Patty Hearst Turning Point

On the murder night of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, was a massive outburst on the media. As stated (Turvey December 1995) both bodies were found at 12:10Am, June 13 1994 inside of Nicole’s house located at 875 South Bundy reported by witnesses seeing a river of blood. As we get closer to the murder care of both Nicole and Ron many unanswered question starts to pile up, from who could had possibly had done this to why they ever did this.

The Lindbergh kidnapping shocked Americans everywhere, and made them realize the possible dangers of celebrities having children who are famous, even before they are born because of their parents. It influenced the way parents choose to raise their children, especially famous children.

The Duke Lacrosse team and the prosecutor were involved in a racially driven rape case at Duke University in Durham, NC in 2006. The focus of the investigation by the District Attorney was to convict three of

Being asked to come to a conclusion as to who killed JonBenet Ramsey is very challenging . This is due in part to the fact that there are multiple people who could have killed her. With that being said, I am going to do my best to demonstrate who I think had more of a motive to kill her. JonBenet Ramsey was a vibrant six year old beauty queen who was well advanced for age. I believe that one of John Ramsey’s employees at Access Graphics killed JonBenet. My justifications follow.

This case really upset many abolitionists, and helped lead to the civil war. It lead to many things, such as the John Brown Raids. It was very empowering for the southerners because it gave them hope that slavery could continue to be everywhere, and expand out west. No matter where a slave resided, they were not considered to have true freedom. This left little opportunity for slaves and northerners. Soon Lincoln took office, and he had a very strong opinion that slavery should be illegal. All of these things combined lead to the secession of the

The case was like any other, but a surprise witness played a big role in the case. Vivian Gordon, informed the investigators women were falsely arrested for prostitution by the New York Police Department, for doing this the police officers received extra money on their usual pay checks. After Vivian testified in court she was randomly found dead in a park in the Bronx, New York. The death of Vivian Gordon would show the people of New York that corruption can lead to horrible and unchangeable acts and also Walker could most likely be linked back to

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

As a crime scene investigator, there are duties that have to be met and a job that has to get done. Part of this job includes putting together reliable evidence, and making a list of suspects. As an investigator my job as of right now, is to find evidence to use against Orenthal James Simpson in the prosecution of the murder of his wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. On June 12, 1994, around 10:15 P.M., Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were brutally murdered at her house on 875 S. Bundy in Brentwood, California (Linder).

In the Patty Hearst Trial, it is different from others because the criminal is also the victim. The case was on February 4,1976 and the crime was April 15, 1975, all set in southern California. The Symbionese Army and Patricia Hearst held up a bank robbery. After, a long trial of discussing if she was brainwashed to complete these crimes or was her choice to join the SLA which in the end she was named guilty and sent to jail for seven years. Despite being found guilty,justice was not served because she did not complete her original sentence of seven years.

Mrs. Andrea Yates murdered her five young children, aged 6 months to 7 years old. Since the birth of her fourth child she had had serious bouts with depression. She had suicidal tendencies that had earned her multiple stay at a hospital and was diagnosed with postpartum psychosis. She was on and off different anti-depressants and anti-psychotics, mutilated herself, stopped feeding her youngest child and was seeing a couple of psychiatrists. These therapists warned of Mrs. Yates not taking her prescriptions and being left alone with the children. One of her therapist recommended her needing constant supervision alone and definitely with her children. Her mother-in-law had been coming over after Mr. Yates left for work each morning. Her husband said that he was not aware of this and in the weeks leading up to the murders had insisted that the only way to cure his wife of this depression was to give her increasing responsibility for her children. He decided that his mother would come over in the mornings after giving Mrs. Yates an hour to be alone with them. On the morning of June 20, 2001during one of these hours, Mrs. Yates committed her crime.

All through the United States the African American community has been targeted by the Caucasian community. We are in the year 2015 and still to this day we are having the same problem our grandparents and their ancestors were dealing with in today’s modern society. A young lady by the name of Renisha McBride became another victim of racism, she was shot and killed asking for help after she was in a car accident. The accident happened in Dearborn Heights Michigan, which is 20 minutes away from the major city Detroit. This is an unfortunate event that happens all the time throughout the country.

Social status can affect a person greatly, even in criminal cases. An event pertaining an impact of social status is the case of Patricia Hearst and the Symboinese Liberation Army. Patricia Hearst (Patty) is an American socialite and best know to be the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, who founded the Hearst media empire. While attending the University of Berkeley, in California, she was abducted by a terrorist group called the Symboinese Liberation Army (SLA) on February 24th, 1974. The group first attempted to claim a large sum of ransom from the Hearst family. The Marxist group of terrorists was formed at the University of Berkeley and believed in the union of all the races and classes. Donald Defreeze an escaped convict

The Brown decision played a major role in the Civil Rights movement because it made it unconstitutional to have a separated black and white public school system. The reason for this, the state could not give as much money to African-American school. This ruling allowed African-American kids to go to the same schools as white kids so they have the chance at the same level of education. But, the Till’s murder shows how racially divided a lot of people were in the south. He was murdered and brutally killed which gave an initial push to the Civil Rights when his mother wanted an open casket so everyone could see what happened to her son. This led to the court house decision in an all-white court room, they declared the two white murders innocent

The exact reason of why the committed this crime to this day is unclear. The personal journals of the two perpetrators referenced that they wanted the event to compete with those of the Oklahoma City bombing and other deadly events that happened in the United States around the 1900s. The attack is known as the deadliest High School shooting in the history of the United States.

However, even though there was evidence pointing to these four men as the perpetrator, the FBI, led by J. Edgar Hoover at the time, dragged its feet in the investigation and held evidence back. This was due to the fact that Hoover wasn’t fond of Martin Luther King and some circles say that he personally believed the bombing to have been committed by people interested in gaining sympathy for the civil rights cause. Whatever the case may be, it wasn’t until 1977 that a conviction could be obtained for just one of the men accused of the bombing. The bombing itself had the effect of uniting all of the civil rights organizations in the South and also giving a face, four faces to be precise, to the rest of the nation as a kind of message about the evils of racism.