8/30/11 Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165 (1952) Facts: On the morning of July 1, 1949, three deputy sheriffs of the county of Los Angeles received “some information that Rochin was selling narcotics.” With this information the three deputies went to the home of Rochin and found the outside door open. They entered and then forced open the door to Rochin’s room. Inside the room they found Rochin sitting on the side of the bed. The deputies saw two capsules on a night stand and asked Rochin, “Whose stuff is this?” Rochin then grabbed the capsules and put them in his mouth. A struggle ensued as the deputies attempted to extract the capsules from Rochin’s mouth.
Contract killer William Mentzer was among four people sentenced for shooting Radin multiple times in the head and using dynamite to make identification by authorities more challenging.] At the trial, Karen Greenberger was convicted of second degree murder and kidnapping. Her involvement was said to be over a fear of being cut out of a producer's role and potential profiting in the Cotton Club movie. As a result, the murder court case of Radin was dubbed the Cotton Club Murder Trial. Actor secret Michael Finch moved, an East Coast transplant with a college degree and an appetite for the fast lane.
His new neighbor, Sam Carr, had a black Labrador named Harvey, who Berkowitz believed was also possessed. He eventually shot the dog, but that did not offer him relief because he had come to believe that Sam Carr was possessed by the most powerful demon of them all, possibly Satan himself. Nightly the demons screamed at Berkowitz to go kill, their thirst for blood unquenchable. The Arrest of the Son of Sam : Berkowitz was eventually caught after receiving a parking ticket at the time and near the place of the Moskowitz murder. That evidence along with letters he wrote to Carr and the Cassaras, his military background, his appearance, and an arson incident, led police to his door.
Four months later the ghettos are in flame Rubin's in South America fighting for his name While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game And the cops are putting the screws to him looking for somebody to blame "Remember that murder that happened in a bar ?" "Remember you said you saw the getaway car?" "You think you'd like to play ball with the law ?" "Think it might-a been that fighter you saw running that night ?" "Don't forget that you are white".
Title VII is the basis for discrimination law and judicial decisions….its basic purpose is to prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin (Jennings, 2006). After the relationship was over Paula asked for a transfer since Sam continually sexually harassed her. Sam refused the transfer stating the chemicals could harm an early fetus. Paula is not pregnant which is sexual discrimination. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1974, which defined “sex” discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of pregnancy and child birth (Jennings, 2006).
For my report I have read the second half to the novel Player One by Douglas Coupland. The ladder half of the book is split into two chapters. The first, Hello, My Name is Monster the nuclear fallout on the airport becomes so violent the mysterious sniper has to seek safety inside the hotel lobby where he is caught and taken prisoner by the other characters. Rachel, the socially challenged bombshell and Rick, the down on his luck bartender have sex which sets Rachel on track to her life goal of reproducing. The sniper, Bertis, explains his motives to the group and a teenager, Max, blindly finds his way to the hotel lounge after chemicals get into his eyes and all over his skin.
They spotted Abner, who fit the description of an African American male wearing a vest. Without confirming him, or questioning him, they took him into custody, and put him in the car. In the car, he was assaulted by an officer until they reached the precinct. Once there, two officers brought him into the men’s restroom. One held Louima down, while the other penetrated his rectum with the end of a wooden plunger, perforating his colon and rupturing his bladder, and then forcing the object into his mouth, chipping a few teeth.
There are four different intentional torts and they include battery, assault, false imprisonment and infliction of mental distress. Battery is defined in our textbook as “the intentional infliction of a harmful or offensive contact upon a person” (Edwards, Edwards, & Wells, 2012, p. 33). What happened to Murray McDonald did include battery, even though the only physical contact that occurred was when Murray was pushed into the swimming pool. The men that surrounded him had teased him and berated him, then pushed him into the pool, this constitutes battery. Assault is defined as “the intentional causing of an apprehension of harmful or offensive contact.
Violations of Americans Constitutional Rights Johnny Dunn EN1420 26 MAY 2014 Violations of Americans Constitutional Rights How Americans Constitutional Rights are being violated by The US government, referencing Amendment I, Amendment II, and Amendment IV of The US Constitution. Amendment I violations enabled by the US Patriot Act allows the government to monitor religious and political groups without suspecting criminal activity. This directly ignores the 1st Amendment stating, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. Further US Patriot Act infractions of the 1st Amendment, allows the government to prosecute librarians or any other record keepers if they tell anyone
We do not officially sanction the use of beating & torture or execution for sex crimes. The printing of sex offender on one’s driver’s license as well as posting of warnings on websites could be seen as opening the door to vigilante behavior. Personally, I have no problem, just some pause, with such notifications, but there may be court challenges by some civil libertarian groups in re to such practices. There are even sex offender advocacy groups, such as ReformSexOffenderLaws.Org, set up for the purpose of modifying/overturning laws they perceive as unfair. The disconcerting thing is that on some issues a valid point is made practically as well as