October 2, 2012 Case Brief Cupp v Murphy 412 U.S. 291 (1973) Facts: Daniel Murphy was convicted of murdering his wife in the second degree. After he found out of the murder he called the police and voluntarily submitted himself to questioning. In the middle of his questioning the police noticed a dark spot on his finger and they asked if they could get a sample and he refused. The police did not respect his wishes and they took the sample anyways of what was under his fingernail. They processed it and later found out there was traces of his wife’s nightgown, skin, and blood all from the deceased victim.
Although thoroughly "institutionalized” Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside world. Prior to his release, he is interviewed by a local college newspaper reporter, to whom he recounts the brutal murder of his mother and her boyfriend with a sling blade. Karl continues, saying that he killed the man because he thought he was raping his mother. When he discovered that his mother was a willing participant in the affair, he killed her too. 1.
ESCOBEDO V. ILLINOIS SUMMARY: The case involved Danny Escobedo, who was arrested on January 19, 1960, for the murder of his brother-in-law, but was released after contacting his lawyer. The lawyer told him not to answer any more questions if the police rearrested him. Ten days later, he was arrested a second time and asked to see his attorney repeatedly but his request was denied. His attorney went to the police station and asked to see Escobedo but was refused permission to see him. The police told Escobedo that his alleged coconspirator in the shooting of his brother-in-law had confessed and Escobedo was involved.
Special agent Paul Smecker is assigned to the case. He knows that the death of the two mobsters is not a professional hit. As the police start looking for the people who are responsible, the brothers show in the police station to clear their names. The media and the public pronounce them as heroes. They spend the night in the police cell when they got the message from god telling them to kill every bad man.
They also expressed similar concerns that it was racially targeting black defendants. In the Furman v. Georgia case, the resident awoke in the middle of the night to find William Henry Furman committing robbery in his house. When Furman attempted to escape the home he dropped his gun. Upon hitting the ground, the gun discharged and killed the homeowner. The death was a freak accident that resulted in murder.
Hauptmann was arrested and charged with the kidnapping. In what has since been termed the Trial of the Century, Hauptmann was convicted, and sentenced to the electric chair, where he died proclaiming his complete innocence. The fact that $18,000 of the ransom money was found in Hauptmann's garage acted strongly against him. Hauptmann claimed that he found the money in a package left with him by his business partner, Isador Fisch, before Fisch left on a trip to Germany. Fisch died there, of tuberculosis.
Hatcher claimed to be the most notorious criminal in northwest Missouri since Jesse James. Hatcher tried to seek psychiatric treatment while in prison; however the prison denied the request thinking it was a scheme to get out of prison early. Hatcher was from a small town in Missouri that was the youngest of four children. An abusive alcoholic and ex-convict for a father he was bullied in school, which lead to Hatcher causing pain to his fellow classmates. “In the spring of 1935, he and his older brothers were flying a kite with copper wire they had found in an old Model T Ford.
Jefferson was put on trial because he just happened to be in the convenience store at the wrong time. When the convenience store clerk was found dead, and Jefferson was there collecting the money from the register, he was automatically accused of the crime without a fair trial. During the trial, not only was the entire white jury against him, but his lawyer who calls him a hog, as well. Just because Jefferson is an African American at a time of segregation, he is sentenced to death, causing the inevitable. Racial injustice is a huge wrong of our judicial system in the past, and continues to be in some cases.
RIVERSIDE: Fugitive shot to death by police | FRANK BELLINO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Riverside Police Officer put up barricades to cover the body of a man that was shot and killed by police on the 5600 Block of Harold Street in Riverside, Feb.18, 2012. 1 | of | 3 | | | | BY BRIAN ROKOS STAFF WRITER brokos@pe.com Published: 18 February 2012 04:15 PM A Text Size A man wanted on a felony arrest warrant who told a friend he would rather die than return to jail was shot to death Saturday when, Riverside police Chief Sergio Diaz said, he pulled a gun on officers who were trying to arrest him. The man’s mother, Gramercy Place resident Lorie Rivera, identified him as Danny James Bond, 38. His driver’s license lists him as a San Bernardino
This month Kip Kinkel was sentenced to life in prison in Oregon for the murders of his parents and a shooting rampage at his high school that killed two studen ts. A psychiatrist who speciali zes in the care of adolescents testified that Kinkel, now 17, had been hearing voices since he was 12. Sam Manzie is also 17. He is serving a 70-year sentence for luring a n 11- year-old boy named Eddie Werner into his New Jersey home and strangling him with the cord of an alarm clock because his Sega Genesis was out of reach. Manzie had his firs t psychological evaluation in the first grade.