Jeffrey Heffernan, who worked as a cop in Paterson, New Jersey, was demoted, or given a lower rank, from detective to a foot post in 2005 by the police chief. When an election for mayor was held, Joey Torres ran against Lawrence Spagnola. Because Heffernan’s mother was bedridden and her first campaign yard sign got stolen, Heffernan helped his mother pick up another one. Another police officer, serving as Torres’s bodyguard, saw Heffernan with a Spagnola yard sign. Immediately, the news spread to Paterson Police Department, where Torres had the support of the head police chief. As a result, Heffernan was degraded from detective to foot patrol. Later, he sued the department for demoting him. He claims that he just helped his mother pick up a yard sign. In 2009 Heffernan won a reward of $105,000. However, the judge later changed his decision. This U.S. Court of Appeals established a decision, which was in favor of Paterson, in January 2015. The dispute has been carried to the Supreme Court, and Heffernan’s lawyers are asking the Supreme Court to invalidate the U.S. Court of Appeals’s decision. By the end of June, the Supreme Court may have their decision. This happened mainly because of a misinterpretation between the head chief and Heffernan. …show more content…
If Heffernan actually supported Spagnola, then a degrading him as a retaliation would not have been allowed because he was expressing his opinion, which is allowed by the First Amendment. A better solution would be for Heffernan to discuss with the police chief about what actually was happening. Heffernan should have clarified the situation, rather than leaving the chief of the police with the wrong impression. He could have had a meeting with the chief and his mother, who may have helped explain that her son was just helping her pick up a
In 1788, the ratification of the United States Constitution sought to establish the fundamental aspects of the nation’s government, laws, and protections of its citizens’ unalienable rights. Robert G. McCloskey’s The American Supreme Court (2016) explains that, during this period, the prospects of the Supreme Court were essentially unknown. As time progressed, however, the Court began strengthening its legitimacy with its decisions in major landmark court cases which, in turn, established its crucial role in shaping the judicial interests and values of the nation. As such, McCloskey (2016) traces the country’s judicial history by highlighting the Court’s great transitional periods regarding state rights, nation rights, property rights, and slavery. By the start of the 20th century, however, discrepancies began to emerge with the rise of
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).
Edwin J. Delattre describes in “Some Reflections on Success and failure in Competitive Athletics” that competitive athletics require a touchstone relationship of competitors’ i.e. that competitors have a moral and logical obligation to not engage in cheating. Competitive sports leagues and organizations have taken several measures to achieve competitive balance or fairness in regards to the spirit of competition. Competitive leagues have implemented the draft process to ensure that teams with the worst records are able to acquire top draft pick players to help improve losing teams, and salary caps to prevent a select few teams from acquiring all of the talented players and depriving the rest of the league from being able
On May 4, 2017 at approximately 9:34PM I, Deputy George along with Sergeant Kincaid were in the process of conducting an investigation regarding a possible disturbance in front of the address of 398 County Road 4249, Como, Texas 75432.
that he had to get surgery and was hospitalized for five days. After that he decided to claim a lawsuit against the school district. His winning of the case send a message to schools everywhere about how LGBTQ bullying cannot be ignored.
Mr. Hesterberg acknowledges not being available to for all visits offered to him. The father reported that there were times when he was offered additional time, but was not able to take it. He indicated that his job in New York City did not prohibit him to be able to go to Florida when the mother offered visitation.
It’s always good to start investing money at an early age, however, it’s a hard start. Many banks have improved interest rates as well as no opening fees to start a savings account. Stocks, such as health and technology are also currently going up. Billy should start by saving small amounts of money per week for two years and placing it in a savings account. He should also buy health and tech stocks, such as Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), and keep a diversified portfolio, along with buying bonds.
Convicted rapist Phillip Craig Garrido was born in California on April 5, 1951. Phillip Kidnap 11 year old Jaycee Dugard on June 10, 1991, outside of her home in South Lake Tahoe in California. He kept her captive for 18 years, would constantly rape her. During these years, Garrido raped dugard repeatedly, fed her countless lies and impregnated her twice, Jaycee had two daughters with Garrido, giving birth to them at the ages of 14 and 17.
Often, the media is very quick to jump on a story as they want to be the “very first” to bring the news story since they compete with other news outlets. Add the issues of law enforcement sources who leak information to news sources, and you have the potential of someone being found guilty of public opinion. As was seen in the case of Richard Jewell, a man who acted heroically was scrutinized and ridiculed by the media all because law enforcement wanted to question Jewell further. Even though Richard Jewell was questioned and his rights were read to him, he was at no time arrested or detained, and it seems there never existed any probable cause for law enforcement to do so. However, the media painted Jewell as the bomber, called him a “fat,
Because of the color of her skin, Sandra Bland was unlawfully detained, which was not uncommon in this city. Trooper Encinia, the officer who made the initial traffic stop and arrest, committed an unlawful arrest and failed to correctly do his job, and is now being indicted on a perjury charge because of it. In the video of the traffic stop, Bland repeatedly asks the officer why he was trying to detain and arrest her, but the only response the trooper gave her was “I am giving you a lawful order,” (Hassan and Yan). Though the event was unlawful, it was argued that the incident was not driven by racism. However, Trooper Encinia has worked with some that have committed unlawful acts that were driven by racism: Sheriff R. Glenn Smith.
Being asked to come to a conclusion as to who killed JonBenet Ramsey is very challenging . This is due in part to the fact that there are multiple people who could have killed her. With that being said, I am going to do my best to demonstrate who I think had more of a motive to kill her. JonBenet Ramsey was a vibrant six year old beauty queen who was well advanced for age. I believe that one of John Ramsey’s employees at Access Graphics killed JonBenet. My justifications follow.
There was a shootout that went viral recently in Maryland and the information about it is now available for us to discuss. The young lad who was killed during the shootout is identified as Jason Hendrix who is 16 years old and was from Corbin, Kentucky. The Baltimore County Police officers, Maryland have been on a hunt to find this young lad who is a suspect of his parent’s and his 12 years old sisters’ death. Right from there his hunt was on for the cops of Maryland.
Brock Turner was an above average 19 year-old athlete and student at Oakwood High School in Dayton, Ohio. While in high school, Turner was a three-time All American and was enrolled at Stanford University on a swimming scholarship. He was offered a scholarship to Stanford and he took it without any thought. One thing he never thought about was getting indicted of rape of an intoxicated person, rape of an unconscious person, assault with intent to rape an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object. Everything that was just listed, is what he was charged with the night of his felony.
On September 15, 2017 the plaintiff Arnold Drake (hereafter known as Mr. Drake or plaintiff) attended the University of South Florida v, United States Naval Academy game held at the Sun Dome (Drake Dep. 1, Dec. 6, 2017). The defendant Robert Shaffer (hereafter known as Officer Shaffer or defendant), also attended the game and was accompanied by his ten year old son Joey (Shaffer Dep. 9, Dec. 7, 2017). The Sun Dome hosted a police appreciation day, in which
In 2007, Conrad Black, a prominent journalist, publisher, and investor was convicted of three counts of fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to six and a half years in prison and ordered to pay a fine of $125,000. Later on, Mr. Black had two of the counts of fraud overturned on appeal. Mr. Black served only 37 months in a U.S prison before being released in 2012 and retuning to Canada (McFarland 2014). The case study of Conrad Black will be used to evaluate how human beings behave under various circumstances. In the 1990’s Mr. Black built one of the biggest newspaper groups in the world (Lemieux, 2011). He owned a newspaper group known as Hollinger, which he progressively grew from its roots. After Black had stepped down as the CEO of Hollinger, it was realized that he had been engaging in fraudulent activities. For instance, he had paid Hollinger’s executives a lot of money