The Automated Fingerprint Identification System or AFIS is a biometric identification technique that utilizes computerized imaging technology to obtain, store, and analyze fingerprint data. The AFIS was initially utilized by the FBI in criminal cases. Recently, it has been utilized for general identification and fraud prevention. This essay will summarize the case, State v. Keith and briefly explain the purposes and impediments of computerized fingerprint systems. On January 2005, the Allen County Grand Jury indicted Ontrayis Keith on two counts of aggravated burglary; both are felonies of the first degree. The charges come from two robberies that occurred in Lima, Ohio on December 1, 2004. ("State v. Keith", 2007) The first count was based on Ontrayis Keith's alleged robbery of Crazy's Wings and Things and the second count was about on Ontrayis Keith's alleged robbery of Lynn's Pawn Shop; on both counts Ontrayis Keith entered pleas of not guilty. ("State v. Keith", 2007) In June 2006, a jury trial was held, Bradshaw testified that on December 1, 2004, at approximately 9 a.m., he was working alone at Crazy's Wings and Things and a man came into the store and purchased a fruit punch; that at approximately 10:30 a.m., the same man came back to the store …show more content…
("State v. Keith", 2007) This unidentified man pulled out a pistol and pointed a pistol at Bradshaw, and asked
“William Henry Furman, a twenty-six-year-old black man with a sixth grade education, was not what most people called a “bad” man,” (Herda 7). Furman was just laid off of his job and was struggling to find work. But there was none. Every job did not pay enough, or was a short term job. Eventually, depressed, hungry, and broke, Furman turned to breaking and entering and to petty thievery by means of survival. Furman was caught a few times and was given a light sentence. He was also examined by a psychiatrist and was determined to be mentally impaired, but not enough to go to a mental institution. But on August 11, 1967, Furman went to rob the house of twenty-nine-year-old William Joseph Micke, Jr. with his wife and five young children. When searching through the house, Furman made too much noise, which alerted Micke. Furman heard Micke walking down the stairs and pulled out his gun that he used for scaring people away. But Micke kept walking downwards. Not wanting to be caught, Furman tried to run away and tripped over an exposed cord. His gun discharged. The bullet ricocheted to the back door. On the other side, a body fell to the floor. William Joseph Micke Jr. was dead. “The police responded to the call quickly and, within minutes, they had apprehended Furman just down the street from the scene of the crime. The murders weapon was still in his pocket,” (Herda 9). Furman tried to plead guilty by insanity and the psychiatrists described him as legally insane. But then, several days later one of the psychiatrists revised their medical opinion. Because he was not insane, the case would go on. The state of Georgia charged him with murder and issued the death penalty. This was because Georgia state law stated that any form of murder is...
Domestic Violence is a world-wide problem but in America it is amplified with the ready availability of guns as in this article regarding Dr. Albert Lambert of Florida. Dr. Albert Lambert purchased a gun October 6, 2013 and a gun cleaning kit for a 22 caliber ten (10) days prior to the murder of Kimberly Lindsey (WPBF.com). This brutal act of domestic violence leaves three children without a mother and subsequently a father. This incident has flooded the radio, newspapers, television and internet since the ordeal started in West Palm Beach, Florida on October 27, 2013 and ended on November 4, 2013 in Miami as Sheriff’s deputies discovered Lambert’s sister and boyfriend removing Lambert’s corpse from her sisters Miami home upon their arrival to arrest and charge Dr. Lambert for the death of his ex-wife Kimberly Lindsey.
This puts his lawyer Ken Murray in a difficult ethical position. Karla had told the prosecutors about the tapes, and they tapped into Ken and Paul’s conversations. Once the pressure got too much, Ken turned over to the prosecutors and he withdrew from the case, John Rosen took his place. Paul’s case started in May of 1995, where he faced two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated sexual assault, two counts of forcible confinement, two counts of kidnapping and one count of performing an indignity on the human body. On September 1, 1995 Paul was convicted on all the charges against him regarding Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French..
state police officers. After the officers found guns in their cars, a conflict encountered and
When it comes to identical twins we have come to learn that twin identical or not will not have the same fingerprint. Fingerprints are unique and are made to identify a person. So even when you clone humans or other primates I believe that the Friction ridge pattern will be similar but not exactly the same. I believe that in the process of the cloning process something will cause the fingerprints to come out different. Because cloning is dangerous there has yet to be a human cloning, but there have been cloning of monkeys and according to the data even though the monkey was cloned the fingerprint still isn’t the same.
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The case involved a line of duty shooting that took place between Illinois Officer Mary Redmond and suspect Ricky Allen, whom Redmond fatally wounded, and revolved around the family’s excessive force complaint, which they filed on the grounds that the witness testimony differed from Redmond’s account. [1]
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Crime is a common public issue for people living in the inner city, but is not limited to only urban or highly populated cities as it can undoubtedly happen in small community and rural areas as well. In The Real CSI, the documentary exemplified many way in which experts used forensic science as evidence in trial cases to argue and to prove whether a person is innocent or guilty. In this paper, I explained the difference in fingerprinting technology depicted between television shows and in reality, how DNA technology change the way forensics evidence is used in the court proceedings, and how forensic evidence can be misused in the United States adversarial legal system.
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was Wisconsin v. Leroy Reed, a criminal trial for the possession of a firearm by
Facts: Richard Gordon escaped from jail, passed three states in the car that they had already stolen; they had two guns in possession. The car that they had started to show engine problems, so they went and looked for another vehicle; they found the Chevelle. Richard Gordon was charged with having committed the crime of "Armed Robbery" He was also accused, with intention to kill, assaulted a police officer. Richard Gordon pleaded not guilty to the charges. He was found guilty of "Armed Robbery."
...Mrs. Hiller found her husband dead. Investigators found some particles of sand and gravel by the daughters bed. They also found the fingerprints of the convicted killer Thomas Jennings, on the Hiller homes railings. Mr.Hiller had painted the railings hours before his death. Into the paint was four fingerprints of someone’s left hand. American Law enforcement had already adopted the principle of fingerprinting so the evidence was allowed to be presented in court. Fingerprinting expert William M. Evans had agreed that Jennings hand, his alone, was the prints left on the railing of the Miller’s home. The courts jury appealed Miller as guilty and he was later hanged. Fingerprinting is fairly new and they’ve helped find the culprit in many investigations carried out in America, therefore proving that our methods in solving crimes are better than the methods used before.