The Case Of Lincoln Montclair

Everyone was subjected to security including the lawyers and employees of the court house. Everyone was either in some type of uniform or dressed extremely formal, even if they were just spectators. Few people were in the court room, but not many. The judge, lawyers and people that were being represented had not still entered the building. Moments later the plaintiff, Dawn-Evans Donahue, and the defendant Joseph Donahue with their lawyers Michael Morris and John M. Makowski, entered the court room. They had taken their place on each of the court room to make their cases in front of the judge. The bailiff then told us to all rise for their entrance of Judge Polansky. We all rose and took our seats. The court had now been set in motion for deliberation. The judge was wearing the standard gown that is portrayed in films and in real life, there was no jury because this was not a trial court, this was a family matters case.

On November 6th, 1989, Aaron Hernandez, tight end for the New England Patriots, was born. Although he lived in luxury, Hernandez’s life was a struggle before he went bigshot at the University of Florida. His mother, turned to the courts for bankruptcy protection when he was a child. When Hernandez was in sixth grade, Terri, his mother, began taking bets for an illegal gambling organization. The Police later seized reams of evidence from the home. He did not know about his mother's doings, at least it is hard to say what he did and did not know at that time. Terri was also married to an ex-convict who was previously married to his cousin. Hernandez was no stranger to the streets as a teenager and he definitely knew his way around Bristol, even though he was an honor student. He was involved in a volatile underworld of gangs, guns, drugs and violence. He has been linked, by prosecutors and a civil lawsuit, to a violent series of assaults, shootings, and three killings. For 30 years, Aaron Hernandez was known on the streets of Bristol as The King.

As the Honorable Glenn Thompson entered the courtroom, the bailiff spoke aloud saying 'all rise' and everyone stood up until the Judge ordered them to be seated. The defendants names were called with each defendant or their respective attorney answer their roll call.

In the courtroom, the team of magistrates and officials had a difficult time arriving at a verdict. One of the judges, Jonathan Selleck, observed that “trying to prove an invisible crime in court was not easy and could lead to serious problems, both inside and outside the courtroom” (Godbeer 53). The legal aspects of the case were extremely intricate and complex. The judges wanted to make the right decision, one that would benefit the community at large, while at the same time, trying to learn from the court proceedings that took place in

On 02/06/2017, at approximately 1715 hours, while I was conducting meal distribution and ID Headcount in Durango Jail, 3225 W. Gibson Lane, Phoenix, AZ 85009, Housing Unit D-3, Pod D. When Inmate Peterson, Jordan T324870, cell 57-2 received his meal tray, I noticed he had dried blood stains on his shirt, his left eye, left cheek and left corner of his lip were bruised and swollen. At that time I asked the inmate what happened and he replied, "It’s nothing." I told him to step out of the pod and have a seat in the multipurpose room of the housing unit.

DNA was not available at the time. He probably would have never been caught if he didn’t start writing the police again. On one occasion, he wrote a local TV station asking “How many do I have to kill before I get my name in the paper or get some national attention?” (Chu, Seiger, & Thigpen, 2005). He seemed to live a very normal life with a loving wife, children, and attended church. His church family could not believe he was capable of committing these crimes. This very normal lifestyle also contributed to the delay in capture. All of these elements contributed to the delay in his

June 14, 2017, Melrico Nelvis was issued Bail Conditions that placed him on the GPS monitoring program for the charge of Aggravated Assault/DV. The Bail Conditions state that Nelvis is to stay away from the home of the victim, Derrika Smith, and is not to be anywhere the victim likely to be. July 25, 2017, at 8:31 p.m. and at 8:36 p.m. Nelvis entered the home exclusion zone of the victim. Officers had made the scene and the victim was in the area, but stated she had not seen Nelvis. Regardless, the Bail Conditions state that Nelvis is to stay away from the home of the victim or anywhere the victim is likely to be. Nelvis’s actions place him in violation of the Bail Conditions that are active until his next court date on August 23,

other things that benefited him. While doing so he also was taking the victim 's peace of mind.

I could not believe what I had just said, I said it so hastily that I thought no one had heard me, but the judge clearly heard me say “The defense moves to indict Isabella Moores of first degree murder.” Everybody in the courtroom was speechless, “This so called witness was planning to murder her mother since she ran away from home, all because her mother was constantly abusing her and I have evidence to prove it!”

I didn't know what to think when he willingly told me not just his name but his story, all from a sort of daze. I still

senses of conscience and didn’t feel sorry even after his burglary led to his father’s death. All

For my second observation it was a criminal case. When I got to the courtroom the case has already started. This case was about a guy who had already been sentencing to jail and he came back so the judge could reviewed his sentencing. The defendant was on his late 20s and he had previous criminal history. The defense attorney wrote a motion for the judge to review his client’s sentencing because he believed the first judge did not use his discretion wisely. So, therefore he believed that his client should have be sentencing differently. When I got to the courtroom, the judge was reviewing all the defendant’s charges and he was asking the defense attorney questions as well. At the end, the judge decided that the defendant ‘s sentencing would

I would like to know if it had anything to do with his past. His

However, as Grant recounts the events of the trial in a degree of detail that suggests more than mere inference, this issue becomes more ambiguous. From Grant’s description of his aunt and Miss Emma’s thoughts, perceptions and behavior in the courtroom, to his exacting portrayal of Jefferson’s story, including details as specific as the type of wine, “Apple White” (Gaines 4), which prompts the shooting, as recounted by Jefferson through Grant in third person, to the roughly two pages of direct quotation that present the defense’s closing arguments, we are left with such a complete account of the trial that it is virtually impossible to believe Grant is not embellishing upon his own assumptions. Yet with the closing lines of this chapter, “Death by electrocution. The governor would set the date” (Gaines 9), the credibility of Grant’s implicit prediction is authenticated, leaving the reader with the impression that since the conclusion implied at the beginning is valid, and since the premises seem plausible, that these premises must at least be grounded in a degree of truth.

role easily because his earlier ideas of stealing had not really gained any recognition for his gang like he wanted. He could see the possibility of