Seizure Case Studies Samples For Students

Question 1: Uses the correct term for chronically recurring seizures.

Answer: Epilepsy
Question 2: Determines if the patient in the scenario has epilepsy.
Answer: J.G. does not have epilepsy. She has only had three previous cases of seizures prior to which she had not experienced any seizures. The current cases were triggered by the cesarean section thus too early to refer to the condition as epilepsy (Ko, 2016).

Question 3: Identifies possible conditions, besides brain injury, that contributes to the lowered seizure threshold for the patient in the scenario.

Answer: Apart from brain injury, lowered seizure threshold can occur as a result of infectious illnesses such as AIDS, meningitis as well as developmental disorders such as neurofibromatosis and autism (Ko, 2016).

Question 4: Describes the pathophysiology of a seizure.

The brain and the nervous systems functions within a ...

1. Facts
2. Issue

The issues in the following case are:

Whether the search conducted by the police officers violated a provision of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution regarding a protection from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Did Mr. Blake had a reasonable expectation of privacy when he was residing at Mr. Smith`s household?

Could the evidence (drugs and guns) be considered admissible in a court of law?

3. Rule
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides protection against unlawful search and seizure of persons and their property. The provisions of the amendment clearly state that search and seizure shall be conducted with the presence of a warrant that particularly describes the places and/or things that ...

A chain of eleven random explosions has taken place in an area that traverses two states and seven counties. The random explosions resulted in five deaths, 32 injuries and significant property damage. In all eleven cases, the explosions were detonated remotely. The Virtual Police Department of Maryland (VDP) will be the lead investigative agency because the first three attacks were within its jurisdiction. Two suspects were recognized and arrested, one adult male and the other a teenage male. Search and seizures were exercised, and both subjects confessed to their respective roles in the collective crime.
- Model: Investigative Taskforce
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Katz v. United States (1967)

In 1967, the security agents, FBI arrested Katz and charged him for conducting illicit gambling activities from California to Boston and Miami. The FBI placed a listening and recording gadget on the telephone booth and listened to Katz illegal conversation. In the Southern District Court found Katz guilty and sentenced him. The defendant appealed against the case, but the court of Appeal affirmed the charges. Katz appealed for his case to be ruled by the Supreme Court.

Issue

The issue, which Katz seeks a review of the ruling is the government has no right to wire-tape a public ...

The Exclusionary Rule is one of the more important rules that is utilized in the American judicial system. The entire American judicial system is designed to protect the individual's rights from the government, and to limit the amount of power that the federal and state governments have over the citizenry. In criminal trials, the individual is considered innocent by the government until proven guilty; this is to protect the individual citizen against unfair or untrue allegations, and to ensure that all citizens receive a fair trial when they are accused of criminal activity.
The exclusionary rule or the exclusionary ...

Miranda v. Arizona, Terry v. Ohio

Facts of the case
Ernest Miranda kidnapped and raped an 18-year old woman on her way back home from work after parting company with her coworker on alighting from a bus they had both travelled in. The victim could not identify the perpetrator even though police brought in several suspects. At one stage t police suspected her complaint itself. They made undergo lie-detector test but the test neither could confirm nor deny her innocence. However, after a week of the incident, the victim on her own found the victim and gave leads about him ...

Miranda v. Arizona, Terry v. Ohio

The case involves an appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court against conviction of Ernest Miranda for rape and kidnapping of a young woman and sentencing him for 20 to 30 years of imprisonment on each charge to run concurrently.

Facts of the case

Ernest Miranda, a young Mexican man about 28 years old, kidnapped and raped an 18-year old woman Lois Ann Jameson while she had been returning home from Paramount Theater in downtown Phoenix where she worked along with a coworker and after she got down from the bus alone. After complaining to the police, Lois could not identify ...

Miranda V. Arizona and Terry V. Ohio
The case of Miranda versus Arizona is a landmark case in the US Supreme Court decision that upholds the constitutional rights of an accused in a criminal case the guarantee of protection against self incrimination under the Fifth Amendment and the right to a counsel during the custodial investigation under the Sixth Amendment. It is where the Miranda Rights originated which is a procedure in every custodial investigation of reading the different rights of an accused before being interrogated by the authorities. The case reinforces the essential requirement of these procedural due process of providing ...

Dennys Rodriguez v the United States 575 U.S. ___ (2015)

The United States Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States
The Judge Writing the Decision
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Facts of the Case/Brief Summary
The main issue for the court’s determination here was the constitutionality of an extended traffic stop, search, and seizure using a law enforcement officer’s detection dog to cover areas not initially covered by the reasonable suspicion of an offence having been committed. The brief facts are that the appellant was driving in violation of the laws of Nebraska State. Officer Struble ...

1. Which of the four privacy torts are involved with regard to this case? Is this a case of libel?

Libels as well with the invasion of privacy are two very important issues in communication law. Libel denotes to anything falsely printed and observed communication created of an individual with the intent to denigrate that individual. It is a printed depiction transmitting an unfair and inauspicious notion primed with the aim of spoiling an individual's repute. If the accused is capable of illustrating that the derogatory proclamation is fundamentally accurate, then the claimant's claim for libel will be unsuccessful. The publication requires solely be to a single individual, however it ought to be a declaration which declares to be reality, and is ...

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Introduction

A seldom noted observation device geared to monitor the movements of every passing motorist is rapidly spreading on America’s thoroughfares. “Automatic license plate readers” that are placed on police cruisers or on stationary locations such as bridges-utilize small high speed cameras to take pictures of thousands of license plates every minute. The data taken by the readers-inclusive of the plate of the vehicle, the date, time and area of the scanning-is then gathered and at times lumped together into regional data pools. As a result of these activities, innocent motorists have their private information taken and pooled into ...

MEMORANDUM

RE : PHARMACEUTICAL LAW AND LIABILITY
Dr. Frankenstein may be held liable for products liability in the event that he fails to comply with regulations of the US FDA regulations. There are three theories under the product liability including the Negligence Theory, Strict Liability Theory, and Breach of Warranty Theory.
It can be argued that the Wonkavision device is no longer patentable since it is considered part of a prior art for it has been in the market for almost 40 years. However, the fact that it can provide treatment of patients infected with Ebola will qualify it ...

Graham v. Conner 490 U.S. 386 (1989)

The Plaintiff (Graham) is diabetic and he had been feeling awful after an insulin reaction. A friend took the plaintiff to the store but because the queue at the store was too long so he hurriedly left the store and his friend drove him to their friend’s home for juice. A police officer, on seeing the plaintiff hurriedly leave the store, was suspicious and trailed the car. He stopped the two after trailing them for one mile. The plaintiff’s friend told the police officer that Graham was having a “sugar reaction” ( ...

Miranda v Arizona

The brief facts of the case were that the defendant Ernesto Miranda was arrested on the 13th of March 1963 by the police based on circumstantial evidence that linked him to the rape of an 18year old girl. Following an interrogation by police that lasted two hours, Miranda signed a confession statement to the rape charge on forms that alleged that he had made the confession without any coercion and out of his own free will. The form also stated that the defendant was well aware of his legal rights as well as the fact that any statements or confessions ...

In the case of the State of Arizona v. Gant, the question being addressed before the court was whether or not, under the 4th Amendment, law enforcement officers need to have their safety threatened or a need to preserve evidence in order to search a vehicle without a warrant after the occupants have been arrested.
Arizona state police arrested Rodney Gant on an outstanding warrant for driving a motor vehicle with a suspended license. The officers handcuffed Gant and he was placed in their squad car. He was locked inside of the car. After Gant was secured, police searched his vehicle. They found a ...

According to US-CERT (2008), computer forensics is a discipline that combines law and computer science elements to collect and analyze data from computer systems, wireless communications, networks as well as storage in a manner that that is court of law treats as admissible. Similarly, Rouse (2007) clarifies that it is the use of computer analysis and investigation to collect evidence appropriate for purposes of presentation in any court of law. Its main goal is to carry out planned investigations while at the same time maintaining a well documented chain of evidence to exactly establish what happened and who is accountable. In essence, ...