During the attack, the police allowed her husband to wander around for 25 minutes and watched as he continued to attack her. When the ambulance arrived and took Tracy away, then they proceeded to arrest Charles. Tracy went to court against the police department of her home town, Torrington, Connecticut for failing to provide her with protection since she was married to her attacker. The court found that Tracey was discriminated against because the violence was a Domestic dispute. She was awarded 2.3 million dollars by the court.
(AP) Former Rite Aid Corp. chief executive Martin L. Grass was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday for conspiring to falsely inflate the value of the company his father founded and cover up the scheme. Grass, 50, who headed up the nation's third-largest pharmacy chain in the late 1990s before being forced out in October 1999, also was fined $500,000 and given three years' probation for his role in a billion-dollar accounting fraud that sent the company's stock tumbling. Before U.S. District Judge Sylvia H. Rambo handed down the sentence, Grass apologized to Rite Aid, its stockholders and employees. "For the harm caused to them, I am truly sorry," he said. Grass was indicted by a federal grand jury two years ago.
Three Strikes and You’re Out! The impetus for California’s “Three Strikes and You’re Out” law originated in my home town of Fresno. The murder of Kimber Reynolds was a much publicized one in the area. Resisting the perpetrator’s attempted theft, she was shot to death on June 29, 1992. Said perpetrator was, Joe Davis, already a convicted felon, had seen release from prison only three weaks earlier.
Thompson and Venables were arrested and controversially tried and convicted in an adult court. They were both found guilty of murder and sentenced to custody until the age of 18. 8-Year-Old Boy Kills Father and Friend: In 2008, an 8-year-old boy, whose name was not released, was arrested and charged with shooting and killing his father and his father’s friend in their St. Johns, Arizona home. The
One case in particular, that shows to great depth just how effective the criminal legal system can be is the Desmond Campbell Vs Janet Campbell case. After trial, on the 18th of May, 2010 Desmond Campbell was found guilty of pushing his wealthy wife Janet (age 49) to her death on the 24th of March, 2005 off a 50 meter cliff just south of Burning Palms in the Royal National Park in for financial gain. It was noticed that the offence committed by Des carried a maximum forfeiture of a life sentence in Prison, however, the Crown (and Judge) came to the conclusion that this specific case did not meet the description found in The Crimes (Sentencing Procedures) Act 1999. They felt it differentiated too drastically in terms of seriousness (with Desmond’s conviction sitting in the mid range of seriousness for offences of murder) and in level of culpability in comparison other cases such as R v Coulter (2005) NSWSC 101 , R v Gonzales (2004) NSWSC 822 and R v Walsh (2009) NSWSC 764 which led to life sentences. There was, in fact a mitigating factor put forward by the defence lawyer for Desmond being that his older brother was killed in a motor vehicle accident shortly after he had migrated to australia traumatizing him during his years as an infant years.
Officially referred to as the People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson, the O. J. Simpson murder case spanned from November, 1994 to October, 1995, charging the former professional football star and actor O. J. Simpson for the murder of his ex-wife and one of his friends. This case was described as the most publicized criminal trial in American history. After more than eight months of trial, Simpson was acquitted of all criminal charges. During the criminal investigation, trace evidence was collected. Included in the physical trace evidence collected are hair and fibers.
Alias Grace Based on a notorious double murder in Canada in the1840's, the novel Alias Grace tells the story of a pretty 16 year-old servant girl who conspired with a ranch hand to kill their employer and his mistress and escape with their belongings. They were captured in several days, and later, in a much-publicized trial, found guilty of premeditated murder. The young man, James McDermott, was sentenced to death, and the girl, Grace Marks, narrowly escaped it. Alias Grace begins after the murderess has served 8 years in prison. The death of Nancy Montgomery, Kinnear's housekeeper and mistress, has been disregarded as both villains had already been sentenced to death.
Casey Anthony Trial and the Social Contract Theory CRJ 141 Professor D' Arcy Section 2 Known as the “social media trial of the century” by Time Magazine, the trial of Casey Anthony stirred many opinions during the nearly two months of proceedings (Cloud, 2011). Anthony is alleged to have killed her two year old daughter Caylee in Orlando, Florida. Anthony was first investigated by police after her mother contacted 911 and reported she had not seen her grand-daughter in a month. Casey was eventually acquitted of the homicide, but was found guilty on four counts of lying to police. She was credited with time served and was released shortly after her sentencing hearing.
In 2013 Oscars luck took a turn for the worse. Oscar was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day. Oscar was put on trial March of 2014. That following September, Oscar Pistoras was found guilty of manslaughter and not guilty of murder. His sentencing was five years in prison for manslaughter.
Mickey had a plan to tell the public the truth about Wilkinson and to get Tommy and John off the hook. The whole trial was a set up. In the end two of the offending officers where shot, and the other two were sent to prison for the abuse they had induced. John, Tommy, Mickey, Shanks and Carol had a celebration after the court case for their revenge. It lasted for about three hours.