Exculpatory Evidence Case Study

After turner over this case to someone else, he was left with the feeling that he failed Bundy’s wife and

Racial profiling is a serious problem as we have witnessed in the last few years in cases such as Oscars, Trayvon Martin and Sandra Bland. An even more serious issue is the ability of our law enforcement to get away with such heinous crimes. Oscar was guilty of committing a crime by fighting, yes, but the officer did not know who the suspect was and assumed Oscar was involved. Once he made the assumption of Oscar’s involvement, he then proceeded to speak toward Oscar with uneasiness and prejudice. From what the film shows, there were no witnesses so the officers had no basis of arresting Oscar and his friends.

Allen owned a typewriter that was the same making of the letters and he wore a Zodiac wristwatch. Although Allen died in 1992 in 2002 they suspected it wasn’t him because of the difference in DNA, and he looked nothing like the police sketching. Author Gary Stewart claimed that his father, Earl Van Best Jr.—who looked similar to the police sketch—was the Zodiac Killer. Stewart was adopted after being rejected by both his parents. After his biological mother eventually reached out to him he decided to search for his father and found a mug shot of him.

the defense appealed. October 9, 1935 The Supreme Court of New Jersey upheld the verdict. Hauptmann 's apeal to the Suppreme Court was denied on December 9th, 1935 now we move the corrections side. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was set to be electrocuted on January 17, 1936.

However, not all people believed in witchcraft or supported the trial Local farmer John Procter scoffed at the idea of witch

The conviction would be reversed because the eight and a half year gap was enough to prompt a speedy trial review. 2) The court found that the government did not track the defendant persistently in the 8 and ½ years. 3). Evidence was shown to prove that Doggett was unaware of his indictment in the years before he was detained. 4). The petitioner did not appeal his right to a speedy trial initially.

(Shanley 58) She is not sure if her own claims were the truth or not which leaves us to wonder if Father Flynn was innocent or guilty. I believe that Father Flynn was falsely accused and never actually committed those kinds of acts with Donald Muller. With the lack of evidence and the small habits that can cause Sister Aloysius to dislike someone it is hard to believe that she actually had any reason to accuse him other than personal dislike towards Father Flynn.

No one has ever seen the Whitechapel murderer. Many homicidal maniacs were suspected, but no proof could be thrown at anyone. Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward, the Duke of Clarence, who was the main suspect. He was the grandson of Queen Victoria born in 1864. The first idea that he was a suspect came in 1970 when Dr. Thomas Stowell published an article accusing him of being Jack the Ripper, basing his theory upon some papers of Sir William Gull, the physician of Queen Victoria.

Alex King killed his father at the age of 13, he got only 7 years in prison. Once he was out, he got into a car accident and ran from authority going back into the system. This is just one incident, now moving onto Nathaniel Abraham, who killed a 17 year old when he was just 11 years old got only 10 years in a juvenile facility. Abraham was not tried as an adult, got out was charged with not only drug possession, but also charged for assaulting 2 guards facing more time in prison. Therefore, not trying juveniles as adults will or possibly can lead them to committing other minor or major crimes.

In Aguilar v. Texas, it was held that “an affidavit based solely on the hearsay report of an unidentified informant must set forth "some of the underlying circumstances from which the officer concluded that the informant was truthful and acting in good faith”. In this case, there was no information availed to the magistrate so as to make independent and reliable conclusion as to the prudence of the unidentified police informant. b) The seizure of other contraband items found on the person of Raul outside the

by a white male of Hispanic descent named George Zimmerman. Zimmerman was acting as a Watch Captain for a gated community in Sanford, Florida (BROWN JR., O., 2013). At first, the Sanford Police Chief, Bill Lee, did not arrest Zimmerman, because of the lack of evidence to disprove his account of the events resulting in Trayvon 's death. However, because of nationwide protests and a reinvestigation of the death’s evidence, Zimmerman was eventually arrested and charged for the death of Trayvon. On July 13, 2013, a jury consisting of six women acquitted Zimmerman of the charge of second degree murder for the lesser charge of manslaughter (CNN, 2013).

Miranda was retried and again found guilty. At the second trial, a former girlfriend testified that he had told her about kidnapping and raping the 18-year-old in 1963. He was paroled in 1972 and was in and out of prison until he was killed in a stabbing at a bar when Miranda was 34 years old. No one was ever charged with his death (Cassell, 1998).

Just because one soldier claimed that he was treated well, does not account for the fact that eighty four American soldiers were slaughtered by Peiper 's division, which makes Peiper accountable. Peiper 's sentence lawfully and fairly punished him for his ruthless actions and disregard for human life. After an officer stated that the trials were "unlawful" the US senate would soon be debating on the matter and Peiper would be released. Approximately one year after the trials, an officer claimed that the interrogations had been unlawful, "the trials were tainted by later testimony that SS men had been tortured by US investigators before their trial" (Cummins). Without acknowledging the fact that the SS were notorious mass murderers, there was never any proof that the men were tortured, including Peiper.

For the first couple of years that Mrs. And Mr. Hansen settled in, there are no records or evidence linking Mr. Hansen to any particular crime. Behavioral psychologists’ suggest that Hansen believed that he could erase his past and make a fresh start for him. However that theory becomes inaccurate in 1971, Hansen was arrested in a town called Spenard. “He was driving in the town of Spenard, had stopped for a light, and glanced over at the woman in the car next to him. She smiled at him, and he regarded this as an open invitation to point his gun at her and demand she come with him.

Cameron Todd Willingham was put to death for killing his girls, by setting the house on fire purposely in Corsicana, Texas. The arson inspector’s findings were that the house was purposely set on fire due to lab tests and burn patterns. Willingham was put to death at the Texas State Penitentiary in February 2009. The Texas Forensic Science Commission determined that the local and state arson investigators used “flawed science” when the fire was labeled as arson. Experts stated that the findings were careless (Ryan 261-313).