Chamberlin Case

The Prosecution relied mainly on evidence from both the police and unsworn (meaning the witnesses were not put under oath at the time their knowledge of the events occurred) testimony of three young children. The first child was a 6 year-old boy who was thought to be with Corey and the accused at the

On the 1st of October, 1980, Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from her campsite at Ayers Rock. Her parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, claimed that a dingo had taken her. In the months and years that ensued, the Chamberlains faced innuendo fuelled by the media, undeserved public shame and an unfair verdict handed down by a jury who had been confused and persuaded by the police, forensic experts and media outlets. Reliance on circumstantial evidence, conflicting interpretations of forensic evidence, questionable evidence by so-called experts, finding an unbiased jury after a trial by media, over zealous policing, and not all available evidence presented at the trail resulted in the guilty judgment.

The case I chose to write on is based on a DVD that we watched in class called ‘Beaten by a hair’. In this case, a woman was reported missing after she went to work and never returned home. After the police discovered a bloody pillow case in the woods, near her house, they linked it to the missing pillow case in the woman’s room, and then realized that they had a murder case on their hands. A mystery in the case was that one of the local neighbors had mentioned seeing the woman leave through the front door of her house but the evidence says different, so investigators had to find out who left the house that morning. I am interested in this case because it was very intriguing how the forensic officers put all the pieces

While investigations were going on to determine how victims died, there was a discovery of fibers on the victims’ bodies. The goal of the investigator was to determine if any fibers in Wayne Williams home or person matched those fibers found on the victims. Williams denied killing

Based on the information I have gathered from my resources my views on this case are simple. Mrs Chamberlain was not guilty of murder and they did not give her a fair trial. In the information I collected they say that Azaria’s body was never found; if her body was never found then how can you determine who or what killed her. Then there is the fact that there were five different families camping at the same spot with the Chamberlains, so if they were going to kill their baby wouldn’t they do it in a quite area where people would not be around. Also many people witnessed that night, so what doubts were put into the minds of the jury that made them think Mrs Chamberlain was guilty

case that had happened to wander it’s way to the supreme court. Undisputable as the

One piece of evidence that proves the boy’s innocence is the height of the father. This takes an effect on the evidence against the boy because he is 6 inches shorter than his father was. So it would have been harder for the boy to stab the dad it would of taking

each piece of solid evidence, proving that there Sandy or her son could not have been the

(History Channel). Even if one of the two committed the crime, the violent and bloody act should have been noisy enough to attract the attention of the other. There was also not a lot of blood splatter at the crime scene. (Clark). If Lizzie were to have murdered her parents there should have been some sort of blood on Lizzie’s clothes. (Clark). The prosecution used this as a key part of their trial. They had a witness that said she saw Lizzie burning a blue dress in her kitchen and the prosecution insisted that it was the dress Lizzie killed her parent’s in. (Clark). Lizzie did in fact burn a dress and was seen doing so, but she was burning it because she had no use for it anymore because it was soiled with paint. (Clark).

When the evidence from both the prosecution and the defense ended, the jurors went to discuss and vote on the verdict. “Casey Anthony's lawyer opened her defense today with the stunning claim that her daughter Caylee Anthony drowned in the family's swimming pool on June 16, 2008, a month before she was reported missing" (Hopper & Banfield). Evidence shows that while Casey denies the murder of her daughter she claims she died in a pool long before she was ever reported missing meaning it was never reported to the police. Had Casey Anthony's daughter died in a pool without foul play the logical response would be to alert authorities and not

When the public heard of the crime, the police perilously needed someone to blame. If a slayer of the 14-year old Mary Phagan were not found soon, public uproar would become uncontrollable. The public needed a victim

‘R v Stone; R v Dobinson’ is significant as it addresses the point of ‘duty of care’ and the outcome was described as “highly controversial because of the low capabilities of the two accused” . Appellant Gwendoline Dobinson was treated differently to appellant John Edward Stone due to her gender. Dobinson was expected to care for Fanny due to women being the “primary care-givers in domestic relationships” , proving that “the rule on voluntary undertaking of responsibility potentially remains structurally gendered” . The case was dealt within the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal by Geoffrey lane LJ, Neild and Croom-Johnson JJ. The appeals against conviction were dismissed although the appeal by Stone against his sentence was allowed, altering his sentence. The decision was also influenced namely “whether in a case of manslaughter it is necessary to prove that the defendant was reckless as to whether the victim would suffer death of serious bodily harm” .

This essay will examine the doctrine of Judicial precedent that helps form the English Legal System. It will illustrate various views that have been raised by Judges and relating cases to the use of ‘Stare decisis’ when creating precedents. In addition it will discuss how the developments in the powers of the courts now also allow them to depart from these precedents to an extent.

     The storyteller goes to great lengths to conceal the murder. First, he dismembers the body, collecting the blood in the bathtub so that there would be no blood stains anywhere. He then buries the body parts under the planks on the floorboards in such a way that "no human eye--not even his--could have detected anything wrong." The storyteller says this

I think the current instruction is okay. The manufacturer suggests that if the double chamber is used as a single chamber an extensive patient education is necessary; since the decrease rate will make the volume go down slower and when this happens patients tend to the pump is faulty. However, you raised an important issue, I think have both buttons might create a safety issue when patients are discharged with the pump. it may be best to make the only rate on the 400 ml record -4ml/hr, in that case, if a physician requires a 4ml/hr rate they will select the duo chamber record, on the order hand if the 2ml/hr rate is required they will select 100ml chambers’ record.