Murder of Glady Ramirez Blog 5

On Wednesday, April 17, 1980, Police Officers and the Fire Department were dispatched to 374 Eland for a house fire. When the Fire Department arrived, they found the Complainant inside the house, burned and deceased. Dr. Ruben Santos of the Medical Examiner's Office. They performed an autopsy on the Complainant. The results of the autopsy showed the Complainant had also been stabbed and strangled along with being burned, and the death was ruled a Homicide. Gladys Jean Ramirez was only 29 years old at the time of her death. In 2004 this case was solved it took 24 years for this case to be looked at in consideration. In 2004, a former San Antonio resident who was residing in Virginia saw Gladys Ramirez's case on the SAPD Cold Case web page. The witness came forward and provided detectives with a statement that identified the husband of Gladys Ramirez as the suspect in the murder. Detectives obtained statements from two additional witnesses, and on October 7, 2004, SAPD Homicide Detective George Saidler obtained a Murder Warrant for Jose Angel Ramirez. The husband of Gladys Ramirez. Jose Ramirez was arrested the same day, and is currently awaiting trial. I believe that the criminal justice system has many flaws on approaching cases. How could this case go unsolved for 24 years and not catch the person who stabbed Glady Ramirez. Her husband is finally being put on trial and I don't get how that didn't suspect him in the first place. The thing i would like to change about the criminal justice system is that there are so many steps in proving that the defendant is guilty. I believe that it is too confusing to go through each step before putting someone on trial.

Death Penalty Blog 4

In the Washington Post by Rogger Tanner says the death penalty deters crime. A 2003 study he co-authored, and a 2006 study that re-examined the data, found that each execution results in five fewer homicides, and commuting a death sentence means five more homicides. "The results are robust, they don't really go away," he said. "I oppose the death penalty. But my results show that the death penalty (deters) _ what am I going to do, hide them?" I believe that the death penalty is a violation to the 8th amendment but there has been many cases that shows it deters crime. Because if murderers know that the death penalty is legalized in the state they are living in they might second guess themselves. It is also shown it costs more money to put someone to death then to put someone in jail. There are many debates that go back in forth about the death penalty saying that that person is a threat to society. It might be a violation to human rights but over many years cases have shown it deters crime and that is why it is still in use today.

Atwater v. City of Lago Vista ( Blog 3)

 In March of 1997, Gail Atwater was stopped by Lago Vista police for not wearing a seatbelt. Neither her or her two children were wearing a seatbelt. Seatbelts are required by the Texas Law. According to reports from eyewitnesses, the officer verbally berated Atwater in a raised voice. Atwater requested that the officer lower his voice in a polite manner. The police officer yelled back "You're going to jail." According to records, Atwater remained calm, did not act in a suspicious manner, did not pose a threat to the officer, and was not engaged in any illegal conduct other than failing to wear a seatbelt. She was arrested and was held in jail for one hour and was released on $310.00 bond and later paid a $50.00 fine for failing to wear a seatbelt. Atwater and her husband filed a report saying this was a violation of the 4th amendment. She said that it was unfair to put someone in jail for knowing that not wearing a seatbelt was only a fine punishment. I believe that this was not a violation of the 4th amendment because Atwater talked back to the police officer and even if he was yelling at her she probably would just only have to pay a fine. The police officer is just following the laws and saying it is illegal to not wear a seatbelt in a car in the state of Texas. But if i was a defense attoney for Atwater I would fight for the fact that she was put in jail and that she shouldn't have been. Also that the police officer was using his authority to highly and didn;t need to scream at Mrs Atwater. Also the fact that he didn't even have probable cause for getting so angry is another reason to argue in court.  I believe in this case was not a violation to the 4th Amendment.