Jeremy And Jasmine Case Study

On June 9th 1959, a twelve year old girl by the name of Lynne Harper was walking around her neighbourhood until she encountered a young boy from school, Steven Truscott who gave her a bicycle ride home. Once he dropped her off home and went off, she was abducted, two days later her body was found, she had been raped and strangled. By the reason of several witnesses spotting Steven and Lynne together, the Ontario police wrongly convicted him for committing murder. Steven Truscott was a 14 year old boy, who was popular, athletic, he had no behavioral issues and no criminal past. However the Ontario police did not take time to consider the fact that Steven Truscott was just a normal teenage boy, instead they jumped to conclusions and prosecuted

The accused, Brady Lorenz, age 18, has a known past relating to anger issues, and has been convicted of assault once before the events of this case had taken place. Dylan, a witness in the case who is eighteen years of age, is a brilliant student but does have a criminal background. Dylan was charged with underage gambling and blackmail. Leon Lee is age eighteen and student council president and has no criminal background but appeared to be caught up in a “love triangle” between Brady and Emilia. Emilia V. is age eighteen and is an amazing athlete and played for the varsity girls hockey team and had sustained a head injury during the championships.

Jarrell Milton was initially charged as a juvenile with first-degree murder, but the prosecutors said “that they did not believe Jarrell Milton was the shooter, and his charges were reduced.” The Judge ordered Jarrell to be held at the youth center in secure placement for as of now. The Judge also said “if he was found guilty he would not go to prison, but he would go to a facility known as Boys Town or a rehab center in Kearney and remain under the court’s jurisdiction until the age of 19.” As for the Jamar and Shuntayvious Primes-Willis they were both charged as adults with first-degree murder. Jamar’s attorney requested that his case be moved to juvenile court, but his request got denied mostly because of his age. Primes-Willis also made

For example, sixteen-year old Sarah Kruzan was sentenced to life without parole for murdering her pimp. However, she is now 29 years of age, and says how she “deserved the punishment and that it is not okay to take anyone’s life” (Serwer, 1).In the same way how Sara Kruzan understood the wrong in her actions, minors can do the same and change their behaviour, allowing them to be respected by society once again. Another teen killer, Jacob Ind murdered his parents while they were laying in bed. However, Jacob and his brother were physically and emotionally abused by their parents. Years later, Jacob told a local news station that he killed his parents, because he was too “weak to directly confront them and that it was of pure selfishness” (Serwer,

Her then boyfriend however, pled guilty to three counts of first degree murder, and is currently serving three life sentences. Jasmine’s sentence is widely controversial, with many individuals believing that her punishment was weak, and that she should have to spend time incarcerated for her actions. However, since Jasmine was 12 years of age when committing the crimes, she was charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, where the maximum youth can be sentenced to is ten years. The YCJA’s purpose is to prevent crime, as well as rehabilitate and reintegrate young offenders, therefore guiding them off their path of crime. In this particular situation, it is important to consider the possible “brainwashing” and influence 23 year old Steinke had on 12 year old Jasmine, and how that could have affected her reasoning, as well as her actions. Courts acknowledged this, and included four years in a mental institution to her sentence with the intention of rehabilitating Jasmine from the judgement her boyfriend potentially inflicted on her. Meaningful consequences, another one of the YCJA’s principles, has been considered all throughout her

Currently if a D aged 18 or over is convicted of murder, the judge must pass a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. For offenders aged 10-17 found guilty of murder, the judge must order that they are detained at Her Majesty’s Pleasure. The fact the sentencing is mandatory and the judge has no discretion leaves a lack of ability to sentence according to blameworthiness, unlike all other offences which have discretion in sentencing; Gotts. This lack of differentiation between blameworthiness is further emphasised by the Government’s sentencing guidelines laid down in the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Under this act in cases of murders of police officers or murders involving firearms D should receive a 30 year sentence. However, in cases like that of Martin (Anthony) such a sentence would appear unjust.

Kenzie Houk had everything going for her. She was twenty-six, engaged to the love of her life, and was eight-and-a-half months pregnant. In the late winter of 2009, her four-year-old daughter waddled in her bedroom, hoping to surprise her mommy with a good morning smile. Instead, she found her mother with a bullet through her head. Eleven-year-old Jordan Brown, the soon-to-be stepson of Kenzie Houk, was arrested and charged with homicide, pulling the trigger before he went to school. There were two counts of homicide, one for Kenzie Houk and the other for her baby. Brown was tried in juvenile court and sentenced to a residential treatment facility until the age of twenty-one. To Kenzie Houk’s family, Brown’s sentence would never live up to that her four-year-old and seven-year old daughters would have to serve. “The day Kenzie was murdered, the whole family was served with a life sentence,” said Debbie Houk, the victim’s mother. “[Her daughters] are serving life right now. They are never going to see their mom” (Chen). Serious juvenile crimes, similar to this, cannot be properly justified in the juvenile justice system. Juveniles should be tried in the adult criminal court system for serious crimes because of the lack of severity in the juvenile court system, increased youth crime and recidivism rates, and the mental maturity of juvenile offenders.

Erik Jensen and Nathan Ybanez were both sentenced to life in prison without parole after being charged with felony murder in regards to the death of Nathan’s mother, Julie Ybanez. However, many people believe this sentencing to be too harsh due to the ages of the boys (who were 16 and 17). Many people also believe that Erik Jensen shouldn’t have been given life without parole even if he was an adult because it was never proven that he was involved with the murder, only tampering with evidence, as he helped Ybanez clean up the crime scene and remove Julie Ybanez’s body. Others believe Erik played an equal part of the murder, because he never attempted to intervene, his fingerprints were on the murder weapon, and his knees were covered in Mrs. Ybanez’s blood.

After recently watching the heartbreaking documentary “Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About his Father” on Netflix, this particular petition on change.org stood out to me. In the documentary I saw on Netflix it shows how baby Zachary was let down by Canada’s inadequate justice system due to a poor, and unbelievably stupid decision made by Judge Gail Welsh. In the wake of committing a premeditated murder against young Zachary’s father, Dr. Shirley Turner was provided help on how to appeal her imprisonment, and was released shortly after by Judge Welsh. Judge Welsh’s ruling stated that because her crime wasn’t “directed at the public at large” (Kurzweil, 2015) he didn’t see the potential harm that she posed to the general public. Later that year, Dr. Turner drowned both herself, and innocent thirteen-month-old Zachary. In a like manner, I believe that Judge M. Marc Kelly’s ruling on this particular case, explained in the petition, was cruel and unsympathetic. Although these cases aren’t extremely similar to each other, I trust that the rights of young children need to be protected.

For the last few years lawmakers in Wisconsin have been trying to pass the “Second Chance Bill” which will allow certain 16 year old offenders to go through the juvenile system. Sixteen year olds should be tried as a child in court, unless the 16 year old murdered or did something on that level. They should then be tried as an adult. In Wisconsin a judge is expecting to decide if two girls who apparently stabbed their classmate 19 times in the face, they were twelve at the time. The jury came to the conclusion that one of the two teens is mentally ill, as Amanda Watts and Nicole Chavez said “A Wisconsin jury says one of two teens charged in the 2014 Slenderman stabbing of a

Tefik and Kristen are the only employees of the bar and they were both working on the night of the occurrence. Kristen and Tefik recalled the plaintiff entering the bar through the east door. She was with two or three other females. Kirsten served them and they all ordered beers, the plaintiff a Bud Light or Miller Lite. One of her friends paid for the entire round. Kristen sat at that third barstool from the east end of the bar. She was there for only 10 to 15 minutes and drank approximately two inches of her beer. She did not appear intoxicated at that time, but Kristen recalled her dancing at her seat, singing and being loud in general. The plaintiff’s friends left a few minutes before her and neither Tefik nor Kirsten saw the plaintiff

These two girls were tried as adults and this case was something that impacted many people in their

On Sunday, four girls in their 20’s traveling from the United States In Marseille, France were attacked by a 41 year-old woman.The woman threw acid on the girls. The attack took place at the Saint Charles Train Station, the main train station in Marseille.

Natalie is bearing her daughter and goes into very sharp pains. Coyote the shaved ice maker offered her shaved ice to calm her pain. She takes the shaved ice and her temperature drops. The baby was born 2 weeks later and was extremely cold and covered in ice. Iceabella, natalie’s newborn would everything she touched with her bare skin & had to wear protective clothing and gloves to prevent her for freezing things. A year later Natalie has her second child Harmony and she was very alluring. Everyone who laid eyes upon her would reach and caress her soft,smooth skin. When Iceabella saw her sister Harmony she was amazed, she had never seen someone as beautiful as her. Natalie and David told Iceabella that you could only gaze upon Harmony and was

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