"Comparing and contrasting the role of the defense counsel with that of prosecutor" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 44 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    Drug Defense Case Study

    • 545 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Dealing with a drug defense case involves several steps. The client should be informed about the proceedings. It is crucial for the client to obtain a legal representative who can act immediately. Once the user is arrested‚ the drug defense attorney should seek out the copy of the arrest warrant. In some cases‚ the client does not have the copy‚ so the lawyer may have to get it at the clerk of court’s office. The arrest and search license are important documents that criminal defense lawyers should see

    Premium Crime Police Criminal law

    • 545 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    recognizes the authority of states to license marriage. The majority of states‚ including Indiana‚ provide a marriage license only to a man and woman while nine states also allow same-sex couples to receive a license to marry. Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 that defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman for purposes of federal benefits. Under DOMA‚ states with the traditional definition of marriage need not recognize same-sex marriages from other states. The

    Premium Same-sex marriage Marriage Homosexuality

    • 469 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    The Insanity Defense has always been a controversial issue. Can people really be too mentally ill to be responsible or does their mental defect affect their way of thinking at the time of a crime? People who plead not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) do not go to prison for their crime but usually spend time in a psychiatric hospital until mental health authorities determine when they are not a danger to society. The insanity defense focuses on the defendant ’s state of mind at the time of the

    Free Insanity defense Mental disorder

    • 2767 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Black Panthers‚ also known as the Black Panther Party for Self Defense‚ are a group who’s name is still known today for its efforts in Black Power and politics in the United States. The group can be seen as a very personal movement to those of us here in California due to the group being founded in California‚ Oakland to be more exact. The group was formed by friends Huey Percy Newton and Bobby Seale. He and Bobby Seale had become friends while attending Merritt College. The two originally

    Premium Black Panther Party Black Power

    • 1310 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Ethical Obligations of the Criminal Prosecutor The Criminal Prosecutor has an extremely important role in the Criminal Justice system. Not only are they responsible for protecting the innocent‚ they also have duties and obligations towards the defendant as well. The Criminal Prosecutor has a duty to represent the community he or she is elected in‚ while the community demands that the individual protects the interests of the community‚ the criminal prosecutor has to defend the constitutional

    Premium Law Lawyer Jury

    • 742 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    insanity defense. The insanity defense is a defense used in the court of law to prove the individual who committed the crime was not able to control himself in the situation and as such should not be punished for the crime. There is a heated debate on the topic‚ with both sides arguing about whether or not people can be morally blamed for the actions they unknowingly took. In recent history there have been changes in the laws regarding the insanity defense because of some high

    Premium Insanity defense Crime Law

    • 1108 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    The Insanity Defense : Crazy or Criminal1 Marina Reyes Criminology CRJ 102-120 Dr. Cooperman Fall 2012 The Insanity Defense : Crazy or Criminal BMCC The Insanity Defense : Crazy or Criminal2 When we think of insanity most people would refer to this word as a medical term but in reality it is a legal term. It is not a term used clinically to describe an individual ’s state of mind unless he or she has committed a serious criminal offense. The claim of a defendant in a criminal prosecution

    Free Insanity defense Mental disorder Crime

    • 1913 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Free-Will Defense The Free Will Defense is an attempted solution to the problem of moral evil. Human beings are gifted with free will by God as a condition for genuine morality‚ trust‚ love‚ and the like‚ though it also makes possible the introduction of moral evil into the world. There are various questions that are asked with the question of God. Many ask questions like- why did God give humans the ability of free will knowing that they will abuse it? Is free will a condition for real humanhood

    Premium Free will Metaphysics God

    • 639 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    recognized marriages from each other. Thus‚ if back then with Baehr v. Miike case‚ Hawaii had recognized same sex marriage‚ other states would have had recognized it too. It was then‚ as an immediate response to the Hawaiian case‚ the creation of The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)‚ an Act that was passed by the federal government in 1996

    Premium Same-sex marriage Marriage United States

    • 2406 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    [pic] Introduction “A driver of Change in Aerospace and Defense” Airbus Industrie‚ was founded in 1970 as a consortium of the principal aerospace companies of Germany (Deutsche Aerospace‚ now a Daimler-Chrysler subsidiary known as DASA)‚ France (Aerospatiale Matra)‚ England (Britain’s Hawker Siddeley‚ later BAE Systems)‚ and Spain (Construcciones Aeronauticas‚ CASA). Airbus has a fleet of nine basic models‚ a customer base of 171 operators‚ and an order backlog for 1‚445 planes. All of its planes

    Premium Boeing Singapore Airlines Airbus

    • 8094 Words
    • 33 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 50