Case Study: Brewer V. Williams

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In Brewer V. Williams the defendant Robert Williams was arraigned on the charges of abducting Pamela Powers, a 10-year old girl. Pamela first went missing on December 24, 1968 at a YMCA in Des Moines, Iowa. Williams was an escaped patient from a mental hospital who just so happen to be a resident of the same YMCA. After Pamela went missing, Williams was seen placing a bundling into the front seat of his car. A young boy who had helped Williams with the door stated in the synopsis provided that he had seen “two legs in it and they were skinny and white” (pg. 1). Williams surrendered himself in after his lawyer ,Henry Mcknight, advised him to do so in Davenport, Iowa. Mcknight also warned his client that police officers from Des Moines pick