Donald Hopkins Week 3 homework Brown vs. Texas Criminal Procedure and the Constitution Due date 5/May/2012 Brown vs. Texas was a case heard by the Supreme Court in 1979. It determined that the defendant’s arrest in El Paso Texas‚ for refusal to identify himself in a high crime area‚ was not based on a reasonable suspicion and violated Mr. Brown’s fourth amendment rights. This was an important case for the stop and identifies statutes in the United States. One afternoon a police cruiser
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too‚ because it would be too much of a culture shock for a boy who was born and raised in Middlesex County‚ New Jersey. The first place I would be interested in moving too would actually be the city my group did our project on which is Houston‚ Texas. I am not just saying this‚ because our group did our project on this location. After‚ doing the research I actually did picture myself living in Houston. I almost saw Houston as a warmer‚ cleaner New York
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Constitution of the State of Texas is the document that describes the structure and function of the government of the U.S. State of Texas. Texas has had 7 constitutions‚ and the current one is the 1876 constitution. The current 1876 Constitution is among the longest of state constitutions in the United States. There are 17 articles in the Texas Constitution‚ which starts with the Preamble. The Preamble states “Humbly invoking the blessings of Almighty God‚ the people of the State of Texas‚ do ordain and establish
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Texas Constitution Question #2 A couple centuries ago‚ to be specific 1827 was the year of the very first Texas Constitution. The first Texas constitution was called‚ The Constitution of Coahuila y Tejas. The population of what is now Texas was about four-thousand. Before declaring its independence from Mexico‚ Texas operated under the Mexican Constitution where there were two houses of congress. The lower house was composed of deputies serving two year terms. In the upper house‚ senators served
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The Texas Constitution Constitutions are a necessary tool in keeping a Nation running in a smooth manner. One is also necessary in keeping the components‚ which are states‚ running in an ordered way. The constitution of Texas has a long historical trail from 1827 to 1876 and there are many events that occurred during this time period. The current Texas constitution has many strengths and weaknesses and there have been revisions made to this document. This document limits the way government can
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bizarre since we had just moved to our massive house in Fort Wayne‚ IN about two years earlier. I questioned where we were moving to‚ and my mother told us we were moving to Texas. This time we were moving across several states rather than just a few towns away. Up to that point in lives‚ we had lived in Indiana‚ so moving to Texas seemed so far away and across the country. As we started packing our essentials into our cars‚ a semi-truck pulled up to our house and four men jumped out of the
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Have you ever been to Texas? I have been once. My trip to Texas was unbelievably awesome. I saw many of things on my way there. While we were there‚ I had loads of fun. Many things happened while we were there. Texas was the coolest place I have ever been. On the way to Texas‚ we had to drive across the Louisiana Bridge. While we were driving across the bridge‚ I noticed that the bridge was standing in one huge murky muddy marsh. In the marsh were cattails. They were growing and were being used
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Texas wanted a really limited government because of their bad experience with Governor Davis. Legislature meets one every two years in odd year for 140 days. (They barely get to do anything). It’s because they didn’t want the government to do much. (Sometimes the legislature would hurry in passing laws so they would have a lot of mistakes.)(like in 1971 the Texan legislature honored a serial killer named Albert Solaho who was a Boston strangler. SO Texas was laughed at throughout the US). Popularly
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Fresh Perspective Living in Texas most of my life I was no stranger to Americans who either didn’t speak English at all or whose first language wasn’t English. As I interacted with people‚ mostly from Mexico‚ I had a hard time understanding why they didn’t want to speak English . Although I’m ashamed to say it‚ I often viewed these people as less educated and meek. A statement that Ive heard all to often is that people who don’t speak English should learn our language or leave America. However
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In the Texas vs Cobb case a man named Raymond Levi Cobb was first arrested in 1994 and confessed to a home burglary. In this process he denied that he killed the woman and child in the home but later confessed to his father which his father then went to report this to the police. Even though Cobb later waived his Miranda rights and confessed he was still indicted and sentenced to death. Cobb argued to the Texas Court of Appeals that after his confession he was denied his right to counsel because
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