Alex Barr Kimla Virden Comp I. 10-24-11 Gun Violence Gun Violence has been an issue in America for several years. Everybody has their own opinion on it and no one can seem to come to a conclusion on the right answer. Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine states his opinions and gets other opinions as well. Lillian Rubin who wrote “Guns and Grief” gives several reasons as to why Cho Seung-Hui might have fired at Virginia Tech.
How can the government assure us that they found a better way of sentencing the right people and not making mistakes? There have been many eyewitness misidentifications that have occurred throughout the United States, in fact three-fourths of the two hundred and seventy-three wrongful convictions confirmed over the past two decades by DNA exonerations. The courts have relied upon eyewitness’s to identify a suspect in any wrongdoing for many decades now. Kenneth Jost explains how the Bible prescribes at least two witnesses to confirm an accusation of wrongdoing. “One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.” (Deuteronomy 19:15).
Fingerprinting, Lie Detector Tests, and Bomb Detector Tests Fingerprinting, lie detector tests, and bomb detector tests are three very important tools used by law enforcement in the ongoing fight against criminal activity. All three methods can be very effective in helping to identify and catch people involved in criminal acts. However, they are all used for very different reasons. Fingerprinting is used to identify people, lie detector tests are used to find the truth, and bomb detector tests are used to locate any bombs. Fingerprinting has been serving law enforcement and the government for more than 100 years.
Case Summary Essay Kaplan University CJ327-01: Crime Scene Photography Prof. Tracy Abstract Photographs, motion pictures, and videotapes are generally admissible in court. Some legal challenges are rare when it comes to scientific grounds. The field of science and the field of photography in relation to the criminal justice system have dramatically evolved over the past one hundred years. Photographic evidence according to Nemeth is admissible based on six standards of relevancy. That is; whenever it proves some material fact in issue, appears to be competent, assists the trier of fact in understanding the cases, corroboration of evidence of oral testimony in both civil and criminal cases, disproves the testimony of a witness, and when is assists a witness in illustrating or explaining their testimony (Nemeth, 2011).
(Page 7 ch1) One contribution is the journal he has written is about the improved methods of scientific crime detection and this still reports today. The second contribution is his treatise written about scientific disciplines in the field of criminal investigations. (Page 8 ch 1) Karl Landsteiner figured out how to divide blood into groups and today there are four different groups A,B,AB,O. Then Leone Lattes takes this information and puts it to work with figuring out the types of blood with dried blood. (pg10 ch1) The first person to apply the principals of forensic science was Edmond Locard, he began in the attic of the Lyons police department.
The defendant, a man named Jeffery Middlebrook admitted to the crime immediately. However, after a thorough autopsy, it was found that the victim was killed nearly a week before Middlebrook said he had been there, and there was video footage of him in another state at the estimated time of death, making things even murkier than before. Dr. Bass was called in for his expertise. Dr. Bass studied the case reports, crime scene photos, and weather reports, finding that because of frigid temperatures during the days between death and the discovery of Barnett’s body, very little decomposition had taken place .Despite the temperatures, however, there were multiple colonies of mold growing on Barnett’s body. Consequently, Bass determined that much more time had passed than the original autopsy would suggest, meaning that while Middlebrook had been in another state for the original TOD, he was in fact in town around Bass’ new estimated Time of
Ahead of the director’s resignation, Congress—flexing its supervision muscles—decided that the Senate would support all succeeding ATF chiefs. By the first quarter of 2011, no one had been confirmed to take the director’s position, and the country had been without a chief firearms. In 2011, the agency came under scrutiny again, this time round over a gun-trafficking probe in which federal agents deliberately let weapons be shipped across the Mexican border, and later, two weapons were returned up in Arizona, and thought to have been used to kill an American Border Patrol agent in a shootout. Congress and the Department of Justice started investigating this issue as President Obama declared in June 2001 to take appropriate actions upon release of the investigative
Improper use of the NCIC has led to about 1 million false arrests. C. Local law enforcement agencies enter most of the information that is in the NCIC databases. D. The Department of Homeland Security is in charge of the NCIC. Question 2 of 20 5.0 Points The Patriot missile system: A. was designed to shoot down airplanes. B. failed to shoot down a Scud missile that killed 28 U.S. soldiers in the Gulf War.
The gathering of forensic evidence at a crime scene is now paramount. It is now considered that this type of evidence is the most likely to not only identify the criminal but to convict him as well. In 1991, in recognition of this fact and to help deal with the growing demand for expert scientific help in policing, the Forensic Science Service (FSS) was set up as an executive agency of the Home Office. Providing a service to all police authorities in the UK and even abroad. In 2001, The FSS handled almost one new case per working minute, totalling 135,000 for the year.
He was wrongfully convicted when he was 16 years old and served 20 years in prison before proving his innocence. That mistake took two decades from him, but it took Carlos DeLuna's life. Proof of Carlos' innocence has only come out now, 29 years after the crime and two decades after he was executed, because of the painstaking work of professors and students at The Columbia Human Rights Law Review. Doubts always existed in Carlos' case, but it took 29 years and what some are calling the most comprehensive criminal investigation in U.S. Carlos DeLuna's case is proof that these kinds of cases are not isolated; they are the inevitable result of an imperfect system. As long as we have a death penalty, we risk executing innocent people like Carlos