Timeline June 5, 2011 In Minneapolis, Chrishaun "Cece" McDonald and her friends walked to get groceries, and on their way, they are harassed by Dean Schmitz and his friends (Pasulka, 2012). Fight broke out when Schmitz ex-girlfriend, Molly Flaherty, hit McDonald in the face with a glass of alcohol (Pasulka,2012). During the fight, McDonald was able to stab Schmitz with her scissors, killing him. McDonald was charged with second-degree intentional murder, that night. She pleaded innocent in count of self-defense. May 2, 2012 McDonald accepted a plea offer of second-degree manslaughter, in which, she has to give up her claim of self-defense. May 11, 2012 Molly Flaherty was charged with second-degree and third degree assault. June 4, 2012 Cece …show more content…
Some just happen to be young, African American transgender woman. They spent the evening barbecuing in the yard and just lounging around (Mannix, 2012). Around midnight, they walked to Cub Foods to pick up some groceries. It just happened to be a little more than a half-mile from the apartment. As they started walking, a squad car stopped and questioned them, without any provocation. After questioning them, the officer followed them for a little while before …show more content…
On Schmitz's system, at the time of his death, there was numerous of chemicals shown. The chemicals included; methamphetamine, opiates, and Benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine. It was told that the amount of levels of the chemicals combined could unleash, unpredictable and unwarranted violence. The most discussed evidence was found on Schmitz's autopsy report. Inches away from his stab wound, he had a four-inch tattoo of a swastika. It symbolized the hatred and violence towards "black" people. The word "Outlaw" was tattooed across his back. Since the age of 18, Schmitz has over 2 dozen criminal records, which included theft, burglary, and attempted sale of a controlled substance. He also had a history of violence; he was convicted of fifth-degree assault and domestic assault. However, his family had a different story. His son, Jeremy Williams, described his father as being a helpful man, a great person. Schmitz's brother, Charles Pelfrey, had different things to say about him, he said he wasn't surprised with the allegations of Schmitz using racist language, but at other times, he said his brother wasn't racist and that in prison, he ended up in a white supremacist group, in order to survive (Pasulka, 2012). In the end, the judge ruled that Schmitz criminal record and background was irrelevant to what happened that day and McDonald was not able to see his tattoo in his
In December, 2011, two years after the unpleasant homicide of Wayne Boyce, the evidence collected for this particular crime suggested Prima Facie existing in the allegations made. The case then went to trial in the NSW Supreme Court of Australia. Where A 19 year old teenager referred by the initials of his name AH as he was a juvenile, pleaded guilty towards the manslaughter of Mr Wayne Boyce, 23 years of age.
Your honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, thank you for your attention today. [Slide #2] I would like to assert that separation is not the end of a relationship. Divorce is not the end of a relationship. Even an arrest is not the end of a relationship. Only death is the end of a relationship. In the case of defendant Donna Osborn, her insistence that ‘“one way or another I’ll be free,”’ as told in the testimony of her friend Jack Mathews and repeated in many others’, indicates that despite the lack of planning, the defendant had the full intent to kill her husband, Clinton Osborn.
Derrick Wallace, an ambitious handsome straight A student at Monroe College, has his entire life set out. He has recently won his basketball championship game and received exciting news from his girlfriend, Julia, about her moving back to the city from upstate university.
It was Labor Day weekend, 1997, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and Holly Dunn's world seemed full of possibilities. She was a popular sorority sister, and the 20-year-old had a new boyfriend, a theater major named Chris Maier. That August night, the couple took a midnight stroll to the railroad tracks and kissed under the stars. Suddenly a man appeared; he was holding what looked like an ice pick. Terrified, Chris offered him money. "No, I don't want that," the man said as he tied up the couple. A moment later he picked up a rock and smashed it against Chris's skull, killing him; he then raped Holly and bludgeoned her with a wooden board, breaking her jaw and eye socket. "I was screaming in my head," Holly recalls. "Then I was unconscious—I don't know how long. I just remember appearing in someone's front yard."
Murder on a Sunday morning is a documentary of an unfortunate mishap with the legal justice system that happens one of many times. In Jacksonville, Florida the year of 2001, May 8th there was a horrific scenery at Ramada hotel. A women named Mary Ann Stevens and her husband were tourists, while leaving their room early Sunday morning around 9AM a gunshot fatally killed Mary Ann and ended the couple’s vacation. When cops arrived at the scene and investigated they took notes on what the suspect looked like from the husband, “ The suspect is skinny black male dark shorts unknown shirt on foot running south bound…. Fishlike hat on.”- cop at the scene. When the cops were driving around they’ve spotted an African American
While the stop and frisk program ultimately seems like a great idea and that it will help residents of New York City feel safer while on the streets, there has been much controversy with this program. The issue of racial profiling is largely discussed when talking about NYPD’s stop and frisk program. Besides police officers targeting lower income neighborhoods, more stops are of African Americans or Latinos than of whites. These stops often end up with a higher arrest rate. Of the 685,784 stopped last year, 92% were male and 87% were African American or Latino (Devereaux, 2012).
As the defense has so diligently pointed out, it is indeed a sad day in the history of our judicial system when an innocent woman is sent to her death for a crime that she did not commit. I, for one, am not planning on having that momentous occasion take place today, and this is for one simple reason: Justine is guilty. While the defense has done nothing but parade Justine’s friends in front of you saying how much of a “nice person” she is, I, the prosecution, have presented you with cold, hard facts, all of which point to the guilt of the defendant.
Have you ever been followed by store officials or security while shopping in a department store? At first, all of the attention can be flattering but quickly becomes insulting once you realize they’re not following you to offer any assistance. Instead because of how you look you fit a certain profile that causes store officials to think you’ve come to their store to steal. This type of behavior is called racial profiling. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, racial profiling refers to the discrimination practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. Citizens need to be more aware of racial profiling and make laws that racial profiling should be illegal. Racial profiling is carried out by law enforcement airport security, and other security personnel that look to profile the minorities for no reason. Heather Sally Newton Driscoll ebscohost.com stated “The practice of profiling is rooted in centuries of discrimination and is based on stereotypes that have long been disproved. Profiling holds on entire population accountable for the committed by a small minority”.
Justice Kelly had stated that “failure to call the ambulance immediately after she was unconscious was neglect ”. Ashlee Polkinghorne, plead guilty to manslaughter and her co-accused plead guilty to manslaughter by criminal neglect . The original sentence put forward to the couple reduced from a total of nine years imprisonment by their guilty plea. Justice Kelly revealed Benjamin McPartland’s sentence of seven years imprisonment with non-parole period of 4 years and two months . Ashlee Polkinghorne received eight years with a non-parole of 4 years and 9 months, due to her late plea on the second day of her trial . Although the couple were charged with negligence it was taken as a course of conduct not an isolated plea
Many people argue allowing transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender-identity is an invasion of privacy, as well as endangering children and woman. These claims are mostly targeting MtF (male to female) transgender woman as predators. Many cities and organizations including Austin, SAFE Alliance, Dallas and their police department, and El Paso have reported they have not had a single transgender predator case (“Texas
Newspaper headline: ‘KEITH MILLHOUSE MURDERED IN MANSION.” is across every paper in Rosewood County. Keith Millhouse is.. Or I guess was the richest man in Rosewood. The man had a heart of gold, only wanting to help others in need. Somehow, on a cold October day, though, Keith Millhouse was found strangled, and beaten in his mansion.
The eye opening article utilized for this analysis is titled, “Trans Women at Smith: The Complexities of Checking ‘Female’” ,written by contributing writer, Sarah Fraas on August 24, 2014 (pg 683-685). Fraas starts off by introducing the audience with a school that accepts trans women, Mills College, and talks about how glorious this decision is. The author then begins to talk about other schools not as accepting as Mills, especially Smiths College. She spews many facts and analysis on the issues trans women face today throughout the article including how transgender women are not gaining enough support to succeed, most transgendered women are neglected in school, and the fact that many have been accused of being a woman for the “wrong” reason. She also mindfully includes the image of a woman of color holding up a sign saying, “Support your sisters, not just your CIS-ters!”. The author utilizes this image to show people that we are all one whether we
Perhaps they didn 't like the way this person was dressed or maybe they thought that maybe the strangeness of this person was threatening. While these may be some valid reasons, the root of the issue with street harassment is misogyny. That is defined as the hatred of women. In this video, specifically, the problem is trans misogyny. Trans misogyny means the negative attitudes towards trans women and trans and gender non-conforming people on the feminine end of the gender spectrum (CITE). Simply put, trans misogyny is the hatred of the feminine ,which is not experienced, only by women. In "America Reflexx", people were not sure of the gender of the person walking the street, but knew this person identified with feminine traits. They knew this because this person wore a dress and heels. This elicited an extreme amount of hatred by these people. While many of these harassers were women, the issue is still trans misogyny. Women can be as guilty as men when it comes to misogyny of trans misogyny. If a woman has a hatred for specific women or those acting in a feminine role due to them not behaving in a certain way then they too are a misogynist. For example, if these women attacking this person attacked him or her because they believe women or anyone identifying as feminine must dress and behave in a certain way, they are misogynists. The reason behind this line of thought is that these same women would not have
Transgender people can get refused to see a doctor, just because they are transgender. A study of how transgender people have been discriminated against by medical providers was done and the study showed: “Nineteen percent had been refused treatment by a doctor or other provider because of their transgender or gender non-conforming status” (). Broken down by race, the ethnic group that was refused the most was: American Indian (36%), Multi-Racial (27%), Hispanic (22%), Black (19%), White (17%), Asian (15%) and then 19% (Total Sample). Not only can they be refused medical treatment, but doctors and medical professionals can be verbally abusive as well! “Over one quarter of respondents (28%) reported verbal harassment in a doctor’s office, emergency room or other medical setting and 2% of the respondents reported being physically attacked in a doctor’s office”.
Florida’s, Texas’s and Kentucky’s new proposed bathroom laws have “caused fear and dismay among transgender people around the country” (Tannehill). Kentucky laws are more focused on the school systems but Florida 's and Texas’s laws treat transgenders as if they were criminals. Both of these states have regulations that will give transgenders civil and or criminal charges for using the bathroom they identify with (Tannehill). A transgender could be charged a fine for using the wrong bathroom and “people who report a transgender people in the bathroom to claim civil damages, for example a bounty” (Tannehill). Florida and Texas are trying to look out for the best interest of the majority population, however, “we all have to use the bathroom, but these laws would seemingly force transgender people to choose between fines and jail, risking horrific violence or leaving the state” (Tannehill). These laws have been seen as unreasonable to the transgender community and have been fought by the ACLU lawyer Joshua Block, “We’re talking about people who also have their sense of privacy and modesty, and who are not going to want to have everyone see an anatomical part of themselves that they feel should never have been there in the first place,” (Marcus). It has also been found that it’s illegal for employers to carry out such rules, “The Equal Employment