things that fictional accounts of lawyers‚ judges‚ and courts confuse or create simply to meet the needs of the fiction or make a specific point. Because the intricacies of the legal profession are not well known or explained in school or by the media‚ unfortunately‚ people often only have fictional accounts of the law to educate them. The result‚ unfortunately‚ is that the majority of Americans have incorrect beliefs of the law‚ judges‚ courts‚ and the persons that interact with them. One of the main
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Additionally‚ while completing court observations I had the opportunity to sit in on three separate criminal trials. The first trial I sat in on was a case involving sexual assault where the defendant was accused of “violating of the sexual integrity” (Arcaro‚ 2009‚ p.151) while she was sleeping. Due to the sensitive nature of the case‚ a publication ban was put in place. The judge allowed us to sit in on the case‚ but made aware to the students sitting in that we were not to publish any names or
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Criminal Court Cases What makes this country so great? Most people disagree on the answer to that question. Some say it’s the freedom of speech that we have. Others will say that it’s our ability to vote and elect who we want to lead us. This is all well and good‚ but what really sets our country apart from many others is our right to a speedy and public trial of our peers. Some governments in other parts of the world reserve the right to take any citizen right off of the street and place him
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in the federal court system. Federal courts consist of three levels of courts. District courts are the federal courts of original jurisdiction‚ the U.S. Court of Appeals is the intermediary appellate court‚ and the U.S. Supreme Court is the highest federal court. There are 94 district courts and 13 U.S. Courts of Appeals. Those dissatisfied with the outcome of a case heard from the district courts can take it to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Cases are brought to the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision
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The Court of Appeal is a necessary expense. Although in Ireland’s recession times‚ anything that requires additional funding is ‘unnecessary expense’. The autumn referendum of 2014 resulted in favour of the Court of Appeal. The Bill was passed by a majority of 65.2 per cent of the Irish population voted in favour. The bill was then signed into law on the twentieth of July 2014. The court of appeal act 2014 is in place to enable efficiency and speed up hearings of appeals in civil cases. Before the
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The Structure of the English Court System Courts of First Instance Courts of first instance are where matters are first heard and where the FACTS of the case are determined‚ for criminal courts‚ these can either be Magistrates courts or Crown courts. All cases (even murder) are first heard in a magistrate’s court‚ and if the cases are too serious then they are transferred up to higher court (Crown Court) this is mostly indictable offenses. Magistrate courts decide whether the defendant is guilty
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Intro to Criminal Law 3/1/15 Assignment 2 Barber v. Superior Court deals with two Doctors who removed life support from a man who was in a vegetative state with very little chance of surviving the ordeal. The main question is if the two petitioners legally speaking actually killed the man when they took off his life support. By definition‚ murdering is “the unlawful killing of a human being‚ with malice aforethought.” California Law states that Euthanasia is “neither justifiable nor excusable
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The Bronx courts are so clogged that when a lawyer asks for a one-week adjournment the next court date usually doesn’t happen for six weeks or more. As long as a prosecutor has filed a Notice of Readiness‚ however‚ delays caused by court congestion don’t count toward the number of days that are officially held to have elapsed. Every time a prosecutor stood before a judge in Browder’s case‚ requested a one-week adjournment‚ and got six weeks instead‚ this counted as only one week against the six-month
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Princely Courts of the Early Renaissance Italian Renaissance princely courts were expected to be opulent‚ therefore‚ there were no the sumptuary restrictions to follow. Wealthy aristocrats like Cosimo de’ Medici were not allowed to openly display their wealth. Princely wealth was attained through conquest rather than through mercenary endeavors‚ and an open display of splendor reflected to the common people the ruler’s power and reinforced their belief that the state was a healthy entity. The
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Michael Jordan: King of the Court When I began my report I didn’t know much about Michael Jordan‚ but I did know that he was “undoubtedly the greatest player in the history of the NBA” (“Michael Air Jordan” 1). It seemed like every time I heard the word basketball I also heard the name Michael Jordan. There’s just no avoiding him. If you are watching television you might see him playing basketball or golf. If you were reading a magazine there will probably
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