Mary Margaret Penrose - Professor of Law Texas A&M An accomplished Title IX and civil rights attorney, Mary Margaret (Meg) Penrose holds a juris doctor from Pepperdine University, where she served as a managing editor of the Pepperdine Law Review and a volunteer attorney with the Homeless Advocacy Project. She subsequently earned a master of laws with a concentration in international human rights from the University of Notre Dame. While practicing law throughout the 1990s, Mary Margaret Penrose provided pro bono representation in a range of Title IX issues and school disciplinary proceedings.
Most notably, Bloomberg Philanthropies, founded by the former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg, has launched and funded innovation delivery teams in five American cities (Atlanta, Chicago, Louisville, Memphis and New Orleans). Mayor Bloomberg had experimented and refined the model in New York, where he created the Center for Economic Opportunity, an award-winning government lab that rigorously experiments with and evaluates novel approaches to poverty reduction, education and
P2/P3:Explain the role of lawyers in criminal and civil cases Solicitors Solicitors give advice on areas of the law. Solicitors are the first people who are contacted when somebody or businesses are looking for legal advice or for them to be represented. Solicitors are normally within a team in firms owned by the solicitors. Some solicitors also work for the local government.
Edward Humes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a PEN Award recipient for his nonfiction work, No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court. His training and experiences reflect No Matter How Loud I Shout because he has immersed himself in the court system of California and spent one year in the justice system in Los Angeles, Inglewood, and Pomona, California, which gave him insight into the juvenile system and the necessary skills and resources to construct this book. Along with this book, Humes has written thirteen other nonfiction books. They range from discussing the G.I. Bill to looking at American high schools. Humes writes about the American people and the effects of social life and the government.
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.
In the year of 1947, Tommy moved to New York City to remove himself from the boxing world and to get Vito Scaletta out of his life. Trying to pursue the American dream, Tommy opened up a barber shop in downtown Manhattan called Angelo’s Barber Shop. He bought the building from an old mafia member he used to know back in Cremona, Italy. Towering skyscrapers surrounded the small building and people
Leon Washington Ms Cavazos English 1013 13 March 2018 Snitch The movie Snitch was released in 2013 in United States and Canada. It is an American crime drama film directed and written by Ric Roman Waugh with the help of Justin Haythe. In the movie, A father goes undercover for the DEA in order to free his son, who was imprisoned after being set up in a drug deal. the movie is good because it has an Interesting plot , lots of action and a good cast.
James R. Benn is an America novelist from New York City, New York is best known for the Billy Boyle World War II Mystery series. These are historical thriller mysteries set in THE World War II era. A graduate of the University of Connecticut and with a Master of Library of Science from the Southern Connecticut State University, Benn started writing his first novel when he was fifty years old. He first started writing in 2006 and went full time in 2010. James R. Benn series of novels center on the adventures of Billy Boyle a detective in the Boston Police Department.
When Dufresne escaped the prison he took the evidence with him and managed to withdraw all of the money he had been banking for the warden. He then left for Mexico and waited for his friend Red whom he met in prison when he had received parole. In addition, another key character in The Shawshank Redemption is Ellis Boyd “Red”, played by Morgan Freeman. In the film, Red is the narrator and he was convicted of murder twenty years prior to the start of the film. Throughout the film, Red is considered to be the prison smuggler and he was the person who helped Andy acquire a hammer which was then later revealed to be the tool used for Andy
When he visited the gay bars often had to offer the boys or men money to lure them to his apartment (Schwartz,1992). As stated in Ewing (2006), in November, Dahmer committed his second murder, but Dahmer never recalled how the man died, just that carried the body in a suitcase to his grandmother’s house. At the house he told authorities he masturbated on the body, skinned and dismembered it and threw the remains of the body in the trash. Dahmer’s killing spree would rapidly escalated nearly two months after the second homicide and would last for about three and half years before the police would finally catch him (Ewing,2006). According to Schwartz (1992), later in Dahmer’s confession he said, “he killed his victims to prevent them from leaving”.
A Brief About Sam Tabar’s illustrious Law and Business Career Sam Tabar is one of the sharpest attorney’s and capital strategist in New York City. He currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of FullCycle Fund. The company was established in 2013 to develop efficient and environmental friendly fuel sources, which can be fed to the national grid to power rural and urban communities. Tabar previously served in a number of law practices including the respected New York City based Skadden, Arps, Slater, Meagher & Flom LLP. He joined the law firm in 2001 after graduating from the Columbia Law School.
Gregory Meeks has been serving the people of New York 's Fifth Congressional District for a seventeen year tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives. During that time he has earned the respect of his constituents, as well as both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and in New York, as an effective, common-sense leader who gets things done. The economic vitality and wellbeing of the Fifth Congressional District stays front and center for Congressman Meeks who sits on two important and prominent committees in the House: the Financial Services Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee. Congressman Meeks seeks to promote policies that strengthen America 's economic and national security and build relationships with other nations in a more
John C. Calhoun was born on March 18th, 1872 in Abbeville, South Carolina. He went to school at Yale University. After graduating from Yale in 1804 and having spent a brief amount of time studying law in a South Carolina law firm, Calhoun returned to Connecticut to study at Litchfield Law School. Once he went back to South Carolina, he was admitted to the bar in 1808 and began to try and win over his cousin Floride 's heart. John and Floride had nine children, and only seven of those survived to adulthood.
To: Junior Associate From: Supervising Attorney Re: DC v. Blake Mr. Jonathan Blake, a new client of the firm, recently requested our legal services in a criminal matter. Mr. Blake was recently arrested for possession of a controlled substance by the Metropolitan Police Department. According to Mr. Blake, the facts are as follows: Jessie Smith and his wife are the co-owners of a residence at 3630 16th St. NW, Washington DC, 20015.
CS5) were involved in analogous transactions, the affidavit showed that both former Chicago PD officers instructed the federal informant, in a recorded conversation to call them or go to a specific gas station that they stated and ask for them whenever CS5 was ordered to transport drug monies for the traffickers. Facts proved that former police officers Ronald Watts and Kallatt Mohammed extorted several thousand dollars in cash from various drug couriers for years in exchange for police protection in the South Side housing projects area in Chicago. "Watts receives weekly payments from drug dealers," stated FBI agent Robert D. Grant in the sworn in affidavit that concluded the investigation. "These payments are typically in the amount of $5,000." Furthermore, according to court records, CPD Officer Ronald Watts and his Chicago Police Department tactical team victimized the Ida B. Wells housing complex residents for several years and wrongfully convicted more than 15 victims