The American dream or the American nightmare. The case about the double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman has been called the biggest trial of this century in America. The interest of the media did not concern the victims as much as the main prosecuted, O.J. Simpson, the greatest football player in the United States throughout history and the sports hero of the entire nation. The case contains all ingredients of what some would call the American Dream, while others would call it the pseudo-event of the century in the United States of America.
Lawyers convinced the LAPD to allow Simpson to turn himself in at 11 am on June 17, 1994[16]:87 even though the double murder charge meant no bail and a possible death penalty verdict if convicted. [17] Over 1,000 reporters waited for Simpson at the police station, but he failed to appear. At 2 pm, the Los Angeles Police Department issued an all-points bulletin. At 5 pm Robert Kardashian, a Simpson friend and one of his defense lawyers, read a rambling letter by Simpson to the media. [18]:22 In the letter Simpson sent greetings to 24 friends and wrote, "First everyone understand I had nothing to do with Nicole's murder ... Don't feel sorry for me.
Michael Jordan, the most popular athlete in the world, is arguably the greatest basketball player of all time. He led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships in the 1990's, and had a lot of success on the United States Olympic team as well. He announced his retirement from the sport of basketball due to the murder of his father after the 1993-1994 season, and he left millions of people shocked and disappointed. No one was really sure if the death of his father was the only reason, and what was even more shocking was that he decided to try his hand at baseball, the sport his father always wanted him to play. Fortunately, during his odyssey into the minor leagues and into a period of self-discovery, he allowed one man to be there with him
Jimmy V did not win this award because of his tremendous success as a college as a college basketball coach including winning the 1983 national championship, he won it for his amazing courage to fight and one day beat cancer even if he was not alive to see it. Jimmy was diagnosed with bone cancer in 1992 and was given a scarce amount of time to live. On March 3rd of 1993 as Jimmy’s hour glass of life was wasting down to its final grains, powerful and inspiring words vaulted from Jimmy’s mouth that could make the strongest of storms weak in the knees. Jimmy spread a message of love that night that continues to carry on today through the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research. I will be critiquing Jimmy’s courageous speech in the following paragraphs.
His last known killing took place in 1991. He sent letters to media outlets and police describing his murders. In 2005, he was found guilty of ten murders and is currently serving ten consecutive life sentences. When comparing biological theories of criminal behavior to Dennis Rader it was found that he grew up in church, had loving parents, a quiet and normal life, it would be expected that he would grow up to be a great person. This shows that there is more to Rader and the crimes he committed than the biological factors.
One such investigation was the Meek-Jennings case. Maples stated that out of all the cases and remains he has ever examined from all over the world, “I had only to travel twenty miles from my front doorstep to encounter the most baffling and complex problem in forensic anthropology that has ever occupied my mind” (Maples 1995:p150) Glyde Earl Meek was a forty nine year old white male who resorted to crime in his twenties. He was intelligent, charismatic and very athletic but was unable to “live by society’s rules” and “couldn’t keep it within the system.” (Maples 1995:p161) Maples describes Page Jennings as a beautiful, quick minded young lady from a well off family. Only nineteen months after meeting and falling in love with Meek, at the age of twenty one, Jennings met her death. Their bodies were found in an abandoned isolated house off a high way in Florida that had been set on fire.
He has the world record of the farthest sniper shot in the world of 2,100 yards or 1.2 miles of distance. Also has 150 confirmed kills with the pentagon. During his stay in the town of Ramadi he was put on a bounty of $20,000 for his head. The terrorist group “AL Qaeda” had him nicked named as Al-Shaitan that stands for “the devil” due to all the kills he had accomplished. Chris received three silver stars and five bronze stars with valor which is pretty hard to gain in the seals and are very important metals.
On the eve of his last college football game, Woody Hayes reflected on his legendary coaching career at Ohio State by stating that "nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach” (“Woody Hayes”). The accomplishments that Woody Hayes had at Ohio State included 3 national championships, 13 Big Ten Titles and four of the teams 8 trips to the Rose Bowl. He gathered 205 victories in just 28 seasons including 2 consecutive years of not suffering a single loss. Although known for his love of winning he was also known for his temper.
Next week's 12th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks likely will be the last on which American combat troops fight what has become not only the longest war in U.S. history, but the most unpopular. No American war, not Vietnam, Korea or Iraq, has ever fallen as far in public esteem. In the months after the United States invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, about nine in 10 Americans expressed support for the war. Today, about three in 10 do, a plunge of 60 percentage points. Never has our support for a war started so high and sunk so low.
He was wrongfully convicted when he was 16 years old and served 20 years in prison before proving his innocence. That mistake took two decades from him, but it took Carlos DeLuna's life. Proof of Carlos' innocence has only come out now, 29 years after the crime and two decades after he was executed, because of the painstaking work of professors and students at The Columbia Human Rights Law Review. Doubts always existed in Carlos' case, but it took 29 years and what some are calling the most comprehensive criminal investigation in U.S. Carlos DeLuna's case is proof that these kinds of cases are not isolated; they are the inevitable result of an imperfect system. As long as we have a death penalty, we risk executing innocent people like Carlos