concept of prejudice‚ status‚ racial discrimination‚ arrogance‚ justice and the need for it to be served in the justice system. During the course of the film prejudice was instrumental in acting as the defining factor to prove whether the boy was guilty or not. Juror 3 on many occasions linked the case of a boy killing his father with his personal
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Plea bargaining has become a common procedure in the criminal justice over the years‚ as it serve as a method of forming an agreement between the prosecutor and defendant in which the accused pleads guilty in exchange for a lesser sentence or reduced charge. Plea bargaining has become a prevalent method for several reasons. It benefits defendants in that it allows to avoid the time and expense of defending themselves during trial as well as the chance of harsher punishment. Plea bargaining also serves
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that are faced with drug use are turning to mandatory drug tests for student-athletes; however mandatory drug tests are a violation of the Fourth Amendment‚ the Fifth Amendment and drug testing reverses the legal principle of innocent until proven guilty. In order to protect the rights of the American people‚ drug testing student-athletes without suspicion and without sufficient evidence should not be introduced into school athletics due to the fact that it violates the Fourth Amendment and the Fifth
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four conditions. • Procedure: • The participants all listened to a tape recording of the stimulus trial (Massachusetts v Caldwell) and then were told to respond to written questions. • Each of the participants were told to reach either a guilty or not guilty verdict on a murder charge. • The participants were all asked to rate their confidence in their own decision on a 5 point scale. • They were separated by partitions and therefore were not able to interact with each other. • Procedure:
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kill you every day. My god‚ don’t you see? How come I’m the only one who sees? Jeez‚ I can feel that knife goin’ in. 8th Juror: it’s not your boy. He’s somebody else. 4th Juror: let him live. [There’s a long pause.] 3rd Juror: All right. Not guilty” This is memorable to me because when the 3rd juror was talking I realized that his anger was coming from problems at home with him and his son not the defendant. It became obvious that he couldn’t separate his own biasedness from reason. He was
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The Salem Witch Trials that took place in 1692 are part of a pattern throughout history of the persecution of women. At the time of the beginning of the witchcraft hysteria in Salem there were many reasons for the people of the village to be nervous. They had a strong belief that the devil was the cause for disease‚ bad fortune and catastrophes. The people accused were also those who did not have a godly reputation‚ were foreigners or were part of an old feud with the most prominent men. The
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boy is found guilty‚ he will be sentenced to death by electrocution. The case appears to be open and shut. The defendant has a weak alibi. A knife he claimed to have lost is the murder weapon found at the scene. Also‚ he claimed to be at the movies‚ but couldn’t recall what movies he’d seen or the actors who played in them. There were several witnesses who either heard screaming‚ saw the boy fleeing the scene‚ or witnessed the killing. Eleven of the jurors immediately cast guilty in a preliminary
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they both made guilty pleas. The judge then asked the prosecutor whether to remand the case or keep the defendants out of custody until there trial. The prosecutor in due course decided to keep them out of custody until there next trial.
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Actus Reus means ‘guilty act’. This may be established through a Positive Voluntary Act. This was demonstrated in R v McPherson where the positive voluntary act of taking whiskey amounted to the Actus Reus of theft. In relation to omissions‚ Stephens J stated‚ “If A sees B drowning and can save him by holding out his hand. A abstains from doing so in order that B may be drowned. A has committed no offence.” The first duty situation is where D has a contractual duty. This was demonstrated in R v
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the court systems when determining what sort of punishment will be imposed on someone who is found guilty of committing a crime. These philosophies are in use in both the adult courts and juvenile courts. The juvenile court system is similar to the adult courts‚ but there are many differences between the two. Both court systems try and keep crime from happening and both courts sentence those found guilty to some sort of punishment through the punishment philosophy that the court determines is a suitable
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