A Brief Summary Of The Cotton Case

On patrol serving as a special constable I was called to a male that was feeling suicidal and saying he was going to kill himself. On arrival I was met by a young male who I could see was clearly and obviously distressed and emotionally upset. He said he was troubled and confused and had an urge to kill himself. It was clearly necessary for me to intervene in the situation to keep him safe and ascertain if he had done anything to himself prior to arrival, e.g. legal overdose or taken drugs.

Walter Calvin White (defendant) had а issue with William Tipton. Defendant knew that he's going to meet the Tipton, he carried a gun. When they had a disagreement, White pulled out his gun, after that Tipton started to run away on his motocycle. Defendant made a shot in order to harm Tipton, but actually hit Ralph Edward Davis (plaintiff) in the stomach. Defendant was sentenced to 5 years in prison. The Circuit Court awarded Davis a $50,000. White then filed for bankruptcy, after that, Davis went to the Court for nondischargeability in bankruptcy.

The Dred Scott vs. Sanford case was a huge decision in the history of our country. Dred Scott was a slave who was owned by the Sanford family. The Sanford family moved Scott to a Wisconsin territory, where slavery was prohibited under the Missouri Compromise, where he lived for 4 years working on and off to raise money for him and his family’s freedom. Later on, the Sanford family moved him back to St. Louis where Scott tried to buy him and his family freedom but was denied by the Sanford family. Scott sued the Sanford’s and made a case that he and his family lived in a free area for an extended period of time making him legally free. The state court declared him free but the wages that Scott had were withheld by the Sanford family who then appealed the decision to make Scott free to the Missouri Court. The Missouri Court overturned the decision to make Scott free and ruled in favor of the Sanford’s. Scott then sued the Sanford’s again for physical abuse and the court would not rule on it because they said Scott was regarded as a slave in Missouri territory.

Shortly after the establishment of the Kansas Nebraska Act, there was a slight moment of opportunity for the nation to end the long-lasting controversial issue of slavery once and for all, the Dred Scott v. Sandford case, but again, the division of the two regions grew fonder. In the 1830s, Dred Scott, a Missouri slave accompanied his slave owners to several different territories, including Wisconsin and Illinois, two slave free states at the time. After Dred Scott’s slave owner died, he attempted to sue for his freedom, being it he had stepped on “free man” soil. Although he had to return back to Missouri, the second he walked onto a free state territory he no longer identified himself as a slave. However, the ruling in the end only strengthened

The Scottsboro Boys Trial was a huge case against nine African American men who between the ages 13-19 were accused for sexually assaulting two caucasian women on a train they were falsely and wrongly accused. This case started in 1931 on a train near Paint Rock, Alabama. Eight of the nine young men were convicted and sentenced to death the ninth was sentenced to life in prison. These young men should not have been mistreated while being held and tried without evidence based on their race and sentenced to death without fair trial.

One of the most significant court cases in the 1800s was the Dred Scott v. Sanford case in 1857 (Kelly, 2014). This case gripped the nation right as the North and the South became further and further apart. The Scott v. Sanford case deepened the boundary closer to Civil War. Scott v. Sanford drew in everyone’s attention and led to the rally of a lifetime. The case created problems and changes in the United States and the significance of this case is still awed by today.

Dred Scott, an enslaved African American from Virginia, worked most of his life on a cotton plantation in Alabama owned by Army surgeon, Dr. John Emerson. Scott went along with his owners to Illinois and later out to the Wisconsin Territory, where the act of slavery was illegal. Later on, the family moved back to Missouri where the doctor eventually died. After this experience, Dred Scott, with the help of antislavery lawyers and his old owners, filed for his freedom. Scott felt that he was a free man due to him once living in a free area for four years. Years passed until one fateful day when Scott’s case reached the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States of America. With this title they have the final say about the decisions for the country. However the Supreme Court can make mistakes and have so before. The case considered the worst Supreme Court decision among many scholars is the Dred Scott V. Sanford case from the pre-civil war era. In which time slavery was a very hot topic between the states. In this case it was determined that a slave was not only not a citizen of the United States but also property (our documents). This court ruling made useless of the Missouri compromise of 1850 which made states above the 36°30’ line Free states and all below the line slaves states (History). This decision was eventually overturned by the Civil War amendments the 13th and 14th which stated that slavery is illegal in all states not only ones in rebellion and that all people born in the united states are citizens including people of color (our documents).

The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American teenagers accused of raping two White American women on a train in Alabama in 1931. These were landmark legal cases due to this incident dealing with racism and the right to a fair trial. The cases included a lynch mob before suspects had even been indicted, all-white juries, rushed trials, and hostile disruptive mobs. It is often regarded as a grave example of a miscarriage of justice in the U.S. legal system.

Cotton's wife, Robbin, was "furious" when she learned that Thompson-Cannino wanted to meet them. The couple argued about it for a week before Ronald finally told his wife that he was going to meet Jennifer with or without her. When you read the account of their first meeting, it seems that it was more difficult for Robbin to forgive Jennifer than it was for

I believe that it´s the same offender in the Parkinson case and the Johnson case, which is making the offender a serial killer because he has killed 3 people and it has been over a period over 30 days. By looking at different serial killer typologies my firm belief is that this offender will fall into the lust serial killer typology. I concluded this by firstly looking if the crimes were act-focused kills or process kills, I concluded it was process kills because the offender had taken the time to abduct both Parkinson and Johnson and didn 't just kill them right away like an act-focused killer would do. With the offender being a process killer he could only be organized as well because process killers cannot be disorganized. The offender would either be a lust killer, power-control killer or a thrill killer. I concluded that the offender in this case would not be a thrill serial killer, since this kind of murderer gets off my seeing his victims suffering, which is the most important factor for this type of offender. In the Parkinson and Johnson murders there were no signs of torture on the victims bodies and therefore I do not believe that this offender would be a thrill serial killer.

In Canada, the leading cause of wrongful conviction is due to the factor of eyewitness account. It has been proven that individual’s minds are not like tape recorders because everyone cannot precisely and accurately remember the description of what another person or object looks like. The courts looks at eyewitness accounts as a great factor to nab perpetrators because they believe that the witness should know what they are taking about and seen what occurred on the crime scene. On the other hand, eyewitness accounts lead to a 70 percent chance of wrongful conviction, where witnesses would substantially change their description of a perpetrator.

Dear, Victim of the Stanford incident, I am writing you to let you know you are not alone. If nobody believes or hear you out let me say I do. It is truly wrong that the system is set up the way it is. If nobody saw fault in the situation just know that I did. Regardless of you being unconscious and not remembering does not give the suspect a chance to keep changing stories.

“Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most- is the worst type almost. Because it is wrong about half the time. Think about that.” (Grisham). Wrongful convictions can happen to anyone, at anytime. Grisham implies wrongful convictions happen for the same reasons, careless police work as well as eyewitness identification. An eyewitness identification is a crucial aspect in detective work because it essentially locates the person at the crime scene. This is the worst cause of wrongful convictions because it is wrong half the time.

I am writing in support of the incrimination of my fellow classmate. On the afternoon of March 30th at 3:40 I was walking from Mr. Daron Atkins room, room 26 to my car that was parked between the new wing and cafeteria. I was in quite a hurry because I was late to The Shepherd's House but you can never pass up an opportunity to take a Snapchat in the fabulous 1st wing hallway lighting. It wasn't until later the next day when I was questioned by the officer that found the corpse that I thought to examine this very tasteful Snapchat. Upon further examination I noticed a figure dressed in all black standing at Ms. Martin’s door. At first glance, this body seemed completely disguised in all black, but this person just happened to be carrying a