Individual Criminal Defense Case Analysis Paper
Individual Criminal Defense Case Analysis
Ora Howe
CJA/354
November 18, 2013
Peter Lukevich
Individual Criminal Defense Case Analysis
This paper will locate two cases that discuss various types of criminal defenses. The two choices are: (1) The Jeffrey Dahmer Case, and (2) State v. Fisher Involuntary Manslaughter Case. The two cases analysis in which this paper identifies and examines the types of criminal defenses that were used. This paper will also explain the nature and types of defenses used in the cases and what evidence was used to demonstrate the defense. This paper will describe how justification and excuse play a role in the cases. This paper will also describe the outcome of each case.
The Jeffrey Dahmer Case/Early …show more content…
Although Jeffrey Dahmer succeeded at first in the systematized and well-organized structure of the military, he was discharged after two years of service due to heavy drinking. In 1982, after being arrested for disorderly conduct and public intoxication, Jeffrey Dahmer went to live with his grandmother in West Allis. During this stage, Dahmer’s manners grew progressively stranger; his grandmother regularly found weapons in his room and Dahmer was arrested twice for indecent exposure in 1982 and 1986 (Laws, 2013). As one can see Dahmer criminal defenses started at an early age, whereas any individual think sometimes at what point could the parents have stopped Dahmer’s behavior and what measures could have stopped these brutal killings from …show more content…
Succeeding this attack, Dahmer continued to kill periodically: Dahmer committed two murders in 1988, one in the early part of 1989 and one later. Dahmer normally picked up his victims in gay bars, drugged them and then brutally murdered them. Dahmer, as a psychotic post-humorous ritual, would often keep his victim’s body parts or skulls in his apartment refrigerator. Jeffrey Dahmer picked up his murdering pace in the early 1990s. Using his own residence as the central hub for his devastation, Jeffrey Dahmer averaged one murder a week during the summer of 1991.
Explain the Nature and Types of Defenses Used in the Cases and what Evidence was used to demonstrate the defense
The nature of this case is the insanity defense, types, legal and psychological issues, due process, postpartum psychosis. On July 13, 1992, Dahmer disregarded his lawyer 's advice and changed his plea to guilty, but that he was insane. According to Don Davis in The Milwaukee Killings, "the statement turned the case on its head. Now, instead of having to verify his man did not commit the killings, defense attorney Gerald Boyle would undo one of the gruesome tapestries ever seen in an American courtroom. Boyle task was to prove the jury that Dahmer was imprudent, because only an insane individual would do the things he did." Mike McCann, on the other hand, needed to show that Dahmer was not lawfully insane — that he knew what he was doing
Ora Howe
CJA/354
November 18, 2013
Peter Lukevich
Individual Criminal Defense Case Analysis
This paper will locate two cases that discuss various types of criminal defenses. The two choices are: (1) The Jeffrey Dahmer Case, and (2) State v. Fisher Involuntary Manslaughter Case. The two cases analysis in which this paper identifies and examines the types of criminal defenses that were used. This paper will also explain the nature and types of defenses used in the cases and what evidence was used to demonstrate the defense. This paper will describe how justification and excuse play a role in the cases. This paper will also describe the outcome of each case.
The Jeffrey Dahmer Case/Early …show more content…
Although Jeffrey Dahmer succeeded at first in the systematized and well-organized structure of the military, he was discharged after two years of service due to heavy drinking. In 1982, after being arrested for disorderly conduct and public intoxication, Jeffrey Dahmer went to live with his grandmother in West Allis. During this stage, Dahmer’s manners grew progressively stranger; his grandmother regularly found weapons in his room and Dahmer was arrested twice for indecent exposure in 1982 and 1986 (Laws, 2013). As one can see Dahmer criminal defenses started at an early age, whereas any individual think sometimes at what point could the parents have stopped Dahmer’s behavior and what measures could have stopped these brutal killings from …show more content…
Succeeding this attack, Dahmer continued to kill periodically: Dahmer committed two murders in 1988, one in the early part of 1989 and one later. Dahmer normally picked up his victims in gay bars, drugged them and then brutally murdered them. Dahmer, as a psychotic post-humorous ritual, would often keep his victim’s body parts or skulls in his apartment refrigerator. Jeffrey Dahmer picked up his murdering pace in the early 1990s. Using his own residence as the central hub for his devastation, Jeffrey Dahmer averaged one murder a week during the summer of 1991.
Explain the Nature and Types of Defenses Used in the Cases and what Evidence was used to demonstrate the defense
The nature of this case is the insanity defense, types, legal and psychological issues, due process, postpartum psychosis. On July 13, 1992, Dahmer disregarded his lawyer 's advice and changed his plea to guilty, but that he was insane. According to Don Davis in The Milwaukee Killings, "the statement turned the case on its head. Now, instead of having to verify his man did not commit the killings, defense attorney Gerald Boyle would undo one of the gruesome tapestries ever seen in an American courtroom. Boyle task was to prove the jury that Dahmer was imprudent, because only an insane individual would do the things he did." Mike McCann, on the other hand, needed to show that Dahmer was not lawfully insane — that he knew what he was doing