It is likely that Martina Toole could maintain a claim against Lyons-Burke for negligent supervision because Toole was under the physical custody of the school when she was attacked by a fellow student, and thus the school had a duty to protect her. Lyons-burke had the duty to adequately supervise Martina Toole and her attacker, Ivy Toxicon, because it had physical custody of both students. At around 5:30 PM on the day of the attack, both students were in the process of waiting for departure at the only exit at the school. Just as in the Mirand case, the attack happened near an exit during dismissal. There are two facts that differentiate this case from Mirand: the attack happened after school hours and it may have technically happened off
The case of Tennessee vs Reeves talks about two youngsters named Tracie Reeves and Molly Coffman who were students at the West Carrol Middle School who were planning to kill their teacher, Janice Geiger (Hall 2014; Schmalleger, 2014). They had planned to poison the teacher with rat poison by putting it in the teacher’s drink (Hall 2014; Schmalleger, 2014). There were other students who had found out, and the plot had been reported to the teacher and principal of the school (Hall 2014; Schmalleger, 2014). The students were convicted of attempt to commit secondary degree murder based on the fact that the poison was brought to the school and if it wasn’t because the plot to killed Miss. Geiger was interrupted the crime would have taken place.
Facts: The Louise Lombard School is a developmental center for disabled children in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). It is here that seventeen-year-old John Doe, an emotionally-disturbed student assaulted another student. According to his April 1980 IEP, Doe had several goals set for coping with frustrating situations and relating to his peers. During the incident in November, Doe reacted to the taunts of other students by choking another student and leaving abrasions on the child’s neck. While being escorted to the principal’s office, Doe also kicked out a school window. The principal suspended Doe for five days. During his suspension, the Student Placement
A teacher’s most important duty is to protect the students they are in charge of. This duty includes both reasonably protecting students from harm and, when a student is harmed, reporting it to the proper authorities (Gooden, Eckes, Mead, McNeal, & Torres, 2013, pp. 103-109). There have been many court cases that reiterate this duty of school staff. One such case is Frugis v. Bracigliano (2003) where many staff at a school failed in their duty to protect students and allowed abuse to continue for years.
Returning to the judicial world of the Bronx Family Court as a judge, after years of working in administration, Judge Richard Ross is astonished to find a distinctly more disjointed situation than the one he left. As he attempts to live out his life as “both the fact finder and arbiter of the law” it is clear the current judicial system does not serve him well (xv). Judge Ross conveys to the reader the fundamental issues of the Family Court system through his day to day happenings which range from endless caseloads to death threats. The use of personal experience is effective in adding credibility to more clearly convey his point that not only the Judges, but the case workers, 18-B attorneys, and various legal aides are overworked to a point
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- were they guilty or just victims of circumstance? You decide. This case was one of the most controversial court cases in America's history and soon you will know why.
Ashley’s mother reports that patient use to take Seroquel, for reasons unreported. Ashley discontinued taking the medicine, because of how sleepy it made her. Ashley has been charged with assault, due to an incident where she attacked her teacher, which caused bodily harm to the teacher. Ashley was placed on probation for this incident. Ashley has previous diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). Ashley is
The case involved a line of duty shooting that took place between Illinois Officer Mary Redmond and suspect Ricky Allen, whom Redmond fatally wounded, and revolved around the family’s excessive force complaint, which they filed on the grounds that the witness testimony differed from Redmond’s account. [1]
Firstly, with duty to act cases, it is often not clear exactly what D must do, or how little, before the duty will arise. The Ruffell case shows just how little you have to do in order for a duty to arise. Another issue is that it is very difficult to know exactly when the defendants had in fact undertaken responsibility to care for the victim (Ds had a very minimal interaction with V); the facts reveal that the defendants were of low intelligence which makes it unlikely that they would ever be capable providing the necessary care V required. The conviction of the defendant’s advocates that the courts adopt a strict stance when faced with claims that the accused had done what he believed to be sufficient to fulfil the duty. There is a lack of case law surrounding what family relations trigger a duty to act, this leads to uncertainty and inconsistency in cases when looking at the facts of the case . This is significant because prior to this case there was no case law that established a duty to act between siblings and without familial duties to act the duties to act based on an assumption of care might not have held up on its own as D’s attempts to care for V were so miniscule. Lastly There was also dispute on whether the D’s in this case believed that they had sufficiently fulfilled their duty or that what they were doing was sufficient because
After viewing the website the principal called the police and the FBI. Because of the threatening and offensive material posted about her, Mrs. Fulmer became fearful that someone was going to kill her. She suffered mental health issues which lead to her being too distraught to finish out the school year. Because of this, the school had to hire substitute teachers, which was a disruption to the educational process.
Crime reporting has long been a central part of news coverage in free press societies, because crime stories are usually newsworthy. Since 1964 there are so many newspapers and articles that has been written about the remorseless Winston Moseley. Moseley was born in March 2,1935 in new York city. He was married and had two children. Moseley owned a house in Queens and worked at Mt.Vernon in nearby Westchester county as a machine operator. In 1964 Mosley was arrested for stealing a television throughout a housebreak and taken into custody. While he was in prison, he confessed bunch of robbery, necrophilia, rape and murder of
She never once mentioned Mr. McKnight using any inappropriate terms during class this year. Since she did have him 3 times (remediation, science, and social studies), I suggest a quick easy move would be to put her in a new remediation group. Mrs. Stokes was in the room. She made that change. After our conversation Kaylan returned back to Mr. McKight’s room without hesitation. I spoke with Mr. McKnight regarding Kaylan after school. He is frustrated with her behavior. He sent her to ISS today because she was arguing with him in class. He did share concerns about her behavior with Mr. LeGrande the ISS teacher. He stated he was not gossiping about her in the hallway with other teachers. He did not mention her going to MLA. The mention of MLA came from Ms. LeGrande when she was discussing consequences if Kaylan choses to continue to disrupt class. Ms. Covington called back around 3:30 and I shared with her that I spoke with Kaylan. I share with her what had transpired in the meeting with Kaylan. I asked her what she believed would be best for Kaylan since she has no animosity toward Mr. McKight. Mom asked if Kaylan could be moved to another teacher. I told mom I would meet with our guidance counselor first thing in the morning and see if we could adjust her schedule since Kaylan was so
Life. Life is what gives you the ability to think, to speak, to breath and to be a part of this world. It is worth more than any amount of money, your life is priceless. Without it, we would seize to exist; our world would be utter darkness. Honourable Judge, Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, today Mary Maloney stands on trial before you. A woman who took the away the life of not just an innocent citizen, but her very own husband. She was thought to be an ordinary women, a typical housewife and a soon to be loving mother. However, the facts presented before you today conclude that Mary Maloney was not just an unordinary detective’s wife, but also a murder. On April 13th 1953, the life of Patrick Maloney came to a tragic end because of leg of lamb in the hands of Mary Maloney. For the following reasons, Mary Maloney, wife of the deceased, is guilty of 1st degree murder.
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
In conclusion, Mrs. Barrett suffered from many years of abuse from her husband. She finally snapped and shot Mr. Barrett, killing him. She did this because in self- defense and beyond reasonable doubt that he would have killed her. She also should be able to claim Battered Woman 's Syndrome because she went through the stages of abuse and meets the qualifications of a battered woman described in Leslie McGuire’s book. In the end, Mrs. Barrett should have Leslie McGuire testify because she is very experienced and widely known, she has heard and counseled people in over 300 cases. . She is a reliable person with good intentions and will only help the case. I hope that you make the right decision today, Thank you.
Luck, Moral Guilt and Legal Guilt. The question of whether luck should play a role in our assessment of other people is fundamental to human society. Our judicial laws express the view that we are responsible for our actions; in other words, luck does have a bearing on the determination of legal guilt; since legal guilt is theoretically based on moral guilt, this means that luck is usually considered to have a bearing on moral guilt as well. However, there are serious difficulties with this system of judgment.