James Earl Ray's Murder

Simon Gittany was a male perpetrator. In almost 4 out of 5 intimate partner homicides the perpetrator was a male (Australian Institute of Criminology 1998).

Hey, Cory, I researched and found an article about a man named Harold J. Stewart, a 42-year-old high school dropout, who defended himself in a murder case in Prince George's County, whereas he was accused of beating a sleeping man to death with a baseball bat. (Casteneda, 2008) Stewart’s pro se trial only lasted three days; where is the fairness in this prosecution? The jury only deliberated for about an hour. It seems like Stewart never had a chance; considering, at the most, it takes at least more than a day even to hear evidence in a murder trial. It was faith because the jurors found Stewart not guilty of first-degree murder and not guilty of second-degree murder. (Casteneda, 2008) You know there is a saying a man who represents himself

“Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly” (Terry Hayes). Ray Leetuf may have never been caught, but that is only if he would have planned it better. Ray Leetuf killed Max Powers in cold blood for hate, money and greed. With those motives it looks clear that Ray Leetuf has done it. In every murder case there is a preliminary report, testimony, and hard evidence. There are examples of all of the three in this case.

After the ballistics team had come to the conclusion that the gun was probably shot from four blocks away, Detective Healey and Doug Boyle start to go on an investigation. They had went door-to-door to question others to see if they knew anything about Charlie Ward’s death. When the police stopped at Michael’s house, they had asked the McKenzie family if they owned any firearms. Michael’s dad responded with a yes and was asked if he can show them. Michael then responded that he did not currently have his Winchester and said that his friend, Joe, borrowed it. A few days later, Doug Boyle and Detective Healey came back to Michael’s house with metal detectors to search the backyard for any evidence. While searching, Doug Boyle finds an empty casing

Tres Navarre, private eye and sometimes English professor, is hoping for a laid back working vacation when he accepts a summer teaching gig at the University of Texas at Austin, even if it means shacking up for six weeks with his big brother Garrett, who calls Austin home.

Yes, I do believe it would have been strong enough to win at trail, because for one James Earl Ray stated that he was guilty of killing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Most if not all the evidence points to James Earl Ray. Yes, I do believe he did not act alone in this. I do believe this was some sort of conspiracy.

The Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta Child Murders (although several of the purported victims were adults), were a series of murders committed in the American city of Atlanta, Georgia, from the middle of 1979 until May 1981. Over the two-year period, at least 28 African-American children, adolescents and adults were killed. Wayne Williams, an Atlanta native who was 23 years old at the time of the last murder, was arrested for and convicted of two of the adult murders, and sentenced to two consecutive life terms. Police subsequently have attributed a number of the child murders to Williams and closed the cases, although he has not been tried or convicted in any of those cases.

Jay Z and Will Smith are producing another film project together, according to reports. The two first worked together to produce the 2014 Annie remake, and now they are reportedly working on a miniseries about Emmett Till. The miniseries will broadcast on HBO, and it will chronicle the brutal murder of the 14-year old teenager in 1955. Till was allegedly flirting with a white woman, and he was murdered by the woman's husband and his half-brother in Mississippi. Both men were found not guilty of the killing Till, but they later confessed to killing the teenager. The law doesn't allow for one to be tried again for a crime he or she is found not guilty of, and so the men never served time for the

Emmett Till did not receive justice, because from his death and throughout his trial, everything was based upon racism. Till’s case was examined in court by an all-white jury, who had most likely made up their minds before the trial had even started. According to “The death of Emmett Till”, “On September 23, the all-white jury deliberated for less than an hour before issuing a verdict of ‘not guilty,’...”(“Death” 2) That is an extremely short time for a jury to deliberate, and it leads to questions of whether or not the jury truly deliberated, or if it was a cold case of a black boy being punished for flirting with a white woman. The courthouse in which Emmett Till’s murder trial took place was also segregated, showing that the defendant’s guilt of murdering a black person was being deliberated in

Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were acquitted by a white jury after only five days of testimony. Four months later, Bryant and Milam, knowing that they could not legally be judged, admitted in an article in Look magazine that they had murdered Till.

The main plot of this book is the murder of Emmett Till, but it also covers the idea of people expressing their own believes. For example, Harlan was not afraid to speak his thoughts of equality to his father. He strongly believed the mistreating to African Americans in the south was not right. He did not care if it ruined his relationship between his father, because he knew the South’s believes were incorrect. Mr. Paul is another character in the story that expresses is own believes. When Hiram asks Mr. Paul for his advice if he was in his situation he tells Hiram, “If I knew something that proved those two didn’t kill that boy, I’d feel obliged to testify, and if I had something that would convict’em, well, I’d have to plan on closing my shop and heading somewhere far away from Mississippi. But I’d speak up.”(Crowe, p.151) This shows that Mr. Paul knows that the right thing to do is to testify the truth and even though you will risk your life the moral thing is to still speak the truth.

James Patrick Bulger was born on the 16th of March, 1990, to Ralph and Denise Bulger in Kirkby, Merseyside.

What would you do if a convicted criminal’s guilt was being questioned? Would you have the urge to let your inner detective shine? If you are one of those people, the perplexity of this murder would be right up your alley. On January 13, 1999, in Baltimore, Maryland, 18-year old high school senior Hae Min Lee mysteriously disappeared after school, leaving her family and friends worried. Weeks later, on February 9, 1999, the innocent young woman’s body was found buried in Leakin Park. Many people, including the whole state of Maryland, pointed fingers at Adnan Syed. Syed comes from a traditional Muslim family, yet he did “American teen-like” things, such as dating and going to

No one was ever charged in the murder of rapper Christopher Wallace, aka. Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, but I will show how a suspect would be tried if there were such a suspect. But first I would like to point out that this trial would be a media circus. To begin with the suspect could more than likely end up being one or more LAPD officers, a fact that the FBI has suggested in their report on Wallace that was released in 2011 (Federal Bureauof Investigation , n.d.). Then there is the gang aspect, Biggie had ties to the Crips, which he had reportedly hired to murder rival rapper Tupac Shakur, who was himself a Blood, just six months prior to his own murder. Subsequently, since no one has ever been formally charged in this case,I will try to use vague wording when referring to the suspect, and I will refer to him by of name “Mr. Murder Suspect”. I use the masculine only because there were no female suspects.

The unrest of the 1960s reached a boiling point in 1968, a year that can be considered the most turbulent year in American history. The tumultuous events that took place in 1968 effectively transformed the face of the nation in every aspect; economically, socially, and politically. Failed military tactics, assassinations, and violent civil rights movements were the defining characteristics of 1968. Despite the few good things that came out of that year, much of 1968 was dedicated to rebuilding the country, tragedy after tragedy. The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, involvement in the Vietnam War, and escalating civil rights movements are a few of the quintessential events that contributed to