Nabeel Basit Final Draft—PPP&L Journal Alford v. Greene—How an Unreasonable Seizure Led To an Unreasonable Interview I. Introduction Alford v. Greene dealt with the unconstitutional seizure of a young girl. In Alford v. Greene and Greene v. Camreta (which was consolidated into Alford v. Greene), caseworker Greene and Deputy Sheriff Alford seized a young girl and interrogated her in a private office at her elementary school for two hours. This was done without a warrant, probable cause, or parental consent, because they suspected the mother's husband may have been sexually molesting the girl and her sister. Deputy Alford had a visible firearm during the interview.
Scenario #1 Miss Dee Meanor was arrested on June 30, 2011 in Brook Park, Ohio. Officers arrived on the scene of “Nak’s Fine Eatery and Drinkery” to find Miss Meanor engaged in an altercation with a fellow patron. According to the Brook Park Municipal Ordinance, assault is classified as a 1st degree misdemeanor. For scenario #1 respond to the following questions: After spending the night as a guest of the City of Brook Park, Miss Meanor will be taken to Court. 1.
The Crown reported that Pickton told the officer that he wanted to kill another woman to make it an even 50, and that he was caught because he was "sloppy". Background On February 6, 2002, police executed a search warrant for illegal firearms at the property owned by Pickton and his two siblings. He was taken into custody and police then obtained a second court order to search the farm as part of the BC Missing Women Investigation, when personal items (including a prescription asthma inhaler) belonging to one of the missing women were found. The farm was sealed off by members of the joint RCMP–Vancouver Police Department task force. The following day Pickton was charged with storing a firearm contrary to regulations, possession of a firearm while not being holder of a licence and possession of a loaded restricted firearm without a licence.
Adopting Augustine’s idea of ‘evil’, we are to say that he is not living up to standards expected of human beings. Privation may also concern itself with things not concerned with morality, such as natural evil. For example, a person may have eyesight that falls shorts of perfect eyesight – his eyesight is therefore ‘evil’. This way, God’s omnipotence is justified because evil is defined as an absence of certain qualities. Hence, it doesn’t exist.
Section 1 In a quick overview of the case Mapp v. Ohio which ended in a ground breaking Supreme Court decision police officers in Cleveland, Ohio were watching a women named Dolree Mapp. The reason for the surveillance because police felt she was a guilty of harboring a fugitive in addition she was also suspected to have illegal gambling material in her house. Under advisement from her lawyer Mapp refused to let police search her house without a warrant. After this contact police returned three hours later and when there was no answer at the door police force their way in, Mapp demanded to see a search warrant the police showed a piece of paper which Mapp snatched from police to discover that it was not a search warrant. Through the search of the house police found illegal pornographic material but nothing that they suspected her on, at which time police arrested Mapp for the illegal pornographic material.
Some laws, such as the waiting periods, have led to people getting hurt or even murdered because they had to wait for approval before completing the purchase. “On March 5, 1991 Bonnie Elmasri called a firearms instructor, worried that her husband-who was subject to a restraining order to stay away from her-had been threatening her and her children. When she asked the instructor about getting a handgun, the instructor explained that Wisconsin has a 48-hour waiting period. Ms. Elmasri and her two children were murdered by her husband twenty-four hours later.” (Dissell) “Armed with a knife, Charles A. Grant, Jr., sexually assaulted a 33-year-old woman on a Virginia beach one Tuesday in 1991.
Christine Blowe CJL 2134-2 Katz v. United States 389 U.S. 347 (1967) Facts: Katz was arrested and convicted of transmitting gambling information. The FBI had placed a wire transmitter on a public phone booth. With these recordings the FBI use them at trail. Procedural History: Katz wanted the evidence suppressed, because he felt like it violated the Fourth Amendment. The trail court had denied.
The arrest is the seizing and detaining of a person by lawful authority (McGrow-Hill, 2010, p.22). He has Bill and Stan exit the car through the driver’s side. Because the Sherriff thought they had committed a felony he had every right to have his weapon drawn. A felony is” a serious offense punishable by death, a fine, of confinement in a state or federal prison for more than a year” (Wikipedia.org). During the initial arrest they were not informed about what crime they had been arrested for, which they should have been.
The guilty-but mentally-ill verdict fails to uphold this principle, and even though it mandates treatment for offenders, there is no indication that the treatment for offenders that are mentally ill has improved since the verdict was established. The APA supports the standard for legal insanity which involves a lack of appreciating the wrong behavior due to a mental issue. The APA is hesitant on taking a position on the assignment of the burden of proof in insanity cases, since this is a matter for legislative judgment and further empirical study. When it comes to psychiatric testimony, the APA supports allowing testimony about the offenders’ mental state, diagnosis, and motivation at the time of the criminal act, leaving the decision of legal insanity up to the jury or judge. The APA stands behind the special management of release decisions for people that are not guilty by reason of insanity in cases that involve violent behavior.
Judges should be able employ other methods if they feel that they will be more successful. Victims’ Lobbies should have less influence on the administration of justice. All people sympathise with the victim, but no matter how badly they have been wronged they should have no influence on the outcome of a sentence, or on anybody responsible for any of the decision making. A key principle of Natural Justice is an impartial judge and allowing victims to have any affect on decision-makers is a fundamental breech of Natural