James Stephens Case

Case 15.1 discusses Bobby Jones, a nine-year-old African American boy. He is in the fourth grade at Lewiston Elementary School. He is being raised by his mother Susan and has five siblings. Recently, Bobby’s teacher, Ms. Matthews has had some concerns regarding his behavior. She stated that he is disruptive, never completes his work and that he is very negative when it comes to school (Pomeroy, 2015). Based off of the information provide in case 15.1, Bobby presents with many of the symptoms and behaviors that are consistent with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (F91.3), and the severity is moderate. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5, ODD involves a frequent pattern of angry/irritable moods, vindictiveness,

On the morning of the murder, police arrested Brenton Butler based on the identification by the victim’s husband. For hours to come after that, Butler became the victim of police brutality, a false confession, and unlawful interrogation processes. After being identified as the shooter, Butler was brought into the 10 by 10 interrogation room to be well, interrogated.

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.

We have to evaluate the performance of a distinctly diverse team aiming to create a business plan for MGI’s “Music Puzzle” Game to enter the HBS contest. The team comprised of MGI founders, Sasha, Igor and Roman, two HBS students Henry and Dana and subject matter experts Alex and Dav. In addition, we have to recommend actions for Henry Tam, which would foster better team dynamics to accomplish the task at hand.

Those who knew Bob Lyons thought extremely well of him. He was a highly successful executive who held an important position in a large company. As his superiors saw him, he was aggressive, with a knack for getting things done through other people. He worked hard and set a vigorous pace. He drove himself relentlessly. In less than ten years with his company, he had moved through several positions of responsibility.

The city of Atlanta had experienced over a two year period from 1979-1981 of egregious acts of murders committed on more than twenty African American adolescent males. However, Wayne Williams, a native of Atlanta, was the center of law enforcement investigation, which implicated his involvement in at least two of the children murders around that time. Nonetheless, law enforcement linked Wayne Williams to those murders because of detailed evidence found on the victims, which was later discovered that evidence was from Williams apartment (Curriden, 1992). Furthermore, the evidence which was found was a unique fiber from the carpet of Williams apartment and the number of people having this fiber was very small in number (Curriden, 1992)). The fiber evidence was the main part of the case to associate Williams with

From ethical and legal perspectives, what do you feel business has learned from the Scrushy situation?

Due to the interview taking place after hours and the case not being assigned until the following day, I was unable to be present at the time of the interview. However, I have since observed a copy of that interview. The following is a summary of the forensic interview conducted that night by Megan Merrill with Deja Jones. This is a summary, not an exact transcript.

Pre-offense information related to this case includes the relationship the victims had with the offender. If the offender was Brent Smith as is believed then Tracy Smith’s relationship to the offender is that she was Brent Smith’s soon to be ex-wife and the mother of his two children Reagan and Eion. Keeping with the suspected offender Brent Smith, Karen Green’s relationship with the offender was through Tracy’s relationship with him as Karen was Tracy’s former mother-in-law. Karen Green also cared for Tracy and Brent’s children while Tracy was at work as they were living with Karen during the time of the offense. Victim selection occurred based on the interactions the victims had with the offender.

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.

The Civil War was a war that was fought in America between the years of 1861 and 1865. It included two sides, the North and South. Before the war started. there were many events that helped lead to this war. These events included the tensions growing between the North and South Side due to their different views on slavery. It also included the Dread Scott Decision and the Election of Abraham Lincoln.

Charge: “He did on or about 11/17/2015 Unlawfully and Feloniously Attempt to Take, Steal and Carry away property belonging to Nicholas Riley valued at $200.00 or more with the intent to permanently deprive the owner of the use thereof, in violation of 18.2-95(II) of the 1950 Code of Virginia as amended.”

On May 4, off an interstate highway in Williston, Vermont, a truck driver named Paul Bristol(68 years old) suffered a sudden heart attack which caused him to go into the left lane and swerving along the guardrail for about 300 feet. A homeless man named James Pocock who had been living in the wood off the interstate for a couple of months seen a cloud of concrete dust as the truck hit the guardrail. He quickly sprang into action in order to save the life of Paul Bristol. James Pocock ran to the scene and found Bristol unconscious, with no pulse. Pocock then proceeded to give CPR. Pocock revived Bristol after countless CPR, which helped Bristol survive.

Sam Stevens lives in an apartment building owned by his landlord, Mr. Quinn, where he has been working on an invention that plays the sound of a barking dog to scare off potential intruders. A national chain store has contacted Mr. Stevens, and would like to sell his product exclusively. Despite the fact that Mr. Stevens and the store never signed a physical contract, he verbally told a store manager several months ago that he would ship 1,000 units. Now, the chain store has just contacted Mr. Stevens via letter, demanding that he deliver the promised 1,000 units immediately (Southern New Hampshire University, n.d.).

Research that has been performed on this factor shows that the chance of mistaken identification is 1.56 times greater in cases that involve different races than in cases involving same race identification (Vallas, 2011). This factor of own-race bias does not vary significantly among age groups. Other factors that affect eyewitness identification are violence, stress, and the focus on a weapon.