When it comes to the case of Amanda Todd and Anonymous, the question of can this case be considered legally prosecutable under “conspiracy to commit harm, or defame” law or not can definitely be up for debate. While there are countless of prosecutors that are capable of influencing a group of individuals one way or the other on what the meaning of this law is, there are many factors in this case that may affect the ability of that law to hold up in court. From information gathered for a person to be suspected of a crime of that nature, a statement must be verbalized or transcribed. Aydin Coban the accused and now convicted person behind Amanda Todd’s suicide did meet those criteria’s to be prosecuted under conspiracy to commit harm, or defame. However, on March of …show more content…
2017 when prosecutors were successful in getting a guilty verdict for Coban he was only found guilty of online fraud and blackmail. In similar situations to Amanda Todd’s for a final judgment to be made, the lawful meaning of conspiracy to commit harm and defaming must be made clear. What exactly is a Conspiracy crime? Many would argue that they are the most difficult of misconducts to convict because the meaning of conspiracy per the Webster Dictionary is “a secret plan made by two or more people to do something that is harmful or illegal”. It plainly means an individual or group joining together to commit a crime. Majority of the times these acts are premeditated. While yes they are the most difficult of crimes to prosecute, when it came down to Amanda’s case, it is very much evident. Coban is a 34 year old man who is perfectly aware that sharing contents of a nude or explicit manner of a minor is illegal and still chose to do what he did. Even with that knowledge he went on to continuously harass her with them in hopes of tarnishing her reputation with family and friends. Defamation is defined in Webster Dictionary as “the act of communicating false statements about a person that injure the reputation of that person.” This explains the exact actions of Coban.
He made fake profiles of Amanda in which he then used to contact her friend and family with malicious contain. Coban used that platform to attack Amanda’s character while spreading the explicit photos of her. Whatever reasoning behind his actions all evidence can easily show that there was “conspiracy to commit harm, or defame”. It is simply unfortunate that Amanda had to be the object of this kind of targeting which lead to her taking her own life as a means to escape the situation.
In conclusion the process in which I would use to decide such a charge if it were to be taken to court, would be everything stated above. I believe Ayden Coban had no sense of regret when he was harassing this young lady. When doing this he seemed to have no remorse for his relentless attack on her character until after he was prosecuted, when he made a statement to media in regards to Amanda Todd and her death. To make matters worse it later was revealed that he had attempted to do the same thing to another Canadian
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Casey was arrested on July 16th, 2008 and charged the following day with giving false statements to law enforcement, child neglect and obstruction of a criminal investigation. Casey was interviewed by officers regarding the disappearance of Caylee and claimed that she “felt that Caylee was still alive” (YouTube, 2008). Casey remained calm, emotionless and flirty throughout the interview with the police officer and continued to claim that she did not know the whereabouts of Caylee and insisted on disc...
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
A conspiracy is generally defined as an agreement made between two or more people to commit an unlawful act intentionally. In Cory Goodine’s case, he had absolutely no idea what he would witness when he agreed to go for a drive with Todd Johnston, therefore during the court proceedings following the murder, Goodine was able to demonstrate that he was oblivious to what Johnston had planned. This is evident when he explains that “Shortly before 2.00 pm that day, Mr. Johnston telephoned Mr. Goodine at his home in Perth-Andover and asked Mr. Goodine to accompany him as Mr. Johnston was going to "dump" Mr. Boyd.” Cory Goodine didn’t pay much attention to Johnston’s word choice and didn’t question what he meant by “dump”, in fact “Mr. Goodine 's explanation for initially accompanying Mr. Johnston was that he thought at most there might be a fight between Mr. Boyd and Mr. Johnston, but he did not understand the word "dump" to mean Mr. Boyd would be killed.” These extractions from a summary of the case from the Court of Appeal in New Brunswick are essential to proving Cory Goodine’s innocence because they show that he was merely caught up in a mess created by none other than his former friend Todd Johnston. Granted, he could have read more into Johnston’s word choice on the earlier telephone call, but most people wouldn’t have thought anything of something like that coming from their friend. Cory
Reeves and Coffman were found to be delinquent by the Carroll County Juvenile Court, and both appealed from that ruling to the Carroll County Circuit Court. After a jury found that the girls attempted to commit second degree murder in violation of Tenn. Code Ann. Section(s) 19-12-101, the "criminal attempt" statute, the trial court affirmed the juvenile court order and sentenced the girl to the Department of Youth development for an indefinite period...
Lizzie Borden took an Axe and gave her stepmother forty whacks, when she had seen what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. The problem is that Lizzie Borden was accused of murder of her dad and stepmother on August 4th, 1892. Lizzie Borden was not the murderer the day her parents were killed. Lizzie is not the murder because Lizzie deeply cared for her father, at Lizzie's trial she showed a grieving side of her that wasn't described in other sources at their time and because she was framed to be believed to commit murder on her parents. After the murderers Lizzie was treated very differently by MANY people even though she was innocent.
The Casey Anthony case was one that captured the heart of thousands and made it to the headline of national TV talk shows, newspapers, radio stations and social media networks for months. The root of the case was due to a clash between the parental responsibilities, the expectations that went with being a parent, and the life that Casey Anthony wanted to have. The case was in respect to the discovering the cause of Casey’s two-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony’s, death; however the emphasis was placed on Casey and her futile lies, which resulted in a public outcry. The purpose of this essay is to delve into the public atmosphere and inquire about why the media and social media collectively attacked the case by uncovering the content of the case, the charges that were laid, and later dismissed, the “performers” of the trial and the publics reaction. It will further discuss how it defies universal ideologies and how the media represents this. The discussion of the complexities of the case and its connotations will incorporate Stuart Hall’s Representation and the Media, Robert Hariman’s Performing the Laws, What is Ideology by Terry Eagleton, The Body of the Condemned by Michael Foucault, and a number of news articles, which will reveal disparate ideas of representation in the media, and the role of the performers of the law and their effect on the understanding of the case.
Amanda Knox is innocent! The whole incident is a big mess, the Italy police do not have enough evidence. The evidence that Meredith Kercher was found dead to Amanda Knox is not enough. Kerchers blood was found on a knife that Amanda used but it was only a tiny spec of blood. The break in was not enough to say other wise if it was fake. The two of them had lived in an apartment together and they touched and used everything. Nobody would be surprised if Kercher had cut herself on accident and that's how blood got on the knife.
When viewed from a strictly medical, psychological aspect, Andrea Yates medical history indicates that after the birth of her first child, she began to suffer from various forms of depression and suicide attempts. If one only examines the paper trail and doesn’t think beyond what the medical history does or does not indicate, then perhaps, Andrea would be innocent by reason of mental insanity as the 2006 acquittal suggest. However, when viewed form a legal aspect there are several inconstancies that challenge if this former nurse was insane or if she in fact premeditated the murder of her children as well as her acquittal.
One of the elements is actus reas. Actus reas is an action or conduct that is a constituent element of a crime, as opposed to the mental state of the accused. Nonetheless, it was a false threat and no action was committed thus I believe the charges should be dropped. Another vital element is mens reas. Mens rea is the intention or knowledge of wrongdoing that constitutes part of a crime, as opposed to the action or conduct of the accused. Indeed, she stated on a social media site that she was going to "shoot up" the school and there are no further evidence that she had plotted it is a major deciding factor as to why I believe she is innocent. Last element is punishment. Punishment is a provision in the law calling for punishment of those found guilty of violating the law as she committed terrorist acts and threats. As stated above, this is found to be not true, she has not committed any action that is considered an terrorist
The difficulty I had with this case, was I had multiple sources to turn to for information. I had to choose which source was reliable because I did not want misconduct information. The media sources had about the same variety of information about Gabriel’s case, but added small details that the alternative networks did not include. For example, each news network added more information on how Gabriel was found by the paramedics. The L. A. Times reported that Gabriel had a cracked skull and three broken ribs while the Huffington Post did not include this information. The L.A. times also elaborated more on the story by reporting more facts about who was involved in the investigating. They included names of teachers, and police officials that was involved. The differences between how news network presented the facts in the case proved the different ways we are influenced by the media, and the information we gather depends on where we get our stories
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The event concerned a post on the anonymous image board, 4chan, which resulted in the other users tracking down and identifying the original poster and reporting him to the police. The poster asked for instructions on how to manipulate his younger sister into having sex with him. I am not aware of the entire situation and I don’t have any context, hence I am unable to identify if the post was made with serious intentions or not, however, given the history of the site, it is likely that the original poster fully intended to go through with it. In my opinion the reaction of the other users to the post was justified, as child abuse is not something to be taken lightly. However, there is one significant difference between 4chan’s reaction and the twitter mob’s, 4chan did not publicly disclose any personal
The main character of speak, Melinda Sordino, has been raped by a guy name Andy Evans at a party the summer before entering her freshman year. Melinda does not speak about what happened to her at the party and nobody would talk to her because of her decision to call the cops. Although she decided to leave before the cops showed up. “I learned what makes men rape… it is power and privilege. I learned what makes women silent. It is fear…” (Pearson, 24). Melinda is determined to keep quiet and erase the memory of what happened to her at the party. Essentially, she does not speak at all, which is physically and emotionally hurting her by not speaking to someone, and it seems as no one really notices or cares to talk to Melinda to why she is acting
This kind of detective work usually involves the researcher go through a number of documents. In research of Erin Brockovich story, which was expressed in the Erin Brockovich movie, was shown given documents including water department records among other documents. Erin decided to look for the ratings of water quality as well as the chemical substances that are found in the drinking water used by the habitats of Hinkley, CA(Brockovich, 2000). Erin’s detective work required that she paid close attention to detail and that she portrayed a great level of patience.