Arrest

Police System: Prior to an arrest of a crime is going through an investigation. When the police have decided that a crime has been committed, afterwards the police decide whether it is worth investigating or not. If they then decide it is worth it, they have to think about how carefully they are going to have to investigate. The basic idea of an investigation is to search for any type of evidence that associates the person to the specific crime that was committed. An example of this would be if…

In 1985, an innocent man was sent to prison for a sentence of 36 years. This man’s name was Steven Avery. Steven was a resident on Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. A county where the police, the people you shouldn’t be afraid of, didn’t quite accept Avery because of an incident with his cousin, who was also the wife of the deputy, some time back, against Sandy Morris. The incident involved an empty fire arm weapon, which he pointed at Morris, when asked why he did it, his didn’t like the rumors…

The Fourth Amendment authorizes that warrants be given by neutral magistrates based on facts given under oath or affirmation. The Judge has to review the affidavits and decide whether the facts determine probable cause to issue the warrant. Also, the judge needs to know why the facts in the affidavit is trustworthy. Search warrants have to be established on hard facts. Locations that are searched must be described in a lot of detail so law enforcement will not needlessly invade privacy. When…

Both authors did very well on their part about explaining who gets arrested and why, with of course having a few similarities, but also having many differences. The books both share the idea that drugs have become the leading cause for arrests in the county, leading to the exploding rates in our system. Irwin did a sample study using, in total, two hundred people…

Strengths of using Uniform Crime Reports as a data source is that it is relatively inexpensive. UCR’s also measure homicides and arrests which makes it a consistent national sample, and a large source of data. The National Incident Based Reporting System contains more data on each crime committed, and the additional level of detail supports the resolution of criminological issues.…

Miles was shot with and Spade was also afraid to relay the death of Miles to Mrs. Archer. In some countries, these kinds of allegations can be used to place a suspect under arrest and prosecute them. In Salinas vs Texas, The Supreme Court asserted a judgment concerning the Texas Court of Criminal Appeal decision to use pre-arrest silence as substantive evidence of guilt (Odom, Para. 4). One will say why then was Spade able to talk to the Lieutenant with the tone which he used? Spade was able to…

of committing an unlawful act while taking reasonable steps when conducting the search. The scenario also raises the question as to whether PC Sharkey has exercised his powers of arrest by having reasonable grounds for believing the arrest to be necessary, while providing Marcus with the right information for the arrest. In order for PC Sharkey to have legally exercised his powers of stop and search he must have subjectively and objectively had reasonable grounds for suspecting that Marcus is…

records of arrests and convictions. In order to succeed in this process, the law firm needs to understand the process and law on expunging records of arrests or convictions and the amount of work required from its end. What is Expungement? Expungement is a term that refers to the process of clearing or deleting a criminal record of…

The investigation went on for about seven years without any arrest and a grand jury voted to indict the parents for child abuse and the Mary Lacy, the DA, rejected the indictment under lack of evidence. The ransom note was written so juvenile that it is no way that anyone in their right frame of mind would ever look…

presented to the United Nations in next months meeting. They are considering what the police are doing as “culture of impunity.” Even though Chicago is only made up of 33% blacks, in 2011 of all of the youth arrests in Chicago 77% of them were black. It is also known that 92% of the stun gun related arrests were against black and Latino youth. These cases are proving that police brutality is primarily targeting citizens of colored races. However, what makes this brutality a lot worse is that the…