Under the laws of the State of Berea College, Rebekah Ponder and Elshaday Yilma are likely to be found not guilty by a jury of a form of criminal homicide and not guilty of a form of robbery. In this criminal case activity, I was placed in defense team 2 that defense Elshaday Yilma, however that didn’t determined my thought. From the evidence from the site, claim of witness, and circumstances, I can conclude that both of girls are not guilty of high class felony. First of all, there are no definite evidence show that Ponder shoot the gun at Walter White intentionally. Furthermore, there are no clear evidence that Ponder is initial aggressor. In case of robbery, most of the evidence are verbal or weak evidence. On the other hand, Yilma would …show more content…
According to law from State of Berea College, self-defense occur with a following situation for Ponder and Yilma: (1) When the defendant believes that such force is necessary to protect himself against the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force by the other person (2) Deadly force is justifiable to protect himself against serious injury, rape, kidnap or death. Based on characteristic of Walter White, a victim, we can assume that he is not a typical good man, and two girls have to be prepare for dangerous …show more content…
According to Brad Fletcher, witness, he claim that Walter White put a physical offense on Rebekah Ponder on the tower. Mr. Fletcher was walking near by fountain after an event at Alumni building, and he heard an argument at the tower. He initially saw Walter pushing Rebekah over a rail of the tower, also heard Walter saying ‘I will kill you before I give it up’. The point is, Rebekah Ponder and Elshaday Yilma experienced Walter White’s offensive act already. From this incident, both girl acknowledged the danger of facing Walter White.
After Walter’s death at the Phelps Stokes, several witnesses brought up the contents from what they have seen and heard. While recording the witnesses’ claim, I found that there are a lot of evidence that justify Ponder’s killing on Walter as self-defense. According to witness, Lauren McKee, she saw a tall girl with long dark hair holding a gun, also heard a conversation before a bullet fired.
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‘Back off let it go’ – Female
It is his word choice within the first sentence of this essay that is astonishing. He says his “victim” as if he caused harm to the woman. In reality he was walking down the street, minding his own business. ... In the sixth and seventh paragraphs Staples talks about the town he grew up.
On October 3, 1974, at around 10:45 pm, Elton Hymon and Leslie Wright of the Memphis Police Department were responding to a “prowler on the inside” call. They made the scene and observed a woman in the house next to the intended home of the call. She was standing on her front porch pointing at the house. She advised that she had heard glass breaking and someone was breaking into the house next door. As Wright showed both officers on the scene on his radio to dispatch, Hymon went to the rear of the house.
In January 2015 Conner Hanson was accused of shooting and killing 18 year old Anthony Gabriel. After the car chase led to the shooting and killing of Gabriel, Hanson is be on trial in adult court. Hason’s attorney told jurors that Gabriel was the aggressor and Hanson was just defending himself. Along with Gabriel in the vehicular was his 17 year old girlfriend and Hanson’s 6 month old baby girl. Prosecutor Randy Sample then explained to the jury that Hanson and a co-defendant placed bandanas on their faces before Gabriel was shot and killed.
A review of the events involving the North Charleston, S. Carolina Whitlee Jones murder case as it applies to the Tennessee “stand your ground” statute brings several factors into question. As indicated in the article, South Carolina’s law as does Tennessee’s states that a person having reasonable fear of death or serious bodily harm can use deadly force on the unlawful intruder. However, this does not apply to a lawful resident or a person who has a legal right to be in the dwelling, business, or auto (Knapp, 2014). As Jones indicates she removes herself from the danger on several occasions, yet she continues to return, placing herself once again in position to receive serious injury or death from her boyfriend who is legally occupying the
Assessment of the Death of Azaria Chamberlain Timeline August 17, 1980 On Sunday 17 August Lindy Chamberlain put two of her children, 4-year-old Reagan and 10-week-old Azaria, to bed in their tent. At about 8 p.m., Azaria was heard crying out.
There was a killing in texas that left three people dead. On December 2014 the jury said that Eric Williams was the killer for these people and he should die for the killing of these people. Cynthia Mclellend and her husband Mike Mclellend were shot to death in there home close to a suburb east of Dallas and mark hasse death but hasn’t been to trial. Authorites said that Eric Williams had stole some computer equipment and he was very upset cause that coast him his law license and job. The court has now found evidence on Eric Williams and said that he killed the people in two different incidents and Eric wife Kim testified and said she drove the getaway car and help him destroy the weapons.
They were accused with first degree murder, with 8 and 7 years in jail. According to this case, we should notice that this two little boys acted with intelligence. Derek
Injustice Within Our Justice? What causes you to be more anxious, a cop’s presence or a white van’s? Despite the heavy belief that white vans are suspicious or dangerous, would you believe many are more uncomfortable with the police around? This is because we fear their power over us.
February 26th, 2012, 17 year old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a community watch volunteer while walking home from a convenience store. In a 911 call, Zimmerman stated Martin was just walking around and up to no good. The dispatcher advised Zimmerman not to follow Trayvon and wait for a police officer to arrive. George Zimmerman proceeded to shoot Trayvon Martin, killing him. Based on physical evidence and the testimony provided by Zimmerman it was viewed that he acted in “self-defense”.
• There is an altercation between Officer Wilson and Mr. Brown, who is standing at the window of the vehicle. Officer Wilson fires two shots from inside the vehicle, one likely grazing Mr. Brown’s thumb, and the other missing him. Mr. Brown runs east. Officer Wilson pursues him on foot. Mr. Brown stops and turns toward Officer Wilson, who also stops.
The term conspiracy theory is defined as a belief that powerful people or groups are responsible for events or situations due to secret plans that are illegal or harmful. There is many conspiracy theories that captivated the American people, but the most controversy conspiracy theory that leaves many unanswered questions for years is the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Friday of November 22, 1963, the 35th President of the United States, JFK, was shot at 12:30 PM while traveling in Dallas, Texas to appear for the next presidential campaign. Thousands of Americans whom was present at Dallas, Texas just witness the murder of the United States president. Many Americans believed that the United States government was behind the JFK assassination.
A 911 call came in from a citizen saying there was someone in the park carrying a gun so the nearest police car responded. The car that responded had two police officers from Cleveland Police Department. The whole incident was captured on a street camera right in front of where Rice was shot. Though Rice had a toy BB gun, the 911 caller said to the dispatcher that the “gun” might have been fake and a juvenile. This was not translated to the police officers who responded.
Over 300 years ago, more than 100 citizens of the colony of Massachusetts were accused of the crime of witchcraft, and many executed. Although this era in history, known as the Salem Witch Trials, lasted only mere months, its impact on the American criminal justice system has lasted until present day. Although both the trials in Salem and modern America are based on a similar justice system, there are vast differences, specifically in the rights of the defense, most notable in the separation of Church and State, the standards of evidence, and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. The modern American criminal justice system, in comparison to that of the time of the Salem Witch Trials, has changed drastically. No longer is the rule of law based on
An east Tennessee factory employee murdered 2 of his coworkers Thursday afternoon after a heated argument took place. The three Thomas &Betts Corp employees were involved in an angry altercation when 45 year old Ricky Swafford left the factory, only to return brandishing a semi-automatic pistol. He then shot James Zotter, 44 and Sandra Cooley, 68 before turning the gun on himself. The shooting was reported at approximately 4:15, prompting police to surround the building as people “streamed” through all exits. Eye witness reports described an attempted shooting in front of the office building and actual shooting inside the factory.
Bryan Stevenson knew the perils of injustice and inequality just as well as his clients on death row. He grew up in a poor, racially segregated area in Delaware and his great-grandparents had been slaves. While he was a law student, he had interned working for clients on death row. He realized that some people were treated unfairly in the judicial system and created the Equal Justice Institute where he began to take on prisoners sentenced to death as clients since many death row prisoners had no legal representation of any kind. In Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson focuses on some of these true stories of injustice, mainly the case of his client, Walter McMillian.