He went to trial and was found guilty of her murder, sentenced to life in prison at hard labor. However, there is evidence that Alvin Heaton was not actually guilty of the murder of Alvin Stevens, and although he confessed to the murder, Alvin Heaton was unfairly tried and convicted. In this paper we will analyze the sheriff’s investigative tactics, the evidence for and against Alvin Heaton presented at trial, the bias of the jury and the early release Alvin Heaton was able to procure from prison. When Sheriff James A. Brown, sheriff of Kane County, Utah in 1908, began the investigation of the murder of Mary Stevens he did so after the body of the deceased young woman had been tracked and found by her brother.
In 1975 Ted was arrested in Utah but was released due to the little evidence, Two years later was convicted of kidnapping and escaped. Ted Bundy killed three people in Florida and was arrested but his parents bailed him out and he sold his car but police impounded it away from new owner. It was then when forensic evidence finally solved this case by finding three different hairs matching the three victims killed in Ted’s car and matched his teeth marks the a bite mark on one of the victims. He was then was sentenced to three death penalties in 1978 when Ted was recaptured and on January 24, 1989 at Railford prison in Starke, Florida Ted Bundy was executed in the electric chair. My opinion on this case was interesting yet disgusting but Ted Bundy was smart about how he attracted his victims.
The story of Ronald Gene Simmons. On the 22nd of December, 1987 the worst mass murder in Arkansas history took place. A man by the name of Ronald Gene Simmons went on a killing spree. He started off by killing his wife, kids, and his three year old granddaughter, but it didn’t stop there. He killed his family and quite a few harmless townspeople because he went insane, because why else would you kill harmless people?
Manslaughter is defined as the unlawful killing of another human being without malice aforethought. I. Discuss the evidence to sustain a charge of murder against Deft: To be liable for murder, the element of malice aforethought must be present. The evidence shows specific intent to kill, premeditation and deliberation in several ways. The facts tell us that Deft searched for several months but was unable to find the killer, Deft went to the 38th street pier in search of the killer, and that Deft pulled out a handgun and shot Kyle in the chest.
Poyck and Valdez were eventually arrested the same day. “In 1972, William Van Poyck, at age 17, was sentenced to life in prison” (Killing People In the Name of Teaching That Killing is Wrong) for armed robbery with a deadly weapon. He was originally sent to Starke, which is known as the toughest prison in the state, but in 1977 Poyck was sent to a place called The Rock for bad behavior. He escaped from The Rock by making a key to open a security door and then cutting through fences. A month later, after his escape he was caught.
Ted Bundy would rape strangle and beat young women and girls. Bundy would fake injury to get his victims inside his car and beat them to death sleeping with their dead corpses. There was no suspects because during his murders which occurred before dna profiling he had mastered the art of leaving minimal evidence behind. There was a number of pieces of evidence that led to Ted Bundys conviction. After police found Cheryl a victim of Bundy found badly beaten and raped they were able to obtain a blood type from the assailant, sperm samples and fingerprint smudges.
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. The evidence provided in the trial was enough for Mr. Dufresne to be sentenced to two consecutive life terms, one for each of his victims. While seeing Mr. Dufresne entering the prison, his innocence or guilt is still questionable. Mr. Dufresne’s innocence is restricted from the audience until the introduction of Tommy, an inmate at Shawshank. After serving a period of time there is a scene in the cafeteria where inmates are discussing what they are in for and each one says that they are innocent, except for Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, who says that he is the only guilty inmate in Shawshank.
In 1991, Troy Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of a police officer Mark Allen Macphail in Savannah, Georgia. The case against Troy Davis primarily based on only witness testimony without any DNA evidence. Since his 1991 trial, seven of key nine witnesses even changed their testimonies; some claiming police forced them to. However, after years of appeal did not prove his innocent, Troy Davis was finally executed in September 2011 with he still claiming himself innocent. On the same day, Iran publicly hanged a 17-year old boy, name Alireza Molla-Soltani had convicted of killing a popular athlete despite international prohibitions against executing juveniles.
He was found guilty of the murder and was convicted of killing Peggy. However on January 22, 2008 Timothy Masters was exonerated of the charges which were filed against him. The dismissal of the charges against him was after he had served several years behind bars. In this case, it is clear that these law professionals relied on inconclusive information. Timothy Masters’ arrest was only because he had failed to report that he had found a dead body while he was heading to school.
About nine months later, he was tried and sentenced to death. Simmons confessed to the murder and agreed to perform a videotaped reenactment at the crime scene. So, the state charged him with burglary, kidnapping, stealing, and murder in the first degree. In the courtroom the defense called no witnesses in the guilt phase. The jury returned a verdict of murder; then the trial proceeded to the penalty phase.