Felisha Khooblall Criminology – Reaction Paper “Tracy Thurman Case” The Tracy Thurman Case was in the 1980s. Between November of 1982 and June 1983, Tracy Thurman was stalked and attacked by her estranged husband Charles Thurman. She was brutally attacked by Charles, stabbing her multiple times, kicking her and stomping on her skull. Due to the amount of damage done to her, she was turned into a quadriplegic. During the attack, the police allowed her husband to wander around for 25 minutes and watched as he continued to attack her.
However, a regular Australian man was trying to talk to his former girlfriend at a nightclub in Bali and was pushed to the ground and punched while four of the attacker’s friends watched on and kicked the victim. The attacker and his friends were taken to court and put in gaol. These incidents clearly show that there is a double standard when it comes to athlete’s behaviour and if it were fair Nick D’Arcy would have been gaoled. If society did not have double standards as to what behaviour is considered acceptable than all people should face the same penalties for women abuse. In 2009 Nathan Bock assaulted his girlfriend.
A month later, after his escape he was caught. In 1986, after serving 14 years of his original sentence he was released from prison on parole. He was not released for very long, as the June 24th event followed in 1987. On that day, William Van Poyck and Frank Valdez ambushed the guards in a doctor’s office parking lot in West Palm Beach Florida, who held their friend James O’Brien in custody. Poyck approached the van, aiming the gun at Officer Turner’s head.
In light of recent events in Ferguson, MO, Mike Brown, an eighteen year old St. Louis native was gunned down by a Ferguson police officer. This case of potential police brutality caused riots to rage in the city of Ferguson, MO. Rioters burned down a gas station and burglarized many small businesses in the area. Could all of this been stopped with one simple solution? Numerous stories arose from the shooting.
They were carrying a factory payroll of $15,776. Three weeks after the murder of the paymaster and his guard, Sacco and Vanzetti fell into a police trap that was set up for suspect in the Braintree crime. Both men were not under surveillance for these crimes, but at the time of their arrest, they were both carrying guns. They were charged for the South Braintree crimes and, according to the Sacco-Vanzetti case, “Vanzetti was also charged with an earlier holdup attempt that had taken place on December 24, 1919, in the nearby town of Bridgewater.” On April 15, the day of the Braintree murders, it has been said that Sacco had taken a day off from work. Sacco's testimony that on April l5—the day that he was away from works—he was in Boston seeking a passport to Italy.
For example, there was a “man [who was] sentenced to prison for 25 years to life under the law for stealing a bottle of vitamins” (Murphy). In March 1999, when the Three Strikes law was challenged by this case, the Supreme Court “refused to hear” (Murphy) a word that was said by the people. By putting them in prison for an excessive amount of years, housing for serious offenders is being made unavailable which will lead to an increase “to an already overcrowded and expensive prison system” (Messerli). Some of the people may have committed the innocuous crime to help their spouse and children. When used, the Three Strikes law treats all crimes the exact same way, which makes the law unjust.
The Shawshank Redemption opens with Andy Dufresne being interrogated and sentenced for the murder of his wife and her lover. During the interrogation Mr. Dufresne flashes back to the night of the alleged murders. The flashbacks show Mr. Dufresne reaching into his glove compartment and pulling out a gun and bullets while sitting outside of his wife’s lover’s home. The interrogating attorney accuses Mr. Dufresne of shooting his wife and her lover, but the flash backs do not show him using his gun. During the interrogation Mr. Dufresne states that on his way home to ‘sleep it off’, he threw his gun into the Royal River; the attorney states that after searching the river for three days the gun was never recovered.
In more recent years, Pelican Bay State Prison located in Crescent City, California, has received national media attention on more than one occasion. This trend started back in February 24, 2000 when a prison riot between African American and Hispanic inmates erupted on a recreational yard. The result of this riot left an inmate dead, 19 others wounded, and a total of 89 manufactured weapons recovered (Wallace, Podger, & Van Derbeken, 2000). In 2011, Pelican Bay prisoners began a statewide prison hunger strike. This hunger strike was directly related to the 2000 riot followed by recurring violent attacks on inmates.
BODY A. MP1- Our safety is threatened, the very people (police) that we pay to keep safe are the ones hurting us The public’s safety is threatened as shown in the Oscar Grant and Sean Bell cases 1. The Sean Bell shooting took place in New York City in November 2006 3 men were shot a total of fifty times by team of plain clothed and undercover officers killing one of the men being Sean Bell and severely injuring his two friends According to one of the undercover officer known as Gescard Insnora he overheard Bell and his friends talking about retrieving a firearm from the car so he followed and revealed his badge. Sean Bell accelerated and hit Insnora and over 50 shots was fired into the vehicle Sean Bell was reported as being legally intoxicated 2. Oscar Grant an Oakland citizen was gunned down by a police officer, he was fully cooperating with authorities Grant was seen begging the cops not to shoot The Police ran around after the shooting looking to confiscate any cell phones and video recording devices Oscar Grant was murdered in cold blood at the age of 22 by BART police 2 hours into the New
Pate. A mentally handicapped 19 year old was arrested for suspicion of stealing bikes. The police interrogated him for four days in large groups, with the teen’s hearing aid, he was sick, he wasn’t being adequately fed, and he was without council or his parents. After four days he confessed to being part of a murder, and was sentenced to 199 years. The court did recognize however that the boy was coerced and that the state violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by using his written statements as evidence in his