On April 15, 2013 19 year old Dzhokar Tsarnaev and his 26 year old brother Tamerian Tsarnaev set off two pressure cooker bombs within 12 seconds and approximately 210 yards apart near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The explosions killed 3 civilians and injured an estimated 264 others that day. The bombings were classified as an act of domestic terrorism since both brothers, even though we Chechen born, were US citizens. In the man hunt for both bothers an MIT officer was shot and killed
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Scenario 1: Task 1 (M1) The definition of classifying something as murder is stated in the (18th Century rule – Cokes Institutes) which states that “unlawful killing of a human being under the Queens peace with malice aforethought, express or implied. The actus reus of murder is the unlawful killing of a human being under the queen’s peace. Certain killings may be lawful such as those in lawful self-defence. As you can see from scenario 1 it shows us that unlawful killing of a human being was involved
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JonBenet Ramsey is a six year old girl who lived in Boulder, Colorado. She was reported missing on a cold Christmas morning by her mother Patsy Ramsey. That night a caller reported a scream and a hard clash against the concrete from the house. Police received the call around 5:30 A.M claiming the JonBenet was taken from their home and the kidnapper had left a ransom note stating that they needed $118,000 or they were going to kill the child. The note was found on the staircase closest to JonBenets
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It has been decided. In the case of James Holmes, the jury reached the decision to charge the 28-year-old Colorado shooter with life in prison without the possibility of parole. Unexpectedly, Holmes has dodged the death penalty, ABC News reports. The decision was reached on Friday following three months of testimony from survivors and close relatives of the shooter. The entire case took almost three years until the final verdict was reached. However, on Friday, the jury only needed about 6.5 hours
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The likable, athletic ex boyfriend of Hae Min Lee is innocent of the charges of murdering her. It's clear that Jay murdered Hae Min Lee, and blamed it on Adman Syed to cover himself. Jays story had many holes in it. There are three key elements in this case that prove Adam Syed's innocence. The first way is how Syed talked about his relationship with Lee, second Jay's story, and third the way Jay blamed Adman. The first piece of evidence that proves Syed's innocence is the way he talked about
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themselves caught up with the wrong things. Speaking on how kids suffer more so teens brings me to my main character, Tyrone. Tyrone is a 16 year old who hasn’t had a father since he was 12, do to him being sentenced in jail for 5 years for first degree murder that he didn’t do but was plotted on him. When his father went away it affected him a lot because he was so close with his father they were unbreakable. When he went to jail he begin to act out his mother even lost control of him. She put him in many
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Neanderthals originated from Africa and moved up to the north to Europe and Asia (daily mail). Archeologists found the mostly populated place was in Europe and looked for any fossils (netflix). Homo sapiens used fire to make the meat and the tough plants they eat more consumed more easily (national geographic). Neanderthals were handy with tools so they could get food to eat. Most of the Neanderthals were dead by the age of 30 years old (netflix). Around 400,000 years ago the homo sapiens
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charges were filed until much later. Things have changed for Glenna Duram drastically in the two years since her husband, Martin Duram was killed. She is now going to be sentenced in the murder of her husband after she was convicted on the charge this past Wednesday. According to People, Glenna Duram was convicted of murder and a felony fire arm charge. The most shocking part of his whole case
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In the case State v. Fransua (1973) we can see a situations were a crime event involve two drunk people in a bar in Albuquerque, Daniel Fransua the defendant and the victim. This situation shows how absurd moments were that the victim taunting invitation to “go ahead so shoot me!” and the defendant pick up the pistol of the victim from the bar, and shoot him. Based on the facts on this case I can say that this crime case it is absurd between this two drunken people after an argument they level the
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things. George killing Lennie is the best option ,George should have done things differently. George could have taken Lennie to the police, Instead of killing Lennie,George could have met Lennie in the woods and they could have run away from Weed. Murder is wrong and George could have let Lennie suffer instead of killing Lennie. George talks
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