Her death shook the nation. Patsy Ramsey (Jonbenet's mother) discovered her young daughter was missing when she found a two and half page ransom note demanding $118,000.00 if they ever wanted to see their daughter alive again. The note also stated that the Ramsey's were to not contact the police. Patsy defied the instructions and contacted the police and family members. The police arrived and conducted a search which started at the house.
Section 1 In a quick overview of the case Mapp v. Ohio which ended in a ground breaking Supreme Court decision police officers in Cleveland, Ohio were watching a women named Dolree Mapp. The reason for the surveillance because police felt she was a guilty of harboring a fugitive in addition she was also suspected to have illegal gambling material in her house. Under advisement from her lawyer Mapp refused to let police search her house without a warrant. After this contact police returned three hours later and when there was no answer at the door police force their way in, Mapp demanded to see a search warrant the police showed a piece of paper which Mapp snatched from police to discover that it was not a search warrant. Through the search of the house police found illegal pornographic material but nothing that they suspected her on, at which time police arrested Mapp for the illegal pornographic material.
Specifically, the girls’ mother, Sarah Greene, alleges that the caseworker, Bob Camreta, and deputy sheriff, James Alford, violated S.G.’s Fourth Amendment rights when they seized and interrogated her in a private office at her school for two hours without a warrant, probable cause, or parental consent. This note will address the Fourth Amendment issue of an unreasonable seizure without a warrant, parental consent, or probable cause. There can be an inference drawn that police departments that are unwilling to follow procedures in regard to searches and
For five years this girl held this secret because of the uncle threatening her family. This secret began to affect her behavior at home, to the point where her mother could no longer deal with her behavior. Her mom is taking her to a detention center; but before they get to the center her mother asks her again “what is wrong; did someone touch you or hurt you?” Amanda begins sobbing and told her mother what had happen five years ago about her uncle raping her. In 2003 Amanda’s mother, Kim calmly brings her daughter home, then drives to where the uncle worked and called him out into the parking lot. Kim is hoping he will deny the accusations, but instead he laughed at her asking “what are you going to do about it”.
Becker came at Kuntz and Kuntz pushed him away then went outside for a minute then came back in to find Becker laying on the ground bleeding. Kuntz didn’t alert 911 instead she took Becker’s car and went to a friend’s house and called her mother. Kuntz claims she rolled Becker over to check on him but he was unresponsive. The ambulance was called about an hour after the incident by Kuntz’s sister-in-law. Kuntz’s case eventually went to trial and it was found that she did in fact have legal duty to call EMS due to a common law exemption.
Mr. Ard wife made several contacts to the nurse and there was no response in a timely manner. A nurse eventually came and instead of checking the patient out thoroughly medication for nausea was given to him. The wife notice that her husband symptoms was getter worse and tried paging the nurse in which did not arrive until an hour and 25 minutes later. The nurse realize that the patient condition was threatening and called for a code of medical attention, however, Mr. Ard did not survive and died shortly afterward. The patient wife filed a malpractice law suit of wrongful death against the hospital facility and was awarded judgment of the negligence by the nurse in which the case was later appealed by the hospital.
Some laws, such as the waiting periods, have led to people getting hurt or even murdered because they had to wait for approval before completing the purchase. “On March 5, 1991 Bonnie Elmasri called a firearms instructor, worried that her husband-who was subject to a restraining order to stay away from her-had been threatening her and her children. When she asked the instructor about getting a handgun, the instructor explained that Wisconsin has a 48-hour waiting period. Ms. Elmasri and her two children were murdered by her husband twenty-four hours later.” (Dissell) “Armed with a knife, Charles A. Grant, Jr., sexually assaulted a 33-year-old woman on a Virginia beach one Tuesday in 1991.
Susan Wrights claimed that she was a victim of her husband verbal and spousal abuse. Her husband had a history of documented abuse toward women. Susan wanted the violence to end and the verbal abuse to stop. When the abuse did not go away, she snapped. How a normal individual can stab a person 193 times seems troubling.
Spanking A mother went to jail and pleaded guilty of spanking her daughter of misbehaving. She said “I admit that I spanked her fifteen times, but I also tried grounding her, using timeouts and ordering her to do extra chores as forms of discipline (Nov 2002)”.Therefore justice should be made in all states to decreased spanking. Spanking is one of the most widely used forms of punishment (Spock 1998). How does a person know if he or she is a victim of spanking? Do the parents that spank ever think about how this might impact the life of the child in a negative way?
He and others like Gabrielle Giffords are even bringing the parents of the children who were lost in Sandy Hook to make tearful pleas to pass the amendment. Gabrielle Giffords is yet another example that proves my theory. She was shot in the head by Jared Lee Loughner in 2011 in the middle of a constituent meeting she held. Loughner was expelled from college for disruptive behavior and was showing many signs of mental distress prior to the shooting. So much so that his parents disabled his car at night and took his shot gun away from him.