Bradford County Case Report

In real true court cases there is always evidence that can be shown and provided to the jury in order to persuade peoples opinions in finding someone guilty or not guilty. In this case, I am very influenced in believing that Skidmore if found guilty in poisoning his brother. The author, Paul Haven, has an outstanding perspective to influence the readers. In the excerpt, 'The Curse of the Poisoned Pretzel', there are several ideas that are conveying the audience to believe that Skidmore is guilty of poisoning his brother Manchester.

An accomplice (Etzweiler) can only be held liable for a crime that he intended to facilitate negligent homicide, in which this case he did not have

On Thursday, the 28-year-old Melburnian was handed a 17-year sentence, with a 13-year minimum, for killing her housemate in a fit of rage in November 2015.

Man by the name of Patrick Musgrove hit and killed a man on the I-84 at 3:30Am when returning from bars in downtown Boise. The victim's name was Winters Wareagle. Wareagle was from Garden City and was on his way to visit some relatives with his mother when his car broke down. He was out on the road crouching when he got hit. The charges were dropped becase prosecutors say that his drunk state wasn't the cause of the kill but rather the lighting of the freeway and Wareagles position in the road. The charges

Richard Eugene Glossip, was charged with the First Degree (malice) basically Murder in the first degree on January 14, 1997, in Oklahoma County District Court a jury of his peers found Mr. Richard Glossip guilty of first degree murder and gave Mr. Richard Glossip the death sentence.The Judge Honorable Judge Gray sentenced Mr. Richard Glossip to the jury verdict of death on August 27, 2004 ( GLOSSIP v. STATE. 2001).

The defendant was convicted of second-degree murder, robbery and conspiracy. His co-defendant Erickson was also convicted.

Neil Allan Baker pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Brian Pearce in January 2007. The accused chocked and struck the victim during an argument over money. The Victim was a frail, 76 year old man. The offender left the victim lying on the floor of his home and returned several times days later. The offender took steps to

On May 3, 1980, in Fair Oaks, California, Candace’s daughter Cari was killed by a drunk driver. Cari was walking to a church carnival with a friend and at the same time, a drunk driver was coming down the road and killed her. She was hit from behind, thrown 125 feet, was so badly injured that her organs could not be donated, and Clarence Busch left her the road to die. He briefly passed out and drove off after Cari Lightner died. A repeat DWI offender committed the crime. Two days prior, the police released  Clarence Busch on bail for a separate hit-and-run drunken driving crash. Killing Cari was his fifth offense in four years.

The trial at the end of Pudd'nhead Wilson takes place in Dawson's Landing, Missouri. Lawyer David Wilson, popularly known as Pudd'nhead, is defending Luigi and Angelo Capello, charged in the murder of Judge York Leicester Driscoll. Wilson chooses to use his closing speech not to assert the points that he had made through the course of the trial and remind the jury of the evidence that proves the twin's innocence, but rather to expose the guilty party. This speech begins with, "We will now proceed to find the guilty." (140) The word `guilty' is ambiguous, however, because although the trial is concerned with the murder of Judge Driscoll, Wilson's closing speech focuses on exposing Tom Driscoll as a Negro who was switched at birth. Out of nearly two pages of text enclosing Wilson's closing remarks, only about 3 sentences even mention the murder. The rest are concerned with the mistaken identities of a slave and a white gentleman. It's more likely that in this case `guilty' is being

Defendant Layla Williams was charged with DUI, reckless driving, and voluntary manslaughter after a hit and run on December 26, 2015 3:00am that left 24 Jeremy Hicks dead. The defendant contends that at the time of the crash her BAC levels were under the legal levels of 0.08 and that her BAC has a slower metabolism rate due to hyperthyroidism. Yet, later on that morning at 8:00am Layla Williams was stop and arrested by Sergeant Donald for reckless driving and he was able to administer a blood test, the results came up with a BAC level of 0.05. As a toxicologist I can use the retrograde extrapolation method, to determine the BAC level around the time of the crash. "The elimination rate of alcohol from blood is usually not known in any individual

She pleaded not guilty. The trial was initially fixed for 23 July, 2001 but was adjourned due to the illness of her counsel. She maintained her plea of not guilty and the trial was re-fixed for 15 October, 2001. After a medical assessment the prisoner was officially charged with the murder on 18 October 2001 and pleaded guilty to the charge. The court accepted her plea of guilty her conviction of murder was recorded.

Between this time and November 3rd 1994 the jury of 12 was selected out of a venire of 304 perspective jurors. All 304 perspective juror’s had a seventy five page questionnaire to complete to determine eligibility for the trial. Both the prosecuting and defending teams set out to present their case. The trial lasted 134 days in 1995 and is renowned for the media coverage from inside

In 2007, Hart was charged with first degree murder and found guilty by a jury. However, an appeal was granted and the case was later presented

The driver was barely able to stand, much less able to walk a straight line. Even before the test was performed, the woman clearly seemed drunk and the attitude of the officer indicated that he knew this.

Mead Shumway of Nebraska, was convicted of the first degree murder of his employer’s wife on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death by jury. His last words before his execution were: “I am an innocent man. May God forgive everyone who said anything against me.” The next year, the victim’s husband confessed on his deathbed that he [the husband] had murdered his [own] wife (Radelet, Bedau, Putnam 347).