The Fulton School
On Tuesday, Mr. Miller said that I could look through Case Net for the Missouri Court of Appeals and pick a case I’d like to watch in court sometime this week or next. The website itself is very unorganized and challenging to navigate, and I had to leave early for an appointment, so this took most of my day. Most of the cases are civil/criminal which tend to be more exciting than the cases the litigators in this office work on. The case descriptions for most of these cases are about 50 pages long, so I read through a few to decide which I’d like to see. One case had to do with a 9-year-old boy who had autism and ADHD along with a plethora of health problems. He saw multiple doctors who prescribed him different medicines, all of which his mother had possession of. The boy was in and out of consciousness and not acting himself and the doctors couldn’t figure out why. Eventually, the hospital took his mother into custody claiming she was poisoning the boy with medications he wasn’t supposed to be on. In 2017, she was sentenced to 25 years in prison for first-degree assault (count 1), and first-degree endangering the welfare of a child (count 2). She is now appealing to the court claiming multiple holes in the prosecutor’s arguments along with misuse of the term “poisoned.”
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Ruthie, this is so cool and you have to let me know how the case goes because it sounds very complex and interesting. This is just a fun question, but do you have a favorite court room or general FBI / Police Department t.v. show? I think I would have to go with “Criminal Minds” I know it’s not technically court room, but it’s just so addicting to watch. Anytime I am home sick, I just binge watch episodes all day.