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. He was later released and was kept under police surveillance. On Friday, February 22, 2002, Pickton was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Sereena Abotsway and Mona Wilson. On April 2, 2002 three more charges were added for the murders of Jacqueline McDonell, Diane Rock and Heather Bottomley. A sixth charge for the murder
Court: SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, IN BANK Judicial History: Defendant was charged by information with the murder of Joseph H. Anderson and with assault with intent to murder William Russell Locklear. A jury convicted defendant of first degree felony murder and of assault with a deadly weapon; it fixed the penalty for the murder at death. This appeal is automatic. Conviction of murder is reversed. Facts: Defendant Butler was charged with the murder of Joseph Anderson and assault with attempt to murder William Russell Locklear.
Argumentative Essay In the United Kingdom, Timothy Evans was tried and executed in 1950 for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine. An official inquiry conducted 16 years later determined that it was Evans's fellow tenant, serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie, who was responsible for the murder. Evans was pardoned posthumously following this, in 1966. Derek Bentley was a mentally challenged young man who was executed in 1953, also in the United Kingdom. He was convicted of the murder of a police officer during an attempted robbery despite the fact that it was his accomplice who fired the gun, and Bentley was under arrest at the time of the shooting.
The Supreme Court put the authority back in the sentencing court’s hands to eliminate the vast disparity between crack and powder cocaine in the sentencing phase. Kimbrough was indicted in federal court in September 2004 in Virginia on four drug-related counts: conspiracy to distribute both crack and powder cocaine; possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine; possession with intent to distribute powder cocaine; and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense. Kimbrough pleaded guilty to all four counts. Under the statutes that define these respective crimes, Kimbrough faced a sentence of between 15 years and life in prison. Based on the facts Kimbrough admitted the district court computed the applicable range under the federal sentencing guidelines at 228 to 270 months in prison.
Gary Ridgway-Essay #1 Sacha R Gary Leon Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer (McCarthy, 2002), is known as one of the most infamous and notorious serial killers to have prowled the United States. Gary Ridgway killed at least 49 women, and some investigators believe he killed up to 90 (McCarthy, 2002). Gary’s preferred method of killing was through strangulation, often using his hands, or sometimes using ligatures. How did a boy named Gary come to become the highly feared and very hard to trace Green River Killer? This essay will describe and assess Gary Leon Ridgway’s story, from childhood to his darker days.
In the early 1980s, Harrelson was convicted of murdering federal judge John Wood with a high-powered rifle, and is currently serving his sentence in a Texas prison. During the stand-off that preceded his arrest, Harrelson not only confessed to killing Judge Wood, but also said he had been involved in the Kennedy assassination. Harrelson later retracted his statement about having taken part in the assassination, claiming he had fabricated it under the influence of cocaine. When arrested, Harrelson was found to be carrying the business card of R. D. Matthews, who, according to the HSCA, was acquainted with Jack Ruby and with other Dallas crime figures. At Harrelson's trial, Joe Chagra, the brother of the man who was believed to have hired Harrelson, testified that Harrelson was given the contract to kill Judge Wood after he claimed to have participated in the JFK assassination.
The killer originated the name zodiac in a series of taunting letters sent to local bay area press. These letters include four symbols but from those four symbols only one has been definitely solved. He disclosed his motive of killings and also give various clues about his future murder plots. He took responsibility for murdering 37 people but police investigation confirmed only five dead. On October
Beatrice millet Criminology 21 Professor Thomas March 13 2013 Assignment #1 The article “Drug snitch takes bullet in Mercedes” written by Mitchel Maddux and Dan Macleod from the NY post is about a man named Burton Dennison by the age of 44, a resident of queens New York who was gunned down in Brooklyn NY on January, 13 2013 sources say he was murdered for being an informant. The article states that Dennison became an informant after he was arrested in September 2011 for selling a kilo of cocaine to an informant who himself was angling for a lighter sentence for money laundering and drug dealing. After being arrested Dennison ratted out one of his alleged partner and pled guilty to pursuant to a corporation agreement,
The death was a freak accident that resulted in murder. At trial, in an unsworn statement, Furman said that while trying to escape, he tripped and the gun he was carrying fired accidentally, killing the victim. This contradicted his prior statement to police that he had turned and blindly fired a shot while fleeing. Either way, because the shooting occurred during the commission of a felony, Furman was still guilty of murder and eligible for the death penalty under the law at the time. He was tried and found guilty based largely on his own statement.
One Malcolm Wallace, whose fingerprints were found on the sixth floor, who went out with Johnson's sister and killed her boyfriend and was also connected with other murders, putting Johnson in a connection with a convicted murderer capable of more bloodshed. A man named Billy Sol Estes wrote a letter to the Justice Department saying that Wallace and Johnson killed JFK. The Warren Commission of who were appointed by Lyndon Johnson himself claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman but this was just to cover up for Lyndon Johnson. Dale Scott claims that 'People inside the government were responsible for the death of JFK. Lyndon Johnson may be involved due to links with Mafia, FBI and CIA'.