Criminal behavior has spurned many debates on nurturing kids vs. the nature of kids but have all concluded in agreeing that genes and environment play an important, and defining role, in the Biological Criminality of a person. “Andrea Yates was born on July 2, 1964, in Houston, Texas. She was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life, but a court of appeals reversed the conviction and found her insane. In 1999, Yates was treated for postpartum depression and psychosis, illnesses that ran in her family. After the birth of her fifth child and the death of her father, she went into a severe depression and was forcefully admitted to Devereux-Texas Treatment Network.
Criminal Defense Case CJA/354 Criminal Defense Case In today’s Criminal Justice process the well-known motto is “innocent until proven guilty”. In this short essay will demonstrate the nature of the defense and the type that was used in two cases. Finally, reveal the end results of these particular cases. The first case will analyze the case of Andrea Yates. Andrea Yates, the Houston mom who in 2001 drowned her five young children one-by-one in the bathtub (Moisse, 2013).
Throughout the movie, Dr. Lecter helps Clarisse by giving her hints on how to find Buffalo Bill, but he puts the overall load on her in order to find her serial killer. In the end Dr. Lecter is moved to another location and escapes imprisonment. Clarisse finds her killer and is able to save the life of a girl who was being held hostage by Buffalo Bill. After she arrests Buffalo Bill, she has a FBI Academy graduation party. While at the party Clarisse receives a phone call from Lecter, who is at an airport in Bimini.
The movie begins with a romantic scene between Marion and Sam in a hotel room, while their departure is somehow filled with depression and disappointment, due to Sam’s inability to pay his alimony very soon. Then Marion, who works in a real state office, in a moment, decides to steal $ 40,000 and flees the state. On her way, she stops by Bates Motel. After talking to Norman Bates, a disturbed young man and also the owner of the motel, who apparently lives with his old and invalid mother, Marion is murdered by Norman’s mother in her room while taking a shower. Then, Norman appears on the scene of the murder and hides the evidence, including the stolen money, by putting the body in the car and drowning in in a nearby lake.
The main character in the film, Babydoll, has been institutionalised by her abusive stepfather shortly after the death of her mother. In the opening scene, which shortly I will begin to analyse in full detail, we see Babydoll accidently shoot and, presumably murder, her younger sister, by misfiring a gun aimed at her stepfather whist trying to protect her. Horrified at what she has done, she flees, meanwhile her stepfather has rang the police and falsely claimed that Babydoll has murdered her sister in some form of crazed state, - resulting in her institutionalisation and the stepfathers probable inheritance of the contents of his deceased wife’s will, which she had previously left everything to her two daughters. The opening scene begins with the opening credits merging from the point of view of an audience in a theatre. You can clearly see a stage and the curtains rise to reveal the protagonist of the film, ‘Baby Doll’ sat in what appears to be her bedroom, facing away from the audience with her back to the camera.
When she enters the bathroom Hitchcock clearly wants us to see her throwing the note down the toilet because of its importance he does this with a fairly long mid shot. The next shots are very long when she gets undressed and enters the shower, Hitchcock emphasis the shot when she shuts the door he does this because he wants us to feel as though we are secure in the bathroom because the door is shut even though it is not locked. The next few shots show the woman entering the shower, when she draws back the curtain in front of the camera it makes us feel as though nothing can get in and she is secure. The next few shots show her showering like nothing is going to happen when it obviously is; this all builds up tension and leaves us feeling very anxious. The point of view shot of the shower head is very interesting, I think Hitchcock wanted us to feel as though we are in the shower with her and put us in her shoes.
She has spent her life “saving” Kate, and Picoult shows this through a clever quotation. Later that night after the hockey game, Kate suddenly woke up to blood streaming out of her nose, eyes and rectum. When Brian and Sara were informed by the doctor that administering poison therapy would prolong Kate’s life, but not save it, Sara broke down. She called her older sister, Suzanne, unable to speak and begged her to come to the hospital. Picoult continues on this theme of “saving” by using Suzanne as Sara’s crutch, as she makes her coffee each morning and informs her of any missed phone calls.
Perkin’s reading based on Psycho in suggestion of the Montage theory alongside the help of Carol J. Clover’s essay “Her Body/ Himself” suggesting similar to the Feminist theories of framework for horror films. As the feminist film theory suggests, “While male victims in horror films may shudder and scream as well, it has long been a dictum of the genre that women make the best victims. “Torture the women!” was the famous advice given by Alfred Hitchcock.” The infamous shower scene from Psycho begins with Marion (Janet Leigh) flushing away the calculations of the money she had stolen. As she takes of her robe and steps into the bath a medium shot is maintained with constant close ups of the shower itself creating noise of constant flow of water which forbids viewers to hear any other sounds and pay attention to it. Marion stands in the shower purifying herself, washing away the sins, with the shower curtain in her background while she seems as a very minor element of the scene; our attention is grabbed towards the shower curtain where a shadow appears slowly as the noise of the door is blocked out on purpose due to the noise caused by the shower.
While she was pretending to shower, she escaped through the woods in only a sweater to go find help (Gavin 1 of 3). Soon after the attack she was in court with her rapist sitting at the defendant’s table. His lawyer told the jury that she wanted the sex. “The evidence is going to show that the sex was not just consensual – (she wanted it),” Kindlon told jurors. “She asked for it.
He sees a beautiful young woman step out of the bathtub but when the movie cuts to a mirror, the viewer sees that it is a diseased old woman. The last and most well known scene with a mirror is when Danny is writing “redrum” around their apartment and the camera flashes to a mirror, thus revealing to Wendy (and the audience) that he is writing “murder” backwards. The implication of the last two scenes, with mirrors, is that everything the viewer has seen that was not shown in a mirror may or may not be real. Another more subtle use of mirrors in The Shining is the symbolism between mirrors and doors. Most of