Lacey Spears Convicted For Poisoning 5-Year-Old Son To Death With Salt : Headlines. By Mar 02, 2015 03:11 PM EST Lacey Spears (L) was convicted for murdering her 5-year-old son, Garnett-Paul Spears, with lethal doses of salt. A New York mother who snagged headlines for allegedly poisoning her son to death with salt was found guilty of second-degree murder on Monday. Lacey Spears barely reacted as the jury's guilty verdict was delivered for the death of 5-year-old Garnett-Paul Spears, who died at a Westchester County hospital in 2014, The Journal News reported. She faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison. During Spears' 14-day trial, prosecutors accused the 27-year-old of "torturing" her son by injecting dangerous amounts of sodium into his feeding tube. Doctors previously said it was impossible for the child's sodium levels to naturally spike.
Prosecutors also said the defendant spent years making her son sick on purpose to gain attention from sympathizers. Spears is expected to be sentenced April 18. © 2016 HNGN, All rights reserved. Dr. Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo: Prescribing Poison. Dr. Ana Maria Gonzales-Angulo and her colleague (and lover) Dr. George Blumenschein were on the staff at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Dr. On May 29, 2013, a prosecutor in the Harris County District Attorney's Office, based upon information received from investigators with the University of Texas Police Department, charged Dr. According to the criminal complaint, the poisoning took place in Dr. Sixteen hours after drinking the two cups of coffee, paramedics rushed Dr. Three toxicological tests of Dr. Police officers booked Dr. In September 2013, a Harris County Grand Jury indicted Dr. At the Gonzales-Angulo trial, the assistant district attorney put on 22 witnesses include a man who said the defendant, just weeks before Dr.
The Gonzales-Angulo defense consisted mainly of the argument that the prosecution, in this circumstantial case, had not carried its burden of proof. DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show. Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate , undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold standard of proof in criminal cases. The scientists fabricated blood and saliva samples containing DNA from a person other than the donor of the blood and saliva. They also showed that if they had access to a DNA profile in a database, they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.
Dr. Frumkin is a founder of Nucleix, a company based in Tel Aviv that has developed a test to distinguish real DNA samples from fake ones that it hopes to sell to laboratories. The planting of fabricated DNA evidence at a crime scene is only one implication of the findings. Tania Simoncelli, science adviser to the American Civil Liberties Union, said the findings were worrisome. “DNA is a lot easier to plant at a crime scene than fingerprints,” she said.
John M. The scientists fabricated DNA samples two ways. Dr. Farid Fata, criminal cancer fraudster and medical murderer, confessed to conspiring over illegal cancer treatments... with WHOM did he conspire? Criminal Probe - The Criminal Case Against The Tobacco Industry | Inside The Tobacco Deal. Target letters have gone out from the Special Task Force on Tobacco of the Department of Justice to the attorneys representing Brown & Williamson Tobacco, the corporation, and to a number of the corporation's senior executives. Attorneys familiar with the "target letter" procedure told PBS FRONTLINE that the letters are a notification to the nation's third largest cigarette company that it could expect to be indicted by the federal grand jury, and was being afforded an opportunity to present evidence prior to the prosecutor actually asking for formal charges. Sources close to the investigation tell PBS FRONTLINE that actual indictments are not expected for some time, "probably months.
" The notification of the Brown & Williamson executives and attorneys is seen by some observers as an invitation for them to cooperate with the Department of Justice before they are charged. Millions of documents have been released as a result of these findings. Dr. U.S. District Judge H. Criminal Liability and Human Rights Violations | ASH > Action on Smoking & Health.
Tobacco products kill more people than alcohol, AIDS, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined. Left unchecked, tobacco use will kill 1 billion people this century. As one state Supreme Court recently noted, cigarettes likely constitute “the most dangerous product lawfully sold” to consumers. The lethal consequences of smoking have been known to tobacco corporations for decades, yet they continue these activities, with full knowledge that millions of deaths will be caused by the ordinary use of cigarettes. 1.)
Could tobacco executives and/or corporations be held criminally responsible for these deaths? The concept has been explored from a legal theory view for years, and may be able to move from theory to practice. A Case in a U.S. A prosecutor in a U.S. state could bring a charge against tobacco corporations or their executives. A Case in a Foreign Country Each country has their own system of law, so the exact legal options vary from country to country. 2.) Resources: Criminal Liability for Tobacco Executives | ASH > Action on Smoking & Health. ASH Resources Blog: If Drug Dealers Can Be Found Criminally Liable, Can Big Tobacco?
Description: Drug dealers can and have been charged with murder or manslaughter when death results from the drugs they sold. This same logic could apply to Big Tobacco. Quote: The inevitable question is then- Do you think that tobacco companies could be held criminally responsible for the tobacco-related deaths of their customers?” Blog: Criminal Cases About Consumer Products Description: A blog that illustrate famous criminal cases regarding consumer products and compares them to a potential case against Big Tobacco. Quote:” If tobacco products were released as new products today, they would quickly be banned, and civil and criminal cases would be brought against tobacco corporations for the harms caused by tobacco.” Blog: What Does Peanut Butter Have To Do With Tobacco?
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