California Highway Patrol

Law Enforcement: The following case study is from the state of California concerning the California Highway Patrol. One August afternoon, a dispatcher from the California Highway Patrol call center received a phone call from an anonymous driver from Mendocino county, concerning a driver in a silver Ford F150 had recently had driven them off the road. The dispatcher alerted officers in the area at 3:47 PM. By 4:00 PM an officer spotted the Ford F150 and followed the truck for five minutes. Even though the officer did not notice any abnormal driving behavior, he proceeded to pull the truck over. Lorenzo Prado Navarette and Jose Prado Navarette were both inside the vehicle. The officer collected their information. While returning back to the vehicle,

He thought that he should have been granted sick leaves since he had a documented excuse. Coleman’s motive was more than likely so that he could get rest for his condition and also get paid during the time being. The court stuck Coleman down stating that since he worked for a state agency his request could not have been granted by his employer.

Corrections: Brown v. Plata was a case that tested the side of corrections. Marciano Plata filed a complaint that the prisons were too overcrowded which lead to a violation of the Eight Amendment that bans cruel and unusual punishment towards prisoners. There were several other prisoners that were involved with the case behind Plata. At the time, California’s prisons were designed to hold about 85,000 prisoners but were housing almost double that. The overcrowding of the California prisons was unethical because there were too many people being housed in one place. Technically, it was a violation of the Eight Amendment because prisoners were being forced into crowded prisons. The violation occurred because there were too many people being put into prison and not enough room to hold all of the inmates. The motives behind putting too many people in prison is to save money and try to keep crime

Not only did he kill his stepmother, but he also killed her unborn child making it even more unethical. He is facing charges of a double homicide since two people died as a result of his actions. Brown was transferred to the adult criminal justice system in the earlier years of the case. The judge ruled that he was to stay in the adult system, as opposed to the juvenile system where he could have been released at the age of 21. Brown is facing life in prison for the murder, which he should since he killed two people. The case is still ongoing and is reviewed twice every year.

Academia: In the case of Fisher V. The University of Texas, Abigail Fisher, a white female, was denied acceptance to the university. She argued that the reason she did not get into the school was because they based her application on race. The state of Texas passed a law to where the University of Texas has to accepted the top ten percent of each high school’s class. She was not in the top ten percent of her class, so she applied to the other non-ten percent. The university does base the applicants that are not a part of the top ten percent of race. Fisher filed a suit that it is a violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to base an applicant on race. The University of Texas argued that they base some applicants on a race to add a sense of diversity to the