Killing Cari Case Study

On June 7th 2008, Sarah May Ward was arrested for the murder of Eli Westlake after she ran him over in a motor vehicle in St. Leonards. Prior to the incident the offender had been driving the wrong way down Christine Lane which was a one way street. Whilst this was occurring she was intoxicated, under the influence of marijuana, valium, and ecstasy and was unlicensed to drive. The victim and his brother who were also intoxicated, where walking down the lane and where nearly hit by the offender. This prompted the victim to throw cheese balls at the car and make a few sarcastic remarks regarding her driving ability. After a brief confrontation between the two parties the victim and his brother turned away and proceeded to walk

Although included in the story, it does not focus on the convicted drunk driver who hit the car Jacqueline was in or on her friends who were critically injured or killed in the wreck that caused Jacqui’s injuries. The main focus was on Jacqueline and her story. People sometimes overlook the ones who survive fatal drunk driving accidents. However, the lives taken and their loved ones are not the only people who suffer. While it is incredibly sad to hear of someone dying in a car wreck especially when it was no fault of their own, you have to be thankful that they are not in pain, physically or mentally. The ones who are still alive and struggling with their injuries are

On June 9th, 1959, a 14 year old boy named Steven Truscott was seen giving 12 year old Lynne Harper a ride on his bike, not knowing that he would be accused and found guilty of sexually assaulting and strangling her to death. For the next 50 years he would seek justice for being wrongfully imprisoned and finally get it. Steven Truscott was a popular and athletic teenage boy who lived with both his parents and his three siblings in the Ontario town of Clinton. Lynne Harper was a girl who also lived with both of her parents as well as her younger brother, whose life ended shortly.

On August 17, 1981 during the morning hours a murder was committed, James Dvorak was beaten to death in Canova Beach, Florida in the wooded area of Brevard County. During the morning after the murder was committed a driver gave a ride to a hitchhiker near where the crime happened, the hitchhiker was wearing a yellow t-shirt with the words “Surf it” and the t-shirt was all bloody. According to the driver there was also blood smeared on his legs and shorts. The driver agreed to give the hitchhiker a ride to a tavern that was three miles away, but not before that the driver performed oral sex on the side of the road before he dropped him off at the tavern. Later the driver noticed that the hitchhiker had forgotten his t-shirt on the truck, which then later the driver disposed it at a

This case, which has captured public attention, revolves around Mark Steven Slone facing charges of murder under Penal Code section 187, following the tragic discovery of the body of 13-year-old Barbara Collins in a Carson parking lot (Justia,

On May 16th, 2010 Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a seven-year old Black girl from the east side of Detroit, Michigan was fast asleep at her grandmother’s home when Detroit Police Department’s Special Response Team mistakenly entered the residence during a midnight raid. Officer Joseph Weekley discharged a bullet that entered Stanley Jones’ head leaving her body lifeless. Initially, Weekley was charged in connection with Stanley Jones’ death but prosecutors cleared him in 2015, ensuring he would face no repercussions for his negligence that resulted in the premature death of Aiyana Stanley Jones.

This is case that faces Mary Barnett. The issue in this case is that On January 23, the litigant, Mary Barnett, left Chicago to visit her life partner in San Francisco having left her six-month-old little girl, Alison, unattended in the apartment. Mary Barnett returned home a week later to find that her child had died of dehydration. She called the police and at first, to let them know that she had left her kid with a baby sitter. She later expressed that she had left the child and she didn 't mean to return, and that she knew Alison would die in a day or two. She has been accused of wrongdoing of second-degree murder; purposeful homicide without intention. In the event that she is sentenced, she could face up to eighteen years in prison. This piece of writing tries to give the verdict of the case after critically examining both prosecution and defendant side.

Keeping the theme, the story is started off with an introductory story from the original Mercedes tragedy when a psychopath, Brady Hartsfield, ran over innocent job seekers in the heart of town. The preface is told by two police officers on call the night of the mass murder. They reported to Martine Stover, a 50 year old victim. She was found unconscious, barely holding on. She ended up surviving

It was on April 8th 2009 when Victoria “Tori” Stafford was brutally murdered by two adults who go by the names of Michael Rafferty and Terri-Lynne McClintic. It was the first day Victoria was allowed to walk home by herself from her elementary school in Woodstock, Ontario, when McClintic lured her to Rafferty’s vehicle, by allegedly offering to show Tori her puppy. Once Tori was in the vehicle, they then proceeded to drive 2 hours away to the city of Guelph, Ontario. Michael Rafferty withdrew cash from an Automated Teller Machine, and McClintic purchased a claw hammer and garbage bags from a near by Home Depot. They had taken Victoria off a gravel road near Mount Forest. Tori’s body was found with lacerations to her liver, broken ribs, and

Early the next morning of December 8th, the lifeless body of Debbie Carter was found strangled in her small apartment. The murder of Debbie Carter flipped this small, rural, bible-belt, town on its head. People were outraged, overwhelmed, and stunned that such a thing could happen in this town to a young, beautiful girl whom everyone had known. This gruesome act put enormous pressure on local law enforcement to find the atrocious criminal. Finger prints, hair, and blood spatter was carefully collected from the scene.

That was an interesting article! I do not think the drunken driver had planned to kill an innocent woman at the time, just created a terrible mistake of drinking and driving. I truly believe it was generous for the judge to be a bit lenient considering he is only 23 years old. Travis having to go to serve one week on the death anniversary of Emily will help him understand the irresponsible mistake he made of drinking. I agree with the father’s statement about not only being a consequence but also as a way to give Travis a lesson. Not only could this serve as a lesson to Travis but to other people as

" On July 29, 1994, seven year old Megan Kanka, from Hamilton Township, New Jersey, was walking home after playing at a friends house. She had almost reached her front door when Jesse Timmendequas, 33, a landscaper who had lived across the street for a year invited her over to pet his new puppy ( Richard 1 )." " When Megan followed him inside, he led her to an upstairs bedroom, strangled her unconscious with his belt, raped her and then asphyxiated her to death with a plastic bag. Timmendequas then placed Megan’s body in a tool box, drove it in his pick-up truck to a near-by soccer field and dumped her body in some bushes ( Jerome 1 )." This, and the tragic murder of Amanda Wengert, was how the name was developed. But in my paper I did not discuss the murder and raping of Amanda Wengert.

The Irving, Texas–based organization was founded in 1980 in California by Candice Lightner after her 13-year-old daughter Cari was killed by a drunk driver. On May 3, 1980 Lightner’s 13-year-old daughter, Cari, was killed by a drunken hit-and-run driver at Sunset and New York Avenues in Fair Oaks, California. The 46-year-old driver, who had recently been arrested for another DUI hit-and-run, left her body at the scene.

People tend to feel differently about this if someone they loved were to be killed or injured by a drunk driver. Travis Grayson killed a 6-year-old girl

The recent drunk driving accident happened on March 12th of this year. A lady name Jennifer Hanks age 38 was crossing a street when she was seriously injured by a drunk driver (nola.com). Her sister Catlynn Paige watched the surveillance video of a car hitting her sister about 6 times (nola.com). She was hit by a man named Luis Delatorre age 59 which this accident was his second DUI that he received since 2008. His bond was a low $7,500 which people say that this was another slap on the wrist.