ACCT 612 Tax Research Memo Gabrielle Cole Lebanon‚ Indiana March 6th‚ 2015 Relevant Facts Robert Jones has just rendered service for a taxpayer as an expert witness in a case heard by the U. S. Tax Court. The taxpayer is requesting reimbursement for Jones’ fees and for those amounts paid to her attorney in presenting the case. Jones’ billing rate for this type of engagement is $500 per hour‚ the market rate for such services in his city‚ plus out of pocket expenses. Specific Issues
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because science cannot be clearly defined by law. The legal system have created standards and written legal rules regarding the admissibility of forensic evidence. When forensic evidence that is presented in court is rarely unaccompanied by an expert witness to provide the court room with a professional explanation backing the reliability of the forensic process used to collect the relevant evidence. This is one the major obstacles in the modern courtroom. Expert witnesses are intended to provide the
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Eyewitness Testimony 1 RUNNING HEAD: Eyewitness Testimony Eyewitness Testimony Mark Maldonado Grantham University PS280 Psychology and the law Eyewitness Testimony 2 Eyewitness testimony can create a number of problems for police and prosecutors. Some eyewitness’s do make mistakes on identifying someone and causes that person to be wrongfully convicted. It has happened time and time again. There is an organization called the Innocence Project that stated 75% of the 218 people exonerated
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2525 FORENSIC ACCOUNTING – NEW RULES AND OPPORTUNITIES Conference Hilton Hotel‚ Sydney 11 March 2011 Chartered Accountants – Business Valuation and Forensic Accounting Special Interest Groups The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS BUSINESS VALUATION AND FORENSIC ACCOUNTING SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS CONFERENCE‚ HILTON HOTEL‚ SYDNEY‚ 11 MARCH 2011 FORENSIC ACCOUNTING – NEW RULES AND OPPORTUNITIES The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG PRESENT WHEN THE TIDE RUNS OUT Forensic accounting
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To: NHS Litigation Authority‚ Re: Chandler Bing v Friends Health NHS Foundation Trust Dear Sir/ Madam‚ Thank you for your referral of the case concerning Mr. Chandler Bing’s missed fracture scaphoid bone received on 31 August 2010. The following is the Letter of Advice to the NHSLA concerning the above-mentioned case. The Claimant: 1. The Claimant was born on 8 April 1969. As a result of the events referred to in their particulars of claim the claimant is now represented by Bloomingdale
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this to be true. In the legal field‚ expert witnesses are used during courts to testify as to validity of certain evidence. Past experience working with the panel members (equivalent to civilian jury) shows they put more credibility into an expert witness who speaks in terms of science verse an expert
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Sir Edward Coke suggested that madmen ‘did not know what they did’ and could not be legally charged and convicted as a criminal. The earliest documented case where a psychologist testified in court as an expert witness was in Germany 1896. Albert von Schrenck-Notzing was the expert witness in the appeal of a man charged and convicted of the deaths of three women. Albert von Schrenck-Notzing testified that due to all the
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1-What role do aggravating and mitigating factors play in deciding whether to sentence a convicted defendant to death? Aggravating and Mitigating factors play a huge role in determining whether a defendant should get the death penalty. The aggravating factors are generally the most gruesome facts of the case and are more likely to sway a jury towars the death penalty. These factors make the defendant out to be a monster while the Mitigating factors cause more sympathy. When a
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Development of Skills Within the group‚ a large amount of skills were used. The majority of the group used listening skills‚ closed and open questioning skills. Opportunities were available where Probing and reflecting could have been put to practise. Other members of the group displayed passive aggressive behaviours ‚ dictated‚ used aggressive and bullying body / verbal language and actions. In my opinion the members of the group displaying these undesirable traits were not aware they were doing
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mitigation (Atkins at el). Psychologists were beginning to act as expert witnesses in criminal trials throughout Europe. In 1896‚ a psychologist by the name of Albert von Schrenck-Notzing testified at a murder trial about the effects of suggestibility on witness testimony (Bartol‚ 2005). Popular movies‚ television programs and books have help popularize the field‚ often depicting brilliant heroes who solve vicious crimes or track down killers using psychology. I can remember watching CSI Miami‚ NCIA‚ The
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