The case of Ted Bundy Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy, born Theodore Robert Cowell (November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989), was an American serial killer active between 1973 and 1978. After more than a decade of vigorous denials, he eventually confessed to over 30 murders, although the actual total of victims remains unknown. Estimates range from 26 to over 100, the general estimate being 35. Ted Bundy murders were confirmed in multiple states including Washington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Florida. Ted Bundy would rape strangle and beat young women and girls.
They were carrying a factory payroll of $15,776. Three weeks after the murder of the paymaster and his guard, Sacco and Vanzetti fell into a police trap that was set up for suspect in the Braintree crime. Both men were not under surveillance for these crimes, but at the time of their arrest, they were both carrying guns. They were charged for the South Braintree crimes and, according to the Sacco-Vanzetti case, “Vanzetti was also charged with an earlier holdup attempt that had taken place on December 24, 1919, in the nearby town of Bridgewater.” On April 15, the day of the Braintree murders, it has been said that Sacco had taken a day off from work. Sacco's testimony that on April l5—the day that he was away from works—he was in Boston seeking a passport to Italy.
Yet authorities solved 75 percent of the killings in Philadelphia, 92 percent in Denver and 94 percent in San Diego. Ramsey’s cases as well as other cases such as, Jack the Ripper, The Zodiac Killer and the O.J. Simpson Trial are examples of cases that have gone unsolved for too long. Should cases be closed if evidence is found prior to the dismissal of a case? Evidence was found for Ramsey’s case but yet her case was closed because they couldn’t find a match to the DNA found.
Mr Simpson enjoyed his life after football and began to more involve himself in television acting, hosting, and sports commentary. Mr Simpson is also known as one of the most famous criminal defendants in American history .I have taken into account the events that took place on the night of June 12,1994 and how Mr Simpson is connected to the murder of Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman. The O.J. Simpson trial has by far been one of the longest, and most expensive trials in california history. Part of why this Trial was on a different par was not only because of his celebrity status, but also due to the amounts of evidence involved in the case.
Simpson’s murder trial in 1995… Not guilty and cleared of all charges! Many adults agree that the evidence pointed to Simpson, but how is it that he escaped from the legal system? Was it the fantastic lawyers, a fluke of luck, or was he genuinely innocent? In order to answer that question, we must compare this case to other cases similar to this that happened. The death of Caylee Anthony comes to mind.
By the 1980's, the FBI was routinely using this analysis to link bullet fragments found at a crime scene with bullets found in the possession of a suspect. While still working at the FBI, metallurgist William Tobin began questioning this practice. Tobin says the Quantico lab was the only place in the country that did bullet lead analysis, and the assertion that you could actually match a bullet fragment to a specific batch or box of bullets went unchallenged for 40 years until Tobin retired and decided to do his own study, discovering that the basic premise had never actually been scientifically tested. In 2002, confronted with Tobin’s study, the FBI lab asked the National Academy of Sciences to conduct an independent review of comparative bullet lead analysis. The National Research Council came out with a report calling into question years of FBI testimony.
Although our country’s legal system has evolved greatly since that time, there continues to be great debate about the issues surrounding life in prison versus the death penalty. When we look at the death penalty system in action, many argue that the only purpose it serves is retribution or revenge. It is seriously flawed in application and there is a serious and continuing risk of executing innocent people. Over the years, one hundred thirty people on death row have been released with proof that they were wrongfully convicted. DNA evidence, available in less than ten percent of all homicides, cannot guarantee that we won’t execute innocent people (ACLUNC, 2013).
Here are the statics: “Since 1989 when the first DNA exoneration occurred, 328 defendants have been exonerated in the United States after being convicted of serious crimes such as rape and murder. The exonerated were 316 men and 12 women; 145 of them were cleared by DNA identification and 183 by other kinds of evidence” (http://www.ur.umich.edu/0304/May10_04/25.shtml). What went wrong? * Eyewitness Misidentification * Improper Forensic Science * False Confessions * Overzealousness/Public Pressure Eyewitness Misidentification Imagine being a victim so frighten and traumatized after such a hideous unimaginable experience. It can be hard, almost impossible to accurately describe the assailant.
The Criminal Justice System locks up innocent people and yet innocent people are still getting killed. Eyewitness misidentification has proven to be the leading cause for wrongful convictions, according to The Innocence Project. The Innocence Project was founded in 1992, for the purpose of assisting prisoners to be proven innocent through DNA evidence. To date, 300 people in the United States have been exonerated through DNA testing. The Innocence Project's attorneys and Cardozo clinic students have assisted in the majority of these cases.
Since the death penalty has been invented, more than 15,269 people have been executed in the United States. Since then, the death penalty has been an extremely talked about and debated issue. In today’s society, this subject has become a tremendously important topic, and the question of what is right and what is wrong seems to spark a controversial, burning fire amongst many citizens of the United States. In the USA, 33 states, including California, Nebraska, Washington, and Louisiana have and use the death penalty. The primary technique used to kill is lethal injection, which is a toxic amount of drugs that is injected into the inmate.