Kirk Bloodsworth was a former Marine, he was also the first person sentenced to death and then subsequent exonerated. Kirk was only 22 years old when he was wrongful convicted and severed nine years in prison before they released him. The reasoning for this was because in 1984 a young girl was found dead in a wooded area and she had been sexual assaulted, strangled, and beaten with a rock. The reason for why he was arrest was because he fit the description of the man that witness where identifying. The Case On July 25, 1984 police had found the body of a young nine-year-old girl named Dawn Hamilton in a wooded area near a mall in Baltimore. She was found lying on her stomach with an eight-inch stick protruding from her vagina. She had suffered from a fractured and depressed skull, her neck had patterns of abrasion. When she was …show more content…
“The admissibility of the evidence given at a former trial depends upon the question whether it was voluntary. To be admissible it must be voluntary, and where there is no evidence to the contrary, it will be presumed that the evidence so given was voluntary. The defendant at the former trial went upon the stand of his own volition, and the evidence there given is, we think, admissible in this case.” (Kirk Noble Bloodsworth v. State of Maryland, 1988) After reviewing one of the witness testimony she had said she assumed she heard a comment that Bloodsworth had made. What helped Bloodsworth was the fact that there was no physical evidence to place him at the crime scene or tell whether he was just there watching what happened. Now when they try too rebuttal evidence it is using the evidence that was presented by the defense and you try to re analyze it. Bloodsworth was denied a motion for a new trial. Bloodsworth does argue that he was violated from his right of a fair trial since some evidence was basis. The Real
The complaint states that on October 14, 2016, plaintiff Kirk Thompson, a UPS driver, delivered a box to defendant Eleanor Lewis at her single-family home in White Plains, New York. When Mr. Thompson placed the box on the front stoop and rang the doorbell, he heard Ms. Lewis’s dog barking and scratching the other side of the door. Mr. Thompson then walked back to his van when he heard a female voice behind him instructing him not to move. As Mr. Thompson turned around, Ms. Lewis’s dog, Simon, bit him on the arm, requiring surgery for Mr. Thompson and him missing six months of work due to his inability to drive.
The majority in this Court are of the opinion that, other considerations aside, there would be no point in allowing the appeal and ordering a new trial of the appellant because his guilt would be sufficiently established at the further trial by evidence of his admissions at the trial at which he was
PER REPORTER: On 8/28/2015 Jim Swanson a neighbor of the unknown mother and father reported to the Pontotoc DHS around 10:00 am that the unknown father was drinking on the night of 8/27/2015. The father was screaming and yelling at the mother. The unknown mother went over to Jim’s home and asked him if her and the children could stay there until someone came to pick them up. Per reporter Jim said that if the case goes to court, he will testify against both of the parents.
A reasonable jury when faced with the evidence would find it difficult to render a verdict beyond a reasonable doubt favorable to the State. Clayton, 235 S.W.3d at 778
Gerard John Schaefer, Jr was an admirable sheriff’s deputy in Martin County, Florida. No one suspected him of even hurting a fly, that was till his true colors were shown and he was convicted for two murders and privately boasted while he appealed against his conviction, both in writing and verbally, that he had murdered more than 30 women and girls. Schaefer was born in Wisconsin and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he was the first of three children born to Catholic parents, Gerard and Doris Schaefer. There it was where he attended Marist Academy until 1906, then he and his family packed their things and moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was there sibling rivalry bloomed, he didn’t get along with his father and he believed that
Albert DeSalvo The Boston Strangler is a name given to the murderer of thirteen women in and near Boston, Massachusetts in the early 1960s. Although Albert DeSalvo confessed to the crimes and DNA evidence linked him to the last victim, some investigators still believe that not all thirteen murders could have been committed by one person. Between June 14, 1962 and January 4, 1964, thirteen women ranging in age from nineteen to seventy-five were found murdered in their respective apartments. Most had been strangled; one had been stabbed.
before the defendant allegedly attacked him. These conflicting accounts raise questions about what happened that night, and whether the defendant was truly the aggressor in the situation. Thirdly, there are several alternative explanations for what might have happened that night that do not involve the defendant being guilty of murder. For example, it is possible that
At around eight o’clock on the night of April 19, 1989, a 28-year-old investment banker went for a run on her usual path in New York City’s Central Park. During the course of her run she was knocked down, and violently assaulted. She was raped multiple times and viciously beaten. About 1:30 am, four hours later, she was found near the north side of the park in a wooded area lying in a shallow ravine. She was unconscious and naked, and had been bound, was bleeding and in shock.
When found, her body was unrecognisable according to the Police Officer in charge of the investigation, Inspector Wayne King. Within three days (Thursday 26) of the body being discovered,
There are other violent crimes and other than gang violence or juveniles who kill their parents. There are juvenile who rape and shoot up their own schools. With that being said I will talk about a juvenile who raped and murdered two young girls and two young boys who shoot up their high school. On October 17, 1987, then 17-year-old Karla Homolka met then 23-year-old Paul Bernardo in an Ontario hotel restaurant. Their physical attraction was immediate and intense, and two hours later the couple had sex in one of the hotel’s rooms.
In R. v Edwards a similar situation arose, in which the accused did not have a reasonable
Rose and Fred West were a married couple that during their time together killed two daughters and at least nine other women. They sexually abused and tortured the women they brought to their home before killing them. They also sexually abused their children. One of the living daughters remembered her first sexual experience with her father when she was just eight years old. Her mother helped hold her down and penetrated her first with a dildo before her father penetrated her.
In July of 1984, Jennifer Thompson, a 22-year-old college student, awoke around 3:00 a.m. to find someone in her apartment. When she asked who was there, a man jumped on her, pinned her arms to the side of her head, put a knife to her throat, and raped her. Despite her terror, she was determined to identify her rapist so he would pay for his crimes. Once her eyes adjusted to the dark, she used the light coming through her blinds and bedroom window, as well as her nightlight to see if he had any tattoos, scars, unusual jewelry, how he parted his hair, what he was wearing, and anything else that would be useful in identifying him. She made sure that when he allowed her to stand up she stood close to him so she could determine how tall he was.'
The Murder of Danielle Van Dam By: Nevethan Jeyachandran Submitted to Dr.Monica Sauer Student Number: 500-523-913 Course: Intro to Forensics (CCHY-183) December 01, 2014 Introduction The Murder of Danielle Van Dam is a gruesome case which took place in the year 2002. A 7-year old girl went missing from her bedroom in San Diego, California, on Feb1-2, 2002. Her badly decomposed body was found in a remote area far away from her home on February 27. Police suspected a neighbour, David Alan Westerfield for the murder.
This is an important element when deciding who the best and worst jurors were. There were no facts as to who was right or wrong because we didn’t see the crime in question. All