Legal Case Study: The Mark Streit Case

The court’s decision in the case of Scott v. Harris heavily affected police pursuit policy. Harris who was the citizen motorist was driving almost twenty miles over the speed limit when Deputy Scott began a vehicular pursuit. Due to his reckless driving, the officer sought to end the high-speed chase that endangers the lives of innocent bystanders. However, Deputy Scott was untrained in Precision Intervention Technique (PTI), so he interfered with vehicles speed by ramming the back of Harris’ car which caused him to lose control, going off of the road resulting in an accident. During the case the question of whether the deputy used excessive force because his action could constitute deadly force. Harris believed that his Fourth Amendment rights

MILLERSBURG — A local man who admittedly filmed coworkers using an employee bathroom now faces the potential of local jail time.

Nancy and mark collier got married, but then on April 8, 2003, Nancy wanted to get a divorce from Mark. Nancy was feeling unsafe and had an order of protection put on Mark for him to stay away from her workplace. Nancy was working at the hospital on April 24, 2003, during that time mark went to his neighbor and was telling his neighbor that he was going to kill himself and Nancy because Nancy had filed divorce. Mark neighbor thought mark was just talking crazy because mark had talked like that before. That night mark went back to his neighbor and said that tonight is the night and mark and his neighbor walked back to marks house and mark said again that he was going to kill himself and Nancy. Marks neighbor went to marks house later they night

In the 2001 trial of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s case of Landrigan vs. Stewart was a great example of how behavioral genetics can have both a negative and positive effects on criminal cases Landrigan had filed a petition because he claimed he did not have an effective counsel during the penalty phase of his capital case (Farahany, Beret).. After four years of being sentenced he said he would have been cooperative if his attorney tried to offer evidence, that his biological background ‘made’ him a criminal. Even with his effort to chance his sentence the Ninth Circuit was unmoved. His background showed the court room his genetics will make him still violent in the future, because he cannot change his genetic

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has charged Nathan Moss (Mr. Moss) with 1 count of violating a no contact order that Claire Cohen (Ms. Cohen) put out against him. Nathan Moss and Claire Cohen are both seniors at Plymouth South High School and dated for about 10 months prior to Ms. Cohen placing a protective order against Mr. Moss.

Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that set the standard for determining whether a criminal defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel is violated by a lawyer's alleged incompetence during trial. On September 25,1789 the Sixth Amendment was introduced into the United States Constitution as part of the Bill of Rights, and on December 15, 1791 it was ratified. The Sixth Amendment guarantees a defendant the right “[T]o have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.”

Carlson finished the 2015-16 with a bang, scoring 39 points in an injury-limited 56 games, only to turn it up a few notches and scoring 12 points in 12 playoff games, including five goals.

Laws have been put in place of the years to ensure that everyone has equal opportunities when it comes to getting a job, keeping a job, and having access to goods, services, and locations. Several of the laws that have been enacted over the years include the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, the Age Discrimination Act of 1967, and the Americans with Disabilities of 1990.

In 2006 the police received an anonymous tip in Salt Lake City that Edward Strieff Jr was selling drugs from his car. Police officer Douglas Fackrell had observed Strieff for a week before detaining him. The officer later discovered that Edward Strieff Jr. had a major warrant out for his arrest due to a traffic violation. After being ran under the system, Fackrell decided to search Strieff and found two different kinds of drugs in his pockets. He was then charged for drug offences.

In 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court declined review in Thompson v. McNeil, but three Justices issued strongly worded statements about the importance of the legal issue raised. William Thompson had been on death row in Florida for 32 years. He claimed the excessive time he spent on death row amounted to cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. Justice John Paul Stevens, in an opinion respecting the denial of certiorari, called the treatment of the defendant during his 32 years on death row “dehumanizing,” noting that Thompson “has endured especially severe conditions of confinement, spending up to 23 hours per day in isolation in a 6- by 9-foot cell” and has experienced two stays of execution “only shortly before he was scheduled

In Stolarz’s first year in the AHL playing 31 games posting a 3.28 GAA and a .905 SVS.

Washington’s sixth amendment right was violated because of inadequate counsel. The Supreme Court said there is a two-part test; 1) reasonable effective assistance and 2) reasonable probability there

The 22-year-old Marcus Hogberg inked a rookie entry-level contract on March 30, 2017. Hogberg appeared in three games last season in Binghamton. The 6’5, 216-pound, the goalkeeper was also outstanding in Sweden’s top League in 33 games posting a 1.89 GAA and .932 SV%. Hogberg was expected to push Danny Taylor and Andrew Hammond for starts and ice time in the upcoming year that was not to be the case as he was sent down to the Brampton Beast of the ECHL this week.

he issue that has come before the Court is whether or not the Christian tenets and prayer to a nondenominational God is in violation of the First Amendment’s establishment clause. The Court has ruled, based on tests developed from Lemon v. Kurtzman and Agostini v. Felton that both the Christian tenets and prayer in the Court is a violation of the First Amendments Establishment Clause.

For the mock trial I was assigned to be one of the prosecuting attorneys. After being presented with case materials which included facts of the case, statements from both prosecuting and defense witnesses, penal code for the alleged charges, and map of the crime scene, we as a group decided to create one Google Drive document. There we would upload our parts of the case and help other group members with their assignments.