Anna Garcia was a 38 year old hispanic woman found dead in her house on August 15th in Anytown, USA. She weighed 155 pounds and was 61 inches tall and seemed to be in an unhealthy state. She was found wearing a jacket in a heatwave and amounts aspirin were found in her body. Her life before her death appears to be very hectic as she recently divorced her husband, Alex Garcia, and had business fights with her best friend, Lucy Leffingwell. The possible persons of interest for the crime are Alex Garcia, Anna’s former husband, Lucy Leffingwell, Anna’s best friend, Erica Piedmont, An Ex's new wife, and Doug Green, Anna’s neighbor who reported the scene to the police.…
The offender, Simon Gittany, was born in the Western Sydney suburb of Merrylands in 1973. Gittany has five siblings, all of which were raised in Australia after his parents emigrated from Lebanon. Although large, there is no evidence to suggest that it was an abusive or neglectful household. Rather, psychologist Anna Robilliard describes the family as being “loving” and “close knit” (R v. Gittany, 2014). At the time of the homicide, Gittany was 37 years old, and was an owner of various business ventures including a women’s online shoe company called Shoe Candy (Ralston, 2013).…
Neville Bonner Background (Click) Neville Bonner was born in 1922 in a small settlement on the Tweed River in northern New South Wales. (Click) He was the second son of Henry Kenneth Bonner, an English migrant, and his wife Julia who was Aboriginal. (Click) Growing up, he had almost no formal education and worked as a farm labourer before settling on Palm Island, Queensland in 1946.…
Introduction In this paper, I will discuss the key facts, issues, and court holdings of the Fare v. Michael C. case. Discussion The Fare v. Michael C. case was heard before the United States Supreme Court in 1979, following an appeal referencing the Miranda Warnings issued to the juvenile defendant (Elrod & Ryder, 2014). At the time of the arrest in February 1976 in Van Nuys, California, the suspect, Michael C., was just over sixteen years old (FindLaw, n.d.)…
Max Jennings is a fine singer from Miami, Florida; who can also play the flute, the piano, and even the drums. a. Hyphenate fine singer b. Remove the semicolon c. Change the semicolon to a comma d. Remove the comma after piano 1 points Question 2 If you had kept your opinion of Keri's golf swing to yourself, she probably wouldn't have hit you over-the-head with her club! a. Hyphenate golf swing b. Change the comma to a semicolon c. Remove the hyphens in over-the-head d. Replace the exclamation point with a question mark 1 points Question 3…
Facts: Christopher Simmons, at the age of 17 committed murder. Simmons talked about his plan with his two friends, Charles Benjamin and John Tessmer, who were 15 and 16. Simmons anticipated on committing burglary and murder. Simmons made certain to tell his friends that they could get away with the crime due to them being minors. On the night of the murder, Simmons and Benjamin met at the home of the victim, Shirly Crook, after Tessmer backed out.…
Homicide in Sunrise, Florida Thirty-one year old Maria Nemeth was living with her 24 year old boyfriend, Fidel Lopez. On Sunday, September 20th, 2015 at 4:02 p.m. Maria Nemeth, was pronounced dead by Sunrise Fire Rescue (Roustan, 2015). It was her boyfriend Lopez, who called the police, telling operators “his girlfriend (Maria Nemeth) was having trouble breathing and was going to die” (Roustan, 2015, p. 1). Later in police questioning, Lopez recounts the gruesome events of the night before.…
At this training, the homicide investigation of Imette St. Guillen was used as an exemplar. The case details, evidence recovered and investigative practices used to solve this case were thoroughly discussed. I will review this case and discuss how forensic science was instrumental in assisting the criminal justice system in securing a verdict against Darryl Littlejohn. Imette St. Guillen was a 24 year old graduate student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. On February 25, 2006, she was out drinking with her friend at a SOHO nightclub called The Pioneer.…
Steven Brian Pennell is popularly known as the Route 40 killer or the Corridor Killer. Pennell is believed to be the first documented serial killer in the history of the state of Delaware and also the first person to be executed in the state of Delaware since the year 1946. Pennell is a Caucasian male born on November 22, 1957, a native of the Delaware. Pennell is married to Mrs. Kathy Pennell with three children, two of his own, and a step daughter. Pennell worked as an electrician but according to some sources he studied criminology at the University of Delaware.…
Opinion Ms. Justice Martinez delivers the opinion of the court. Appellant stands convicted of murdering Mr. Thompkins and possession of an illegal firearm. The Supreme Court of New Jersey found the conviction valid based primarily upon the confession unlawfully obtained from the appellant and the evidence brought to the court which was also unlawfully collected at the victim’s home. On December 24, the Ocean County Sherriff’s department was called to a wellness check of Mr. Thompkins.…
The procedures of the CRB were tightened following the Soham murders trial. Ian Huntley, a former caretaker, was found guilty of murdering two girls of a Cambridge shire primary school in 2002. Huntley had been suspected of a string of offences including rape, indecent assault and burglary, resulting from this cases where staff had been employee by schools before a full CRB check had been carried out, the Department for Education stated: "Employers should obtain a CRB Enhanced Disclosure in respect of all teachers they recruit before the person is placed in a school." Huntley had been hired in November 2001, before the CRB came into force.…
Murder on a Sunday Morning is a documentary that shows the problem in our judicial system concerning the juvenile being accused of a crime. This documentary follows the trial of 15-year-old Brendon Butler from Defense attorney Patrick McGuinness’s and Ann Finnell point of view as he works to prove Butler innocence. This case became America most misleading Cassie's because of its lack of evidence on Mr Butler Butler. This accident took place on May 17, 2000, out of Jacksonville Florida many people say that this case was not handled properly by detective and officers could also represent that the young black teen time to be a stereotype base under skin colour.…
Introduction Ian is an eighteen year old male, referred by the Juvenile Justice system for therapeutic counseling due to his conviction as a sexual offender. As a social worker reading Ian case file, Ian’s case history starts after his mother’s death when he was five-years old. Ian’s sister and her husband moved into the family home to assist Ian’s father with his care. While in the home, Ian’s brother-n-law murdered his 18-month old daughter, Ian’s niece. Ian mistakenly confessed to the crime because he hit his niece earlier with a toy.…
“I remember there was actually a sexual thrill… you hear that little pop and pull their heads off and hold their heads up by the hair, whipping their heads off, their body sitting there that would get me off”(“The World of Serial Killers”). This is a quote from Edmund Kemper talking about him playing with his sister 's dolls when he was a little boy. Edmund was born on December 18, 1948, he is best known for his intelligence, enormous size, dark fantasies, and ten serial murders. Not only was he known for necrophilia acts. At the age of fifteen most teenagers want to experience new feelings such as what it 's like to kiss someone, or how it feels to fall in love.…
The reality of being a registered sex offender comes with unfair and harsh consequences when having to live in a community with other residences. Sexual offenders come in various offenses and can commit a low level or high level sexually related crime. Based on the level of the offense most sexual crimes result in some length of incarceration or form of punishment. When sex offenders are released back into the community, it is the furthest thing from being free. A crime such as child pornography, rape, sexual assault, or child molestation are crimes completely frowned upon by most individuals, especially those with children.…