Brenton Butler Case Study

Christopher Simmons who was attending high school and eighteen years old at the time was arrested. He was transported to the Fenton police station in Missouri. Simmons was read his Miranda Rights by an officer and he waived his right to have an attorney present during questioning. Simmons agreed to speak with investigators. After being interrogated for nearly two hours Simmons confessed to the murder of Mrs. Crook and agreed to allow the police to videotape him reenacting the murder at the initial crime scene.

Like the police investigation, there was a lack of forensic involvement in this case as well. Brenton Butler was solely charged based on the fact that, an eye witness, Mr. Stephens identified Brenton as the murderer. Many will declare this case to be racial discrimination and racial profiling, due to the fact that Brenton was a black male like the murderer. Brenton just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the forensic investigation, after finding Mrs. Stephens' stolen purse in a garbage container a mile away from the murder, they should have tested the purse for DNA and finger prints. If they had done this, they would have seen that Brenton Butler's finger prints were in fact not to be found on the purse, instead they would have those of another man and Butler would have been instantly proven innocent.

The film “Murder on a Sunday Morning” is a documentary on the murder of Mary Ann Stephens. This murder took place on May 7, 2000, in Jacksonville, Florida. Mary Anne Stephens was at the Ramada hotel with her husband when a dark male wearing a dark shirt, shorts, and a flat brim hat approached her and demanded for her purse. Within 5 seconds she was shot in the face by the bridge of her nose and killed. It was later that day hat Brenton Butler was stopped by police and identified by husband of Mary Anne Stephens. Brenton Butler was taken into custody where he remained for the next six months facing charges of murder in the first degree and armed robbery. Through evidence such as the clothes Brenton was wearing on the day of the murder, an alibi of going to blockbuster to hand in an application, and lack of forensic testing, Brenton was found not guilty in the case of Florida v. Brenton Leonard Butler after the jury convened for forty-five minutes on the twenty-first of November in 2000. The Jacksonville grand jury also decided not to file criminal charged against the three officers. After the case on March 12, 2001 the forensics department retrieved the purse to process all parts of it to find fingerprints matching to Juan Curtis who admitted to shooting Mary Ann Stephens. The Butler family planed to sue the sheriffs officers in an $8.5 million civil rights lawsuit.

A black militiaman named Louis Schiller told the congressional committee that the day after the killings, Robert Butler, whom he recognized due to his old age and large gray whiskers and knew to be a “very determined man” who had made his living before the war as “negro hunter,” accompanied by one of his sons, Harrison, and son-in-law Henry Getsen found him in his hiding discovered. The Butler party and Schiller exchanged gunfire. Fearing for his life, knowing Butler had once kept “a large number of hounds.” Schiller fled. Hours later, hiding in the swamp he heard the yelping of hounds in pursuit. It appears Robert Butler was able to purchase new

1/2 hours later, 15 year old Brenton Butler is arrested by Jacksonville police. Everything was against him he is identified by the only witness, Mr Stephens (Mrs. Stephens husband). For the investigators and the media who cover the story, it is just another messed up kid, just another wasted life. But when the case for the defense comes into the hands the lawyers, the story comes to be quite so usual. The boy states that he is innocent. He has bruises on his face. He tells that the detectives & officers beat him up and forced him to a confession out of him. & the one who hit the hardest is a certain Glover, Sheriff of Jacksonville. Everyone police, media and public opinion is ready to sentence Brenton Butler, but Patrick McGuinness begins a battle to restore his client's rights and to point an accusing finger at those he considers to be the real culprits detectives Williams, Glover and

A massacre was discovered in his grandparents Massachusetts home after he made the confession, with three dead bodies discovered inside the house and one found outside.

There were a total of seventeen crime scenes due to his actions. The parents believe that they unfairly treated this crime because they failed to consider that their son had a mental illness and also failed to prevent such things from happening. The victims killed were George Chen, Cheng Yuan Hong, Weihan Wang, Katherine Breann Cooper, Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez, and Veronika Elizabeth Weiss.

Jason Baldwin was born on February 17, 2008 at Bellevue Hospital located in Manhattan, New York. Mrs. Baldwin, Jason’s mother, gave birth to her son one week post term via a Cesarean at 6 pounds 5 ounces. Jason was declared a healthy baby boy and was discharged three days later. Jason Baldwin currently lives in the Bronx, New York with his mother, Abigail Baldwin, father Joseph Baldwin and his sister Kayla Baldwin. Mr. Joseph Baldwin is 46 years old and was born and raised in Greece, where he completed his bachelors degree. Mr. Baldwin came to the United States in 1997 and is currently self employed. Abigail Baldwin, Jason 's mother, is 36 years old and was also born and raised in Greece, where she received her high school diploma. Mrs. Baldwin came to the United States in 2005 and is currently a nurse at Montefiore Hospital. Jason 's sister, Kayla Baldwin is 15 years old and is currently attending the Bronx Lab High School.

Jason Baldwin was born on February 17, 2008 at Bellevue Hospital located in Manhattan, New York. Mrs. Baldwin, Jason’s mother, gave birth to her son one week post term via a Cesarean at 6 pounds 5 ounces. Jason was declared a healthy baby boy and was discharged three days later. Jason Baldwin currently lives in the Bronx, New York with his mother, Abigail Baldwin, father Joseph Baldwin and his sister Kayla Baldwin. Mr. Joseph Baldwin is 46 years old and was born and raised in Greece, where he completed his bachelors degree. Mr. Baldwin came to the United States in 1997 and is currently self employed. Abigail Baldwin, Jason 's mother, is 36 years old and was also born and raised in Greece, where she received her high school diploma. Mrs. Baldwin came to the United States in 2005 and is currently a nurse at Montefiore Hospital. Jason 's sister, Kayla Baldwin is 15 years old and is currently attending the Bronx Lab High School.

When Trevor Jones was 17, he accidentally murdered 16 year old Matt Foley. Trevor was selling Matt a handgun and planned on stealing it back after he got the money, but in the process of taking the gun back, it unintentionally discharged and shot Matt in the head. From hearing this story, I would sentence Trevor as a youth to robbery and manslaughter. First of all, I would sentence him to 2 years of rehabilitative custody at the Ponoka Hospital to work with doctors on the emotional trauma he experienced, on his drug problem, and help him realize his priorities in life are to be successful and not to end up dead. Thereafter, I would sentence him to a youth remand center for 3 years. During those 3 years, Trevor would work on cooking, money

Trevor will be selling NOP memberships from 5:30 to 6:15 pm at the Tim Hortons on Drury Street prior to the membership meeting schedule at 6:30 pm at the North Bay Library.

What this research is intended to do, is bring a high ranking officer’s view point of a group of people, who others believed they were incapable of preforming, on the battlefields, while incorporating studies of other scholars done on them separately. The objective and focus of the study, is to take General Butler’s perfective of blacks, from his time at Fort Monroe; dating from the time he encountered contrabands of war, viewing them as incapable of fighting to the Battle of the Crater. This research will demonstrate the objective of how whites in this case Butler used USCTs to advance the union forces, how Blacks not only self-emancipated, but fought for their emancipation and how together, they proved that Blacks indeed were a strong fighting force, capable of fighting the same way, white regiments would. Historians have separated Butler and African Americans, into two separate subjects; Butler as a war general and African Americans and their struggle for emancipation, but rarely are both combined.

answer the question, and according to the officer, his body language suggested that he had something to hide. Salinas’s gun was later matched up to the evidence found at the scene, and there was also a witness who claimed that Salinas admitted to the homicide. Salinas was charged with the murders in 1993, but he

The defense cross examined Beard. Asking him what was true and what was false in his statements. DA Wetmore also questioned how it was possible that Beard left with the weapon and drove with it out of the window of the car if he was so shocked and traumatized.

Several minutes after the shooting, a local police officer discovered a Remington 30-06 rifle along with a wealth of physical evidence, as follows: an overnight bag containing assorted toiletries, two unopened cans of beer, a portable radio with the number “00416” scratched on its side, (later discovered to be James Earl Ray’s inmate number while a prisoner at Missouri State Penitentiary), a pair of pliers with “Romage Hardware” stamped on the handle, a Memphis newspaper dated April 4, 1968, a brown paper bag on which “Homestead” was printed and men’s underwear. Also found was a cardboard box that contained Bushnell binoculars and a paper bag and receipt from York Arms Company dated April 4, 1968, along with cartridge and some ammunition.