After a week had passed since the crime, the victim was shown photos that had possibly matched the description that was given to the investigators. The victim had picked the photo of Bennett Barbour then him again out of two live line-ups. The next day Barbour was arrested for rape although he had only weighed 115 pounds at the time of his arrest. Furthermore, Barbour was suffered of a brittle- bone disease and had a pin attached in his elbow at the time, which can make rape seem very unlikely. Both the hair and the blood type found on the scene did not match Barbour’s but was still being accused for the crime.
60% of the guns used in crime can be traced back to crooked gun dealers. The people who are buying guns legally are not the ones performing these crimes. Let’s take the Sandy Hook incident for example. Adam Lanza had a history of severe depression and mental instability. The last three years of his life he lived like a complete recluse.
The Crown reported that Pickton told the officer that he wanted to kill another woman to make it an even 50, and that he was caught because he was "sloppy". Background On February 6, 2002, police executed a search warrant for illegal firearms at the property owned by Pickton and his two siblings. He was taken into custody and police then obtained a second court order to search the farm as part of the BC Missing Women Investigation, when personal items (including a prescription asthma inhaler) belonging to one of the missing women were found. The farm was sealed off by members of the joint RCMP–Vancouver Police Department task force. The following day Pickton was charged with storing a firearm contrary to regulations, possession of a firearm while not being holder of a licence and possession of a loaded restricted firearm without a licence.
On the other side, the defense attorney must prove that the incident was a terrible accident and there was no intent to kill. On August 2, 2009, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired a segment “Is It Murder.” 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon reported on a DUI homicide case involving the deaths of two people. 7-year-old Kate Marie Flynn and limousine driver Stanley Rabinowitz killed in a head-on automobile collision. The drunk driver, Martin Heidgen a 24-year old insurance agent caused the accident while suffering only minor injuries. Heidgen’s blood alcohol content was over three times the legal limit.
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.
Peggy Hettrick case is a case that revolves around the unsolved murder of Peggy Hettrick in 1987 in Fort Collins. In this case, Tim Masters was accused for the murder of Peggy in cold blood. He was charged and then convicted of killing Peggy Hettrick. Nevertheless, Tim Masters was later exonerated of the charges that had been filed against him. This exoneration was after he had been locked behind bars for several years.
Impulsivity: a link between bipolar disorder and substance abuse. Bipolar Disord 2004: 6: 204–212. ª Blackwell Munksgaard,
They have an 18 year old, a would be 17 year old (deceased), 16 year old triplets, a 14 year old, and a 13 year old son. The second oldest daughter was reportedly kidnapped, raped, and murdered in 2002 when she was 6. T.M. revealed his feelings about his deceased daughter and stated, “I had insomnia for two years. It was
Dominick Askew What’s the punishment for police brutality? What’s the punishment for defending yourself against police brutality? In the case of Troy Davis, Davis defended himself from being beating by two officers of the law leading him to kill one of them. With the actions of Davis in 1989 he was recently put to death in 2011 with no evidence of him committing that crime. Seven out of nine witnesses that testified against Davis said they were coerced into providing a false testimony.
Schizophrenia; Psychosis and Lifespan Development Matrix and Paper Norma Jean Fitzpatrick PSY/410 July 2, 2012 Kidd Colt Schizophrenia; Psychosis and Lifespan Development Matrix and Paper DSM IV-TR Categories | DSM IV-TR Sub- Categories | Description | Schizophrenia/ Psychotic Disorders | Paranoid Schizophrenia (PA)Catatonic Schizophrenia (CA)Disorganized Schizophrenia (DO)Undifferentiated type Schizophrenia (UT)Residual Schizophrenia (RS)Schizophreniform (SF)Schizoaffective (SA)Delusional (DL)Brief Psychotic (BP)Shared Psychotic (SP) | PA – common subtype of schizophrenia marked by delusions of magnificence and persecution. CA – “…marked by striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity”