He then drove her around town, sexually assaulted her twice, stopped the car and left. The victim was medically treated and examined. Sexual assault and a severe chest wound were confirmed. At the time of his arrest, Williams told the arresting officer he climbed into the back of the victim’s car, a green Buick, while it was parked because he thought it was his brother’s and he wanted to take a nap. During trial, he testified he knew the victim previously, had sex with her prior to that night and on that night.
During the attack, the police allowed her husband to wander around for 25 minutes and watched as he continued to attack her. When the ambulance arrived and took Tracy away, then they proceeded to arrest Charles. Tracy went to court against the police department of her home town, Torrington, Connecticut for failing to provide her with protection since she was married to her attacker. The court found that Tracey was discriminated against because the violence was a Domestic dispute. She was awarded 2.3 million dollars by the court.
She met and started a relationship with another woman. However, when money started getting tight, she decided to start robbing the men she picked up. And to avoid witnesses, she killed them. Between December, 1989 and November, 1990, she killed a total of seven men. She claimed she killed in self-defense, but eventually she admitted this was not true with the exception of the first man.
This case proceeded in London and was said to be a strong influence in the abolishment of capital punishment in the United Kingdom. Evans was executed in 1950 for the murder of his wife and 13-month-old daughter. Evans maintained his innocence through the whole trial and told investigators that his neighbor, John Christie murdered his family. There was not much evidence against Evans and the case was said to be really weak but he was still executed on March 9, 1950. The police coerced Timothy Evans into a false confession by threatening him.
Verona Press Early Saturday morning, two young supposed lovers [Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet] were found dead in the Capulet charnel house along with the County Paris, the once-fiance of young Juliet. Authorities have stated that two of these deaths are thought to be suicides and one a murder. While searching for witnesses, authorities found a promising lead: Friar Lawrence. When asked about Saturday’s events, Friar Lawrence stated that he married the young couple [Montague and Capulet] in secret. It was said that because of the feud between the Montagues and Capulets that had been going on for decades the marriage had to be in secret.
Both men then went back to the their house where Tate said he found Mayella lying on the floor. She had fainted before Tate arrived. She told the sheriff that Tom Robinson had raped her. Ms. Ewell identified Robinson as the culprit. Atticus Finch, the defence, asked Heck Tate whether anyone called a doctor to check Ms. Ewell out, and he answered no.
From 1973 to 1978 she researched women and neurosis from that she was inspired and published her novel, Women at Point Zero, which was based on a female, who was on death row, that was in jail for murdering her husband. Later in 1980, she became more and more involved in women reforms. Her involvement with these reforms closed all doors for her in finding a job. Soon after she was imprisoned for her “crimes against the state”. She believed to be arrested because she started criticizing the policy’s that were being made.
She was a New York resident who was raped outside her building and over 40 people watched it happen. In the Watchman there is a newspaper that reads “Woman Killed while neighbors look on” (Moore 6.11) Rorschach is talking about her to Dr. Malcolm Long. He said that she was tortured and people watched and no one called the police. This is not true because the night she was attacked, one man named Karl Ross did call the police and Kitty died on the way to the hospital from multiple stab wounds
Casey Anthony Trial and the Social Contract Theory CRJ 141 Professor D' Arcy Section 2 Known as the “social media trial of the century” by Time Magazine, the trial of Casey Anthony stirred many opinions during the nearly two months of proceedings (Cloud, 2011). Anthony is alleged to have killed her two year old daughter Caylee in Orlando, Florida. Anthony was first investigated by police after her mother contacted 911 and reported she had not seen her grand-daughter in a month. Casey was eventually acquitted of the homicide, but was found guilty on four counts of lying to police. She was credited with time served and was released shortly after her sentencing hearing.
Khyra Isheq A girl of seven who was allowed to die by a failed Social Services Khyra Isheq was beaten with a cane and was allowed to starve and eventually die a slow and painful death by her mother Angela Gordon and her step father Junaid Abuhamza. This happened to Khyra even though she was being monitored and visited by at least nine Social Workers, Teachers, Education Officers and even the Police. Many of the people who visited Khyra were simply fobbed off by her mother. Her step father who was found to be a Schizophrenic believed that Khyra was possessed by an evil spirit called a “Jinn” and that Khyra could only be saved by having the spirit starved and beaten out of her. Once Khyra had started to lose weight she was removed from mainstream school and was instead taught from home by her mother.