Together, as a Jury, we decided that George Milton’s actions were justifiable in the death of Lennie Small. Our first reason for coming to this decision is that Lennie died in peace. In the trial of George Milton, the defense attorneys brought Curley to the stand. Curley mentioned that he wanted to shoot Lennie in the guts and that he wanted him to suffer because of what Lennie had done. Curley also said, “Ya, George’s way of killing Lennie was better than the way I would have done it.” This proved
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The case Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals is about two children that were born with birth defects. They and their parents sued Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals because they are the manufacturer of the drug Bendectin which they believed is the cause of their defects. When the courts asked for evidence that the drug could indeed cause such birth defects all they could come up with was that in some animal testing there were defects. The courts did not consider this as admissible. For an expert testimony
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The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments over an important privacy rights case. The defendant in the case, Timothy Carpenter, was convicted of multiple armed robberies in Michigan and Ohio. Part of the evidence used to convict included his cell phone records, which showed his phone connected to cell towers in the vicinity of the robberies. Timothy Carpenter’s legal counsel argued that the prosecution could not use his phone records against him in the trial because they did not get a warrant
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help Henwood’s defense. The final blow to the defendants cause of self-defense was when Cora Carpenter a maid of Isabell told a story off Henwood and Isabell staying in the same room at the Springer Ranch. With the trial rapping up it only took the jury a few hours to come up with a verdict of guilty of murder in the second. On May 28, 1913 Henwood was granted a new trial only this time the lone survivor James Atkinson
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“No Snitch” does No Good Sitting across the desk from me was a police investigator who had tears welled up in his eyes. He didn’t know what to do because he was working a case in which a child was sexually abused, but neither parent was cooperating with investigators. My heart sank. Because without witnesses, there was no telling if and when the abuse might stop. I’d like to tell you that this situation happened to me only once as a prosecutor, but sadly, that feeling of disappointment and
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their star witness Mark Fuhrman. Most distasteful in Made in America Part 5, is the audacity of Mark Fuhrman trying to minimize his racist actions, which he decried as “a flaw in me,’ as his racist vitriol caught on tape that was instrumental in the jury not believing in the credibility of the prosecution’s
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After reading “Murder on Abortion Row” and the official court transcripts on the John Salvi’s case I would have found the defendant John Salvi incompetent to stand trail until he was willing to work better with his defense team. In the official court transcripts John Salvi repeatedly stated that he did not have to answer questions that he did not want to answer. John Salvi kept using his Fifth Amendment and avoided answering many questions. John Salvi also repeatedly accuses the psychiatrist to be
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Passaic County Superior Court Judge Joseph Portelli broke down in tears on Wednesday April 06, 2016 during a hearing over his ostensible breaches of ethics. Portelli was charged with several accounts of making garish and sexually suggestive comments in front of lawyers and other witnesses. All of which transpired during September of the previous year. If found guilty for his accusations Portelli would various penalties ranging from a reprimand to the removal of his position on the bench. (www.nj
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CHAPTER 11 BAIL AND BONDS 11.1 PROVISIONS AS TO BAIL AND BONDS- Provisions regarding bail can be categorised into- 1. Bailable cases; and 2. Non-bailable cases. In bailable cases, the grant of bail is a matter of duration given either by the police officer having the accused in his custody or by the court, by executing a bond and even without sureties under section 436 (1). In non-bailable cases the accused may be released on bail but bail cannot be granted where
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Thaddeus Shortz, # 447-109, raises claims arising from his housing at the Maryland Correctional Training Center (“MCTC”) . He is presently housed at the Jessup Correctional Institution (“JCI”). Mr. Shortz raises claims concerning the confiscation of his personal wheelchair and the failure of the institution to install handrails inside of the cell around his toilet. He contends that defendants conduct amounts to constitutional and ADA violations of the ADA. He seeks $250,000 in punitive damages, $300
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