An Evaluation Of The Client - 1861 Words

Overview The client is a 42 year old white male who has been court ordered to receive bereavement counseling. The client is currently living in Trumann with a friend while he is closing on a house. He was born and raised in the north east Arkansas area. The client completed the 12th grade and attended college for two years at Arkansas State University. While attending college the client was an active member of the college Rugby team. The client stopped attending college in order to join the Navy. He served for eight years total in the Navy in the account dispersal field. He has never been deployed to a combat area and was honorably discharged from service sometime in the early 2000’s. The client currently works full time for an Art†¦show more content†¦He was initially court ordered for DWI courses but due to the nature of his offense and the underlying circumstances, the courts determined his issue to not be alcohol, but the coping mechanism my client was using in th e loss of his son. My client lost his oldest son about two years ago. His son moved to Georgia to be near his mother. Only a few weeks after arriving to Georgia his son come up missing. There were search parties being conducted and my client drove to Georgia to look for his son. A couple of weeks after the initial missing report, my client’s son was found in the woods of Georgia, he was deceased. An autopsy concluded that there was foul play and that this incident would be investigated as a homicide. Following the investigation, three local Georgia men were determined to be involved in the murder of my client’s son. The investigation concluded the belief that these three gentleman lived in a nearby apartment complex. They premeditated to murder my client’s son based on a robbery. They believed that the young man had sold a truck earlier in the day. The three men charged requested that the young man help move some furniture at their apartment. During this event i s when they strangled him to death and began searching for the money that the son had made from selling a vehicle earlier that day. The report read that there was not any money taken because the money was spent the same day the vehicle was sold.