but a avoidance of an unfair trial to the accused. Society wins not only when the guilty are convicted but when criminal trials are fair; our system of the administration of justice suffers when any accused is treated unfairly." Facts: the petitioner and a partner by the ame Boblit were found guilty of murder. Both men had separated trials, the partitioner was triad first. He stated that be had helped in the crime, but the Boblit had actually committed the murder. Brady requested to see the prosecutor's extrajudicial statement from Boblit. He was shown these statement, but the prosecutor did not show him the statement in which Boblit confessed to the killing. The Due Process Claise of the Fourteenth Amendment was violated according to the Appellee by suppressing evidence. The petitioner requested a new trial in which the question of punishment would be viewed. Issue: the issue is this case is whether or not the prosecutor...
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...homicides every year, including this year it is already been three hundred twelve murders and it is only in august and Chicago is on track to get to four hundred homicides. The highest number of homicides were in two thousand twelve when the death toll was five hundred nine homicides. This week of August 23rd to August 29th there has already been fifty-three shootings and ten murders, nine out of those ten were shootings. The number of people killed in two thousand eleven it was four hundred forty-one homicides and in two thousand twelve there was five hundred thirty-two, which means the murders increased by ninety-one percent! Ten killed fifty-five wounded on the Fourth of July weekend, this was lower than the year before. All of the muders happened in within eight hours! Last Fourth of July, eighty-two people were shot, sixteen of them fatally, over eighty-four hours. Five of those shot were wounded by police, this year there was not any police involved shootings but the shooters are sooting at police, they do not have any respect for authorites but the violence picked up from dusk Saturday until dawn Sunday, when thirty people were shot across Chicago, nearly half of the shootings were over little problems. The main argument in Illinois is gun control, the governor is trying to help cut down the violence but they community isn’t helping the police. They still live by the no snitching or the street rules, which means they won’t tell what’s going on in the neighborhood even...
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...are going to rob them and take that gun and money and then we going to leave. ¨ But what if they are there.¨ ¨ Oh T.j they arent there they are at home sleeping¨ ¨ Ok¨ And then that happened Mr juge i didnt kill Mr bentte and i didnt say i wanted to rob them i am a good child i would not do that to someone. Then the juge said mevlien and R.W are next up. ¨Tj told me and R.W to go get that gun in the bennet store.¨ ¨ No we dont want to we dont want to get in troble.¨ ¨ DO IT!¨ ¨ Or what T.J are what.¨ ¨ Or i will kill you!¨ And so then your oner we didnt want to die so we just did what we had to do to save our lifes. And then the juge did a lier test and…… T.J pasted but you know Meliven and R.W didnt and now those to are in jail FOR… muder. And life sectences. Now T.J is 39 and he has a wife and 3 kids lizzy, Hayden, Drea. and runs his own compien. Then T.J would go and vist Melvein and R.W in jail he dose not know why he thinks becuese they said he would ever have a good life becuese he is black ...
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...Punishment Affirms Life”, Koch brings up the issue that death penalty should be applied to atrocious crimes because it acts as a deterrent to crime. Koch goes on to say that the state is higher level than the individual therefore the state must govern. It is also morally right because according to Koch in the Bible and the Toran is said to be fine and supported in certain situations but he also states that Jefferson and Lincoln supported it. Koch goes on saying that having the death penalty will affirm the value of human life by acting as a deterrent because the majority of killers will make every effort to stay alive. The death sentence is the only way to guarantee that murders wont murder again. Koch also brings the argument that the sky high muder rates in the US require the...
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...CHAPTER 5 – CASE: South Africa • Neighboring Countries: Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia and Lesotho • Form of Government: presidential democracy • South Africa has 3 capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein • Population (2009): 49.1 million people • GDP (2009): $495.1 billion • GDP per capita: $10,1000 • Rainbow Nation: reflects the cultural diversity o of the total population, about 31 million are Black, 5 million are White, 3 million are Coloured and 1 million are Indian o Black population consists of four groups: Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda • Subgroups • Nguni: Zulu and Xhosa o White population: majority has Afrikaans roots; 40% of British decent • Languages: there are 11 official languages spoken • apartheid: system of legal racial segregation enforced by the Nationalist Party between 1948 and 1994 o UN trade embargo o reforms to apartheid in the 1980s failed to quell the mounting opposition o 1990 – President Frederik Willem de Klerk began negotiations to end apartheid, culminating in multiracial democratic elections in 1994, which were won by the African National Congress under Nelson Mandela • Black Economic Empowerment (BBE): post-apartheid program, designed to redress the inequalities of apartheid by giving previously disadvantaged groups (Black Africans, Coloureds, Indians, Chinese) economic opportunities previously not available to them o it has included measures such as employment equality, skills development, ownership...
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...Eminem “My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge...”- “Criminal”, from “The Marshall Mathers LP” An average rap artist wouldn’t be able to grace the covers of VIBE, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and Spin while on a national tour months before their major debut album is released. An average rapper couldn’t say that he’s collaborated with Dr. Dre, Elton John, and Dido, all in the same year. Then again, Marshall Mathers III, better known as Eminem isn’t your average rapper. No other artist has ever been the center of such heated and conflicting debates. He’s hailed as brilliant by some critics and deemed as indecent and disgusting by others. But the controversy isn’t as simple as that. This is an artist and a man who is as complex as he is talented. “...no labels wanted to sign me, almost gave up... until I met Dre, the only one to look past, gave me a chance, and I lit a fire up under his ass...”- “White America” Eminem was born in Kansas City, Missouri. During his early years Marshall Mathers and his mother moved between Kansas and Michigan until the age of twelve when they settled in east Detroit. During these years there would be much turbulence to get through. Tragedies including the suicide of his beloved cousin Ronnie and being abandoned by his father threw his world into what could’ve been an irrevocable downward spiral. They would prove to be haunting to the tortured youth. Without stability finding friends and staying out of trouble became...
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...When asked, most people would say the book is better than the movie but film brings a clearer image to a story. The Tell Tale Heart is a story about a man who claims he has a disease but implies that because it has not dulled his senses, he cannot be called mad. He also points out his mental disorder actually caused his senses to become more acute. When he claims that he has heard things from heaven and hell, it gives away that his super human sensory is an illusion. He seems insane, he talks about an old man who he loves, but he can’t stand his eye or his heart beat. Before the end of the story he kills the old man. In the film there are characteristics that add to this story. The visualization, since you don’t have to imagine it, gives a greater impact. Film has the ability to add a lot of emphasis that make certain scenes stick out from the rest. This grabs attention. Some elements in film can’t be put into literature, an obvious one is actual sound. There are many different similarities in film and literature adaptions, but film brings unique qualities to a story that literature cannot. Film adaptation provides a physical visual for the events in the story. The film begins with a scene of the killer standing in a dark room while in a straightjacket. It's an erie start for the film. The killer is breathing heavily and opens his eyes slowly. This scene gives evidence that he is mad mentally and emotionally. This also makes it seem like the killer has objective. The killer...
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