the Miranda warning. The trial allowed the second statement and suppressed the first statement‚ and the jury convicted Patrice of second-degree murder. The case was appealed to the Missouri Court of Appeals and the decision of the prior Court was affirmed. The Supreme Court of Missouri reversed the decision. The Missouri Supreme Court held that the second statement was the product of the first statement and should have been suppressed. The Court also held that the postwarning confession was involuntary
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Just about everyone in St. Louis has heard of the Lemp Mansion and the Lemp Brewery. The tragic demise of the Lemp Family has become part of our urban lore. Very few St. Louisans realize that there is more to the Lemp story than ghosts. The Lemp Brewery Empire was actually very large and expanded across St. Louis and into several states. In 1900‚ the Lemp Brewing Empire boosted net sales of ten million dollars. Adjusted for inflation‚ that would be just shy of three hundred million dollars in
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For Laura Ingalls Wilder‚ her childhood meant growing up on the prairie and moving west with her pioneer family on covered wagon. When she was older‚ Laura remembered her days in covered wagon‚ and wrote a series about her childhood life. In it‚ she tells all that happened to her when she was moving west into new land. Did you know that when you come to a river when traveling on covered wagon‚ you have to move it through the water like a boat? There were many challenges in to traveling in that way
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Two accounts take different positions on the role of the Book of Hours in the life of Jeanne d’Evreux‚ Queen to Charles IV of France‚ in the 14th century. The first‚ by Madeline Caviness‚ argues that the patron (or matron‚ rather) was mainly affected by the illustrations of the book; the other‚ by Joan Holladay‚ argues that its content and context influenced the queen more. In this essay‚ I argue that the latter was more possibly and more convincingly the case. The two accounts are similar in many
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Cruzan v. Missouri The right to die This case is Appellate. Twenty-five years old‚ Nancy Cruzan‚ was in an automobile accident on January 11‚ 1983. She was driving an old car‚ which lacked seat belts. Massive injuries resulted in her falling into an unconscious state‚ unresponsive to outside stimulation. Doctors estimated that Nancy’s brain had been without oxygen for at least fourteen minutes before she was found. A person who goes without oxygen for more than six minutes suffers brain
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The intent of the Missouri Compromise was to solve the problem of unequal representation between slave and free states in the Union and‚ hopefully‚ bring peace between the North and South. In 1818‚ Missouri requested to join the Union as a slave state. Louisiana had already been admitted as a slave state. Congress was concerned that adding another slave state would upset the balance between the number of free and slave states. James Tallmadge of New York proposed an amendment that would require
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Kansas Nebraska Act and the Missouri Compromise. But the political actions taken in these two compromises fostered a significant amount of change rather than continuity. Although the Missouri Compromise seemed to settle the big issue by the time of the Kansas Nebraska Act came along the conflict had escalated beyond what Missouri could handle. These arguments and actions eventually resulted in war where the problem of slavery was finally resolved. Before the Missouri Compromise was up and running
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In the year 1820‚ congress passed a law called the “Missouri Compromise”. This law stated: any state below the border of Missouri that wanted to join the Union would be a slave state‚ and any state above the Missouri border would be a free state. The law also allowed anyone to cross either side of the border to capture African Americans and sell them back into slavery. When the Missouri Compromise was passed‚there were three states above the border that were already slave states‚ and the law allowed
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The Missouri Compromise is commonly thought of as the beginning of American sectionalism‚ although the signs were visible long before 1819. The crisis solved by the compromise certainly alerted the South for the need for political unity in order to maintain its way of life in the face of a more populous North. Likewise‚ it alerted both regions to the political problems inherent in westward expansion. The Missouri Compromise did not create sectionalism‚ but it is important as the first possible signs
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Morgan Moe Drugstores Management Style Analysis TABLE OF CONTENTS Morgan Moe Drugstores 1 Analysis Team 4 Introduction 5 The Problem 5 “Mans Search for Meaning” 5 The 5 programs 5 The Study 6 Table 1: Study Results 6 Analysis Team Annie Malpartida Brad Ingram Daniel Ojst Fernando Lamelas Jeremy Spund Introduction The Problem Manufacturing across the Midwest has seen sharp declines in the May 08 to May 09 Year. The automotive industry saw a reduction
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