And charged with kidnapping and false imprisoment. Matthews mother was charged with child neglect and perverting the course of justice on 8 april 2008. the joint trial of donavan and karen matthews at leed crown court.they were both given eight year prision sentence. Craig meehan was arrested on the 2nd of April on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children, after police had examined computers in the home. He was remanded in custody, by dewsbury magistrates court, at a hearing on the 3rd of april charged with 11 offences of possessing indecent images of children. He was sentenced to 20 weeks imprisonment.
A warrant was issued for his arrest after police wanted to question him in relation to an assault in the Sydney suburb of Zetland. At about 7pm (AEDT) on December 29, a 50-year-old Zetland man was allegedly assaulted and his Mercedes four-wheel-drive was stolen from his home. The alleged thief was someone whom the man had met online, police said. The NSW Supreme Court was told in 2005 that Jennings had stabbed Giuseppe Vitale in the neck with a kitchen knife after being tied up during a sexual liaison with the man, whom he had met through the internet. He was found not guilty of murdering Giuseppe Vitale on grounds of mental illness in 2005 by the NSW Supreme Court.
Thompson and Venables were arrested and controversially tried and convicted in an adult court. They were both found guilty of murder and sentenced to custody until the age of 18. 8-Year-Old Boy Kills Father and Friend: In 2008, an 8-year-old boy, whose name was not released, was arrested and charged with shooting and killing his father and his father’s friend in their St. Johns, Arizona home. The
His first brush with the law was on May 25, 1969, when he enticed a 9-year-old Bronx girl into his car and drove her to a vacant lot. He removed his clothes and hers, but a passing police car interrupted the crime. Charged with attempted rape, Rand pleaded guilty to sexual abuse and was sentenced to four years, although he only served 16 months. Back on the street, Rashan legally changed his name to "Rand," logging three more arrests by the end of the decade for "minor" offenses, including burglary. Along the way, his name was linked with disappearances of several children.
The 2005 Roper v. Simmons case was a decision in which The Supreme Court had to decide whether capital punishment was unconstitutional to minors. Christopher Simmons a 17 year old boy at the time put together a plan to murder Shirley Crook because of a car accident they got in. The plan was to commit burglary by breaking and entering followed by murdering Mrs. Crook and throw her body off a bridge. Simmons guaranteed his friends Charles Benjamin who was 15 and John Tessmer who was 16 that they would “get away with it” because they were minors. (Scholar 556) On the night of the murder Simmons, Benjamin, and Tessmer met at approximately 2 a.m., but Tessmer backed out and left Simmons and Benjamin to commit the murder alone.
British TV Personality Pleads Guilty to Sex Abuse of Girls On May 2, 2013, a story was published by Sarah Lyall, talking about a famous television personality who was recently charged with 14 counts of sexual assault on young women ages 9 to 17. This story is fascinating because apparently his crimes took place back between 1967 and 1986. Stuart Hall (the accused) is 81 years old and is just confessing to these crimes now. One thing this paper did well, was holding your attention. It was interesting topic to begin with, but the way it was set up had very smooth transitioning.
Beatrice millet Criminology 21 Professor Thomas March 13 2013 Assignment #1 The article “Drug snitch takes bullet in Mercedes” written by Mitchel Maddux and Dan Macleod from the NY post is about a man named Burton Dennison by the age of 44, a resident of queens New York who was gunned down in Brooklyn NY on January, 13 2013 sources say he was murdered for being an informant. The article states that Dennison became an informant after he was arrested in September 2011 for selling a kilo of cocaine to an informant who himself was angling for a lighter sentence for money laundering and drug dealing. After being arrested Dennison ratted out one of his alleged partner and pled guilty to pursuant to a corporation agreement,
On October 19, 1982, John Z. DeLorean was arrested at an airport hotel with several kilograms of cocaine. DeLorean was arrested the same day the British Government said it would permanently close the Northern Ireland plant, which built DeLorean’s cars. The arrest ended a five-month, undercover probe, which tracked the auto executive across the nation. His company was in severe financial problems, and he feared the possibility of his company’s being closed down by the government, which had extended loans to him. FBI agent Richard Bretzing said DeLorean came to Los Angeles to buy 220 pounds of cocaine for distribution in Southern California at a street price of $24
Supreme Court addressed the fundamental fairness of the juvenile court process in Kent v. United States. Morris Kent, Jr., a 14 year old was apprehended in 1959 and charged with several house burglaries, and attempted purse snatching and was later released into the custody of his mother and placed on probation. Two years later an intruder broke into a woman’s apartment, stole her wallet, and raped her. Fingerprints at the crime scene matched the ones on file for Morris Kent, Jr. 16 years old at the time -- was taken into custody, where he volunteered information regarding the burglary, robberies, and rape. While in custody, Kent’s mother retained counsel on his behalf, during which time psychological and psychiatric evaluations conducted on Kent had deemed him a “victim of psychopathology.” The court ruled that Kent appear before an adult court system -- where he was tried as an adult; charged with six counts of burglary and robbery; and sentenced to 5 – 15 year for each
1 Social Structure Crime Kolleen Huster 6/7/2012 ADJ/215 Ryan Jack 2 William Balfour, 31, was sentenced to life in prison without parole after shooting Hudson’s mother Darnell Donerson, 57, her brother Jason Hudson, 29, and her seven-year-old nephew Julian King. Balfour also had a gun and was seen near the house on the morning of the murders. He was said to have flown into a jealous rage after seeing a gift of balloons outside the house, which he believed were from his wife's new boyfriend. He entered the house and shot Hudson's mother in the living room, then proceeded into the brother’s bedroom and shot him in the head. Balfour then abducted Julian and later shot him in a car which he abandoned.