Monte Durham Case Summary

It is known that a person would lie to save themselves rather than confess the truth and avoid placing the blame on others, despite the consequences. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams is caught dancing in the woods by her uncle, Reverend Parris. When Abigail is accused of dancing in the woods, she blames the house slave, Tituba, of forcing Abigail and Parris’ daughter Betty to conjure spirits, which then starts the Salem Witch Trials. Abigail, Betty, and Judge Danforth are responsible for starting the Salem Witch Trials.

Did The Yorkshire Ripper have a role model? Who is it? Between July 1975 and January 1981, Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, killed 13 women. “The women I killed were filth-bastard prostitutes who were littering the streets. I was just cleaning up the place a bit.” Jack the Ripper, a serial killer infamous a hundred years before, influenced the method of operations of Peter Sutcliffe, a modern day serial killer.

Joachim Georg Kroll, or also known as the Ruhr Cannibal or Ruhr Hunter, was born on the 17th of April 1933 in Hindenburg, Nazi Germany and died on the 1st of July 1991 in Rheinbach, Germany. He was a serial killer, child molester and cannibal and killed from the 8th of February 1955 to the 3rd of July 1976 and confessed 14 murders all around the Ruhr metropolitan region in the west of Germany. Kroll died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in the prison of Rheinbach.

Similarly, Kalief Browder lost a portion of his life in jail due to wrongful conviction. As mentioned in “Before The Law” an article published in The New Yorker, Browder was a 16 year old boy walking down the streets of the Bronx with a friend when he was approached by police officers, “An officer said that a man had just reported that they had robbed him.” Both Browder and his friend were taken down to the precinct and then to booking where his friend was let go, but he wasn’t. Since Browder had been on probation at the time the judge held him with a bail set at three thousand dollars, being charged with robbery, grand larceny, and assault. Seeing that the bail was was too expensive for his family to pay, Browder was sent to Rikers Island where he would spend 3 years awaiting a trial for a crime he didn’t commit. Browder was never convicted and was kept in the jail

I chose to look at the Case of the Elderly White Collar Criminal. In this particular instance we are looking at a now 60 year old male, Richard, 5 years into his sentence for white collar crime. When looking at the given information I feel that the 2 factors that would affect my decision-making would be the cost of housing an elderly, ill patient with potential mental health issues and inmate physical, mental and emotional safety.

Many people often forewarn us to stay away from insane or mentally unstable people because their unpredictable actions might cause us harm but this isn 't necessarily true. People who are in their full senses and are mentally stable to make wise decisions, often do things that even insane people would never imagine of doing. In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, it is clearly demonstrated how the protagonist in the story executed a well-planned murder in a perfectly stable mental state. In fact, he planned it out a week before and for that whole week, he observed the old man every night while he was asleep. Not only that, he also very cautiously and spotlessly murdered and hid his dead body leaving behind no trace of his crime. Moreover, he clearly remembered how and when he did the murder. Needless to say, he was obviously not insane and should lawfully be punished and face the full consequences.

This then led to an actually diagnosis of a psychopath, because in their mind he had to have something. This information was compared to a previous psychopath would look like, he fitted the picture. By the verdict people already though something was wrong, and even if there wasn’t, something had to be wrong enough that he could fake it which was what anchor everyone’s beliefs that he could not be realise after wards. People made judgments quickly without having to spend a lot of time analyzing information of his

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. The prints the connected back to when Kent was first entering the system back in 1959 for his earlier crimes. Kent at this time had already been on probation due to crimes committed two years prior to this case. Morris Kent at the age of 14, had first come into contact with breaking the law when he was placed on probation for breaking

Recently, Gary Ridgeway was moved to a maximum security prison in Colorado. Ridgeway was originally in a Washington state prison for over a decade (Hoffman). At Washington state, he was always isolated and being moved to Colorado will allow him more freedom. Why should he have more freedom after killing forty nine women? Many people are angry toward this transition. No one knows former but there is work speculating that he will be placed in the general population in the prison. It is possible he may be killed by other inmates. This move, costed roughly 20,000 dollars for a private plan ( Carter). The former King County Sheriff said, “it was unbelievable and absolutely intolerable and an insult to the families of his victims and the law enforcement

What happened: Well in this event there were two main parts, the first part being the Tasha’s father’s lawyer suggesting Tasha to go to court for her father 's bail hearing. So basically what happened Tasha went to go see Tasha’s father 's lawyer and he suggested to Tasha that she go to court but she was confused because it was going to be a school day. Then the lawyer explained that if Tasha went to court it would show the judge that Leonard’s family cared about him and believed in him enough to go to court and support him and possibly let him out on bail. The lawyer also suggested Tasha to cry about for hope the judge would have sympathy for her. Tasha agreed to everything, she would do anything to get her father free. The next day was the trial,

In his first trial, Wright was pressured by deputies to confess. He accused Charlie Weems and Clarence Norris of raping Price and Bates. Despite him later claiming his statements were coerced, his own trial ended in eleven jurors voting for a death sentence and one seeking life in prison. He spent the next six years in jail without a retrial before finally being released in January of 1937. In his first trial, Wright was pressured by deputies to confess. He accused Charlie Weems and Clarence Norris of raping Price and Bates. Despite him later claiming his statements were coerced, his own trial ended in eleven jurors voting for a death sentence and one seeking life in prison. He spent the next six years in jail without a retrial before finally

WHAT: On July 6, 1999, 13-year-old George was abducted from his bedroom in london.George’s parents worked with local and national media to increase visibility of the case; public interest in the kidnapping of the attractive, accomplished blonde teenager was immense. Nine months after the abduction, George’s younger sister, who had witnessed the kidnapping, remembered that the abductor’s voice sounded like that of a vagrant who had done some work for the family some months before the kidnapping. That detail ultimately led to George’s rescue, which was a major media story nationwide.

James Lowell is suing Green Hills College for 600,000 dollars after its Judicial Board has decided to suspend him for plagiarism.

10 people were sent to a mysterious island called Indian Island. They were sent there for a vacation, but it was not the type of vacation they were hoping for, it was a death trap. The people sent were all criminals who were never caught. Most of them are very dangerous and deserved to be put on Indian Island except for few individuals who should have had different consequences for their actions.

The critics responded to Coney Island by offering a case study and better behavior and to conclude crowds “sigh with relief” because everything went back to normal and everything to as Coney Island but some people were “deeply troubled” because the critics insisted that Coney Island did signal a cultural innovation making some people get in trouble.