1/27/09 5th period Michael Vicks financial problems The imprisoned NFL superstar Michael Vick sued his old financial adviser for at least two million dollars, saying that she used his money for personal and business expenses. This suit states that Mary Wong is a fraud and breach of contract and also other offenses. Vick is serving time after his altercation with the dog fighting for at least twenty-three months. He demands he gets trial towards the suit he put against Mary Wong. Besides her altercation with Michael Vick the lawsuit also names Demorrio Williams of the NFL team Kansas City Chiefs an α в c ∂ ε f g н ι × Ðº â„“ м η σ Ï q Ñ s Ñ‚ Ï… v ω x y z d also the twins Josh Bullocks and Daniel Bullocks who are
He was sentenced to 20 weeks imprisonment. He was released that day as he had spent longer on remand than the length of the sentence. In november 2008 the bbc reported that the trial heard evidence that shannon matthew was drugged to subdue her during the kidnap. News papers reported that the jury was told that shannon was drugged and tied up to a roof beam whilst her mother hatched the plan to make 50,000 from her faked kidnap. On the 16th of june 2010 the kirklees safe gaurding children report found thatsocial services could not have anticipated the abductionof shannon
On January 29, 1998, Rudolph used a radio-controlled nail bomb at the New Woman All Women Health Care Centre in Birmingham, Alabama. (Noe, 2012) Eric Robert Rudolph was arrested on May 31, 2003 without incident in his hometown of Murphy, NC. He had been on the run from law enforcement officials and on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List for almost five years. “Rudolph pled guilty to the bombings at Olympic Park, the gay bar and the two abortion clinics - one in Atlanta, GA, and the other in Birmingham, AL - as well as two murders resulting from these bombings. The incidents took place from
On October 19, 1982, John Z. DeLorean was arrested at an airport hotel with several kilograms of cocaine. DeLorean was arrested the same day the British Government said it would permanently close the Northern Ireland plant, which built DeLorean’s cars. The arrest ended a five-month, undercover probe, which tracked the auto executive across the nation. His company was in severe financial problems, and he feared the possibility of his company’s being closed down by the government, which had extended loans to him. FBI agent Richard Bretzing said DeLorean came to Los Angeles to buy 220 pounds of cocaine for distribution in Southern California at a street price of $24
The Pearson v. Chung case, also known as the “pants lawsuit”, (Lexis-Nexis, 2008) engaged an attorney in the Region of Mexico who, after asserting the loss of a pair of his trousers, sued and charged the dry cleaning business for $67 million. The situation became the breaking point in the debate in the United States over tort change (Lexis-Nexis, 2008). What are the facts? There is some fundamental information associated with the two cases. 1- The Liebeck v. McDonald’s story involved a seventy-nine-year old lady, Ms’ Stella Liebeck of Albuquerque, New Mexico, a retired sales employee (Cain, 2008).
Maycomb Times Volume 1, Issue 1 November 1, 1935 Tragedy Death of Bob Ewell By: Emily Montoya On August 17, 1935, Maycomb was witness to a trial that ended in tragedy for the accused Tom Robinson. He was accused for the rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of Bob Ewell, on November 21, 1934. Tom Robinson a black male, age 25, is married with three children, and this was not Tom’s first time in trouble with the law, he had gotten in a fight before. Tom Robinson was defended by lawyer Atticus Finch, who defended the accused with strong evidence, but, in the end, the evidence was not enough to prove Tom innocent. Atticus Finch recently stood up to a mob, risking his own
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.
At the beginning of the movie, a laid off worker of a stock brokerage firm opens fire on his former colleagues. Amongst the group of dead people, Jacob Wood was killed. Later on in the movie, the widow of Jacob Wood files a civil lawsuit against the gun company that sold the gunman the gun. It is important to understand that Rankin Fitch, a secret and illegal consultant for the defense attorney, seeks out information on potential jurors and agrees to put them into the Grand Jury if their attributes and personalities would make it seem that they would prove the defense “not guilty”; moreover, this way of seeking out jurors to fill the Grand Jury by judging their personalities and lifestyles is something found in the process of picking jurors in real life, just not as investigative or
Chronology of the fact * 1988 – Michael Cartier who is ex-boyfriend of Kristin was arrested on charges of burglary and is sentenced to a six * 1988 – Michael Cartier (Kristin’s ex-boyfriend) is arrested on charges of burglary and is sentenced to a six months but he never serves. A year later he tampers with restaurant ketchup container by injecting in his own blood. * October 1990 – Cartier goes on a destructive warpath with a sledgehammer and ends up smashing through the wall and into a neighbor’s apartment and commits other mentally unstable acts such as animal cruelty/brutality. * December 1990 – Cartier intimidated, threatened and assaulted Rose including stating that if she didn’t do as he stated that he would kill her
After pleading guilty to wiretapping charges, Christopher Chaney has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison. By hacking into the e-mail accounts of fifty celebrities, stretching from actress and model Scarlett Johansson, to Victoria’s Secret Model, Mila Kunis, the thirty-six year-old Florida male was able to steal nude photos, and personal information from the stars. Chaney was conscious of the severity of his acts, saying the habit was an addiction, and when he was arrested in October of last year, he even apologized for his acts. He told reporters quote, "I know what I did was probably one of the worst invasions of privacy someone could experience…And these people don't have privacy to begin with. And I was in that little sliver of