Suspect Case Studies Samples For Students

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 ...

Miranda v. Arizona, Terry v. Ohio

The case involves an appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court against conviction of Ernest Miranda for rape and kidnapping of a young woman and sentencing him for 20 to 30 years of imprisonment on each charge to run concurrently.

Facts of the case

Ernest Miranda, a young Mexican man about 28 years old, kidnapped and raped an 18-year old woman Lois Ann Jameson while she had been returning home from Paramount Theater in downtown Phoenix where she worked along with a coworker and after she got down from the bus alone. After complaining to the police, Lois could not identify ...

Business with online customers and intellectual properties are using cyber forensic investigators to deal with electronic crimes and employee’s wrongdoing. PayPal scam is one of the cyber crimes that required the knowledge of forensic scientists. Database and Internet investigators played a tremendous role in discovering credit card thieves. PayPal merchants reported being redirected to mock PayPal site. Forensic investigators discovered that the PayPal accounts were opened using the same IP address. The team used Sam Spade, trace route, and freeware network discovery to investigate the matter. Based on the investigation, there is evidence that could be used in ...

Interview Techniques

Introduction
Law enforcement officers use interviews and interrogations to get information from criminal suspects. The two aspects of communication are important in deriving needed information. The two techniques are may be different in a number of ways. Interrogations are characterized by verbal aggressiveness while interviews engage a non-aggressive dialogue. Both the parties in an interview contribute to the conversation without prejudice. However, it seems that, in an interrogation, the verdict is already determined before the questioning begins. Sometimes officers engage in unorthodox tactics of eliciting information from suspects. Concerns have been raised about officers bullying suspects during interrogations. Interrogations may ...

Law enforcement agencies and the government have over time been synonymous to the enforcement of the law for public good. At the same time, the law enforcement agencies are tasked with ensuring that the rights of alleged perpetrators of any crime are protected from any sought of harm regardless of whether they committed the crime or not. In Jones’s scenario, a lot of legal and ethical issues arise. There are issues relating to the fact that she is a repeat offender, impact of her conduct to the society, the government’s role in the promotion of public order ...

Using New York State Penal Law definitions, define and explain the differences between burglary and robbery

Robbery according to the New York law is defined as being equivalent to larceny which is the unlawful taking or the forcible stealing of property. Any crime committed when a person in the course of committing a larceny uses or threatens the direct use of physical force on another person with the intent to compel the owner of the property to at in a way that aids the commission of the larceny, to overcome any resistance to retain the property after taking it, to prevent resistance when taking the property or to compel the owner of the property to deliver it. According ...

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 ...

Missouri vs. Seibert

The petitioner was a woman named Seibert. She was charged and convicted of second-degree murder for her alleged involvement in the death of a 17-year-old handicapped boy. Seibert son who had died earlier and to conceal evidence of parental negligence, she colluded with her other son to set her house of fire. She realized that if only her son’s body was found in the charred house, this would also suggest neglectful parenting and so, a decision was made to leave the 17 years old boy in the house too. The police became suspicious of her involvement and picked her up to ...

Statement of the problem issue

The need to create and manage a multi jurisdictional tactical emergency response team is dependent on certain situations. The assistance and expertise of SWAT requires unusual circumstances that can be considered beyond the abilities of normal law enforcement agencies. Such circumstances include counter terrorism operations, rescues of hostages, and high risk search warrants. Similarly, the SWAT unit offers special assistance to the situations where there members of a gang are known to be present and there are weapons used by the gang members. Such situations are highly risky for only one law enforcement agency to be involved and require the need ...

Financial discrepancies are part of the issues affecting companies today. It is worth noting that forensic investigation in a computerized work environment solves fraudulent activities. This process demands high-level expertise in forensic investigation. A forensic investigator uses various steps in investigating an employee computer. The forensic expert has to follow various steps during the investigation process. These include planning stage, gathering information stage, review process, and reporting. Investigation on employee computer is streamlined towards finding out the fraudulent activities, where and when it took place, identify those involved and quantify the monetary value of the fraud. Getting authorization to ...

Miranda v. Arizona, Terry v. Ohio

Facts of the case
Ernest Miranda kidnapped and raped an 18-year old woman on her way back home from work after parting company with her coworker on alighting from a bus they had both travelled in. The victim could not identify the perpetrator even though police brought in several suspects. At one stage t police suspected her complaint itself. They made undergo lie-detector test but the test neither could confirm nor deny her innocence. However, after a week of the incident, the victim on her own found the victim and gave leads about him ...

The exclusionary rule holds that, when the police violate a suspect’s constitutional rights, that suspect has the option of requesting a court to “exclude” or declare inadmissible any evidence that was obtained as a result of the constitutional violation. The exclusionary rule is not a constitutional right but rather a judicial tool established by the Supreme Court in 1914, as a means of deterring police officers and law enforcement officials from violating the Constitution when arresting suspects and conducting criminal investigation (Weeks v. United States, 1914). Up until 1961, the exclusionary rule was only available to defendants in ...

Investigating A Crime Scene

As the lead investigator, I will enter the crime scene with my unit and evaluate the scene from an objective standpoint. If I am the first responding investigator on the scene, I would take careful note of the date and time and I would pay close attention to my surroundings, particularly whether there are any persons or vehicles nearby (U.S. Department of Justice, 2000, p. 11). I would also be on the lookout for potential safety hazards that may be present at the scene and advise others at the scene to proceed with caution (U.S. Department of Justice, 2000, ...

Miranda v. Arizona

Introduction
In this case pitting Miranda and Arizona in 1966, the US Supreme Court had ruled that a criminal suspect who was under detainment had the right to be informed of the available Constitutional rights (Inbau, and Fred 1450. This was to be carried out preceding any form of questioning and the defendant was to be informed of the right to engage an attorney and against any form of self-accusation. This legal redress commenced in the early 1963 when Ernesto Miranda, a US Citizen from Phoenix was arrested and charged with several counts of offences ranging from cases of rape ...

Introduction

People have always criticized the use of deadly weapons ever since police started carrying guns. In order to apprehend fleeing, the Supreme Court in Tennesse v. Garner passed laws for the use of deadly force for the non-violent felony to violate the Fourth Amendment. This decision has influenced a number of homicides by police officers nationwide. This investigation has reduced a significant percentage in the homicides before and after the decision. Under such decision, there is a reduction not only in shooting fleeing felons, but also in police shooting. In 1858, a newspaper of New York Time had discussed a case in which a police ...

Citation

Misti Lee SCHNEIDER, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. The CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION POLICE DEPARTMENT, an agency of the City of Grand Junction; Bill Gardner; John Camper; William D. Baker; John A. Zen; Rick Dyer, Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants, and John and Jane Does, 3-10, in their official and individual capacities, Defendants Nos. 12-1086, 12-1115 (US App. June 5, 2013)
Facts
The person, Lee Schneider called 911 in order to have assistance with her son who was making noise and disturbance in the neighborhood. The officer name Coyne responded alongside other officer, and the leading official in this regard notified the mother that ...

Brief of Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

Decided
Decided June 19, 1961
Character of Action
The case of Dollree Mapp v. State of Ohio (henceforth Mapp v. Ohio) was brought before the Supreme Court of the United States in March of 1961. The case was brought before the Supreme Court after an incident with local law enforcement and a search of Mapp’s home. The defendant was initially convicted in the Cuyahoga County Ohio Court of Common Pleas. The conviction was later affirmed by the Ohio Court of Appeals, and after the affirmation by the Court of Appeals ...

There are definite social consequences for an officer who refuses to comply with the “blue wall” mentality. In the hypothetical, an officer who refused to back up his partner’s story in criminal and civil court regarding the excessive use of force on a suspect has been branded a “rat” by his fellow officers. The officer in question has faced a variety of repercussions as a result of his actions, ranging in severity from social ostracization to serious work safety repercussions, such as other officers refusing to ride along with the officer in question.
In this particular case, the officer in question ...

Introduction

Data mining can aid companies get the information about the employees in a firm. The information extracted from the employees and kept in the government’s database can help determine the criminals in case an insider crime is detected in the firm. Data mining helps in getting criminals but can sometimes infringe people’s privacy. It can combine information from many sources to create a detailed profile about each individual of interest. In order to establish an effective and enduring brand identity there must be a better understanding between identity and image. Once the identity has been known, it is easier to ...

The insurance agent was correct that the seafood was contaminated with the fumes that resulted from the fire. Toxic fumes quickly diffuse through the air. The toxic fumes were absorbed by the polyethylene curtain which covered the food despite it being thick (Brook et al. 2660). Therefore, the seafood needed to be thrown away since it had the toxic fumes.

What chemical(s) may be present causing the symptoms in the workers?

The two employees are affected by the phosphine gas which leaked into the room and made them experience the symptoms such as nausea and headache. The scenario shows that they were the only people who were affected by the ...

Introduction:

This paper is a case study about a crime that occurred at Old Annapolis Road, Columbia on 11th March 2000 at 0030 hours. The nature of the crime was homicide and the victim of the crime was a teenager by the names Ashley Nicole Smith. She was found brutally murdered by stabbing in a pool of her own blood in a wooden area that was located just behind 9170 Old Annapolis Road. The suspected murderers of the teen were Scott Roy Jones and Frederick James Johnson. This paper analyses how investigations were conducted from the time her body was found. It also discusses the ...

Introduction

This paper contains two parts. Part of this paper offers a brief explanation regarding the role of the directors in a company. This part specifically discusses the reason behind the existence of the directors of a company’s duty to prevent insolvent trading. It also discusses the circumstances and the results after the court lifting the veil of incorporation for the wrong of insolvent trading upon a director of a company.

Discussion

Directors of companies are under a duty under the Corporation Act provisions and the common law to prevent companies from incurring debts while they are insolvent. At common law, the director’s duty to ...

Miranda V. Arizona and Terry V. Ohio
The case of Miranda versus Arizona is a landmark case in the US Supreme Court decision that upholds the constitutional rights of an accused in a criminal case the guarantee of protection against self incrimination under the Fifth Amendment and the right to a counsel during the custodial investigation under the Sixth Amendment. It is where the Miranda Rights originated which is a procedure in every custodial investigation of reading the different rights of an accused before being interrogated by the authorities. The case reinforces the essential requirement of these procedural due process of providing ...

This paper puts into context Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory. The paper takes a close look at a Winnipeg lady who allegedly attempted to murder her two sons. In accordance with Bronfenbrenner’s framework, the paper focuses on an inquiry into the microsystems, mesosystems, macrosystems and chronosystems that affected the lady’s childhood development. Bronfenbrenner’s theory offers the best opportunity to understand the context in which people draw their actions from.

Analysis

Bronfenbrenner’s framework also known as bioecological systems theory looks at the development of children in the context of relationships that form around their environment. A child’s environment ...

Parties: Charles Katz (Defendant-Applicant) v. United States (Plaintiff-Respondent)

Facts: Katz had long been suspected by police to be involved in the local illegal gambling scene. In an effort to obtain credible evidence of his illegal activities, the police placed Katz under surveillance (Katz v United States, 1967). That surveillance revealed that Katz liked to use a particular phone booth, which police suspected Katz used to place bets. Consequently, the police attached a “big” or listening device to the phone booth in order to record Katz’s conversation and hopefully obtain evidence against him. The bug was able to record Katz making bets and the police used those ...

Description of the Type of Crime and Criminal Behavior

The discussions in this paper will focus on Alex Johnson et al.’s (01) report on the Kansas shooting spree incident featuring the already-neutralized suspect Cedric Larry Ford. Killing sprees are not uncommon in the United States. This is mainly because of the rather lax gun ownership laws in the country, something which is unique especially when it gets compared side by side with the gun ownership laws in other countries, even the most liberalized ones. In the said criminal incident, the suspect, Cedric Larry Ford went on a shooting spree across two separate (but adjacent) towns in the ...

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 ...

Citation UNITED STATES, Petitioner v Antoine JONES No. 10-1259 (SC, Jan, 23 2012)

Facts
The Intelligence Agency formed a partnership with the Metropolitan Police Department in order to investigate alleged business of human trafficking operating out of Maryland, and therefore, the teamed up investigative units inserted a Global Positioning Services (GPS) module on the underside of suspect’s vehicle (I have mentioned the presence of joint task agreement here). However, the defense argued that the evidence obtained from the installed equipment is inadmissible to the court as it would be a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Question
Whether or not, the installation of GPS module on suspect’s vehicle was constitutional under ...

KU Version March 2011

At the end of the case study, the scholar will be able to:
Identify the steps of the investigation of an outbreak;
Describe the characteristics of an outbreak in terms of time, place and person;
Use descriptive epidemiological data to generate hypotheses;
Use analytical epidemiological data to test hypotheses;
Formulate recommendations for the control of an outbreak.
Part A cluster of acute hepatitis in Provo, Utah
Provo is a large municipality located in the North of Utah, close from the border with Wyoming and Idaho. The population of Provo was 6,185 in ...

The problem has two sides. The point is that some argue that when a police officer enters a dwelling to conduct a search, the owner of a dwelling may ask to leave. Minnesota vs. Olsen is one of such cases. United States vs. Beck is another case when police officers conducted illegal search. Although, police officers managed to conduct a search, in the court it was proved that the search was illegal. On the contrary, there is a case Kentucky vs. King. Police officers tried to buy drugs from Mr. King. When they managed to do this, they followed the suspect and arrested him in ...

Explore Dorner's motivation to kill Quan's daughter and the others

In order to find out the motivations that led Dorners' killing spree it important to look at his history and the events that occurred prior to the time of the killings. Christopher Dorner was a decorated US navy veteran, a college graduate and a former Los Angeles police detective. He was respected and lived an upstanding life. In 2005, he joined the Los Angeles police department and became a fully-fledged police officer in 2006 (Kelly). His life began to change in 2007 after he accused that his fellow police officer who was a training officer Teresa Evans had misused her powers by kicking Christopher ...

Graham v. Conner 490 U.S. 386 (1989)

The Plaintiff (Graham) is diabetic and he had been feeling awful after an insulin reaction. A friend took the plaintiff to the store but because the queue at the store was too long so he hurriedly left the store and his friend drove him to their friend’s home for juice. A police officer, on seeing the plaintiff hurriedly leave the store, was suspicious and trailed the car. He stopped the two after trailing them for one mile. The plaintiff’s friend told the police officer that Graham was having a “sugar reaction” ( ...

Miranda v Arizona

The brief facts of the case were that the defendant Ernesto Miranda was arrested on the 13th of March 1963 by the police based on circumstantial evidence that linked him to the rape of an 18year old girl. Following an interrogation by police that lasted two hours, Miranda signed a confession statement to the rape charge on forms that alleged that he had made the confession without any coercion and out of his own free will. The form also stated that the defendant was well aware of his legal rights as well as the fact that any statements or confessions ...

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 ...