People of the court, we’re here today on behalf of our defendant, Mary Maloney. Our defendant is not guilty of first degree murder, which she has been charged with. After hearing Mary’s testimony it is obvious that Mary reacted under the influence of pregnancy hormones, past insanity, and extreme stressful anxiety.
On Thursday, July 16, Mary spent her day like she would any other. She looked forward to the time with her husband that they had every evening when he arrived at home (Dahl). Mary was glancing at the clock, without anxiety, awaiting her husband’s arrival (Dahl). Knowing this, it’s obvious that Mary was calm and unprepared to murder her husband. If Mary is being charged with first degree murder, it states, “The killing is deliberate and premediated” (Berman). If Mary had planned the murder of Patrick Maloney she would not have been calm in doing nothing all day. Her calmness shows the fact that her killing her husband was not premeditated. However, when Mr. Maloney arrived home and gave his wife the news that he was leaving her, her entire attitude was forced to change dramatically. Why? Because when giving a six month, hormonal pregnant woman stressful news, her hormones are forced to increase
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drastically. When hearing her husband say this to her, she did not move. She sat there confused and boiling with anxiety (Dahl). People of the court, imagine being six months pregnant and receiving the news that your child’s father is leaving you alone, although he offers to give you money and still take care of you (Dahl). Some might think that the financial stability would be enough, but with a person like Mary, she strives for love and affection from her dear Patrick. With all of this in mind, you can see why Mary would be steaming with anger towards her husband for leaving her. While she stood there in shock, her past anxiety began to set in. Not only was she pregnant, but Mary also suffers from schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a medical condition where the person does not know their right from wrong at a certain time, and they have multiple personalities (Murder). For example, in 2001, Andrea Yates killed five of her kids by drowning them, but since Mrs. Yates suffered from schizophrenia her sentence was lessened (Murder). Knowing this, Mary’s sentence should not only be changed to voluntary manslaughter, but also she should not be sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison. Voluntary manslaughter is when a person has not had the needed amount of time to calm down from being provoked (Berman). For example, if a husband is to walk in on his wife committing adultery and then kills her, if he has not had a good amount of time to “cool down” the court would seriously consider it voluntary manslaughter (Berman). How on Earth could someone possibly charge a woman that is in her third trimester of pregnancy?
In conclusion, Mary Maloney should not be charged with first degree murder, nor should she be sentenced to prison for life. There is a plentiful amount of evidence and reasoning behind why Mary should not be charged with what she has been charged with. Because Mary is pregnant, under a severe amount of stress, and has schizophrenia, all of these things need to be taken into consideration when determining Mary’s sentence. The defendant should be charged with voluntary manslaughter, not first degree murder. After she is charged with this, Mary will still serve her time in prison just like any other citizen, but also be able to raise Mr. Maloney’s child
alone.
On the night of August 31st 1986, Angelique Lavallee a battered 21 year-old woman in an unstable common law relationship was charged with murder. She shot her spouse, Kevin Rust in the back of the head while he was leaving the bedroom. Angelique was in fear for her life after being taunted with the gun and was threaten to be killed. Hence, she felt that she had to kill him or be killed by him. The psychiatrist Dr. Shane, did an assessment and concluded that she was being terrorized by her partner. Dr. Shane concluded that Angelique was physically, sexually, emotionally and verbally abused. As a result, in the psychiatrist’s opinion, the killing was a final desperate act by a woman who seriously believed she would be killed that night. This in turn identify her as a
The Supreme Court used this evidence, and the fact that the pants and the blood had been transported to the crime lab in the same box, and that a vial and a quarter of autopsy blood were missing, to rule that, if known by the jury, could have created reasonable doubt (House V. Bell, 2006). This, along with the evidence, presented by House, that Mr. Muncey had a history of spousal abuse against Mrs. Muncey, and the fact that he had fabricated an alibi to cover his whereabouts for the time of the murder, could have created a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury, had it been presented at trial (House v. Bell, 2006). It was with these facts in mind that the Supreme Court reached a final ruling in this case. The Court’s final ruling was that while House had not presented sufficient evidence to exonerate himself completely, he did present enough evidence to create the question of his actual guilt, and warranted a new trial (House v. Bell, 2006).
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.
Mary Maloney is accused of murdering her husband with an unknown weapon for an unknown reason. Chief detective, Patrick Maloney was murdered last night at his own house, no suspects have been identified yet and the search for the murder weapon was futile. Apparently, the officer had come home exhausted from work and was waiting for his wife Mrs. Mary Maloney, who left to buy food across the street for their dinner. According to a statement, Mary arrives home from the grocery store to find her husband dead on the living room floor.
If you were in this situation how would you feel? If you're patiently waiting for your husband to come home and you give him a kiss as he returns. As he walks and talks little to you then he puts it out there like it’s nothing. Would you cry or would you be shocked? would you fight or would you fall ? tell how you would feel if you were like mary maloney were your husband's going to leave you like he left her. I think that mary maloney is innocent because her husband was a cruel and not very kind man. Not only was he having an affair with another woman he was disrespectful to her he yelled at her and how do we not know he wasn't abusive to her. His fellow officers called him a “lady's man”. I think that mary should not be convicted of murder.
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.
There are rare cases, when society has to make the tough decision to overlook a person's basic rights for the good of the general public, Mary Mallon is one of these exceedingly rare cases. Mary Mallon was a carrier of Typhoid fever, because of this she was denied her way of life and her passion. Typhoid left an abysmal impression on Mary’s life, but she did not let let sickness define who she was. Mary left a lasting mark in her own subtle way, her life was more paramount than meets the eye, she opened the eyes of scientists all over the world and taught the world a near impossible lesson about never giving in.
.... Maloney would leave to be with the other women. This thought though, became a reality for Mary Maloney. Mary Maloney has testified to happening to “stumble across” a will, which mentioned Mary Maloney receiving three quarters of Patrick’s fortune if he were to pass away. Being the wife a detective, Mary Maloney new how to plot a scene. First she would murder Patrick, receive his fortune to care for the unborn child, never have to face him again after he said to her face that he loved another women and had been having affairs with her. Secondly, she would need to dispose of the murder weapon secretly, and create an alibi that would testify for Ms. Maloney. Thirdly, pretend that it was all a dream and that it never happened. Sadly, it was an incredibly easy task for a clever woman such as herself. How is it that money is what shapes our world but also destroys it?
It was a normal evening in the Maloney home. Mrs. Mary Maloney sat sewing, while waiting for her husband to return home after an involved day as a police officer. Around 5 o’clock Mr. Maloney returns home with shocking news and… Bang! …a leg of lamb hit over his head and Mr. Maloney falls to the ground dead. All evidence and theories, point to Mrs. Maloney being the killer of her husband, but why? Mrs. Maloney did not kill her husband out of anger after the recent marriage incident, but she did it as a result of mental anguish, self defense and trauma inflicted upon her by her husband. All these events explain exactly why Mrs. Maloney murdered her husband out of reasonable measures.
We refer to the murder as 'him' We can sense that Roylott is under more pressure; he has obviously decided to kill his stepdaughter for her riches that he can't make my being a doctor. Maloney has her husband's wage from his work, and the home will only need to be cleaned every couple of days. The text suggests that her husband is stressed. He has to tell Mary that he is leaving her. He leaves her with no explanation for his absence, only that he will pay for the baby's upbringing.
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.
After Mary Maloney kills her husband by the use of blunt force, or in other words a frozen leg of lamb, she uses some techniques to get away with murder. The first; we have all seen a crime show where they are questioning a suspect and they say, “Whats your alibi!”From knowing this we can see Mary went to the grocery store. “It wasn't six o'clock yet and the lights were still on in the grocery shop."Hello Sam," she said brightly.” From this we can see that Mary had traveled to a place,
If a mother left her six month old child alone at home, alone for seven days, would you say she is guilty or innocent of second degree murder? A woman named Mary Barnett left her six month old child at home for a week while she traveled to San Francisco to visit her fiancé. While left unattended, the child died of dehydration. Mary Barnett is being charged with second degree murder. During her trial, the jury heard from numerous witnesses, some seemed reliable and some seemed solid. The witness included Caroline, a policeman, Dr. Parker, Alice, Dr. Bloom, and of course, Mary Barnett.
The death of John Wright, to some, might seem tragic and unacceptable, but for one person in particular, Minnie Wright, it was beautiful and freeing. When you are oppressed and treated poorly your entire life, and your husband takes away everything that you hold dear, then something has to give. Can justice has been served in an unusual way? With the help of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, Minnie just might get away with serving up her slice of justice.
Today’s secular women cringe at the words “modesty”, “submissive”, and “stay-at-home-mom”. Our culture is obsessed with the feminist movement. The idea of a woman having a different role than a man is disgusting to them. American women enjoy the most freedom the world over, one could argue, because of how Christianity improved the treatment of women. Even with women’s elevated status in American, arguments against the fair treatment of U.S. women are many. Included in those grievances are wage discrimination, unfair responsibility in the home, and eating disorders; showing how modern feminists have been swayed through propaganda.