Mount Jo Murder Case Study

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).

After reading “the Innocent Man” by Pamela Colloff’s who write a long journalism about Michael Morton, who was found guilty for murdering his wife Christine was sentenced for fifteen years in prison. Later founding that Michael was Innocent after reinvestigating his case, capturing DNA testing and finding new evidence was able to help prove his innocence. The theme of this essay a widow husband who seek to fight for his freedom in prison and staying connected with his son. Michal son Eric gave him a reason to have hope that they would one day reunite and his son would know for himself that he did murder his wife. The point of view of this essay although a man is falsely accuse for a crime he did not commit he is self-determined to fight.

Hey, Cory, I researched and found an article about a man named Harold J. Stewart, a 42-year-old high school dropout, who defended himself in a murder case in Prince George's County, whereas he was accused of beating a sleeping man to death with a baseball bat. (Casteneda, 2008) Stewart’s pro se trial only lasted three days; where is the fairness in this prosecution? The jury only deliberated for about an hour. It seems like Stewart never had a chance; considering, at the most, it takes at least more than a day even to hear evidence in a murder trial. It was faith because the jurors found Stewart not guilty of first-degree murder and not guilty of second-degree murder. (Casteneda, 2008) You know there is a saying a man who represents himself

In fact there is no evidence tying him to the crime at all except a few fingerprints and a handprint in Hae Min Lee’s car which means that Syed was at some point in her car. This mean nothing because of how often they hung out together while they were dating and afterwards. Even after the break up both Syed and Lee were still good friends (Episode 1). When law enforcement discovered the body they also found two pieces of evidence next to the body, an empty bottle of alcohol and a piece of rope; they didn't test those two for any DNA evidence (Episode 3). Also supposedly there was shovels Wilds and Syed used to dig the grave for Lee but, both shovels were never recovered along with their soiled clothing that they had on that day from the graves dirt. Wilds threw away the evidence away behind West View mall. “She dives Jay back to Eastview Mall to the dumpsters back there so that Jay can Retrieve the shovels and wipe the handles clean of fingerprints” (Episode 4). The whole ordeal with evidence is almost sketchy seeing how little solid physical evidence the state have against Syed .Proving the state's case was weak there was one person that could disprove that Syed left with Wilds to kill Lee; that person is Asia McLean. McLean in fact wrote Syed notes saying she saw Syed and talked to him in the library at the same time the murder was suppose to take place. No attorney contacted McLean

This is an investigation of a missing person. George Erik James, a previous gang member with East Side Piru, was last seen by his parents the day before Thanksgiving in 1998. From what Mr. and Mrs. James said George left because him and his mom got into an argument. Before we began investigating this case, it seemed like George just left without contacting his family. With George being an adult, it didn’t seem like he ran away or got kidnapped. That argument could’ve been the last straw for George, therefore, making him storm off without telling his family where he was going.

This report will analyse the role, principles and responsibilities of the Investigators in the McLeod-Lindsay case, it will describe how the legal boundaries and operational requirements were applied and detailing the legal procedures that were applied. Also including evidence and factors that brought about the pardon and the problems that the case highlights for the adversary system and its use of evidence.

The Jefferson County Egan Murders are nothing of surprise to anyone. On the cold dark night of New Years in 1964 Gerald and Peter along with their sister Barbra Egan were found killed at the rest stop on Interstate 81 in Watertown NY. The murders were carried out very well leaving little evidence behind on the scene. The murder weapons were suspected to be a .38 and a .25 caliber handgun and possibly a semi-automatic rifle. The Egan’s were widely known in the area for robberies and burglaries that police couldn’t keep up with until after the deaths.

There has to be a witness somewhere out there. He leaves these notes, and this last one has a riddle.One of the notes had a riddle on it, the police have not figured out what it means. It had a date due for tomorrow, Jeff and Justin think that it’s going to be where his next killing is. The code says ‘Where you run and where you hide 628 street of Hershey is where you find” “Justin!! I think I know where it’s going to be” “Where?” Somewhere on Hershey Street. “Jeff… How do you know he is not lying?” This is a murderer no one knows about.

I will be using both the positivism and classicism school of criminology to explain the acts of deviance committed by Justin. Positivism is a method of applying natural sciences to the social world (Newborn,2007), thus helping to determine what lead to the deviant behavior. This theory mainly focuses on the offender and the pre-determined factors that lead to him committing the crimes. The main factors are driven by the biological and psychological influences. These factors include cases of poor upbringing like domestic violence or poverty as well as bad influences that surround the individual which could cause pressure on him/her to follow into their footsteps. One of the main people who is known for developing this theory is Cesare Lombroso, this criminologist believed that 'criminals were born, not made' (Newborn,2007).

After the killing of 19-year-old William Kindred in February of 1978, Gacy's crawlspace was so full of bodies that he had to resort to dumping Kindred and the remainder of his victims into the Des Plaines River. The other victims that were dumped off of the I-55 bridge into the Des Plaines River included 20-year-old Timothy O'Rourke, 19-year-old Frank Landingin, 21-year-old James Mazzara, and 15-year-old Robert Piest.

What did the judge do wrong? Which judicial selection option—either appointment, election, or merit—would help to reduce instances of judicial misconduct?

In the book The Jefferson County Egan Murders a n actual murder took place on December 31st (January 1st ) 1964-1965. Suspect Joe Leone was in fact jailed in connection with the murders. Peter Egan (27), Barbara Egan (24) and Gerald Egan (19) planned on celebrating New Year’s Eve with friends at a local bowling alley, but before they did they went to do something illegal. But in the waning hours of 1964, the three were found dead, all with two bullets fired into their heads.

Between mid-2007 to mid-2009 at a string of women went missing from the East Cleveland. Sowell’s first victim Crystal Dozier is believed to have been killed in May or June of 2007. One year later in 2008, he killed Tishana Culver and four other women. One of his victims could get away and flag down the police, with a police warrant Sowell was arrested and taken to jail. He was later released by “a city prosecutor decided there was not enough evidence to prosecute him” (Dealer,

In chapter 11 everyone finds out about the murder that happened. The whole town is at the graveyard and Injun Joe told everyone that Muff Poder was the murder but, in reality Injun Joe was the murder. Muff Poder believes that he is the murder, along with everyone else. Muff Poder got knocked out by Dr. Robison, and Injun Joe had stabbed Dr. Robinson. When Muff Poder woke up he saw his pocket knife, all covered with blood, laying next to the dead Dr. Robinson, he thought that he did it. When he asked Injun Joe who had done it, Injun Joe said that Muff had done it. Injun Joe told the same lying story, that he had told Muff Poder, to the entire town. Then everyone believed that Muff Poder was the murder, and it wasn’t tp hard to believe anyway.

Robert Acuna murdered his two elderly neighbors named James and Joyce Caroll. Robert Shot and killed both of them “execution style”, and then he stole their car and drove off. Adam Liptak wrote “Mr. Acuna’s youth should have counted in his favor. Instead,