Criminal Law Evaluation Paper CJA/354 Criminal Law June 20‚ 2011 Kristin Mildenberger Abstract Criminal law is very important to the criminal justice system. Criminal law states what behavior is criminal and it gives the punishment for each crime. In this document the sources and purposes of criminal law will be discussed. The jurisdiction information will be explained in order to show how it determines where the laws are enforced and created. The differences in the adversarial system and
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Plessy V. Ferguson- Topics 1. An Eventful Ride 2. Free Colored People 3. The Separate Car Act 4. Plessy Case 5. The Verdict (Louisiana Supreme Court 6. Back to Ferguson’s Court An Eventful Ride On June 7‚ 1892‚ respected admired New Orleans merchant Homer Plessy‚ in his 30‚ hopped on a train at the Press Street depot in New Orleans‚ on the way to Covington‚ Louisiana‚ couple of hours away. Plessy had purchased a first-class ticket‚ and was resembling the people sitting the in
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rape; he was punished twenty to thirty years in prison for each. The Miranda v. Arizona appealed but‚ the Supreme Court of Arizona maintain that Miranda’s Constitutional Rights existed in achieving the confession. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Miranda’s conviction but was retried and convicted‚ without the confession‚ by the State of Arizona.
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The Supreme Court case‚ Ingraham v. Wright‚ was a turning point along the topic of education and schooling. James Ingraham was an eighth grader in a Florida public school. James failed to answer a question fast enough and was sent to Principal Willie Wright’s office for discipline. James refused to admit to not answering a question‚ he was then subject to twenty strikes from a wooden paddle. James went to see his doctor about the matter and was ordered to stay out of school to recover from his
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Criminal court cases often require critical thinking and analyzing. From anything to petty theft and murder require specific amounts of justice or discipline so to speak. After reading the Case of Mary Burnett and analyzing the testimonies I believe the defendant should be found not guilty on charges of 2nd degree murder. After analyzing this case the hard facts have been derived. The defendant is Mary Burnett who is charged with leaving her child at home unattended while she went to California
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Kansas V. Cheever Karina Garcia CJ 400 Constitutional Law Judge Sue Kurita May 8‚ 2014 Abstract In today’s society‚ the death penalty is still a very controversial topic on its own however‚ add the possibility of a Fifth Amendment violation makes it worse. For the people in the State of Kansas‚ it something for significant since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1994. The case of Kansas V. Cheever involves just that‚ the sentence of death for a man accused of killing a Kansas Sherriff
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convicted under the USA Patriot Act of 2003 for "furthering the aims of known terrorism organizations by advocating the violence of the United States government that is called for by those organizations." He was tried and convicted by the Federal District Court‚ and has challenged the constitutionality of this Act on the grounds that it violates his First Amendment right of Freedom of Speech as protected by the United States Constitution. The United States Patriot Act of 2003 makes it a crime to "further
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The Supreme Court is a part of the Judicial Branch in the federal government. There is always a debate about what it can and can not do. People ask the question all the time‚ ‘Can the Supreme Court rule laws unconstitutional?’. The Supreme Court can rule laws unconstitutional‚ it has the power to overturn unconstitutional laws‚ that power is part of the checks and balances system that is in place to keep the power equal between all three branches of the government. The Supreme Court is the highest
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many cases in the United States that have been controversial. Although‚ there are only a select few of those cases that have been able to reach the top court‚ the Supreme Court. Even then not all of the cases that reached Supreme Court gained the status of being a landmark Supreme Court case. Each of these cases that gained the status of a landmark Supreme Court case was by embedding some type of societal impact that lasts to the United States such as‚ Miranda v. Arizona. In order for a case to be
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Personally‚ I agree with the Supreme Court’s decision in the landmark case of R. v. Dyment. Particularly‚ with La Forest J. commentary it provided on the importance of privacy: “…society has come to realize that privacy is at the heart of liberty in modern state…Grounded in man’s physical and moral autonomy privacy is essential for the well being of the individual. For this reason alone‚ it is worthy of constitutional protection‚ but it also has profound significance for the public order. The restraints
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