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Reason First: America’s First ‘Murtherer [sic]‘
At America’s inception theft, graft, rape, and pillaging and other illicitness became ways of life. As folks from Europe avoided creditors, extradition, and persecution, ships like the Mayflower would bring them to the New World. With the unsanitary conditions and poor living spaces, the occupants of such vessels had to fend off constant wetness and disease.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Eye Drop Murderer
Can this case be any clearer? Anyone with eyes can see that South Carolinian Lana Sue Clayton is guilty of murder. Her feelings and emotions clouded her thoughts and disrupted her ability to reason. She deliberately placed significant amounts of eye drops, which contain tetrahydrozoline into her husband’s drinking water. This chemical has the power to decrease the size of blood vessels. In large amounts, the tetrahydrozoline could bring down anyone through the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system. How did she even come to the point of going against her spouse? She claims that she just wanted to make him ‘uncomfortable.’ To make someone uncomfortable would mean to ask questions, seek counseling, and engage in reasoning. He might have felt pangs of uneasiness but he would still have been alive. That should be enough to keep her behind the wall. Well, how much discomfort should you allow before you commit homicide?
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Part IV of the Charles Cohen Murder Story
After escaping capture for 18 months, Charles Cohen, in a New Orleans, Louisiana courtroom, stood up and told everyone in attendance that he was a murderer. Though floored, the occupants of the court didn’t pommel him or even heckle him with insults. “In Jesus name” he confessed to the three murders including his parents Dr. Martin and Ethel Cohen in Hockessin, Delaware and Mr. Conrad Lutz in San Francisco, California.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
When to Use U.S. Immigration Attorneys
Using an Immigration Attorney Although it is not mandatory that you have US immigration attorneys to represent you, there are areas in the immigration process that can be too complex for someone not familiar with the U.S. immigration process.
By mamun rahman6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Part III of the Charles Cohen Murder Story
How many ways can one say that this is an extremely bizarre case? Charlie Cohen ends up in San Francisco, California. He, driving off of the fumes of desperation and depravity after bludgeoning and stabbing his parents to death in their Hockessin, Delaware home, decided to stop. He met a financial executive named Conrad Lutz. A gay man, Lutz wanted to engage in sex acts with Cohen. Cohen led him to believe that he wanted the same thing. His way of squashing any sexual feelings for Lutz consisted of stabbing him to death in the heart with a dagger that he had obtained at a homeless shelter.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Part II of the Charles Cohen Murder Story
It has been said before...cocaine is a hell of a drug. Now, obtaining it and using it doesn’t mean that every user has or will brutally murder their own parents like Cohen did in Hockessin, Delaware. But this did mean that Charlie Cohen would do just that after the misdeed had been committed. He damn near decapitated his mother upon inflicting so much damage on her with the pocket knife that he used on his father, as well. After knocking both his father and mother, respectively, over the head with a ten pound dumbbell, Cohen started stabbing them both as life escaped from their bodies. Not for a moment did he show any remorse or a compassion or guilt to the very people who loved and cared for him. He reversed the saying to read, “you brought me into this world, and I’ll take you out of it.”
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Jail Diversion
The Diversion Programs Courtney Keller Louisiana State University Alexandria Diversion Programs What is a diversion program? Diversion programs can be described as many different things. A diversion program can be seen as a form of rehabilitation or a detour sentence. When a defendant qualifies for a diversion program, they can avoid a prison sentence. However, do diversion programs work? To answer this question, one must know what a diversion program is.
By Courtney Keller6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Killer Charles Cohen Just Wanted Some Chicken
This white boy murdered his parents over thirty years ago in Hockessin, Delaware. The cops let him sit up and enjoy a bucket of fried chicken and a drink of soda. Would the same treatment be given to a person of color? There’s no such thing as white privilege but there is such a thing as racism. Did the cops not see this or did they just want to make Charles Cohen, who is now serving a life sentence in Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Delaware comfortable and as the article states, not reach out for an attorney? The News Journal has picked up the story again to highlight the wicked details of three murders. Charles Cohen had also murdered a man named Conrad Lutz.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Have You Been the Victim of a DUI?
People who have never been arrested for drunk driving often are surprised by the severity of the penalties. They frequently drop their jaws in surprise when they are facing both criminal and civil charges. While both cases deal with the same evidence, the goal and proof used in each case are significantly different.
By Donna Ryan6 years ago in Criminal
