Guy Paul Morin Mr. Morin a 25 year old man worked as a sander and musician. On October 3, 1984 a 9 year old girl by the name of Christine Jessup, was abducted from a town named Queensville, Ontario and murdered. Christine Jessup was Mr. Morin’s neighbour. Morin provided police with a solid alibi, even though Morin lacked a criminal record, police still presumed to believe the main suspect was Mr. Morin. Mr. Morin was charged with the crime of first degree murder on the date of April 22, 1985.
The auditor conclude about 90 percent of the donations were used for Life insurance scheme and only 10 percent went for charitable purpose. 2. Man arrested in $100M Navy vet charity scam By Thomas J. Sheeran - The Associated Press Posted : Tuesday May 1, 2012 13:09:35 EDT A fugitive was arrested for running a scam that collected millions of dollars from people that believed to raise money for Navy veterans in Cleveland. The man used a false identify of Bobby Thompson and had multiple fake ID cards. He was indicted in Ohio in 2010 on theft, money laundering and other Florida-based charity related charges; however he disappeared in June 2010.
The test of negligence is what a person of ordinary prudence or a reasonable person would or would not do in the same or similar circumstances. Negligence that renders one liable to another who is injured thereby is the doing of some act or thing that it is his or her duty to refrain from doing or in failing to do some act or thing that it is such
The second issue involves the thin skull rule which involves the defendant having to take the victim as he finds him which can be seen as unfair. Other issues include the victim refusing medical treatment, medical negligent treatment and the daftness test which has been criticised for being too subjective. Under factual causation the defendant can only be guilty if the consequence
Batter is the unlawful physical violence on another person without their consent. Assault is a specific intent crime and battery is the commission of the specific intent. To constitute assault one has to commit an overt act from which the inference can be drawn that a violent injury was intended. Aggravated assaults are assaults with the intent to commit another offense like rape or murder. Aggravated assault can mean that assault is committed with the intention of committing an additional crime or something that involves a special circumstance.
For twenty years, theses deaths and disappearances were attributed to the so-called “Green River Killer,” which was an unidentified serial murderer (The Seattle). Detectives and forensic scientists reviewed hundreds of items of physical evidence and interviewed thousands of witnesses but the case remained unsolved until 2001. In 2001, the King County Prosecuting Attorney charged Gary Leon Ridgway with four of these murders because of DNA evidence (The Seattle). In the following year, additional forensic evidence led to three more murder charges. The seven charges implicated Ridgway in only a fraction of the Green River homicides.
The first element, Duty, can be looked at almost like the Golden Rule. Everyone has a general duty to carry out a reasonable care toward other people and their property. The second element comes into play if a person acts unreasonably. Their unreasonable action is then considered a breach of duty of care of element one (duty).For the law to determine whether a person's conduct is reasonable or not, the law has to ask: “Would a person of average intelligence and general regard for others have acted in the same way?” If the obvious answer is a no, then the person's behavior was unreasonable and thus, a
Genocide is the specific targeting and killing of culture or race of people, which is unethical and wrong. Terrorists perform acts of violence meant to disrupt daily life by causing pain and suffering of others. Rape is a sexual act forced upon someone, which destroys the life of another for the self-gratification of one sick individual. Goodman is correct with his statement about certain things are just wrong and unethical in a society. The examples provided are supported and represent unethical acts by people.
Deana Cager Ms.Matis English 9 honors 21 November 11, 2011 Death Penalty Troy Davis was a man convicted for a crime in 1989, for the killing of a police officer. Seven of the nine eyewitnesses had changed their testimony and saying it wasn’t Troy Davis who killed the police officer. On September 21, 2011 Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection. A few weeks later investigators found that he was innocent. They put this man to death without evidence to support that he committed this crime.
They were later convicted and sent to jail. Scenarios like this this happen all the time for example in 1988 two men named Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz were convicted of rape and first degree murder and later convicted. 11 years later they were found to be innocent but why were they convicted? B. Tie to the audience: According to the website researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ronhuff.htm it is estimated 10,000 people each year are falsely convicted of crimes.