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.
Lewis reportedly said in his hotel room after
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The lone person sticking to his assertion that Lewis acted violently has been Chester Anderson, not exactly an ideal witness. Anderson is an admitted con artist in jail on identification fraud charges. This has given the defense the opportunity to attack Anderson’s credibility.
Lewis shook off the charges and anchored the Baltimore Ravens impregnable defense that didn't allow the New York Giants to cross midfield the entire second half of the Super Bowl. Yet his play did not quell the queasiness that bedevils many Americans, black and white. Some identify with his obvious relief at surviving and thriving a difficult ordeal. Others remain unconvinced of his innocence and unwilling to forgive.
Publicly, the media has framed this issue as a debate over Lewis's character, whether he should have been watching the Super Bowl on a prison TV instead of hunting Giants. The fact is that none of us is in a position to judge the guilt or innocence of Ray Lewis that's why we have a court system. Lewis' attorney arranged for the murder charges against Lewis to be dropped in exchange for his testimony against Oakley and Sweeting, and a guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of obstruction of justice. The other defendants, Oakley and Sweeting were acquitted of the charges in June 2000. No
If Rice was convicted, he would face up to five years in jail rather than a fine. Two months after his incident, Rice was accepted into a pretrial intervention program focused on rehabilitation (Elliott). As a result, Rice’s case never went to trial, and his aggravated assault charge would be dropped if he completed the program. Rice was originally suspended for two games without pay and fined $58,000 because of his aggravated assault charge but then he was suspended for six games due to the NFL’s policy on assault, battery, domestic violence and sexual assault (Elliott). Ray Rice will likely never play another game in an NFL uniform because of the fact that he was caught on camera abusing his wife (Tyler).
On the 2nd of March 1998, a 10 year-old boy, LMW, was charged with the manslaughter of Corey Davis, a 6 year-old boy. Corey Davis was drowned in the Georges River when the defendant, LMW, dropped him in with what was thought to be the complete knowledge that the victim was unable to swim.
The Emmett Till murder shined a light on the horrors of segregation and racism on the United States. Emmett Till, a young Chicago teenager, was visiting family in Mississippi during the month of August in 1955, but he was entering a state that was far more different than his hometown. Dominated by segregation, Mississippi enforced a strict leash on its African American population. After apparently flirting with a white woman, which was deeply frowned upon at this time in history, young Till was brutally murdered. Emmett Till’s murder became an icon for the Civil Rights Movement, and it helped start the demand of equal rights for all nationalities and races in the United States.
The O.J. Simpson trial was one of the most recognizable cases in American History. It went on for 9 months. At 12:10 am on June 13, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were found murdered right outside of Bundy drive condo in Brentwood. Evidence found in the scene led the Police to suspect that O.J. Simpson was the murderer. Although the prosecution pointed to the evidence of the case Simpson lawyers argued that the police bungle the investigation and planted evidence. An examination of the case is that one of the policemen was racist and planted evidence in the scene to accuse O.J. Simpson of being the murderer.
The Lewis Blackman case is an unfortunate case of failure to be ready to deal with unexpected problems, failure to recognize the problem, and failure to respond to the crisis at hand. Clinical warning signs and symptoms were clearly present and even recognized by the healthcare team however, they failed to recognize the significance of the data and correlate it to impending crisis which lead to failure to rescue. There was a presence of understanding the data but a lack of cognitive ability to translate the data into meaningful information to guide decision making efforts. The focus of the team was obviously focused on the fact that the expected and anticipated plan of care for Lewis Blackman only accounted for a favorable outcome
Ray Lewis was named one of the players in NFL history, although life for has not been a silver platter. Throughout his upbringing, he grew up in a single parent home with five siblings. His dad was in and out his life, abusing and disrespecting his mother. Later his family would suffer with financial problems. This lead to his family being split, he was forced to move with his grandparents. Throughout his circumstances, he could have used all of these things as excuses to quit. Instead he lights a fire in his in his heart and uses
How does the case of Ossian and Gladys Sweet reveal the racism of the 1920s and affect other African American people?
In life you have to work in order to get to the top and others don’t think that in life. It’s easy not to get a high school diploma and you need one to get a nice job, sometimes even at a fast food restaurant. As a football player he was outstanding and was at every play, he was a great player, and every coach wanted him on their team because he was an athlete and knew the game very well. He also led his team as a captain his last season to the super bowl and got the victory, Lewis retired after
I would have made the same decision for Lewis to be not guilty to the charge of second degree murder. After reading the abusive history of Lewis, this is proven that Gillespie was threat to her life. Gillespie's behaviour towards Lewis was beyond cruelty; sitting on seven month pregnant woman, threatening to kill Lewis's family and all the other abuses was a sign that he has some behaviour disorder. When both got into an argument in the car and she saw her daughter crying due to Gillespie's harsh behaviour and abusive comments. All this made Lewis feel insecure about her family and she stabbed him for defence
These two cases relate to each other because they both have to do with white on black violence in the forties to fifties. The way these two cases relate, is that two black men were killed because they were black. Yes, Emmett did do something wrong, but he still didn't deserve to be beat to death by these two grown men. Tom Robinson didn't do anything and he still ended up getting killed because of it. There was a lot of racial violence from the thirties through the fifties, and Emmett till’s death help to start the rise of questions on how things were being handled.
Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American boy who was brutally beaten and murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Emmett Till lived in Chicago,but was visiting family in Money, Mississippi(source 2). Carolyn Bryant, the “victim”, might have thought he had whistled at her. Emmett had a small speech impediment because he had polio when he was young, and he sometimes whistled to help him. The only witness to this act was Carolyn Bryant. Emmett was beaten and murdered for whistling in a white woman’s presence in a small grocery store(source 1). Roy Bryant(Carolyn’s husband) was outraged and took J.W. Milam to kill Emmett. They shot him in the head and beat him up. Then they tied a heavy fan around Emmett’s neck
"You never know someone until you've seen them behind closed doors". Orenthal O.J. Simpson lived a rough life growing but, instead of that taking over his life he decided to make a change by becoming a football hall of fame, actress/tv star and later being turned to a serial killer. Was the killing done out of love or spight? Or did he even do it?
Many believe his punishment should have been more severe than a termination. An article about the tragic event states, “Running back Ray Rice was released by the Baltimore Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the NFL on Monday, the same day a shocking video surfaced showing the NFL star knocking out his future wife with a punch in February” (Almasy and Martin). Ray Rice harmed his NFL career by not being courteous of his own fiancée’s life. Rice and Palmer married shortly after the video was exposed on the internet. Putting your hands on others is a sign of disrespect, especially if it is someone that you care about.
Description-914 bodies lay on the ground, 638 adults and 276 children due to ingestion of poison Kool-Aid laced with cyanide and others sedatives. Congressman Ryan and others were shot to death. Eleven people were wounded. Jim Jones was part of the death, his body was found on the ground with a shot in his head. Suspect Actions- Jim Jone’s security guards shot congressman Ryan and other four people were shot to death Jim Jones the religious leader of the people’s temple, manipulated the people in his town by inducing them to a revolutionary act by drinking a poison punch and commit a suicide. The first to be dead were children. According to Jim Jones Bio (2014) Jim Jones was found dead with a shot in his head but is still unknown if it was an act of suicide or somebody else kill him.
The Oakland County prosecutors charged five Indiana Players Ron Artest, Jermaine O’Neal, Stephen Jackson, David Harrison, and Anthony Johnson along with five fans with assault and battery. All but one of the five charged got away without having to serve any jail time and received only fines and probation. The one person who served any jail time was a fan who had to serve 30 days in jail. The judge that handled the case garnered more media attention them some previous murder cases that he handled (Abrams,