Murder Case Studies Samples For Students

Identification of Crimes and Defenses

Fact Summary: After taking cocaine, Nino and Bill decide they want more. Nino comes up with an idea to “scam” some more from Thomas, the boyfriend of Bill’s sister. On the way to Thomas’ house, Nino explains the details of the scam to Bill. Before arriving however, Nino drops will off and gives him a steak knife and tells him, “I may need protection.” After waiting 45 minutes, Bill walks to Thomas’ house and knocks on the door. Nino rushes out and begins beating him and cursing him for not keeping to the plan. In the process of beating ...

The first episode of the serial podcast explores the story of the murder of Hae Min Lee. The episode is about of Adnan Syed, an ex-boyfriend of Lee, convicted wrongfully for her murder. The clip links the different leads that aim to identify the legality of the conviction of Adnan for the murder of his ex-girlfriend. In this case, the episode explores the long dominant leads used in the conviction of Adnan and unravels some of the key issues that necessitate deliberation. It is evident as one listens to the episode that it attempts to unravel the alibis presented ...

As highlighted by the United States penal code, murder is classified as a crime. Whether it is in the first degree, second or third, it is still a crime that is punishable by law. In addition, armed robbery is a felony that is considered serious in nature because it poses a danger to the victims. In addition, murder can be classified into instigated murder under manslaughter. Criminal acts are acts that are against the law. The criminal act in question is a case that involved the murder of two store owners during a robbery incident in a Chicago store. The robbery was done by a man called ...

The Defendant had been estranged from the complainant, who was his wife. The wife, Marjory Damms was also separated from her mother. The defendant wanted to reconcile his wife and her mother, hoping that it would lead to reconciliation between himself and Marjory. On the morning of 6th April, 1959 the defendant drove to where Marjory stayed, and waited at a bus stop he knew she frequented. When she arrived he lied to her that her mother was unwell, and convinced her to get into his car. When they arrived at the mother’s home, Marjory realized that the defendant ...

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The personality oriented theories by Albert Reiss define some processes that help control individuals from involving in immoral and anti-social behaviors. From the control theories, Zamora and Graham failed to adhere to the stipulated control as stipulated by Reiss. They were aware of the direct control which are punishments given by the parents reason why they were hiding from their parents. Their conscience failed the internal control making them feel right and heroic in committing the heinous act. Their conscience failed to make them feel guilty of the actions. They also failed to adhere to the indirect ...

Identify the problem

Megan Slake is the mother of eight year old Nancy Slake. Nancy was raped in the past. Megan feels sure that her neighbor was the culprit but not enough proof was collected to achieve a conviction. At a restaurant with her husband one evening Megan sees her former neighbor. The next day Megan learns that the former neighbor was accused of murdering his wife at the same time Megan knows he was at the restaurant. Therefore he could not have committed the murder. (a) Megan could keep quiet about his location at the time of the murder. Or (b) she could speak up ...

A. People v. Watson
B. 30 Cal. 3d 290, 637 P.2d 279, 179 Cal. Rptr. 43 (1981).
C. Decision &Year Decided
In the year 1981, the California Supreme Court rendered a verdict convicting the defendant of secondary murder on the conduct of causing a fatal accident as a result of reckless driving. The court found rationality in concluding that the defendant’s behavior was deliberate and unprovoked, and he consciously disregarded human life. However, it can be argued that the court failed to define exactly when the conduct of an intoxicated driver can be regarded as an implied malevolence. ...

I. Introduction
Journalists have a responsibility to the facts of an event. This is an aspect of journalism that is often lost in the sensationalism that often follows the news in the modern era. Ethics and standards in journalism are principles that give the journalist a structural framework for conducting the practice of reporting on events, people, or places; they are designed to help the journalist navigate specific situations and challenges that journalists often face. Journalists do not exist in a vacuum; they are people with their own opinions and feelings about the things that they are reporting, and it follows ...

Podcast on The Murder Of Hae Lee

As per the murder of Hae, various pointers and evidence point to who really killed her. The testimonies of the various suspects in the case may be used to determine who really killed Hae. From the podcast, in my view, Hae was killed by Adnan and Jay. This is due to various reasons.
Firstly, the evidence that has been tabled by the prosecution pertaining to really his whereabouts on the afternoon that Hae was murdered each point to him. This is since, as per the way he talks he seems to be lying. This is seen from episode 1 ...

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The Flitland Crown Court convicted Dr. Arthur Jones for the crime of murder for withdrawal of life-support treatment to premature-born Baby X. Prior to his conviction, Dr. Jones did not dispute the antecedent facts that led to the death of Baby X. He reasoned out that the offense was committed to give way for the more viable Baby Y. There was only one available life-support system, and the question was, to whom he should administer the life-support treatment, to less viable Baby X or to more viable Baby Y?
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Introduction

Mary’s case reflects a serious case of criminal behavior, not counting the numerous crimes committed against her by her family members. Mary is a serious psychological case, as she has faced numerous negative influences in her life and suffered serious emotional trauma. Raised by a father who was abusive against the family and a mother who was emotionally distant, Mary’s childhood and most formative years were spent facing damaging abuse that would affect her for the rest of her life. Her step-father, who arrived on the scene when Mary was nearly ten, sexually abused her and her ...

People v. Poplar 20 Mich. App. 132, 173 N.W.2d 732 (1970) was an appeal filed in the Michigan Appellate Court by Marathon Poplar seeking to set aside a conviction of lower court that had found him guilty of aiding and abetting the crime of breaking and entering and of assault with intent to commit murder. The facts of the case which gave rise to the appeal are as follows.
On December 3, 1964 in the early morning hours, two men, Clifford Lorrick and Alfred Williams broke into the Oak recreation park building. However, before they could steal anything from ...

Serial killers are always an interesting study and the United States has had its fair share of these, especially in the last century. The case selected for analysis here is Jeffrey Dahmer who killed a large number of underage boys after having lured them and had sex with them. It remains one of the most compelling cases of recent times not least due to the fact that Dahmer himself was murdered while serving out a life term in prison a few years after he was convicted (Purcell, 2006).
Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer who murdered a huge number of men in a spree ...

Case summary

This is a case of one female intern known as Levy Chandra. She was a waged intern stationed with the Federal Bureau of Prisons by the time she went missing as she out on a dawn jog along the well-known Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. The case also involved Gary Condit. During her disappearance, the main suspect the then Californian U.S. democrat Representative, after it was revealed that the five-term Congressman was engaged in an extramarital affair with Chandra. The man was a congressional representative as well as being a serialized adulterer-possessing savor for younger women (Hingham and Horvitz 34). Chandra Levy believed ...

INTRODUCTION

Sanctuary cities have increasingly captured the public eye in recent history. Most distressing has been the recent murder of 32 year old Kathryn Steinle by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal immigrant in San Francisco recently released from prison . The murder has caused issue because, “in the eyes of staunch immigration-enforcement advocates,” Lopez-Sanchez’ murder of Steinle is the direct result of liberal cities’ policies of protecting undocumented immigrants through a patchwork of laws surrounding the topic .
The issue has been exacerbated by the recent rhetoric of some Republican presidential candidates, such as Donald trump, who “blamed immigration policy for Kate ...

Re: Main Issues Involved in Key United States Supreme Court Cases

Since 1963, the United States Supreme Court has taken an expansive view of Due Process as it applies to criminal defendants. A number of important Supreme Court decisions have addressed the scope of a Prosecutor’s constitutional duties in light of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Although the Prosecutor stands in an adversarial position to the criminal defendant, the Prosecutor is sometimes required to disclose various forms of evidence that may be favorable to the defendant. These cases touch upon the delicate balance between a vigorous Prosecution and the defendant’s right to a fair trial ...

Charles Manson is the son of careless and indifferent prostitute. He is born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Young Charles has never known who is his real father, and has spent his first years of life in shelters. He firstly showed his rebellious nature at school. His transition from childhood to adolescence was marked by numerous crimes and several sentences in correctional facilities for juvenile delinquents. In March 1951, the court decided to send Charlie to educational school for boys in Washington. The following year, just a few days before his release, Manson raped another young boy at the same ...

Introduction

The topic of the paper is murder, and its mission is to discuss the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and relating this crime with the three categories of crime causation. Murder is the deliberate taking of another person life. Murder can be first-degree and second-degree murder where in the first degree both the intention and the killing is planned (Brown et al, 2010). This paper will also discuss how Jeffery Dahmer killed people deliberately out of ill will.

The Crime

The paper will address the crime of murder and will discuss the life of an American serial killer and sex offender Jeffrey ...

The film Legally Blonde pretends to be a celebration of the power of women in the dusty, sexist halls of Harvard Yard, but in fact it is a comedy that uses the time-tested ability of sexist roles to gain cheap laughs and play to the tastes of those who snicker at women, believing them to be less able than men and qualifying all of their successes at having been based on luck or some other sort of dynamic than true competence. Reese Witherspoon stars as Elle Woods, a sorority girl who fits every stereotype of the naïve blonde. She catches the ...

I. Case Summary

On May 1, 2001, a 24-year-old intern named Chandra Levy vanished without a trace. Her case became a sensational one because her boyfriend, a promising and married US congressman was suspected initially to have something to do with her disappearance.
Fifty-two-year-old Rep. Gary Condit, who like Levy hailed from Modesto California, had become a subject of police investigation and their prime suspect when authorities learned of his affair with Chandra.

Despite Condit's denial of having to do with her disappearance and his cooperation with the investigation, police bore down on him and considered him its prime suspect – searching his apartment (where Chandra would ...

ABSTRACT

Brenda Spencer, at age 16, killed two people, injured a police officer as well as several school children when she opened fire on an elementary school across the street from her home while students were arriving for class. Brenda made startling proclamations about the school shooting. She claimed the shooting made her day better, and that the shootings were fun. After being sentenced to twenty-five years to life, she has been denied parole since the incident and remains incarcerated today. There is no comprehensive explanation for the crime of Brenda Spencer. Yet, her mental condition and the positivist theory ...

The Parole Board

Ethical Situation
The pressure on releasing inmates into community sentences is evident. The Governor’s fears are not implausible. However, releasing recidivism-prone inmates will increase the burden on the society and reduce their safety dramatically. Despite spending almost a trillion dollars on correctional facilities, the prisons are overflowing. A vast majority of these inmates are serving sentences for drug related charges. They will definitely get back to their former livelihoods the moment they step out of prison.
However, retaining them in prison under inhumane conditions is a violation of human rights. Since the US has the largest prison population ...

Policy and procedure directives are meant to ensure that all actions taken in every institution of the criminal justice system abides not only to the federal constitution, but also to ethics and human rights. Therefore, when policies and procedures are being drafted, their main foundation is the constitution. However, as history has shown, things are not always direct in the criminal justice system. An action taken in criminal justice system such a jail and that seemingly abides by the constitution may later be interpreted as an infringement on the constitutional right of the defendant. Such is the case of Carter ...

Introduction

Charles Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 12, 1934 to Kathleen Maddox, a sixteen-year-old prostitute (Atchison & Kathleen, 2011). This paper aims at analyzing America’s “most dangerous man.” In doing so, the paper will examine his history, actions, psychology, and personality. There are also conclusions regarding preventative treatments and therapies made based on Manson’s story and knowledge of other psychological disorders.
Charles Manson spent his childhood under the care of different people, including his uncle, aunt, caretaker, or grandmother away from his un-wanting mother. His mother, Kathleen Maddox was drunken trouble-maker and irresponsible. She once sold ...

Step 1: Identify the dilemma

James is a community counseling student and an intern at a local university. Recently, he began working with Lisa a 21-year-old female who presented symptoms associated with depression. Lisa disclosed experiencing physical abuse from her mother’s partner. As a result, she drugged him, and he later died. The decision to diagnose her or not is a dilemma. Lisa has told her counselor something that she had never disclosed to anyone. Referring her to another counselor would make her uncomfortable, and she could decide to give up on counseling.

Step 2: identify the potential issues involved

There are three issues involved. First, a legal matter because the counselor has to make a decision ...

The deceased, Carol Hoffman was murdered by her husband on the or about the evening of 10th or the early morning of 11th August 1981. They had earlier on spent the day together with their children and everything seemed fine. However, when they went to bed at night, David wanted to make love to his wife and when she refused, he choked her to death. After his wife’s death, David went to the basement of the house to call his mother (appellant) and asked her to go and sit in the living room. Sitting in the living room ...

Analysis of murder crime

Description of the crime

In this case, Stephen McDaniel who graduated recently from Mercer school of law is accused of murdering his former classmate Lauren Giddings and throwing some of her body parts in the dust bin. McDaniel and Giddings used to live in the same apartment after graduating from the school of law. Giddings was seen for the last time on the evening of June 25 together with her friends spending time together, and since then her family members, friends, and corps have been looking for her everywhere. After searching for five days, corps found some of her ...

Introduction

In May 2012, English couple Mick and Mairead Philpott made the headlines for surviving a fire that killed their six children and destroyed their house in the Allenton area (BBC News, 2013). After publicly claiming to be lucky for surviving the fire, the Philpotts won the sympathy of people who felt sorry for them for losing six of their children and most of their properties. However, after a month of investigation, the Philpotts were accused of committing arson and murder, and by 2013, they were convicted of manslaughter for deliberately starting a fire that killed all six of their ...

Yes, I agree with this decision, and the court was right to hold that capital punishment or capital punishment cannot be applied to the case of rape of minors for various reasons which I will set out in the subsequent sections of this paper. The law on the capital punishment in the US is found in the individual criminal codes of each state, but the jurisprudence of the death penalty has largely been shaped by the US Supreme Court. The law in this area was enunciated by the same court when it made it clear in Coker v Georgia ( ...

1. Why is this an ethical dilemma? Which APA Ethical Principles help frame the nature of the dilemma?
This is an ethical dilemma because Dr. Yeung has an ethical obligation to maintain the confidentiality of her client but he has also made a veiled threat of violence on her answering machine. This puts her in the position of determining what threat level this message poses and if or should she override her professional duty to maintain confidentiality in order to prevent violence from happening. The APA ethical standards which frame the nature of the dilemma are Confidentiality and Privacy.2. ...

Abstract

The health care providers come into contact with patients and people from a variety of faiths. This means that they should have the right knowledge of the diversity of religions. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative ethical analysis of George, patient diagnosed with ALS, which is a progressive disease that will cripple his quality of life. Ultimately, he will lose control over his life and become completely dependent on others. The deterioration of motor neurons will make him lose his ability to speak, move, eat, and breathe. George is devastated by the diagnosis and is ...

H.R. 1412, the Justice and Integrity Act of 2009

H.R. 1412, the Justice and Integrity Act of 2009
A Report from Rep. Steve Cohen (d-tenn.), Discussing Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System That He Can Use To Move This Bill Forward in Congress

Introduction

According to Research Advocacy for Reform (2013), male Americans of black descent are six times more likely to be imprisoned than white males. Additionally, they are 2.5 times more likely to be incarcerated that Hispanics. If this trend continues, it is clear that every black American born today should expect to go to prison ...

In the year 2008, a young woman Casey Anthony was accused a first-degree murder of her two year old daughter Caylee .She was also charged with other offences which include; aggravated manslaughter, providing false information to the law enforcement and aggravated child abuse. Casey Anthony was accused of providing false information by pleading not guilty of the charges and that the baby was kidnapped by a baby sitter .The case drew a lot of media attention and this forced the judge to keep the location of the jury selection secret for a very long time. The charges against Anthony gained ground due to the ...

The death penalty is a situation where an individual arraigned in a court of law for a certain crime is sentenced to death. Due to the seriousness of this sentence, it is apparent that the evidence provided in court for such cases must be beyond reasonable doubt. It is for this reason that almost all the cases which end with a death sentence are referred to the Supreme Court for appeals. This essay looks at the case of Atkins v Virginia (2002). It will give the details of the case and the sentence thereon. The essay seeks to assert the fact that capital ...

Criminal Profile Paper on Andrea Yates

The Crime

On June 20th 2001, a mother of five did the unthinkable and killed her five children within one hour (O'Malley, 2004). The woman, Andrea Yates confessed to drowning her four sons and one daughter in the bathtub within the family’s house. The crime shocked American society and brought a lot of consideration to the psychological health of mothers and possible risks it presented for the family (Ewing, 2008).

On the morning of the crime, Russell Yates Andrea’s husband left his wife alone in the house with the children. This was a routine he had started a few weeks prior ...

The scene of the incident doesn’t look like an altered one. The pick-up has heaps of glass outside the passenger door; this points to the probability that the window to the passenger window was broken on the scene. The pick-up doesn’t seem to be a four wheel drive since only the rear wheels have dug into the ground. The rear wheel having burnt off the rim; there is a possibility that the driver lost control of the pick-up and plunged into the fence, but the rear wheels continued to turn. The position of the lady at the ...

- Introduction: Crisis Theory and Intervention
Society is not a place without problems. In fact, it is a place with a lot of it. There are a lot of categories of problems that exist and perhaps the most common forms of problem are economic, political, health-related, and social in nature. The objective of this paper is to discuss a case of Crisis Theory and Intervention, particularly the case of Ken, a 20 year old college student studying at the University of Southern California, who is showing continuously increasing signs of anxiety and depression after being exposed to a traumatic criminal activity, that is the murder ...

Introduction

On the Mother’s Day of 2001, a murder incident occurred at a place called Antietam Creek. The body was found lying lifeless in the bushes of the creek. There was evidence to show that this was purely a murder incident because the manner in which the body of a young man was lying on the ground and also its condition was suggestive as such. At the bottom of a steep hill lay the body, with a pool of blood and evidence of some tussle on the ground. This showed that the young man must have struggled with his assailants before they succeeded in killing ...

Introduction

In this article, there is overwhelming evidence at the initial trial for any prosecutor, investigating authority and even the court to believe that John was the murderer. His confessions are consistent whenever they come, and his self-sentencing to death in itself an admission of guilt. The fact that even the state of the body turns out exactly where and how he had described to the police, and the motive he alleges would leave no doubt in anyone that he murdered Maxine in cold blood, and deserved the strictest sentence. Arrested seven months after the murder, crime scene evidence could ...

a)

Lt. Gov. Michael mars completed the statewide tour today.

Mars is coordinating the state drought assistance

He called it an eye opening experience.
The southern half has been hit hardest by the drought.
The 15768 Sturbridge residents are within 30 days of water shortage.
Mars described the situation as worse than people realize
The state could receive federal support.
This is after it submitted an application last week
The federal decision will be made tomorrow.
This could end the drought, which had lasted for two months
b)

Montana’s prison guards have been on strike since four days ago.

1600 national guards have been called to duty in the prisons.

National guards started today after 5000 guards went on strike.

Elsewhere, ...

In his short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” Edgar Allen Poe presents a narrator who entraps an enemy by appealing to the vices of his character. The narrator does not explain very much of why Fortunato is his enemy; he simply notes “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge” (p. 191). For most of the story, the reader does not know the name of the narrator, only the name of his enemy. However, it is clear from the first paragraph that the narrator seeks revenge, and ...

The probation department is a critical constituent of the criminal justice system. Probation officers have a fundamental obligation to the system and society at large to ensure that they facilitate the administration of justice in a fair, just and objective manner. They attain this essential duty mainly by preparation of presentence investigation report, which gets then submitted to the court of law. The report should be based on the defendant's character, criminal history, background, his family life and any other relevant facts that the officer may deem fit to aid in the administration of justice. The report will then be used by ...

X will not be successful in applying the defence of neccessity. In criminal law, necessity is not primea facie a criminal defence. The defence, however, does apply in certain circumstances as an area of reform in the law. The land mark case, R v Dudley and Stephen (1884) 14 QBD 273 gives an example of a scenario when the defence can apply, even though it was contravacial. Looking at the scenario, the defence will not apply to X because he had all the time to dispose of the firearm, but even if he had taken it to protect his life he ...

Casey Anthony was charged for murder of her two year old girl Caylee Anthony. The youngster was reported missing by the grandmother and later her remains were discovered near their home area. Casey was charged with first degree murder but was later released by the court and charged with giving false information to the police. When the remains were discovered a lot of evidence was found including a string of hair found in the shaft of her car. The root branding of the root hair after death were consistent with the hair from the deceased body. An air sampling method performed ...

1. Richard DiGuglielmo Jr. seems to be the victim of unfair trial. His case has not been properly represented in the court or probably he has been misunderstood by the judges. On the fateful day, he saw that Campbell is about to hit his father with a metal baseball and seeing this, the first thing that came into his mind was that his father is in grave danger and he should save him at any cost. He was a cop and it was his duty to save the life of a man who was about to get hit severely by a violent man. ...