Law & Ethics - December 2006

Escaped Convict Captured After 33 Years

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Dec. 3) - A convicted murderer who escaped from a work release program 33 years ago was captured in Alabama, where he had been working construction jobs using his real name, U.S. Marshals announced Saturday.

Billy Wayne Hayes, 57, was arrested by marshals and police Friday night at a gas station in Dothan, Ala., nearly 350 miles from Nashville, where he had been imprisoned.

Hayes was sentenced in 1968 to serve 10 years at the Tennessee State Prison for second-degree murder in the shooting death of William Howard Ferguson, a Nashville paint contractor. He was assigned to a work release program and never returned after signing out for work on Dec. 21, 1972.

Tennessee Department of Corrections spokeswoman Dorinda Carter said Hayes' case was so old that information on it was not in the department's current computer system and would not be available until Monday.

2006-12-03 07:59:29 · 21 answers · asked by marnefirstinfantry 5

I ask this because some mainstream web sites which are advocates for men estimate that up to 40 percent of rape accusaitons are false. Feminist web sites say 2 percent. I tend to believe it somewhere in between. Should lie detector tests in which there is no DNA, no rape kit, accusation made way after the fact, or during a nasty divorce or child custody case be given? The idea is not to use the test results in court, but just to determine if the police should continue their investigation. This policy WOULD NOT apply to women who have DNA in their bodies, those who have been beaten up and those who make the reports and get the proper tests (rape kit, police report, rape crisis center, etc.)

I say this because I know there are women out there who will false claims for sympathy or because they had an affair or other similar motives. I also a news story where the police did administer a test to a woman they suspected of making up a rape. She failed the test.

Any comments?

2006-12-03 07:49:24 · 15 answers · asked by Shelley 3

We received a chain letter in the mail it stated," that if everyone sends a dollar a piece to each of the six names on the list and then placed your own name on the list and mailed it to two hundred people who then did the same thing. The money would just keep rotating, with each rotation each name rotates down the list until it flips over six times and everybody is rich. It sounds like a scam and probably is but it seems like if everyone did like it says it just may work.Is this legal and does it work?

2006-12-03 07:45:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-03 07:41:55 · 3 answers · asked by tmjmdejm 1

I was in a university film workshop and stumbled upon some crack heads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-LS1R9yZo

2006-12-03 07:39:24 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

1 Push the other one through with yours which will harm your business.

2 Pull the other one out and throw it away and deliver yours only.

The question is the other person has put the house in danger by leaving the menu hanging out of the door and they could be broken in to so you can't return the other menu to it's original position.

But are you breaking the law by removing it and throwing it away?

2006-12-03 07:39:14 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

MORRISONS AT ROTHWELL, LEEDS HAVE BANNED ME BECAUSE I AM DISABLED AND ASKED FOR HELP PACKING MY BAGS. I FIND THESE THINGS HARD AND THERE WAS A QUEUE. APPARENTLY THEY ARE GOING TO BAN ALL "INVALIDS"! I THINK PACKING BAGS IS A PART OF A CHECKOUT WOMANS JOB DONT YOU?

2006-12-03 07:23:00 · 17 answers · asked by Kris B 2

they oppose abortion? Why or why not?


Also; if you oppose abortion, are you a foster or adoptive parent? Why or why not?


Again; serious answers only please.

2006-12-03 07:15:17 · 7 answers · asked by In 2 Deep 3

I am taking someone to small claims court who owes me my $1500 deposit on my apartment (an ex roommate) but i have no physical address to send the court summons to. All the information I have is a few phone numbers, name and company that he owns, but he works from home and a new office that is not on the website and I believe is not registered. He also bounced a check, but it was from his brokerage firm and not a personal check... anyone know a way?

2006-12-03 07:05:29 · 6 answers · asked by ekelski 1

1.Buy alcohol?
2.Buy cigs?
3.Buy lottery-tickets?
4.Own a credit card?
5.Own a debit card?
6.Open a bank account?
7.Go to prison?
8.Kept in a young offenders remand centre?

2006-12-03 06:55:33 · 2 answers · asked by pranav j 1

2006-12-03 06:41:27 · 1 answers · asked by STORMY K 3

2006-12-03 06:40:29 · 3 answers · asked by rockingstar08 1

Basically, they need your approval under data protection to ask your doctor, but do they have a right to ask this on an application form before even seeing you. Does it contravine your basic rights?

2006-12-03 06:37:34 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Basically, they need your approval under data protection to ask your doctor, but do they have a right to ask this on an application form before even seeing you. Does it contravine your basic rights?

2006-12-03 06:36:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

The term, "separation of church and state" is not found in the constitution at all but was instead written in a letter by Thomas Jefferson to a group calling themselves the Danbury Baptists. How then can schools get sued on the grounds that they violate this when it is not in the constitution?


Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_Church_and_State#Overview_of_the_principle

2006-12-03 06:32:25 · 7 answers · asked by Simon 3

Can a father sign the rights over to a child and not have to pay child support in the state of Indiana? Does the mother have the option to say no? The man isnt even listed as the father on the birth certificate and she has another boyfriend that she has the child call daddy. The situation isnt very good, and honestly the best thing is to break ties all together, the father of the kid wanst to terminate rights and break away completely, is this possible?

2006-12-03 06:16:33 · 6 answers · asked by Calli S 2

I was arrested and kept in a cell the night. I stupidly did not have a solicitor present the following morning for my taped interview, I want to know if I can go back to the police and request a solictor to be present and do another tape

2006-12-03 05:57:33 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Let the females live,they have the right to do what they want with their own bodies,is what I always hear.

2006-12-03 05:52:13 · 9 answers · asked by getnabargain 2

In a supply and demand curve, total demand is never, ever satisfied. All products are supplied at some level on the supply and demand curves. The ideal for business being the equilibrium price. Some times, we have "good" people that supply commodities like housing at an "affordable" price, but, again total demand is never satisfied.
Wouldnt you agree with me that if total demand for "physical needs" which are food, warmth, and water, was fully satisfied, then, like air, there would be no price, hence NO SCARCITY (because the reality is there is no scarcity, there is an abundance of land which lies unused). and more importantly at the bottom levels of "poorer" countries, no starvation of lifes physical needs. Dont you think we need to create a divide between those goods that we do not die from, if we are short of them, and those goods that we dont die from, if we do go short.

2006-12-03 05:50:42 · 4 answers · asked by green_womble 1

2006-12-03 05:35:40 · 9 answers · asked by NONAME 1

I live on a college campus. I found an iPod in a computer lab. I kept it and put up a sign saying I found it. But, since ANYONE can just see the sign and call me and say, "Yeah, that iPod's mine," even if it's not theirs, I wrote on the sign:

E-mail [my address] with the following information:
- model of iPod
- 5 songs on the iPod (beginning with "A" for convenience)
- any engravings, covers, decorations

Do you think that's reasonable? Or is there a better test that I could use? How should I arrange for us to meet to return the iPod? What do I do if nobody responds, or none of the respondants pass the test?

It has to be sufficient to weed out the liars, but lenient enough for the actual owner to be able to do.

2006-12-03 05:32:24 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-03 05:21:50 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

How do you tell the court about someones bad character without you looking bad!!! Also how should the heading of the letter be.PLEASE HELP! STRESS!!!!!

2006-12-03 05:06:27 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have someone saying I owe them money and is holding my personal items till I pay can she legally do this

2006-12-03 04:50:58 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-03 04:45:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

why does the supreme court can choose which cases they can handle?!

2006-12-03 04:39:48 · 3 answers · asked by coniotic_girl067 2

2006-12-03 04:34:51 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-03 04:32:33 · 4 answers · asked by HARRY Ross 2

2006-12-03 04:22:39 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Christmas is the one of National Holiday" is violation of the Constitution of USA.
Is that correct?

2006-12-03 04:22:34 · 11 answers · asked by munekun0621 1