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Benefits of Hiring A Criminal Lawyer
Each year many candidates aspire to become a criminal lawyer. It is a very challenging profession that requires considerable dedication and a critical thinking ability to sustain a case. Criminal lawyers represent defendants facing criminal charges in state, federal, and appellate courts. If you are considering a career as a lawyer in criminal cases then you are in for a roller-coaster ride. To become a criminal lawyer you should smart and intelligent, that you can represent your client and their case in court in Infront of an opposition lawyer.
By David Fenton5 years ago in Criminal
“Eccentric” Professor Mummified 26 Dead Girls and Turned Them Into Dolls
Anatoly Moskvin’s obsession with death led him to bring the dead home with him. Yet, no one knew for years, not even his parents. His story and crimes beg the question: where is the line between “genius” and just plain “madness?”
By Malinda Fusco5 years ago in Criminal
Bad Seeds?
Twenty-seven years after the murder of two-year-old James Bulger, the mention of his murderers’ names still provokes hatred and vitriol in a large section of society. Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were just ten years old when they committed their terrible crime, a fact which undoubtably added to the horror expressed by people as they struggled to come to terms with this most baffling phenomenon – children who kill. The Press brandished the pair ‘monsters’, and ‘evil’, but the psychological wellness, or otherwise, of these two young boys was left virtually unexamined at the time, and the question of ‘why?’ went unasked, and unanswered. Is it possible that abuse or neglect in their own lives could have played some part in altering normal development in these young minds, and could this have rendered them more likely to commit such a dreadful act?
By Sarah Newlyn5 years ago in Criminal
The ‘Lone Actor’ Terrorism Attacks No One Can Prevent
On a warm and pleasant evening in June 2020, dozens of people were relaxing in Forbury Gardens, a park in Reading, England. People were sitting on the grass, in small groups of friends. Some were drinking a beer or a glass of wine: Some were having a picnic. England was gradually coming out of Covid-19 lockdown, and people were enjoying their renewed freedom. There had been a ‘Black Lives Matter’ event in the park earlier that day, and some people in the park had been in attendance.
By Andy Killoran5 years ago in Criminal
HONOR KILLING
Death is inevitable, we’re all destined to die one day; but for some, death lies in the hands of the ones we call family. Most often being the murder of a female by male family relatives, honor killings are acts of vengeance, usually death, committed by members of a family against a family member due to the belief of the perpetrator that the victim has brought dishonor upon the ménage (the members of the household) . Thus, in order to ‘purify’ the family name and prestige, they selfishly murder their own flesh and blood. It is often also referred to as ‘femicide’ since women represent the highest percentage of fatalities in this practice. Honor killing is especially prevalent in the Southern parts of Asia – Pakistan and India, and the Middle East , where women are at a great social and institutional disadvantage. In these societies this ferocious act is not viewed as murder; rather it is dressed up with a more refined and polished label: ‘honor killing’.
By Hafsa Rehman5 years ago in Criminal
Sin
My name is Frankie McCrow and this is the nightmare that eats at me daily. Sometimes no matter how hard we try to forget inevitable decisions, we can never truly escape the lingering and haunting truth. I share with you, not only a confession, but a story of evil that has brought horror and torment to my life. For the events I express are true and still agonize me to this day.
By Lethaniel Bouie5 years ago in Criminal
The Undoing 1.1-1.4
David Kelley's The Undoing mini-series debuted with a star-studded cast on HBO late last month. I mean, with Nicole Kidman as Grace Fraser a psychologist and Hugh Grant as her husband Jonathan Fraser an oncologist on the posh side of New York City, and a murder and a missing person, we can just stop there and how can you go wrong, right? You can't. The first episode was sleek and blockbuster powerful, an East Coast analog in many ways of Kelley's California Big Little Lies, which was pretty hot, suspenseful stuff, too, over two seasons.
By Paul Levinson5 years ago in Criminal
The Two Killings Of Sam Cooke - review (Netflix)
The Two Killings Of Sam Cooke is a documentary by Kelly Duane that is emotionally resonant but ultimately underwhelming. In essence, it rehashes the story of Cooke’s death and how it was shrouded in and remains shrouded in mystery. That is the first and obvious killing.
By Q-ell Betton5 years ago in Criminal
The Murder of Abraham Arellano: "Suicide By Cop", or Something Else?
At 6 pm, April 13th, 2019, I attended the vigil for Abraham Arellano, a Hispanic man who was killed by a Frederick County Sheriff’s deputy in what police are calling a “suicide by cop”. Much has already been written about Abraham, how he made a call from his cell phone about a home intrusion, how his girlfriend and child were in the home, how Abraham had a gun, and he wanted the cops to stop him before he murdered his loved ones, driven suicidal by the fact that he was supposedly being left by his girlfriend, who may have been able to take his child out of his custody, tied up with a neat little bow.
By Johnny Ringo5 years ago in Criminal
