Lasinski Case Summary

In 2010, Kalief Browder a young teenager was accused of a wrongful theft of stealing a backpack with a camera, 700$, a credit card, and a iPod. Kalief Browder was imprisoned for 3 years in jail at the age of 16 for a crime he did not commit.

One year previous to Caminata’s exoneration, Dave Moran (Director of the Michigan Innocence Clinic) decided to represent Victor and he filed a motion for relief. Moran filed this motion because he believed

Pittman is next scheduled to appear in court for an Aug. 31 pretrial conference. A jury trial is scheduled for Sept.

Hershberger not only admitted to following the deliveryman, but said he had several loaded weapons — a pistol on him, a pistol on the dashboard and a rifle in the back seat — in his vehicle, according to Shaner.

“A boy was accused of stealing a backpack. The courts took the next three years of his life.” Stated Jennifer Gonnerman in her article Before the Law.

The roles more important in the case of Mr. Polanski were Advocate and Broker, Connie use them to be able to help Mr. Polanski, and so he could receive help from the government.

The decision came at the end of a five-day long preliminary hearing that featured testimony from friends on both sides. The Humboldt County District Attorney’s presented photographs of a 10-inch knife recovered from the scene.

Background and Facts of the Case In 1999, Ahmad Edwards attempted to steal a pair of shoes from a department store. When Edwards realized that a security guard witnessed his attempt, he pulled out a gun, and fired three shots at the guard (Morris & Frierson, 2008). The shots missed the guard, but one wounded a bystander in the leg. Edwards was then arrested and charged with theft, criminal recklessness, battery with a deadly weapon, and attempted murder.

On August 7, 1997, Nathan Brown was convicted for attempted aggravated rape. On August 7, 1997, in Louisiana the attempted rape of a women occurred in front of Nathan Browns building. A women that was walking to her apartment was attacked by a man that had jumped out from behind her and threw her on to the ground. The attacker went on top of her, “ bit the victim’s neck, ripped her dress open and took her purse” (Nathan Brown. (n.d.). Retrieved November 2, 2015.).One of the attackers shoes came off while he was attacking her. The victim was able to fight the attacker back by using the high heels she was already carrying as a weapon. The attacker ran, then got on a bike and rode away. The police came to the crime scene shortly after the crime had occurred because near by neighbors called the police after they heard a women screaming.

On December 20, 2014, both Liu and Ramos were sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn when they were shot at point-blank range. Neither officer had the opportunity to draw their weapon as they were killed with no warning. The mentally derange killer traveled from Baltimore vowing to kill NYPD officers in retaliation for Eric Garner cases. After the ambush assassination, the killer fled the scene and onto a subway station. He killed himself as officers were closing

The Trial of the Century. On July 22, 1994, the “Trial of the Century” was held in downtown Los Angles(Geis & Bienen, 2016). The trial was supposed to be held in Santa Monica but the prosecution chose to have it in downtown Los Angles because they felt it would be a fairer trial(Geis & Bienen, 2016). The prosecution was led Marcia Clark and the defense by Robert Shapiro, Johnnie Cochran, and Robert Kardashian(Geis & Bienen, 2016). The presiding judge was Lance Ito and the jury majority of the 12 jurors were African American women(Geis & Bienen, 2016).

The Acting District Attorney named the three defendants have been named Keisia Atkins 29, Mercedes Jones 19, and Whetsel Wade 45 all of East Brooklyn.They are diversely

Witnesses and forensic evidence suggest that the officers fired a second round of shots after a brief pause and that Diallo's frame absorbed a majority of the bullets after having hit

On December 16th, 2016 I, Investigator James Poffel was assigned a case in reference to a sexual assault of a 9 year old juvenile female report. It was reported that the incidents took place several times, first occurring sometime in June of 2016 and the most recent encounter we are unsure at this point of when it occurred.

I immediately noticed that the defendant didn’t have a lawyer, and it shocked me because I don’t usually hear of people successfully defending themselves in court. Before presenting his evidence, he asked the judge a question on how he was supposed to present it, and Judge Green responded by telling him that he had the opportunity to have a lawyer appointed for