The Importance Of Sentencing

She also testified to the phones powering events the night of Kelley Clayton's murder. The investigator found that Beards phone was turned off at 11:24 pm on September 28th, was turned back on for a few seconds at 11:44, then off again. Then it was turned back on at 1:20am on September 29th.

Martin John Bryant is an Australian mass murderer responsible for the Port Arthur Massacre in 1996. The Port Arthur Massacre was the third deadliest shooting by a lone gunman resulting in 35 deaths and 19 injuries. Bryant is currently serving 35 life sentences and 1035 years without parole in Risdon Prison in Hobart, Tasmania.

The facts were not at all clear to the Police Officers or the attorneys who will soon face this case. The players involved where many, but to name just a few: William M. Kunstler, a very popular and well-liked lawyer, he represented James Richardson. The Author of the book was the prosecutor in this case; he was young and unprepared to becoming an assistant district attorney for this case. But I do have to add that the work he did performed was excellent, but again William Kunstler he was a well-seasoned attorney.

At trial, the Clayton County district attorney gets around the lack of evidence by simply allowing the white victims to describe their brutal attack at the hands of a black male. The DA piles these emotional accounts on top of false records and contradictory identifications by the victims, and the judge and all white jury never give Johnson a chance for acquittal. I found myself throwing my hands in the air and screaming at the page as I witnessed an innocent man being buried under a blanket of discrimination and blind justice, condemning him to a life in prison.

McCormick was a known liar, which was a reason the defense team actually used in McCormick’s favor. It did not work the first time; McCormick was sentenced to death row. However, the second trial defense team had a new piece to work with: the fact that McCormick’s hair did NOT match the strand of hair left in Nichols’ car. As a result, this new hair fact was too much to ignore, and McCormick was acquitted.

One of several errors in the trial was a reckless omission by a forensic scientist who testified for the prosecution. Semen was found on the victim’s body, the scientist testified, and Dominguez’s blood type matched the semen sample, meaning he could have been the perpetrator. The scientist did not tell the jury, however, that two-thirds of men in America would have matched that sample. Dominguez was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison. He was released after serving four years and sought DNA testing at his own expense. The tests proved his innocence. His case is one of many in which limited forensic science or wrong forensic testimony has led to wrongful convictions.

In addition, according to the interviews collected by NBC news Lawson Lamar, Florida state attorney said “We’re disappointed in the verdict today because we know the facts and we’ve put in absolutely every piece of the evidence that existed .... This is a dry-bones case. Very, very, difficult to prove. The delay in recovering little caylee’s remains worked to our considerable

George Anthony was Caylee's father.) Casey was used to covering up her hurt, Baez said.

Although no trial had taken place, both men were put “on death row before trial to create additional pressure,” with Myers’s offering more information to incriminate McMillian, Myers’s was moved over to county jail (Stevenson, 52). McMillian was subject to cruel punishment curtesy of the U.S. justice system. He was thrown into a “windowless concrete [building]” where prisoners are left to suffer in unbearable conditions (Stevenson, 53). With few privileges and far from home, McMillian was not able to have contact with his family or know what was happening surrounding his case.

murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in the Grand Jury room of the CourtHouse on Saturday… He

At around 4 a.m. on January 31st outside of an Atlanta nightclub where a post Super Bowl party was winding down, an argument broke out between two groups. The altercation escalated from verbal to physical when one man struck another over the head with a champagne bottle. The actions to take place in the following chaotic moments were fast and furious, and it seems no two eyewitnesses saw the same thing. What is conclusive about the outcome is that a limousine sped away, gunshots were fired at it, and Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar died from multiple stab wounds. If convicted along with his two friends, Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens will go from three-time All-Pro to lifetime inmate.

Timothy Cole was a 24-year-old student at Texas Tech University. After completing two years of college, he had enlisted in the army for two years in hopes of serving his country. Timothy was an ordinary man with dreams of getting married and having children, but that dream never materialized. Upon his return to Texas Tech in 1985, he was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for the rape of a 20-year-old girl named Michele Mallin. Mallin, then, a student at Texas Tech University Lubbock, was walking to her car when a man approached her and held a knife to her neck. He forced himself into her car and drove her to the outskirts of town where he raped her repeatedly. The next day the police investigator showed Michele pictures of the suspect where she pointed at Timothy Cole. When police showed her a lineup, again she picked Cole. “I was positive,” she said. “I really thought it was him,” but in fact she had accidently robbed an innocent man of his freedom (Lavendra 2009).

The other Wes Moore definitely is the most powerful, influential, and life­changing stories that is worth reading. The Other Wes moore, is a story of two children with, same name, very similar lifestyle, and growing environment, but later those two children end up having completely different life. Wes Moore, the author himself tells about facing poverty and how eager was his ambition to receive a proper education. The other Wes Moore, who later got convicted to murder in the first degree and sentenced to a life in jail. The most important fact is that the story of the two Wes Moore can apply to anyone’s life.

After pleading guilty to charges of manslaughter in result of her six-month old daughter’s death, Angela Moore decided to accept the lesser sentence of five years after making a plea bargain in Judicial District Court in June of 2015. Although, originally charged with negligent homicide, she was able to obtain reverence for time served, unlike husband and offender, William Moore. He was convicted on capital murder along with a deny on granting bail.

Late the other night, an elderly man was murdered in his own bedroom. The assailant was a young woman by the name of Kerry Shaughnessy. Homer Reese, 72, was found dismantled under the floorboards of his bedroom. I went down to Iron Heights Prison to interview her a just a few hours ago. It was certainly quite the disturbing experience. She most certainly was not in her right mind, though she vividly states otherwise multiple times. Her trial is to take place on November 26, 2015 at the Stonefield Court House. She already confessed to the murder, so they are going to determine how long she shall remain there, though she will almost definitely be there for the rest of her life.