Case name: Rankin v. McPherson, 483 U.S. 378 (1987) Facts: Ardith McPherson was appointed a deputy in the Constable’s office of Harris County, Texas, on January 12, 1981. Her duties were only clerical. On March 30, 1981, McPherson discussed with her boyfriend, and fellow employee, a report about an attempt to assassinate the President of the United States. She made the remark “If they go for him again, I hope they get him”. Her remark was reported to Constable Rankin, who fired McPherson, even though she told him she did not mean anything by it.…
Case Brief Case Name: Commonwealth v. Cheeks Citation: 423 Pa. 67, 223 A.2d 291 (1966) Vote: The Majority in Favor Author (Opinion of the Court): Justice Eagen Concurrences: None Dissent: Justice Cohen Facts: On October 11, 1963, Joe Henry Howell was stabbed and robbed by four young males on a public street in Philadelphia.…
There is no doubt about the fact that Richard’s conviction should be overturned under Chapter 623. Chapter 623 allows for an individual to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus based on two main factors. The first factor involves if whether or not, the original expert (prosecutor’s side) repudiated his original statement. The second factor pertains to the later scientific research or technological advances, which could serve to undermine the original expert’s…
The Blooding The Blooding, written in 1989 by Joseph Wambaugh, relates the story of a two English girls brutally raped and strangled three years apart in the 1980’s. The novel follows the investigation of the Narborough murder and how the discovery of a new forensic technique was vital to solving the case and finding the killer. This discovery of genetic fingerprinting by Alec Jeffreys during the time of this investigation revolutionized the world of forensic science. The novel begins by setting the scene in Narborough, England, a small village southwest of the city of Leicester.…
Later, during his jury trial, Thurman was identified by the victim and another witness as the attacker. Additionally, a Virginia state crime lab analyst, Mary Jane Burton, used the DNA found in the victim’s underwear to determine that the attacker’s blood type was Type B – the same blood type as Thurman and also 20% of all African-American men. Without the technology we have today, this was enough to convict Phillip Leon Thurman of rape, abduction, and assault and he was sentenced to thirty-one years in prison.…
The courts biggest issues were trying to decide whether a trial court’s erroneous deprivation of a criminal defendant’s choice of counsel entitles him to a reversal of his conviction and should proving the sixth Amendment right to proceed with the counsel of choice depend on whether the deprivation of that right also resulted in compromising a defendants’ right to a fair trial. The majority opinion did not apply the Strickland test because they felt that the defendant could not show or give any reason as to why he felt the counsel was ineffective and that the counsels performance was poorly presented and deficient and the defendant was prejudiced by it. What the Strickland test is actually intended for is that the government must contend that the defendant must at least demonstrate that his counsel of choice would have pursued a different strategy and would have created a :reasonable probability”. In court cases the course can be split into two structures; trial errors and structural errors. Most constitutional errors are trial errors that occur “during the presentation to the jury,” and courts have discretion in deciding whether these trial errors are harmless and warrant a new trial.…
Case Scenario 3: Related Case Childs v. Desormeaux, [2006] 1 SCR 643, 2006 SCC 18 (CanLII) Torts — Duty of care — Social host liability — Accident caused by guest driving his car after leaving party intoxicated — Whether social host owes duty of care to third parties who may be injured by intoxicated guest. After leaving a party held in a private home, D, who was then impaired, drove his vehicle into oncoming traffic and collided head‑on with another vehicle. One of the passengers in the other vehicle was killed and three others seriously injured, including C. C brought an action against the hosts of the party for the injuries she suffered. Both the trial judge and the Court of Appeal concluded, for different reasons, that social hosts…
In this case, the geneticist testified in front of a jury that the DNA evidence indicated “the probability of Garry Phillips being the father is greater than 99.99 percent, and the odds of Kathy being the mother are greater than 99.9 percent” (Gathings). However, testimonies vehemently claimed that Kathy was not pregnant in any reasonable time frame to give birth to that newborn and that her personal disposition did not correlate to that of a murderer. In the end, the jury decided that Kathy was not guilty. This is a rare example of a case in which the jury took into account the case holistically, and considered genetic evidence on equal grounds as other pieces of evidence. Extrapolating this example back to the current topic of ambiguous behavioral genetics, it is essential for juries sitting on these behavioral cases to consider their cases holistically as well.…
COR160 Essential Academic Writing Skills Tutor-Marked Assignment 01 July 2017 Presentation Done by: Soh Wen Hui Q1770407 (T04) Understood from article 1 and 2 that Joshua Robison’s case had led to a controversy that the existing law is not good enough. In another word, imprisonment sentence is too merciful towards offenders on sex with minors. For Robinson’s case, many felt that 4 years of imprisonment is not painful enough for him.…
Components Of Blood Blood is a specialized body fluid. It has five main components: plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Blood has many different functions, transporting oxygen and nutrients to the lungs and tissues, forming blood clots to prevent excess blood loss, carrying cells and antibodies that fight infection, bringing waste products to the kidneys and liver, which filter and clean the blood, and regulating body temperature. The blood that runs through the veins, arteries, and capillaries is known as whole blood, a mixture of about 55 percent plasma and 45 percent blood cells.…
There is a variety of blood groups and antigens present in different human bodies, which depend on either polymorphism or inheritance. Blood grouping has a clinical significance, for example; we need blood grouping in cases of transfusion to avoid incompatibility, which often leads to blood clumping and agglutination then eventually death of patients, not only that but they are also important in pregnancies in cases of maternal fetal incompatibility. Each blood type has its own advantage like its resistance to infectious diseases.…
Forensic evidence has been originally used to find criminals and convict the authors of a crime. In the first criminal case in Germany using a blood test (the murder of Lucie Berlin in 1904), the main suspect had been convicted after one forensic expert testified that the blood found on an item belonged to a human (and not to an animal). A large study undertaken by Karl Peters investigated already in 1970 wrongful convictions in the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 1980 forensic sciences, especially DNA analysis accelerated the reopening of cases to acquit wrongfully convicted persons in post-conviction procedures. The term forensic science is discussed in light of presentations addressing the two sides – incriminating or exonerating - of…
These reactions are caused by someone is given the wrong blood type. It wasn’t until someone died from this type of transfusion until it was considered against the law. After this tragic loss little progress was made on blood transfusions or blood typing for the next 150…
In humans, a single gene in the body determines blood type, whether it be A, B, AB, or O. This gene determines what type of antigen protein (if there is any in the first place) is attached to a red blood cell’s membrane. The gene is designated as I, and it has three common alleles, which include IA, IB, and i. Different combinations of these three alleles produce four different phenotypes, more commonly referred to as Blood Type A (homozygous IAIA or heterozygous IAi), Blood Type B (homozygous IBIB or heterozygous IBi), Blood Type AB (heterozygous IAIB), and Blood Type O (homozygous ii). The allele IA provides the presence of an A antigen on red blood cells, while the IB allele is responsible for the presence of the B antigen. Type AB blood has both A and…
The Duffy and Kidd systems were also identified through the use of Coombs’ anti-globulin test (Giangrande, 2001). During the 20th century, the field of blood transfusions advanced tremendously, motivated by the onset of the First World War (Harding, 2014). The advancement occurred due to the new understanding of blood groups and the usage of an anticoagulant that enabled indirect transfusion to occur. Before the use of this anticoagulant, transfusion was only able to be carried out via the use of defibrinated blood as described by Moss…