criminal justice

1. Team Bravo
Carole Harvill, Candace Gallegos, Brian Wetjen,
Michelle Majette, and Jesse Palmer

2. Act of kindness
• New York cop gives homeless man a pair of
shoes and socks.

3. Pay it forward
• A kind man pays for a
few peoples bill on the
day before
Thanksgiving.
• Personal experience – a
total of 30 people paid
for the persons order
behind them in a
Dunkin Donuts drive
thru.

4. Clerks Fight
Back
Clerks Go Vigilante
It was a rainy Monday
morning in Miami when
22yr old Charles Bell
shoved a pistol into the
face of a manager
behind the counter. He
demanded cash and
cigarettes, he then took
customers to the back,
when he returned the
manager Valentin Fiallos
pointed a .38 and
squeezed the trigger.

5. Vigilante Justice
Unintended Death
Timothy Chandler had
been arrested on child
pornography charges, two
of his neighbors decided to
scare him out of the
neighborhood by setting
his house on fire. Chandler
escaped from the flames
but his wife Melisa did not.
His two neighbors were
arrested and charged with
first degree murder and
arson.

6. Holy Beat Down
“The Beat Down”
A California man is accused
of tracking down a priest
that allegedly molested
him three decades ago.
43yr old William Lynch was
arrested on suspicion of
assault with a deadly
weapon for the May 10th
attack on 65yr old Rev.
Jerold Lindner. Lynch
harbored this anger for the
priest who also allegedly
also molested his little
brother.

7. Acts of Civil Disobedience: Violating
the Law to Change the Law
• UC to pay damages in Davis
pepper-spraying
• September 2012: The University of
California will pay $30,000 to each of
21 students who were pepper-
sprayed during an Occupy rally on
campus.
• Although the students were
protesting peacefully, campus
security took extreme measures to
end the protest.
• School administration stated,
“administrators are urged to use
mediation instead of confrontation in
most civil disobedience cases,
although it said pepper spray might
remain a necessary tool of last
resort”

8. Acts of Civil Disobedience: Violating
the Law to Change the Law
• Smoking pot in Independence Park to
make a historical point
• October 2, 2012, Chris Goldstein lit a
joint in the middle of Independence
park and got. . .stoned; not arrested.
• He stated, “this is how smoking
marijuana should be. . .everyday there
are thousands of people getting
arrested for pot, and for this amount of
pot. . .mostly young black men are
getting arrested for this”.
• The act of civil disobedience was held in
the 75th anniversary of the arrest of
Samuel Caldwell and Moses Baba, who
were arrested in 1937 are the passage
of the federal Marijuana Act.
• Goldstein is calling for the repeal of
marijuana laws which he feels
disproportionately affects minorities.

9. Acts of Civil Disobedience: Violating
the Law to Change the Law
• Veterans for Peace Among 33 Arrested
Outside Drone Base in New York State
– Members of Veterans for Peace were arrested
before being able to approach Hancock Air Field.
They were trying to deliver a written statement
– The group was trying to exercise their 1st
Amendment right to ‘petition our government for
a redress of grievances’. They were attempting to
serve an indictment to those committing war
crimes with the use of drones.

10. July 2, 2008 Bogotá, Columbia
A Columbian soldier wore a Red Cross bib during a military attempt to rescue
hostages held by the Revolutionary Forces of Columbia (FARC).
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe acknowledged the use of the logo.
Misuse of the Red Cross logo is a war crime defined by the Geneva Conventions,
which Columbia signed in 1949. This abuse of the Red Cross could jeopardize the
validity of future Red Cross missions and the safety of the volunteers involved.
The rescue mission was successful. Former presidential candidate, Ingrid
Betancourt, three US contractors and 11 Colombian soldiers were removed from
the captors.
Is the act of a war crime absolved because hostages were rescued?

11. September 22, 2011 Moorfield Eye Hospital London, England
Patients in Britain with an incurable eye disease which causes blindness, are
receiving embryonic stem cells.
Medical teams wish to halt, or at least slow, the progress of Stargardt’s macular
dystrophy; a disease that attacks the retina causing irreparable damage.
Physicians are supposed to protect
life and sustain life. Restoring sight to
individuals is compliant with the
Hippocratic oath.
Embryonic stem cells are obtained
from a fetus; a non-living fetus.
Is the death of an embryonic human less important than restoring sight to the
potentially blind human?

12. April 13, 1999 Oakland County, Michigan
Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted of second degree murder for committing
physician-assisted-suicide.
Tom Youk suffered two years battling Lou Gehrig's disease. As per a 60 Minutes
interview with Mike Wallace, Kevorkian said, “Tom was terrified of choking.” Youk
asked Dr. Kevorkian to relieve him of pain by helping him end his life. (Link to CBS
video: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7368313n).
Dr. Kevorkian valued the quality of life
endured by Mr. Youk. He wished to cease
the pain and suffering of his patient.
Death was the only cure.
Society in the form of the court system
disallowed Mr. Youk the freedom to end his
life as he wished.
Does society render a physician as criminal because he wishes to end the
patient’s personal suffering?

13. Agence France-Presse (AFP). (2008, August 6). AFP: Red Cross slams misuse of logo in Betancourt
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