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The Guidelines are the product of the United States Sentencing Commission, which was created by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. [3] The Guidelines' primary goal was to alleviate sentencing disparities that research had indicated were prevalent in the existing sentencing system, and the guidelines reform was specifically intended to provide for determinate sentencing.
Christopher Sepulvado was charged with first-degree murder, while Yvonne Mercer was charged with second-degree murder. Sepulvado admitted to the police and court that he had assaulted Mercer but denied that he intentionally immersed Mercer into the water, claiming that the victim accidentally fell into the bathtub and therefore got scalded by ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Child abuse resulting in death" ... List of long-term false imprisonment cases; Murder of Nadine Lockwood; M.
During his autopsy, Avalos's body showed clear signs of sustained abuse. He had bruises and burns all over his body, and he was extremely malnourished. [4] According to court testimony, Avalos's aunt, Crystal Diuguid, divulged to her therapist that Avalos's mother was beating, starving, and locking him for hours in a room without any access to the bathroom. [4]
To cover her already egregious transgression, Elmore concocted a fraudulent backdated internal memo which was placed in Terrell's file; that the trial did indeed occur, no evidence of child abuse was found and the charges were dismissed as a result. The memo stated, "The judge believed Ms. Peterson (and) did not feel she was guilty of child abuse."
On January 6, 2011, Miriam Gallegos was sentenced to 12 years in prison and five years of parole for child abuse resulting in death. [12] On May 15, 2012, Angel Montoya was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder, child abuse resulting in death and abuse of a corpse.
But significant evidence undermines that argument: the tendency of young people to return to crime once they get out, for example, and long-term contracts that can leave states obligated to fill prison beds. The harsh conditions confronting youth inside YSI’s facilities, moreover, show the serious problems that can arise when government hands ...
Georgia v. Smith was a court case held in 2007 resulting in the conviction of Joseph and Sonya Smith for child abuse and murder following the death of one of their sons, Josef Smith, from "acute and chronic" corporal punishment.