Criminology Essay - 550 Words

Criminology Essay (Other (Not Listed) Sample) Content: CriminologyName:Institution:Course:Date:Topic OneThe United States Supreme court case in this case is one named Messrschmidt v. Millender Case whereby Roberts and Breyer concurred, Kagan concurred in certain parts and dissented in others, Sotomayor dissented with Ginsburg. The case took course in 22nd, February, 2012. In the case, Jerry Bowen is allegedly attacked his ex-girlfriend (Kelly) physically and shot her five times with a sawed-off shotgun when fleeing. Detective Messrschmidt carried out investigation and came up with a confirmation that Bowed used to reside at the house of his foster-mother (Ms. Millender) and his arrest and conviction came after numerous offenses that were violent and related to firearms. The rap sheet belonging to Bowen had a 17 pages span and gave an indication of that he had at least 31 times of arrest before. An arrest warrant for Bowen was obtained by Messrschmidt together with Millenderà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬s search warrant (Little et al, 2013) .A review of the warrant was done by two supervisory officers and an assistant DA, together with the magistrate who had it signed. All officials who had the application reviewed never expressed concern about its validity. In addition to other things, the search warrant given gave authority for someone to search for and seize "all" guns and "evidence articles that showed membership by street gang of affiliation." Its contents also had Messrschmidt belief that such evidence can have value for prosecution that is successful of not just the crime of shooting but also curtailing of further crimes that can be committed. After the warrant was executed, Brown was not found by the officers, he however got arrested after two weeks, while hiding under a motel roomà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬s bed. Ms. Millender was not confronted together with her family. Her short gun was seized, a ammunition with .45 calibration together with a letter that had Bowen as the addressee. The conclusions made was that the warrant had no probable cause that could justify seizing all "gang-related" materials together with "all" guns (Little et al, 2013).ReferenceLittle, R.K., et al, (2013) The Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association, 2012 Annual Meeting in Annual Review of the Supreme Courtà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬s Term, Criminal Cases. Retrieved from , Illinois,USA. Print.Topic 2I chose "Characteristics of felony defendants in the 75 largest countiesà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã‚ . The table shows the most serious arrest charges ranging from violent offe...