there exists a superior authority that is titled to care and protect for the inferior persons in the society. A juvenile court system is the judicial system that is tasked with the duty of handling cases relating to youths and or rather minors in the society. The orientation taken by the juvenile courts is far much different from the normal judicial courts. The juvenile courts are mainly focused on rectifying the behavior of individuals through a rehabilitation process. They try shaping the conduct
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Superior Court of New Jersey‚ Appellate Division. Karl KUEHN‚ Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Respondent‚ v. PUB ZONE‚ Defendant-Respondent/Cross-Appellant‚ and Maria Kerkoulas‚ Arm Supply Company‚ Inc.‚ and Anthony Zois‚ Defendants. Argued Oct. 8‚ 2003. Decided Nov. 24‚ 2003. Patron brought negligence action against tavern in connection with injuries sustained when members of motorcycle gang attacked patron in men ’s room. After jury returned $300‚000 verdict for patron‚ the Superior Court‚ Law
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Explain the Limitations on Administrator’s Discretion with Regard to Responsiveness and Efficiency. Public administrators face many obstacles and roadblocks in order to efficiently run their agencies. Sometimes‚ the legislative laws‚ or rules they have to abide by need to be altered‚ or utilized in a fashion to better maintain the everyday need of the agency. In order to make sure that the administrator is using discretion that follows the laws of the this country‚ objective responsibility‚ subjective
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have the complicated Supreme Court system that it has today. The Supreme Court System is used to take on both civil cases and criminal cases‚ and this is why it must be separated into two distinct branches. The first branch of the State Court of Texas is the Texas Supreme Court. This court according to the website for Supreme Court Laws (2017)‚ the Texas Supreme Court “hears and administers decisions concerning civil cases.” According to Nolo.com (2017)‚ a civil case is a “noncriminal lawsuit‚ usually
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Drug Courts Elizabeth Johnson was a model student. She was characterized by her teachers as hardworking‚ driven‚ and goal oriented. After being placed on the honor roll and graduating early from Morris High School in Will County‚ Illinois‚ she attended Northern Illinois University to become a lawyer. Within her first year at college‚ her life derailed. She was caught by the police and arrested for possession of marijuana. Johnson was expecting to be placed in prison but she found herself in a drug
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Prosecutor and Defence Lawyer As far as the criminal justice court‚ the role of a prosecutor and a defence lawyer play an inportant role in the court system. In the following I will give a brief discription on both parties and each individual duties and their knowlaedge to the court system. Both parties care deferent responsibilities but they are equaly inportant. The Role of the Prosecutor All of major serious and important criminal cases are require to have the participation of three very important
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Features of the Major Court Systems Criminal procedure can be complex‚ not only because of many factual questions that arise in day-day-police/citizen encounters but also because of the two-tiered structure of the United States court system. This two-tiered structure reflects the idea of dual sovereignty. The United States Legal system has been designed allow all citizens to receive a fair criminal trial regardless of social status‚ gender‚ race‚ and ethnic background. The system is composed by many
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There are a number of different factors that impact police discretion. There are four general categories that include Organizational Factors‚ Neighborhood Factors‚ Situational Factors‚ and that also contain subcategories within them. For this paper I will be focusing on Individual Officer Characteristics and Situational Factors. Individual officer characteristics which are influenced by an officer’s age‚ education‚ experience‚ gender‚ ambition and attitudes towards their job. The way that a police
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Assignment: Police Discretion To me discretion is something that we always use like in how we choose things like a movie to watch food to eat we always have to be very discrete in what we choose to do. There are a lot of people that would think that it would be better if discretion was taken away from the police. What most of the people do not realize is that discretion needs to be exercised. Discretion is not the problem; the abuse of discretion by some people is. In this world there is
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types of court structures which are called a dual court system. Each of the judicial systems has their separate systems one for each of the states and the other for the Federal system. The U.S. Supreme is the only place where the two judicial systems connect. The authority of a court to hear and decide cases is called the jurisdiction. When a case is first brought to court is the authority of the original jurisdiction. When there is an error of law and the courts need to review the case‚ they will
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