David Smith Case

An experienced nurse Julie Thao was taking care of 16-yeas old Jasmine Gant who was about t give a birth. Thao is accused of making a mistake that had terrible and tragic result on the life of a pregnant teenage, unborn child, Gant’s family, health care, and Thao’s life. Thao mistakenly gave Gant an epidural anesthetic intravenously instead of an IV antibiotic for a strep infection. Within minutes of receiving the epidural IV, Gant suffered seizures and died. Her child, a boy, was delivered by emergency Caesarean section and survived. So what caused this tragedy to happen? According to investigation, Thao improperly removed the epidural bag from a locked storage system without authorization, she did not scan the bar code, which would have told

All the victims died in the afternoon and some died within an hour of a house call by Dr. Shipman, which established another pattern set by Harold Shipman. Dr. Shipman proceeded further by forging death certificates and orchestrated his colleagues approving forged cremation forms for the victims. All victims were cremated, which destroyed the evidence for law enforcement to be able to recover if needed. He was under the suspicion of murder but was never informed to stop practicing during any investigations or allegations (Daily mail.com). The British law enforcement officials never arrested Dr. Shipman

The first investigation that was conducted in March 1998 did not include a background check (Bunyan, 2001). This information would have given the investigators reasons to question further into the medical records of the patients, due to his history of forging as well as altering medical records. The General Medical Council was not contacted during the first investigation. They would have also been able to give the investigators information about Harold Shipman’s prior drug abuse in conjunction with the forgery. The knowledge obtainable from those two sources alone could have stopped the killings earlier through a thorough investigation of the records of Harold Shipman’s patients.

Please list the evidence submitted for each task. Indicate the page numbers where the evidence can be found or describe the nature of the evidence (e.g. video,

The Civil War of 1861 – 1865 remains one of the most tragic pages in the American history. It claimed about 700,000 lives and nearly destroyed the unity of the nation (American Civil War). Naturally, such a massive clash could not have burst out inadvertently. Decades of differences between the North and South had led to a full-scale military clash. Two events cannot be overlooked when analyzing the roots of the conflict: the Dred Scott case and Southern secession.

In my opinion, Dr. Shipman motive for his murders was to be in control of people's lives, especially the elderly. He gave his patient a sense of friendship(The Irish Time, 2017). According to the Biography of Harold Shipman, it states "he was fascinated by the positive effects of administration of morphine had on his mother during her suffering. In doing such, I believe in his thinking, he was helping his patients by relieving them of their pain. Dr. Shipman, also realize that his patients trust him and there was a close friendship outside of his doctor hour. For instance, Kathleen Grundy a wealthy 81-year-old widow, who Dr. Shipman made after hour doctor visit. was taken for grant. In his effort, he took her for grant and forge her name to

As the lead prosecutor in Dr. Shipman’s murder trial some things should’ve taken place sooner but didn’t. One leading factor of evidence was that all of the victims died in the afternoon and they all were injected with morphine. So there was a link in the timing and having the same doctor and the same drugs in their system at the time of death. If the authorities would have taken a look at some of the prescriptions that he wrote to detect if there was any similarities with each victim could’ve potentially been contributing factors linking Dr. Shipman to their deaths.

Candidate Smith only briefed what she was briefed by the instructor, completely failing to brief either admin and logistics or command and signal. Candidate Smith then brought her candidates on the objective, where the three who were not on security stared at the objective and suggested ways to traverse it. At no point was a coherent plan to complete the mission proposed. Candidate Smith immediately sought the advice of her fellow candidates without proposing an initial plan or creating guidelines of any kind. Candidate Smith was the tallest candidate in her fire team, but she delegated reaching the beam to shorter candidates, a misuse of the physical attributes she had at her disposal. Candidate Smith also failed to notice that one side of the obstacle had more clearance to utilize the rope than the other until nine minutes had already passed. Failing to take into account basic mission limitations was a trend, as Candidate Smith also did not account for the use of the rope, or how many candidates would be required to move the 55 gallon drum. Ultimately, no candidate traversed the obstacle, the first step to solving this

As the lead investigator, the biggest part of this case was when the Undertaker began to get concerned when he noticed that Dr. Shipman’s patients were dying at an unusually high rate and arriving with the same poses. The Undertaker first decided to confront Dr. Shipman about the concerns that he had with the high-rate of deaths coming in the morgue. Dr. Shipman informed the undertaker that there was nothing to be concerned about because he would not do anything wrong. As the investigator, I would have looked at Dr. Shipman history and questioned why he was in drug rehabilitation. As the lead law enforcement investigator, in this case, there was other evidence that was overlooked such as excessive amounts of morphine missing from the medical

After the trial, “The Shipman Inquiry” was set up to investigate all the murders that Shipman had claimed (N/A, 2012.) It also concluded that Shipman had killed approximately 250 people between 1971 and 1998 (N/A, 2012.) It also reported serious suspicions that Shipman murdered a 4-year-old-girl early in his medical career (N/A, 2012.) A total of 459 people died while under Shipman’s care, but it is not clear how many of the 459 were victims (N/A,

They questioned her an continued to do so until she couldn't take it and had to reveal what was located on her arm. Shortly after the discovery she was being sent to the mental ward and have her blood and everything else checked to make sure that she didn't overdose or have anything toxic located in her blood. Oce she was taken away they officers exchanged some words and different bits of evidence and details that were observed in her house ad about her. From here they wrote about the issue and the scenario that wound up occurring at the house. They also were able to contact the friend and the man who was in front of the house to question what has been going on and how long it's been going on for. From this on crime incident, I have observed that you must have very critical and observational

The findings came out six months later and Lord Schuman’s, who led the inquiry, recommendations sent shock waves throughout Britain. For the first time in History, he put the police as an institution on trial and found them guilty. He said a large degree of responsibility lay at the door of the

When D.B. Cooper approached the Northwest Orient Airlines counter and bought a one-way ticket from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington on November 24, 1971, no one suspected a thing. He boarded the plane, had a cigarette, and ordered a drink while he sat near the back. Soon after Flight 305 departed the airport, Cooper gave a flight attendant a note saying he had a bomb. He then showed her something inside a briefcase that did indeed look like a bomb. He was hijacking the plane.

Corruption is clearly everywhere around us with many forms and is a world-wide crisis. A day doesn’t go by that there isn’t a report in the media about some form of corruption by someone famous or internationally known, a Politian or an average every day citizen just perhaps looking for attention. Like a soap opera you’ve missed keeping up on for months, you can almost always turn the TV on and pick up right where you left off. My awareness of the most common form of corruption happens between the police and

In order to establish if these deaths are medical errors or intentional acts, I feel a detective should respond to a death wherever it occurs. In my department, it is policy that a detective, responds to all death investigations as well as the Forensics Investigative Services Division. This allows the detectives and forensic investigators to examine an undisturbed scene, and document the scene with photographs, while attempting to identify the decedent and determine the time of death (Saferstein, 2015). In the case of Dr. Shipman, he used lethal doses of morphine or heroin to kill his victims, so I believe autopsies and toxicological analysis should be performed after deaths (Saferstein, 2015). If the medical examiner’s office conducted a toxicological analysis on Dr. Shipman’s victims, they would have discovered their manner of death was an intentional overdose (Saferstein, 2015). Subsequently, to ensure these deaths are fully investigated the following procedures are required: a detective, responds to the initial scene, next, at least a clinical autopsy is performed, and a toxicological analysis is completed to conclude that only prescribed substances are present in the