The officer arrested all three occupants of the car and Pringle was convicted for possession with intent to distribute cocaine after he gave an oral and signed a written confession. Pringle was sentenced to 10 years without the possibility for parole. Pringle appealed the ruling arguing that probable cause to arrest him did not exist. ISSUE: Is whether
If the foreign national chooses to exercise that right, the peace officer shall notify the pertinent official in his or her agency or department of the arrest or detention and that the foreign national wants his or her consulate notified. All the evidence was used during the trial to convict Oliver of these charges. He was convicted for posession of a firearm in public and silencer and convicted for
Running head: Armington / Double Jeopardy Armington / Double Jeopardy Paula Ahl Kaplan University LS311: Business Law 1 Professor Allen January 20, 2013 Armington / Double Jeopardy In the case of Armington who while robbing a drugstore, shot and injured Jennings, the drug store clerk, was convicted in criminal court of armed robbery and assault and battery. Later Jennings filed a civil tort suit against Armington for damages. Armington stated that according to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution he could not be tried again for the same crime because this would be double jeopardy. As stated in our text “double jeopardy is defined as being tried twice for the same criminal offense” (Miller & Jentz, 2008). However, prohibition against double jeopardy does not preclude the crime victim from bringing a civil suit against that same person to recover damages (Miller & Jentz, 2008, pg 137).
On Thursday April 21, 2011 he was arrested with 18 U.S.C. § 1028: US Code - Section 1028; defined as passport fraud. Passport fraud is define an individual steals another personal information and use it for personal use without the knowledge of the person being affected. The penalty for such crime is ten to thirteen years in a federal prison (findlaw.com). Mr. Mora-Lopez pleads not guilty to a Federal District Court in Anchorage to the charge of passport fraud.
Fox v. Cochran No. 5102 Bud Fox, a fifteen year old has found his way into the courtroom once again. At a young age he was in and out of the juvenile detention centers never being able to stay out of trouble accumulating multiple charges. While legally still being a minor, the criminal history of Bud Fox’s arrests plays a huge factor in his most recent arrest. Bud Fox is tried as an adult and sentenced to 61.5 years consecutively in prison including 15 from when he was charged as a juvenile for nonviolent crimes.
The FBI, State Police and the local law enforcement had numerous leads. State police officer, Tom Schumpp, who supervised the Tylenol case, along with 100 other officers, pursued thousands of leads and several suspects. None compared to the evidence they had on a man named James Lewis, 40, an unemployed accountant. Lewis was the prime suspect in the beginning of the investigation and he remains the prime suspect to this day (Hale). James Lewis was arrested after he sent a letter to Johnson and Johnson demanding $1million to “stop the killings.” If the money was not paid, a repeat of the killing would occur.
Senior Pat Hopper is Convicted for Criminal Trespassing By: Erica Goldman 17 March 2012: Yesterday in the Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division- Metro County Criminal courts, seventeen year old Pat Hopper was charged with third degree Burglary, fourth degree criminal trespassing, third degree attempted theft/theft and second degree bias theft/attempted theft. However after a long trial, she was only convicted for fourth degree criminal trespassing. Starting off the trial, the prosecution began with their opening argument. Attorney’s Ari, Nikita, and Alex told the jury that they were going to prove Hopper guilty of all the above charges. They said she allegedly entered Mrs. Willson’s (Hopper’s math teacher), home and stole from her
These classes are class A, class B, and class C each and every one of these classes have different kinds of penalties for dealing and possession. The drugs that are included in Class A are Ecstasy, LSD, heroin, cocaine, crack, magic mushrooms, and amphetamines. The penalty of possession of any of these drugs is up to seven years in prison of an unlimited fine. The penalty of dealing is up to life in prison. Class B drugs include amphetamines, cannabis, and Ritalin.
Most hostages were held for ransom and released unharmed; but in 2010, at least 13 were injured and 8 were killed (Schranz, 2012, para 1) 4. ANALYSIS: Many innocent people have been put in danger over the last several years due to pirating. B. Body Paragraph Two: Armed robbery against ships in Gulf of Guinea needs to be stopped. 1.
It is to be noted that, there is no necessity in a false imprisonment case to prove that a person used physical violence or laid hands on another person. It is sufficient to show that at any time or place the person in any manner deprived another person of his/her liberty without sufficient legal authority. False arrest is sometimes used interchangeably with false imprisonment. False arrest is the unlawful violation of the personal liberty of another consisting of detention without sufficient legal authority. In order to establish a false arrest claim, the person detained must prove that the arrest is unlawful and such unlawful arrest resulted in injury.