Court Observation October 30‚ 2012 On September 27th I went to Branch 6 to watch the criminal trial of the defendant Lord Wilson. It was making out to be a weeklong trial and I made it on the second to last day. All I knew was that it was a case involving drugs and had been in the making for a while. When I arrived at the public safety building to listen to the criminal trial taking place I learned firsthand that things never seem to stay on schedule. A recess was taking place when I walked
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In 1986‚ the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case established that there could be separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites‚ giving support to Jim Crow laws. The Supreme Court did not begin to reverse Plessy until the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case 58 years later‚ which established that segregating blacks and whites was unconstitutional and that separate could never be equal. After the period of reconstruction following the Civil War‚ many states in the south and
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Jeremy Cooper Moot Court 1 The Constitutionality of the “Slave trade Act” The question before the Court is the constitutionality of the Slave Trade Act. The bill was first proposed by Congressman Weber in 1858 in an attempt to prohibit the sale of slaves in the United States. The bill was passed into law in the spring of 1859. The petitioner congressman Ryan Suter‚ argues that the Slave Trade Act is unconstitutional. According to the court Suter argues “slaves are likened to property‚ the
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sociocultural issues in a counselling case study. Introduction In this assignment I will provide a fictional case study of a counselling client with issues relating to fear and sadness and then consider how their individual problems might be located in the social context in which the clients are embedded. The case study will clearly focus on sociocultural issues‚ such as culture‚ race‚ gender‚ sexuality‚ etc. It will look at how useful it can be to recognise how important sociocultural issues can be when
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The landmark case of McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819 unanimously ruled that the Constitution allowed Congress to establish the National Bank. The Court also asserted that the Constitution did not allow a state to tax the Bank. Chief Justice John Marshall stated that the Constitution does not explicitly grant Congress the right to establish a national bank‚ but also noted that the "necessary and proper" clause of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to do that which they felt was best for the
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of lizards‚ ears of swine‚ chicken gizzards soaked in brine‚ now thine eyes and mine entwine‚ thy will is broken‚ thou art MINE!” ((Melvin Frank‚ Norman Panama The Court jester) Now you will give me an A on the paper and all the rest of my papers and I will pass the class like that *snap* gulp…. Now all joking aside the film The Court Jester Made in 1957 and Staring Danny Kaye‚ Glynis Johns‚ and Angela Lansbury (B) is a marvelous little treat of a film‚ which also had a Golden Globe nomination for
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Investigating Ratios of Areas and Volumes In this portfolio‚ I will be investigating the ratios of the areas and volumes formed from a curve in the form y = xn between two arbitrary parameters x = a and x = b‚ such that a < b. This will be done by using integration to find the area under the curve or volume of revolution about an axis. The two areas that will be compared will be labeled ‘A’ and ‘B’ (see figure A). In order to prove or disprove my conjectures‚ several different values for n will
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position for ten years and the officers that are still working at Junction City remember the way that things were before the switch in practice and policy. There is going to officer who are there from the change in regime and you have to address their issues and try to make the switch as smooth and friendly as possible. Police officers are no different than every day people. They are not going to want to change the idea and the practices that they have been using for years. The best way to get thru this
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Court Observation My court case observation was interesting‚ to say the least. I walked into the DeKalb county courthouse‚ in Auburn‚ Indiana‚ not knowing where to go‚ what to say or do‚ or even how to dress. By the time I left‚ I had learned far more than I planned on‚ and not just through observing . . . I sat in on three trials: two civil cases and one criminal case. Afterwards‚ I had the unique opportunity to talk with the judge and county bailiff for about half of an hour. The first
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to finance his vices. The wife stated that they both agreed with the defendant that no one will contradict to the decision of the court‚ as to whom the court will give the child’s custody. When asked by the Judge if the petitioner can take care the custody of the child‚ the wife agrees. There was also presentation of evidences that during the court proceedings. Certificate of marriage‚ Certificate of live birth of their son‚ Transfer of certificate of title no. 3-153323‚ Tax
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