After participating in and reviewing the Q.B trial R v. Perry & Manitoba in regards to the role of the investigator, and the physical evidence that was implemented in the trial, four individual pieces of physical evidence were introduced to the court by the investigator (cite). These four pieces of evidence consist of, a black wallet that was found on Matlock Manitoba, a time X watch found on Mason Perry, and a knife and a replica firearm found in a dumpster, in the back ally where Mason Perry and Matlock Manitoba were arrested. In relation to the introduction of evidence, the wallet, and Time X watch that supposedly belonged to Monty Hall was first introduced into court by the Crown during the testimony of Monty Hall, stating that his black wallet and Time X watch was stolen from him during the robbery. Additionally, they were shown to Hall asking how both compared to the ones that were stolen, then entered them into court as exhibit one and two. The physical evidence was then brought up once again when Constable York started his testimony, adding that Manitoba was in possession of the wallet and Perry of the Time X watch when found hiding in a bush within the back ally.…
requirements of Miranda or whether the defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his rights”. (wicourts.gov) STATE of Iowa, Appellant, v. Luis Fernando ORTIZ, Appellee, This case was filed in the Supreme Court of Iowa and was decided in 2009. On July 15, 2006, a woman called the Sioux City Police Department to report that Luis Ortiz, who she hired to do remodeling work in her house, “had forced her seven-year-old daughter to touch his penis”. After a brief meeting with Ortiz Detective Bertrand asked ortiz is he was willing to go to the police station with him for an interview. Once both arrived to the police station Detective Bertrand and Salvador Sanchez, a Sioux City officer, acting as translator, handed Ortiz a Voluntary Waiver of Rights…
NOW COMES the State of New Hampshire, by and through the Office of the Rockingham County Attorney, and states as follows: 1. The defendant is charged with one count of Possession of a Controlled Drug with Intent to Sell [Principle/Accomplice] and one count of Possession of a Controlled Drug. 2. On June 2, 2016 the State received the defendant’s Motion to Suppress. 3.…
Gideon v. Wainwright,372 U.S. 335 (1963) Parties: Plaintiff: State of Florida (the prosecutor) Defendant: Gideon Petitioner to the Florida Supreme Court: Gideon (on a writ of habeas corpus) Respondent to the Florida Supreme Court: State of Florida Petitioner to the United States Supreme Court: Gideon (on a writ of certiorari) Respondent to the United States Supreme Court: State of Florida History: Gideon was charged with a misdemeanor (B & E).…
Many people tend to wonder the actual power of the president. Is it just a title? Or is he secretly the most powerful man; much like a dictator? Well, by going back in time to specific court cases that could have swayed either way, one can easily tell that the president has more powers than everyone thinks. Many think that issues involving wars and foreign relations are solely powers given to the President, but these powers can be tested when problems occur that are not clearly stated in his job description.…
Student protestors of Gallaudet University presented the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees with four demands: 1. The resignation of the newly appointed university president Elizabeth Zinser, a hearing person, and the selection of a Deaf person as the universities president. 2. The immediate resignation of Jane Basset Spilman, who was chair of the Board of Trustees. 3.…
The case that I have chosen to write about is the very first on the list that we were given to choose from. Brown v. Mississippi that ultimately had the ruling of, “physical coercion violates the Fourth Amendment” (Becker, et al. p. 197). In this case, the defendants were charged with murdering an individual by the name of Raymond Stewart.…
Hodges and Loving v. Virginia that were similar. In both cases the petitioners traveled out of state to marry. Upon returning, they were both deprived of their personal liberties. Although the liberty is different specifically, both were charged under the Due Process Clause. Both their states were depriving them of either justice or discrimination, which in return is why both petitioners in each case fought back against their state to fight for their rights.…
These rights include the right to a fair, speedy, and public trial by a jury. It also includes the right to counsel in the case that the defendant cannot provide his or her own. The right to counsel, specifically, has been a staple of American ue process. In the hallmark case of Gideon v. Wainwright, the right to a court appointed counsel was upheld. Clarence Earl Gideon broke into a pool lounge in Florida with the intent to commit misdemeanor offenses.…
In December of 1965, Mary Beth Tinker, her brother John Tinker, and their friend Christopher Eckhardt, students of Des Moines public schools, decided they were going to wear black armbands to school for a period of time in protest of the Vietnam war. The school board found out about the students’ plan to protest, and decided to put a ban on the wearing of black armbands on school property. If any student came to school wearing an armband, they would be suspended. The three students decided to come to school wearing the armbands, and they were suspended. The students decided to sue the school district, through their parents, and the case ended up going all the way to the United States Supreme Court.…
(n.d.). In Pennsylvania v. Nelson, there was “no room” left for the state’s to regulate so the federal got involved (Supreme Court Rules FDA Label Rules Do Not Impliedly Preempt State Tort Suits. (n.d.). Justice Warren wrote an opinion which strike down a law which made it a crime to support the violent defeat of the United States government (Supreme Court Rules FDA Label Rules Do Not Impliedly Preempt State Tort Suits.…
In 1883, The Civil Rights Act of 1875 would be ruled unconstitutional, and Chief Justice Joseph Bradley held that the 14th Amendment didn’t protect African Americans from discrimination by any privately operated businesses or operations, but only from discrimination by states. In another court case, Plessy vs. Ferguson established the idea of separate but equal. While…
Alabama of 1932 was a landmark case in American history. The case brought to the forefront the issue of legal counsel being guaranteed by the 6th Amendment, and how that right applied to the States by the 14th Amendment. This case brought up the issues and concerns of what the requirements of the State was in this type of criminal proceedings. Due Process wasn’t given to the African American men in this case. The Incorporation Doctrine within the Fourteenth Amendment will now serve as a series of checks and balances so that state governments can’t make sure not to violate these rights that are given to our…
For instance, the Dred Scott VS Sanford supreme court case and the Plessy VS Ferguson case. These cases were important in making this country free for all races as it is now. Without such cases to sort out right/wrongdoings who would know where we would be today. In 1846, Dred Scott, a slave, sued in a Missouri court for his freedom from his master.…
SCOTUS cases involving the First Amendment are important to learn about about because they can and will influence how the First Amendment is applied to all citizens. The First Amendment grants everyone the freedom to express their own religious…