Stanford v. Kentucky Stanford vs Kentucky is a supreme court case that caused major controversy. This court case was argued on March twenty-seventh of 1989 but was not decided until June twenty-sixth of 1989. This court case is based on a murder trial that was committed by Kevin Stanford in Kentucky. The court cases No. is 87-5765. This trial was difficult because the killer was only seventeen years old. His age determined if he would be held in a prison of juvenile center (LII). This is a murder crime committed by Kevin Stanford on January seventh of 1981 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Stanford shot Barbel Poore and killed her at the age of only seventeen years and four months. Poore was only twenty years old at the time of death. She was a gas station attendant that Stanford and an accomplice stole three hundred cigarettes …show more content…
Then he suggested they could have beaten or tied her up and threatened her instead. He let out chuckle in the court room. Stanford did not find this to be a serious crime. Unfortunately for him the court thought otherwise. Now the real question would be should he be tried as an adult or as a minor? A Kentucky Juvenile court stared hearings to get him out of the juvenile facility to be transferred to a trial for adults. Another case stated that the statute could be voided if it was a Class A felony, Capital crime or is over sixteen years of age. The court ruled that trialing him as an adult would be in the best interest of the petitioner and the community. He was tried as an adult and convicted of murder. He was also convicted of first degree sodomy, first-degree robbery, and receiving stolen property. His sentence was forty-five years of prison time and then a death sentence. Stanford demanded to have a “constitutional right to treatment” but was denied (Capital Punishment in
Kentucky v. King 1 Audelio Camacho Professor Alva AJ 180 3-27-17 Kentucky v. King The Supreme Court Case of Kentucky v. King occurred on October 2005, when Police officers in Lexington, Kentucky did a “buy bust operation in which a confidential informant attempted to buy crack cocaine from a suspected drug dealer.” The undercover was police officer Gibbons. When officer Gibbons gave the signal that the transaction was completed, the police approached the scene with their marked police cars. Once they were close to the suspect, Officer Gibbons radioed in a description of the suspect and said that King had gone through a specific hallway at a apartment complex. As the officers got to the hallway, a door was shut closed and the officers smelled
Facts surrounding the case The case of Batson v. Kentucky was a case about an African American man found guilty of burglary. The jury for his case was all white. He subsequently appealed his conviction based on an all white jury. The judge for the case dismissed several potential jurors for legitimate reasons, but Batson contended that the black jurors were dismissed to weigh the odds of a conviction against Batson with an all white jury.
Overall, Stanley “Tookie” Williams did not deserve clemency. First, according to the article, “As a Criminal” it says “Williams scheduled to be executed at San Quentin State Prison Dec.13 for the shotgun murders of four people…” In other words Williams killed 4 people for what he was held in prison
In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the Supreme Court ruled that the medical
Due to Kent at the time being on probation, his past criminal history and the crimes that he was arrested for the right way to handle the charges would be through being charged as an adult. In cases like these with juveniles, it is best if the judge waives the case, so that it can be taken to a higher court. Taking a juvenile's case to be tried as an adult can be a good thing because there are times where the juveniles don't get the proper punishment for the crimes they've committed. I believe that when it comes to juveniles and they commit a severe crime they need to be punished just as if they were an adult. Juveniles don’t always get the proper charges to the fact they are under the age of 18.
In the case, Kennedy v. Louisiana, Patrick Kennedy was convicted of aggravated assault. Specifically, the raping of his eight-year-old stepdaughter. The capital punishment for rape of a child under twelve years of age in the state of Louisiana was a death sentence. 1 Evidence: At 9:18 A.M., on March 2, 1998, Patrick Kennedy had called 911.
Bearman v. Notre Dame 453 N.E. 2d 1196 (Ind Ct App 1983) Facts: The plaintiff Christenna Bearman and her husband sued the University of Notre Dame for the damages that resulted from an injury occurring on October 27th, 1979. Mrs. Bearman’s leg was broken when an intoxicated person after walking away from fighting with another intoxicated man fell into her from behind, knocking her down as she was returning to her car after a Notre Dame football game. During the incident there was no security or ushers in the area. Mrs. Bareman argued that she was a business invitee and there was a sense of duty of care that the university should have had for her.
Christopher Simmons managed to avoid the death penalty due to the controversy of executing a
Since Richard was only sixteen years when the incident occurred. At this age, adolescents are still developing their cognitive and emotional skills, and charging them as adults may not be appropriate. The justice system should take into account their age and consider the possibility of rehabilitation, rather than punitive measures. Furthermore, Richard had no previous incidents this severe, and it would be unfair to judge him based on one mistake he made as a teenager. Slater further informs us about how when you are young your brain is still developing and during that time your body is
The criminal justice system was created in order to punish people who choose to break the law. Some people believe they are above the law and decided to do whatever they like regardless of the consequences. Children and adults are both responsible for the actions they commit. The criminal justice should tried children as adults for committing felonies because a crime is a crime regardless of the age of the individual. This can be fulfilled by punishing juvelives with the correct sentence, by seeing that they know their actions lead to consequence and they have the proper process for a teen to be tried as adult.
The case of Florida versus Jardines was heard before the Supreme Court on October 31, 2012 and a decision was made on March 26, 2013. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Jardines. This case challenged the fundamental core of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure. The ruling of this case has impacted how law officials handle searches and the use of drug dogs. This case also challenged the boundary line of where personal property starts.
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Therefore, when a person argues that a juvenile was not aware of their crime is a discrediting claim. In 1990 in the city of Chicago, a couple expecting their first child were murdered in cold blood in the hands of a juvenile teen. The teen shot both the husband and the wife who pleaded for their lives and the life of their unborn child. Author of “Juvenile Justice Information Exchange”, Jennifer Jenkins states, “He reported to a friend, who testified at his trial, about his ‘thrill kill’ that he just wanted to ‘see what it would feel like to shoot someone’”. This killer was aware of his crime and was aware of who his victims were due to planning the murders months before.
My thoughts Forensic science is used everywhere. It can be used to arrest and convict someone of a crime. Before watching The Real CSI video, I thought using fingerprints and DNA will get you 100% accurate results. Throughout the video my thoughts about the subject began to change.
He was later tried for murder. For decades, euthanasia has been relevant, slowly phasing in and out of legalization for years. Some people may consider euthanasia to be in legal limbo, due to each position being balanced, and it isn’t something my people like to think about. Each side of this argument is usually the same. People believe euthanasia should be illegal, and often refer to euthanasia as assisted suicide.