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  2. Cruel and All-Too-Usual - The Huffington Post

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    In nine states, 17-year-olds are automatically charged as adults. A nationwide sample of cases sent from juvenile to adult court in 2013 shows that about half were related to property, drug or public order crimes, not serious violent offenses.

  3. Murder of Cheri Jo Bates - Wikipedia

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    Officers from the Riverside Police Department examine the crime scene at Terracina Drive. Bates' body lies at the right of the gravel path. Bates' body lies at the right of the gravel path. Bates was found sprawled face down on a gravel path between two unoccupied houses on Terracina Drive, close to the library parking lot where she had parked ...

  4. 2006 Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis was a hostage taking and shooting at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado, on September 27, 2006. The gunman, 53-year-old [ 2 ] Duane Roger Morrison, took seven female students hostage and sexually assaulted them, [ 3 ] later releasing four.

  5. Steubenville High School rape case - Wikipedia

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    The crime and ensuing legal proceedings generated considerable controversy and galvanized a national conversation about rape and rape culture. Two students and high school football players, Ma'lik Richmond and Trent Mays, both 16 at the time of the crime, were convicted in juvenile court for the rape of a minor. Additionally, three other adults ...

  6. List of wrongful convictions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Brandley was working as a janitor at Conroe High School [129] when 16-year-old Cheryl Dee Fergeson was raped and murdered in the loft above the auditorium following a volleyball game. A foreign blood sample was found on Fergeson's shirt that did not match either Fergeson's or Brandley's blood type. Following conviction, Brandley's defense team ...

  7. Crime scene - Wikipedia

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    Crime scene reconstruction is the use of scientific methods, physical evidence, deductive reasoning, and their interrelationships to gain explicit knowledge of the series of events that surround the commission of a crime. [6] Crime scene reconstruction helps aid in the arrest of suspects and prosecute in the court of law. Crime scene ...

  8. Murder by Numbers - Wikipedia

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    Richard Haywood and Justin Pendleton are high school classmates; Richard is wealthy and popular, while Justin is a brilliant introvert. After months of planning a "perfect crime," they abduct a woman at random, strangle her, and plant evidence implicating Richard's marijuana dealer, janitor Ray Feathers.

  9. Criminal investigation - Wikipedia

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    Al Asad Air Base, Iraq: An Iraqi Police officer in the Basic Criminal Investigation Course here lays down numbered tabs on a mock crime scene to mark evidence during the class' final exercise. Criminal investigation is an applied science that involves the study of facts that are then used to inform criminal trials .