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Download Running head: LINDBERGH BABYCJ101 and more Lecture notes Accounting in PDF only on Docsity! Running head: LINDBERGH BABY CJ101 Lindbergh Baby CJ101 Unit 1 Lindbergh Baby The Lindbergh baby kidnapping was an awful tragedy. On the night of March 1, 1932, Charles Jr. was put to bed and never seen again A monster used a homemade ladder and snuck through the second-floor nursery room window and took Charles Jr. from his slumber. The Lindbergh’s nurse went to check on him and discovered he was gone. There was a ransom note left behind requesting $50,000 for Charles Jr’s return. The police were called despite the kidnappers’ request for the Lindbergh’s to keep quiet. The first component of the judicial system pertaining to the Lindbergh kidnapping is the police. The call went into the Hopewell police department and was then transferred to the New Jersey state police. The New Jersey state police took charge of the case. The New Jersey state police did the investigation into the kidnapping. That means that they gathered evidence of the crime as they found it. They found evidence at the home such as the ransom note, ladder, soil, and marks on the windowsill. The New Jersey state police department fingerprinted the room and ladder. A woodworking tool was left behind. It was documented that the ransom note had a Germanic tone to it. The New Jersey state police interviewed the family and all the workers of the household. On March 2, 1932, the day after the kidnapping J. Edgar Hoover offered the New Jersey state police the FBI’s assistance (FBI, n.d.). It is unclear to me when the New York police department became involved, but I believe it was when ransom notes came from New York via cabs as well as when the mediator John Condon became involved handling the ransom demands through a paper and meeting with “John” the supposed intermediator for the kidnapper that turned out to be Bruno Richard Hauptman the actual kidnapper. New York police were handling leads that were in their jurisdiction along with the New Jersey state police and the FBI. On March 13, 1932, the day after the body of the Lindbergh baby was found 4 miles down the road from the Lindbergh’s residence, Hoover (President) ordered all national investigation agencies to be on the case and the bureau to take the lead (FBI, n.d.). Up until that point, the FBI had no legal jurisdiction and kidnapping was not a federal crime. There were continual jurisdictional disputes among all the law enforcement parties on who should or did have jurisdiction over the case. On June 22, 1932, congress passed the Lindbergh law that made kidnapping a federal crime that was punishable by death because of Charles Lindbergh Jr’s kidnapping. Before that, it was not punishable by death or a federal crime. The silver certificates that Charles Lindbergh paid for the ransom of his son started surfacing to New York banks. The money was traced back to a gas station where the gas attendant had written down the license plate of the car where a man had paid for gas with the $10 silver certificate. The license was traced back to Bruno Richard Hauptman (FBI, n.d.). The New Jersey state police, the New York police department, and the FBI surveilled Hauptman’s home. On September 19, 1934, two and a half years after the kidnapping, Hauptman was arrested as soon as he walked out of his home. It is my opinion that having that many different departments on one case would be confusing and cause a lot of chaos. I am assuming that there was a warrant out for Bruno Richard Hauptman’s arrest for him to be detained like he was. After Hauptman was taken into custody where he was questioned for hours for the better part of the night by all three of the departments. He also was made to write words down that were in the ransom notes. Shortly after apprehension, his handwriting was sent Adjudication is a formal judgment on a disputed matter in an ethically and legally done by the judge. There would have been adjudication when Hauptman’s attorney filed an appeal and the judge decided by denying it. Hauptman was disputing the jury’s decision that he was guilty of murder and possibly the death sentence itself. It is common in cases like this for the appeal to be also about the verdict itself. It could be possible that he was trying for life in prison rather than death by electrocution. By the judge giving a verdict on a disputed matter, there was adjudication. I am sure there was more than just this dispute and the judge had to give a verdict throughout the whole case. With his trial procedural law would have been used to determine what evidence was admissible, if his lawyer had credentials, and what the jury could hear (Schmalleger, 2018). That would have all been decided by the judge. Hauptman’s trial would have been a contest between the prosecution and his defense attorney. The judge would have decided what could be allowed and what could not be for evidence, what could be said or brought into the equation, and even how the things were said. All of which is adjudication. The Sentencing of Hauptman was administered at the end of his trial. The jury not only found him guilty, but they sentenced him to death. The judge then carried on the verdict given by the jury. The jury decided and the judge agreed with the verdict and carried it out. After he was sentenced, he would have been sent to prison while he awaited his death sentence and while his lawyer exhausted all the appeals, he/she could have. His sentencing was after the trial and ended with his death. Hauptman was already in the correction system as soon as he was arrested, he sat in the county jail which put him into the correctional system. He sat in the county jail until after he was sentenced. After sentencing, he went to prison on death row awaiting his death sentence. Although his appeals extended his life but a short amount he still sat in prison while he awaited a verdict on the appeal. He sat in the prison with other criminals until April 3, 1936, the day of his death. The correction system started upon his arrest and ended when he was put to death. To summarize I think that this case is of course a tragedy, but I feel that this case shows that the system does work. Despite jurisdictional issues and lack of DNA evidence. The best thing that came out of this awful tragedy is the Lindbergh law-making kidnapping a federal offense and punishable by the death penalty. This case was handled well enough to convict the guilty party. Bruno Richard Hauptman deserved the death penalty for what he did. I feel that this case represents that the justice system does work. Although I do not agree with the death penalty, I feel it was right in this case involving an infant. References FBI (n.d.). Lindbergh kidnapping. FBI.gov. https:/ /www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/lindbergh- kidnapping Schmalleger, F. (2018). Criminal Justice Today. [Purdue University Global Bookshelf]. Retrieved from https://purdueuniversityglob al.vitalsource.com/#/books/9780134817743/