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.
On November 30, 2001, he was arrested for the murders of four women whose cases were linked to him through DNA evidence. In November of 2003 he pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated murder, although he says he actually killed 90 women or more, almost all prostitutes. The murders occurred in the early 1980s. As part of a plea bargain, he was spared the death penalty and received a sentence of life imprisonment without
“Ford just wants to find the right suspect so they are convicting even the innocent” says Derek’s attorney. Finally the last suspect is Omar Ballard. He was recently released of prison after doing two years for beating a woman that ironically lived in the same apartment building as the victim. He also was in jail for the rape of a four-teen year old girl that lived one-hundred feet from her as well. Omar Ballard is also friends with Tamika, the Neighbor of Michelle Moore-bosko who wrongly accused first suspect Daniel Williams.
51% of yearly crimes are due to the use of weapons against only 13% to knives. Most studies show that hand-guns are used for personal defence, around 2 million times a year by the American population. It is estimated that over 250 million hand-guns now circulate in the US owned by around 90 million citizens. The possession of guns is legitimated by the 2nd amendment to the Constitution which authorizes the people to keep and bear arms. A series of mass murders, for example, the Columbine High School mass murder in Colorado in 1999, which left 13 students dead, widely reported and debated in the Medias, help expert gun laws in the past 20 years.
Abuse & Mandated Reporting The case of Jerry Sandusky brought to the public eye the issue of child abuse and various authority figures’ responsibilities of reporting such suspected abuse. Back in 2011, Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, 68, was accused and convicted on 45 out of 48 counts related to sexually abusing young boys over the course of two decades; he was sentenced to life in prison (Wertheim 2012). Not only were Sandusky’s actions illegal (among other less appropriate adjectives that I might add) but also illegal were the actions, or lack thereof, of Gary Shultz, the Penn State senior vice president for finance and business, and Tim Curley, the Penn State athletic director. They knew details and has witnessed some of the allegations against Sandusky yet failed to report to the proper authorities; thus they were charged with perjury, as required by state law (Viera, 2012). Most people do not realize that failure to report child abuse is just as bad, and sometimes even worse than child abuse itself.
{draw:rect} Capital Punishment. Lethal Injection was supposed to be a clean clinical, painless, more humane and more acceptable form for Capital Punishment. All most all states use the same three drug cocktail but the funny part is this that state of Texas has banned the use of those chemicals on animals because of the extreme pain that they can cause; can you just imagine?. The execution of Diaz is a prime example that he suffers during he’s execution. Testimonies stated that he’s execution lasted 22 more minutes than usual and that it was noticeable that he was on pain.
Everyday there are thousands of crimes committed and most of those in tell an issue of justice. One crime in particular is the case of Charles Manson. Charles Manson is a man that led a colt of people in the late 1960’s. In one situation he actually told a group of girls to go cut the baby out of a women, while she was still alive. As a result of this he just got life in prison WITH a chance of parole.
He closed many of Capone’s breweries and speakeasies, and slowly brought his empire down. Convicted of Income Tax Evasion The federal government finally managed to arrest him by prosecuting him for income tax evasion in 1931. He was tried, found guilty, and sentenced the next year to 11 years in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. But he was still able to oversee his criminal empire from his cell. In 1934, he was transferred to the new federal prison at Alcatraz Island, built to hold the country's worst criminals, in San Francisco Bay.
Tina Carson Professor Brandon Writing 122 4 March 2013 Oregon Death Penalty Oregon currently has thirty-five inmates on death row awaiting execution. Another seventy-eight inmates are serving life without parole, and of that seventy-eight, one half have been incarcerated for over 40 years (Death penalty Info). Oregon wastes billions of dollars on our death penalty and the housing of death row inmates. Oregon would benefit from abolishing the death penalty or adapting stricter guidelines for use of the death penalty. In this paper we are going to look at the both sides of the argument.
From the Swedish legal point of view, women selling sex have been forced to do so by circumstances or coercion. According to CNN, buyers of sex now face “hefty fines, an embarrassingly public police notification and possible time in prison with a maximum four- years sentence. Swedish society now looks down on buyers of sex. The public refers sex buyers as “a cod,” the same term referring to a loser. Currently, the Sweden has about 200 prostitutes in its capital city, with population of 2 millions.