Branzburg v Hayes, Confidentiality, and Shield Laws A citizen walking the streets of New York, down a dark alley, in a not so popular area witnesses a murder. The next day, the citizen hears about the murder on the local news station. Later the citizen hears on the radio that the silent witness program is offering an award for anyone who witnessed the murder which occurred in the same area on the same night that the witness was walking down the street. The citizen decides to come forward and provide details to the police regarding what he or she witnessed the night in question. A few days later, the suspect is caught based on the witness account of events.
Scenario #2 Frank Felon a native of Akron Ohio was arrested by officers from the Cleveland Police Department for allegedly committing felonious assault on Vince Victim also of Akron during a tailgate party prior to the Barry Manilow concert at the “Q” Arena on June 29, 2011. According to
The Sandford Police department is faced with many ethical issues since the shooting death of a young black teen in February. The department is facing racial issues in the community that are fueled by the mass media coverage of the case. The police chief has been forced to step down, the community is in a rage, and the news outlets are only reporting information that keeps the community thinking that this case is about the defendant being Hispanic and the victim a young Black man. The Sanford Police department is facing high racial tension among the members of its community. The shooting of Trayvon Martin a young black teen by a Hispanic male; has sparked many protest by the black members of the Sanford community among others.
Berghuis v. Thompkins Van Chester Thompkins was convicted of first-degree murder, assault with intent to commit murder, and several firearms related charges, in a Michigan state court. Thompkins went on to appeal and said that his confession was obtained in violation of the Fifth Amendment and that he asks but was denied effective counsel at trail. “The Sixth Circuit held that the Michigan Supreme Court's finding that Thompkins waived his Fifth Amendment right was unreasonable because Thompkins refused to sign an acknowledgement that he had been informed of his Miranda rights and rarely made eye contact with the officer throughout the three hour interview” (Rosenzweig & Shatz, 2010). The Sixth Circuit found Thompkins did not waive his Miranda rights and that ineffective counsel unfairly prejudiced him. The issue in this case is as followed: “Whether a state court’s determination that a defendant’s Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were not violated — where he was interrogated for three hours while silent before making an incriminating statement and where his lawyer failed to request a limiting instruction — is entitled to deference under 28 U.S.C.
The police officers responded mercilessly with violence, and many of the rioters were brutally beaten and injured. Similar riots occurred on succeeding nights and were followed by protest rallies (Wiki 2). The event marked the awakening of gay rights organizations throughout the U.S. and the Stonewall Riots became the beginning of an age in which members of the LGBT community would speak up and fight for their rights, which of course lead to the budding of ideas like the ENDA
On Sunday March 7, 1965, The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Southern Christian Leadership Council without the help of Martin Luther King did a march along highway 80 from Selma to Montgomery, The Capital. Demonstrators began the march from Selma to the State Capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights. Just after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the demonstrators were brutally attacked by state troopers and deputies, right in front of the media for the whole Country to see. This caused a huge uproar all over, after viewing “Bloody Sunday”; many people came to join the cause and wanted to march again with SNCC and SCLC.
Was the evidence obtained unconstitutionally? The Exclusionary Rule states that is prohibits any unconstitutionally obtained evidence at trial. The United States Supreme Court applied Exclusionary Rule to two main cases in our history, the Weeks v United States Case and the Mapp v Ohio case. The Weeks v United states case was implicated at the federal level while the Mapp v Ohio was at the state level. In the Mapp v Ohio case it was believed that Mapp may be hiding a person suspected in a bombing.
There’s a lot of protesting of the war and a lot of people trying to dodge the war. Hester is one of the protesters against the war. She war “arrested in Chicago” (454) while “rioting at the site of the Democratic Party’s national convention” (454) by a policeman. She even made her own group of protesters, they
At the end of Kerry’s speech, Andrew Meyer asked the senator a few questions that stirred up quite a debate. Campus police officers responded by pulling him offstage and then forcing him to
In early 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. organized protests in Birmingham, Alabama. Eugene “Bull” Connor, the local police chief, ordered his men to fire blasts of water against demonstrators and unleashed vicious dogs on the resisters. Television captured a host of striking scenes, some of them showing assaults and arrests of black children, and relayed those images to a stunned national audience. As a result, many Northerners became aware of the plight of African Americans in the South. As much as any single event in the history of the modern civil rights movement, the violence of whites in Birmingham forced the American people to consider serious federal action promoting civil rights.