David Mcdermott Case

Over the past two decades the pine forests of Western North America have experienced major changes due to the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic that began in 1995. Mountain Pine Beetles are insect parasites that use trees as their hosts in order to mate and lay eggs. After the larva becomes a beetle, the tree is killed and the next generation of beetles set out to find another pine tree and the cycle repeats.  Environmentalists have proven the changes in the lifecycle of the pine beetle to be directly correlated with the adaptations of the Mountain Pine and climate change. Since the epidemic began the Mountain Pine Beetle is responsible for affecting millions of acres of forest in the western United States and over 44 million acres in British Columbia.

Every time Frank got locked up he found a way to escape. In 1955, Frank stole $6165 from the Bank of Slidell in Louisiana (Braun, 26). He was caught and had to serve fourteen years in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. He tried to escape from there

INTRODUCTION: This case involves an unknown suspect having possession of the victim's firearm. INVESTIGATION: On 01-14-16 at ?????? hours, Officer Cass #0044

This beetle is thought to have arrived to the United States from Asia, in wood packing material. The beetle was first discovered in southern Michigan, near Detroit. This was in two-thousand-two. Now in two-thousand-sixteen the Emerald Ash Borer has also been found in Canada, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Missouri, Minnesota, New York, Kentucky, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Georgia, Colorado, New Jersey, Arkansas and Louisiana.

For the Application of the Criminal Justice System project of the Criminal Justice course, I chose the arrest of John Burke. This case is about the arrest and sentencing of John Burke who had shot and killed Joseph Ronan. Twenty-five year old John Burke agreed to meet with 22 year old Joseph Ronan at Ronans home, in Reading, Massachusetts on Monday, August 15, 2011 around 1pm, with the intent of purchasing Percocet pills. (Boston.com, 2013) However, shortly after entering Ronans home, Burke opened fire (News, 2011), and after shooting Joseph Ronan several times, with the belief that Ronan was involved in a robbery at Burkes apartment in April 2011 (Boston.com, 2013), fled the home.

Jared Fogle is serving a 15-year sentence for child porn and sex crime charges, he was attacked and left bloodied by a fellow inmate in the prison yard on January 29. According to documents obtained by TMZ, another inmate confronted the 38-year-old in a yard at the Federal Correctional Institute in Englewood, Colorado before “unloading a barrage of punches." Documents report that “[Steven] Nigg, who’s in for a weapons charge, left Fogle with a bloody nose, swollen face and scratches on his neck.”

Case facts Ryan G. Anderson, 26 years old, of Lynnwood, Washington was arrested in February 2004 and later charged with five counts of attempted espionage by trying to contact and pass intelligence and military information to al-Qaida (Herbig, 2008). Anderson’s arrest occurred through an FBI sting operation one month before he was to be shipped out to Iraq as a tank crewmember with a Fort Lewis, Washington, National Guard unit. Although FBI officers intercepted the information, Anderson’s actions culminated in attempted treason against the U.S. and U.S. soldiers. The charges included attempting to aid the enemy by passing sketches of the military M1A1 and M1A2 tanks, along with providing a computer disk with his personal information such as his military identification card as well as his military weapons card, military driver’s license and his passport photo (Rivera, 2004a). Other charges included attempting to give intelligence to the enemy by providing U.S. troops numbers, equipment, troop movements, military

The most obvious and simple option is hunting the deer. This, however, is a very controversial approach because some people have a difficult time supporting the killing of innocent animals. The state government has the power to regulate deer hunting. In 1943, Ohio established a limited hunting program to decrease the number of deer. This allows hunters to kill about two hundred thousand deer each year.

If the deer population would be limited then less people would get injured or killed from car collisions and our country would make more

According to the article “Solutions to Deforestation”, “Forests around the world have been home to Indigenous peoples for tens of thousands of years. Evidence shows that when Indigenous peoples’ rights to traditional lands and self-determination are respected, forests stay standing. But too often, corporations and governments overlook or intentionally trample the rights of Indigenous peoples” (1). In making this comment, this article shows that deforestation does not only hurt the environment, but it is also pushing Indigenous people out of their land. Ultimately, using more recycled products and eating sustainable food, people can all contribute to the movement towards zero deforestation, protecting people from all of the said

Dustin Seal, a junior at Powell High School, Knoxville, TN drove his mom’s car to Friday-night football game with his friends who had put a knife in the glove compartment without his information. Over a suspicion of drinking alcohol, school vice principal searched Dustin’s car and found a hunting knife. Being unaware of the knife Dustin got suspended with pending expulsion from Powell high by the principal. Following with several appeal processes School board sided with the school principal on expelling Dustin. His father sued the school board for violation of Dustin’s right under fourth and fourteenth amendments to Federal court ruled in favor of Seal and the case was settled with $30,000 award to Dustin.

On October 31, 1968, in Cleveland, Ohio a Cleveland police officer, named Martin McFadden, saw three men acting suspiciously around a jewelry store, which he believed they were casing a job. The officer, McFadden, walked up to three men and asked a few questions; afterwards, he proceeded to stop and frisk them. McFadden found a pistol in John Terry’s pocket, a revolver in Richard Chilton’s pocket and nothing was found on Carl Katz. The officer arrested Terry and Chilton for carrying concealed weapons and Carl Katz was sent free. Terry was convicted and sentenced to three years in jail.

In September of 1961, a woman from District of Columbia had an intruder break into her apartment. While the invader of the home was there, they had taken her wallet, and also raped the woman. During the investigation of the crime, the police had found some latent fingerprints in the apartment. The police then established and processed the prints. The prints were then connected back to 16 year old Morris A. Kent.

In McClesky v. Kemp the Supreme Court held that a study showing the death penalty in Georgia was imposed on black defendants disproportionately to white defendants failed to establish that any of the decision makers involved in the process acted with a discriminatory purpose. McClesky is a notable case in several respects. First, it highlighted the integrated nature of the criminal justice system and how each component functions to reach a certain result. Second, it emphasized the debate on which actors in the justice system have the most power and what role that power plays in reaching the result. Third, the case also underscored the importance on prosecutors keeping records of their decisions at varying stages of the criminal justice process.

There is a publication ban on the names of the accused [father & stepmother] to protect the identity of the boy [son] involved in this case. In the Ontario Provincial Court House in Ottawa, Robert Maranger sentenced the accused [father] to 18 years of imprisonment after Robert Maranger found the accused guilty of torturing his son. Upon sentencing, Robert Maranger made the following statement in court: “I find it extremely difficult to fathom the horrific crime you have committed against your own son. The accused [father] has been convicted of aggravated assault, forcible confinement, failure to provide necessities of life, aggravated sexual assault, and three counts of assault with a weapon.