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Lorena W. Weeks (born 1929) was the plaintiff in an important sex discrimination case, Weeks v. Southern Bell (1969). She claimed that Southern Bell had violated her rights under the 1964 Civil Rights Act when they denied her application for promotion to a higher paying position because she was a woman.
Sylvia Roberts (1933–2014) was an American lawyer known for legal work on behalf of patients at the East Louisiana State Hospital's Forensic Unit, for the National Organization for Women's (NOW) Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDEF), as an educator and advocate for the legal rights of women in Louisiana, and on the behalf of victims of domestic violence.
Also introduced at her trial was a videotape of the crime, recorded by the detective agency Clara had hired when she suspected David of the affair. The video was especially damning, as it showed her circling her Mercedes around the parking lot three times, although David is not clearly seen in the video. Clara then parks her car next to his body.
Jesse Lorena is thought to have resided in Hong Kong for more than eight years, [5] originally worked as a domestic helper, [5] but transitioned to a "part-time disc jockey in a pub" at the time of the murder. [4] Lorena was last seen at around 20:45 on 31 October 2014, outside a pub in the Wan Chai red light district, and spoke briefly to ...
She left the apartment with the severed appendage and drove her car to the nail salon where she worked. She threw the penis out of the car window into a roadside field during her commute. It was later found and re-attached. After her arrest, Lorena accused John of ongoing domestic violence and marital rape. The story and trial became a headline ...
Within the week after her disappearance, a warrant for Al-Wadud's arrest was placed, charging him with the first-degree murder of Panek. [1] He was tracked to his mother's home in East Palo Alto, California, [10] where he was arrested by authorities on July 20 [11] and extradited to Oregon. [1] The trial commenced in March 1996. [5]
In the early hours of August 13, 2018, in Frederick, Colorado, Christopher Lee Watts (born May 16, 1985) [1] murdered his pregnant wife Shanann (34) by strangulation, and their two children Bella (4) and Celeste (3) by suffocation.
Michael Dewayne Johnson (May 27, 1977 – October 19, 2006) was a criminal sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of Jeff Wetterman. Johnson committed suicide 15 hours before his scheduled execution. Johnson committed suicide 15 hours before his scheduled execution.