Cullison Vs. Ernest W. Medley

This first analysis paper will be based on the case of The Murder of Stanley Van Wagner. This case involves a husband, Stanley Van Wagner, who was found dead on May 15, 2015, with bullet shot wounds. The perpetrator involves Stanley’s wife, Amy, who was charged with the murder of her husband. All of the inculpatory evidence found at the scene where Wagner was found, points to Amy as the murderer, that is from the gun that was used, a .380 caliber handgun. After some investigating, it was found that Amy had a registration for the exact same type of handgun.

Legal Background In the state of Nevada, battery is constituted by “any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another.” This definition is based on the Nevada Revised Statutes, Chapter 200 Section 481. Its purpose is to create a basis for prosecuting individuals involved in criminal suits. In other words, if the individual is found guilty of battery, then the statute similarly prescribes recommended consequences that correspond to the nature of their conduct.

No actual physical touching is necessary to be charged with a simple assault because words can be enough. According to

[Similarly] to Lindy, Elizabeth Diane Downs had been prosecuted for the attempted murder of her two eldest children and the murder of her youngest daughter. [On the contrary to Lindy], Elizabeth was rightfully charged and convicted. She claimed that a strange man had shot her and her children before she could escape him and drive to the hospital, but several witnesses testified and claimed that she drove at a slower pace than one would in her situation. During this time, Elizabeth was in an affair with Robert Knickerbocker, and he informed authorities that Elizabeth had possessed a handgun which investigators soon confirmed. When Christie Downs, Elizabeth’s eldest child, awoke from her coma, she testified against her mother claiming that Elizabeth did indeed shoot her.

Your honor, the jury, emotional distress is defined as mental suffering, and a victim reacts through worry, shame, humiliation, and fright. It is an invasion of personal rights when such distress disrupts the daily life. The defendant, CJ Pearson, caused distress towards Alex Billings. Both of them met at student orientation of King High School. As they progressed further into the year Pearson harassed Billings for over a month.

Also her own children were coerced into testifying against their mother. Allen Toothaker testified, saying “Richard, the son of Martha Carrier, having some difference with him, pulled him down by the hair of the head”. Just because of that he blamed Martha, It’s not even her fault it’s her son who's having issues

1. Name of the Case: Estate of Sinthasomphone v. City of Milwaukee, 838 F. Supp. 1320, 1993. 2. Facts: On May 27, 1990, two women contacted the Milwaukee Police Department and reported an injured, naked young man lying on the street. The young man turned out to be Sinthasomphone, a 14 year old Laotian boy who had just escaped from the apartment of Jeffrey Dahmer.

Curry, L. (2007). The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. Lynne Curry’s book The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention provides a detailed timeline of the tragic life of Joshua DeShaney and the abuse that he endured at the hands of his father.

Kids were put in juvenile for the most simplest minor offenses. Offenses such as arguing and disrespecting adults to getting into school fights. These little incidents were so minor and could had been resolved easily, yet teens got prison time for minor crimes. According to William Ecenbarger in his book Kids For Cash, he writes about the many different offenses that kids got into and how they were punished and treated for their minor offenses and put into juvenile, and how Judge Mark Ciavarella took advantage of this. Cases like a fifteen year old boy who gets charged for a misdemeanor for showing disrespect to his grandfather and being placed on probation.

For battery there must have been the actual act and intent is not necessarily a requirement. A negligent or illegal act may be enough. For assault it is required that an actual deliberate threat was made to cause fear on the victim, and there was an attempt to commit battery.

The person assaulting you must have been acting in an intentional manner that was designed to cause you harm or apprehension. 2. You

April Villegas 2/28/2015 Viewing Guide: CJL 3510 - Indictment - The McMartin Trial Prosecutors. 1. The text discusses the prosecutor’s office at work. From the tape, cite some examples of work issues related in the text. In the courtroom is the trial of the infamous McMartin case of child abuse is the District Attorney’s (DA) office.

The woman claimed to witness the stabbing of the father. She says that she saw the boy stab the father and run away. He then asks if they don't believe the boy then why believe the woman if she is from a slum as well. Juror 8 then thinks of the obstructions in the woman's view. He remembers that there is an el train in between the woman's window and the boy's house.

I believe that this event is best classified as self-defense. Self-defense is defined as the defense of one's person or interests, especially through the use of physical force, which is permitted in certain cases as an answer to a charge of violent crime.

A. “No Guns Allowed” is a very touching song by rapper Snoop Dogg featuring Cordi B and the talented artist Drake. This song was released on April 4, 2013 as one of his hit singles off of his album Reincarnated LP. No Guns Allowed was produced with labels such as Berhane Sound System, Mad Decent, and RCA Records. Publishing this song was definitely out of the normal as Snoop Dogg is popular for his hip-hop style of rap. B. Thesis Statement: Touching literary devices such as euphemism, allusion, and symbolism, Snoop Dogg’s “No Guns Allowed” establishes a sympathetic atmosphere, but also creates a social annotation on the issue of gun violence of all ages in the American world.