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Index Strickland v. Sony

Strickland v. Sony was a court case that focused on whether violent video games played a role in Devin Moore's first-degree murder/shooting of three people in a police station.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 31 relations: Alabama, Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, Alabama State Bar, Associated Press, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Blank Rome, Deus Ex (video game), Devin Moore (murderer), Empire of Japan, Fayette, Alabama, GameSpot, IGN, Jack Thompson (activist), Lethal injection, Local government, Microsoft, Montreal, Murder, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Pro hac vice, Recusal, Sony, Supreme Court of Alabama, Supreme Court of the United States, Take-Two Interactive, The Tuscaloosa News, Thief (series), Warren Spector, Witness summons, World War II, 60 Minutes.

  2. Grand Theft Auto
  3. Murder in Alabama
  4. Sony litigation
  5. Video game case law
  6. Video game censorship

Alabama

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals is one of two appellate courts in the Alabama judicial system.

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Alabama State Bar

The Alabama State Bar is the integrated (mandatory) bar association of the U.S. state of Alabama.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Attack on Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl HarborAlso known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941.

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Blank Rome

Blank Rome (formerly known as Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley) is a law firm with 16 offices and 750 attorneys and principals who provide legal and advocacy services to clients in the United States and around the world.

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Deus Ex (video game)

Deus Ex is a 2000 role-playing video game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive.

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Devin Moore (murderer)

Devin Moore (born Devin Darnell Thompson on May 15, 1985 in Fayette, Alabama) is a convicted murderer from Alabama who sparked a controversy over the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City when he committed three acts of first-degree murder in the Fayette, Alabama police station in 2003.

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Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.

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Fayette, Alabama

Fayette is a city and the county seat of Fayette County, Alabama, United States.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.

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IGN

IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.

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Jack Thompson (activist)

John Bruce Thompson (born July 25, 1951) is an American activist and disbarred attorney. Strickland v. Sony and Jack Thompson (activist) are video game censorship.

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Lethal injection

Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death.

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Local government

Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.

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Pro hac vice

In the legal field in the United States, pro hac vice is a practice in common law jurisdictions whereby a lawyer who has not been admitted to practice in a certain jurisdiction is allowed to participate in a particular case in that jurisdiction.

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Recusal

Recusal is the legal process by which a judge, juror, or other adjudicator steps aside from participating in a case due to potential bias, conflict of interest, or appearance of impropriety.

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Sony

, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Supreme Court of Alabama

The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Take-Two Interactive

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in New York City founded by Ryan Brant in September 1993.

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The Tuscaloosa News

The Tuscaloosa News is a daily newspaper serving Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the surrounding area in west central Alabama.

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Thief (series)

Thief is a series of stealth video games in which the player takes the role of Garrett, a master thief in a fantasy steampunk world resembling a cross between the Late Middle Ages and the Victorian era, with more advanced technologies interspersed.

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Warren Spector

Warren Evan Spector (born October 2, 1955) is an American role-playing and video game designer, director, writer, producer and production designer.

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Witness summons

A subpoena (also subpœna, supenna or subpena) or witness summons is a writ issued by a government agency, most often a court, to compel testimony by a witness or production of evidence under a penalty for failure.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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60 Minutes

60 Minutes is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network.

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See also

Grand Theft Auto

Murder in Alabama

Sony litigation

Video game case law

Video game censorship

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strickland_v._Sony

Also known as Jack Thompson: Strickland vs. Sony, Strickland vs. Sony.