Walter Mcmillan Case

In 1788, the ratification of the United States Constitution sought to establish the fundamental aspects of the nation’s government, laws, and protections of its citizens’ unalienable rights. Robert G. McCloskey’s The American Supreme Court (2016) explains that, during this period, the prospects of the Supreme Court were essentially unknown. As time progressed, however, the Court began strengthening its legitimacy with its decisions in major landmark court cases which, in turn, established its crucial role in shaping the judicial interests and values of the nation. As such, McCloskey (2016) traces the country’s judicial history by highlighting the Court’s great transitional periods regarding state rights, nation rights, property rights, and slavery. By the start of the 20th century, however, discrepancies began to emerge with the rise of

Bryan Stevenson was a lawyer based out of Montgomery, Alabama. He helped many of these people get an honest, fair sentence. Through the publication of his book, he has educated many on the reality of our prison systems in America. He shares his firsthand accounts of children being charged as adults, innocent men being charged for crimes they had clearly not had any involvement with, and women living in poverty being charged with murder for burying their stillborn children. All of these cases had one thing in common: poverty.

Stevenson believes that in the justice system we have a “disturbing indifference to inaccurate or unreliable verdicts, our comfort with bias, and our tolerance of unfair prosecutions and convictions”(17). McMillian’s case proves this point because, there was unreliable witnesses that charged McMillian with the murder of Morrison. Ralph Myers was the man who told the police that McMillian was responsible for the murder of Morrison. Investigation started to show that Myers had never met McMillian. ABI agents proved this by “having Myers meet up with McMillian at a grocery store while they monitored the interaction”(33). “Myers could not identify McMillian amongst several black men present he had

Walter McMillian filed a petition after spending six years in prison. He had been convicted and facing a death row at Alabama State. On 1986, Ronda Morrison was murdered in Monroe County. Walter McMillian and Ralph Myers were convicted for this murder. Myers pleaded guilty to a lesser offence presented at court and also testified against Walter McMillian. Walter was convicted for capital murder and was sentenced to death. The murder conviction was reversed, after the petition had been filed, on the grounds that the state had excluded exculpatory evidence.

We have to evaluate the performance of a distinctly diverse team aiming to create a business plan for MGI’s “Music Puzzle” Game to enter the HBS contest. The team comprised of MGI founders, Sasha, Igor and Roman, two HBS students Henry and Dana and subject matter experts Alex and Dav. In addition, we have to recommend actions for Henry Tam, which would foster better team dynamics to accomplish the task at hand.

FACTS: Douglas E. Metzger lived in an apartment in Lincoln, Nebraska. About 7:45 a.m on April 30, 1981 a residence of the apartment complex was parking his vehicle directly in front of Metzger’s apartment window. Metzger was standing naked with his arms at his side for five seconds. At 8:00 a.m two officers had arrived to the apartment, they observed Metzger standing naked in front of the window eating cereal. The officers said that Metzger was nude from mid-thigh on up and he was standing a foot of the window. Douglas Metzger had violated the Lincoln Municipal Code which stated, that it was unlawful for a person in the city of Lincoln to commit any indecent exposure in the presence of another person.

Through every hero’s life, there comes many injustices towards him/her not only because they’re trying to make a difference but also due to their appearance, ideas, and their ambition for justice. Stevenson’s first run in with injustice was a night while was just sitting in his car, being pointed at with a gun with a white male in control of his life. As stated we get a point of view of how Stevenson felt due to this particular incident, “What I replayed the whole incident in my mind, what bothered me most was the mount when the officer drew his weapon and I thought about running” (42). When proceeding with a case, Stevenson had to go visit a felon, but when trying to enter a while male correctional officer that owned a truck with many disgraceful bumper stickers stopped him in his tracks. This man filled with tattoos with no source of empathy or sympathy initiates a confrontation with Stevenson due to the power he is given. Although Stevenson came to visit many times, this guard was new to him stating, “You’re going to go into that bathroom and take everything off it you expect to get into my prison”

Stevenson becomes largely aware of all of the injustices, specifically all the racial injustices that occur within the prisons and specifically within death row. This injustice that occurs within death row is saddening to observe, especially when it comes down to ending one’s life. Stevenson reminds his audience that everyone makes mistakes and deserves mercy because no one is perfect, however every life has value. His most prevailing case of this is the Walter McMillian case. At this time in 1980s, Alabama has the fastest growing prison population. Stevenson therefore spends much of his time in Alabama for the defense of McMillian as he is accused of murder and an alleged drug lord and rapist. With the defense of Walter’s community on his side along with his connection with EJI (Equal Justice Initiative), Stevenson was determined to

Question 4. a) What are the main problems for MF in 1980? What alternatives were available to MF?

I believe that it´s the same offender in the Parkinson case and the Johnson case, which is making the offender a serial killer because he has killed 3 people and it has been over a period over 30 days. By looking at different serial killer typologies my firm belief is that this offender will fall into the lust serial killer typology. I concluded this by firstly looking if the crimes were act-focused kills or process kills, I concluded it was process kills because the offender had taken the time to abduct both Parkinson and Johnson and didn 't just kill them right away like an act-focused killer would do. With the offender being a process killer he could only be organized as well because process killers cannot be disorganized. The offender would either be a lust killer, power-control killer or a thrill killer. I concluded that the offender in this case would not be a thrill serial killer, since this kind of murderer gets off my seeing his victims suffering, which is the most important factor for this type of offender. In the Parkinson and Johnson murders there were no signs of torture on the victims bodies and therefore I do not believe that this offender would be a thrill serial killer.

I will be writing this paper about Alton Logan, a man that was wrongfully convicted twenty-six years ago, for a murder of a security guard in Chicago in 1982. While Mr. Logan resided in prison for twenty-six years, his truth was left in the hands of two attorneys who remained silent. These two attorneys were the attorneys for the real murderer, Andrew Wilson. Wilson told his attorneys that Logan was an innocent man because he is the one that committed the murder, and came off as if he didn’t care that Logan was wrongfully convicted for his crime. For the two attorneys, Dale Coventry and Jamie Kunz, this was a big issue, but could not speak on it because of ethics, client-attorney privilege, and Rules of Professional Conduct. They knew the only way they could speak out would be if Logan was sentenced to death. Instead, Logan was only sentenced to twenty-six years to life in prison, leaving Kunz and Coventry to stay silent until they could find a way to speak up. They decided to write an affidavit stating that they have received information through a privileged source that

Between law and morality, no definite correlation exists, only the objective and subjective thinking of the judging congregation. The Michael Fay case was a test for the masses to decide whether his sentence of caning was either harsh or justified. Considering the situation, it is rather a justified punishment for the American teenager. As it had occurred in Singapore, the law is substantially different over there as opposed to American laws, an established point made by the conceding side. Ignorance of the law does not simply excuse one’s actions, especially if committed in another country. It was stated that he had lived in Singapore so it is assumed that he had some exposure to Singaporean society. His nationality should not be an

Roy Jackson, a recent business school graduate, is in his first job as a district sales manager. He hasn’t been in this position nearly long enough to feel confident in confronting one of his top sales representatives, Jim Orrin. Jim has led the district in sales for the past eight years and is currently on track for a record year. Jim has a serious problem with alcohol abuse, however, and came to the office drunk for the third time this month.

After graduating college, Leroy Wells founded Best Value computers in Jackson, Mississippi. His company provided “computer technology, desktops, laptops, printers, and other peripheral devices to local businesses and school districts in the southern half of Mississippi” (Johnston & Marshall, 2009). Leroy wanted long term growth, and to compete with the giants like Dell, HP, and IBM he knew he had to separate himself from them. To help him accomplish this goal, he hired Charisse Taylor. Charisse was from Hattiesburg Mississippi; she grew the company exponentially. She acted with integrity and Leroy liked that, which is what made her successful. Leroy wanted to go above and beyond for his customers so they would get the most bang for

Walter Liew knew exactly what he was doing when he set out to obtain multi-million dollar contracts from the Chinese government who masked themselves as Chinese industrial companies. Intellectual property theft and industrial espionage occurred multiple times spanning an almost 15 year period by Liew and his group of co-conspirators; which resulted in the DuPont Co. TiO2 manufacturing process being exposed, and its highly guarded trade secrets being stolen. Because DuPont Co. took such measures as guarding their plants, installing security fences, and making employees sign confidentiality agreements, DuPont Co. did their part to ensure that they will be protected under trade secret, and state unfair competition laws in which they could use to bring suit against Walter Liew.