Jury • A group of citizens sworn to hear testimony and evidence at a trial and decide if the defendant is guilty or not of committing the crime(s) Trial by Jury • The fate of the accused is determined by peers How is a jury selected? • Through a process called empanelling: A list of jurors is created from a list of people living in the area where the court is located 1. 75-100 names from the list are randomly picked 2. These people are summoned to appear in court by notice from the sheriff
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Phuc Nguyen Professor Elizabeth Curry Final Draft Compare Juror #8 and Juror #3 One of the top one hundred movies of all time according to the American Film Institute (number 87 to be exact)‚ “12 Angry Men”‚ a play written by Reginald Rose‚ is considered a household classic today and the definition of a quality movie. Unlike many of the movies today‚ 12 Angry Men doesn’t use vulgar language‚ have raunchy sex scenes‚ or any type of real violence throughout the movie‚ but yet it is still considered
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Arrogance The Trial by Franz Kafka chronicles the arrest of a worldly‚ young bank official‚ Joseph K. for an unknown crime and traces his struggles and encounters with the invisible Law and untouchable Court. Although the novel is critically acclaimed for satirizing the Austro-Hungarian bureaucracy of Kafka’s time it also seems to be criticizing the arrogance of the common people. Joseph K.’s eventual downfall is not just due to the in comprehensible judicial system but can be attributed to his
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“Fair is foul‚ and foul is fair”. This quote perfectly perceives the numerous perspectives in which Macbeth is captured into as he battles between the acts that he has perpetrated and the perceptual reality. In The Tragedy of Macbeth‚ a play written by William Shakespeare‚ a Scottish noble named Macbeth‚ who respected his ruler dearly‚ was forced to annihilate his king due to the toxicities of ambition and jealousy that he possessed ultimately destroying his innocence. Throughout the story‚ Macbeth
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can’t seem to accept the truth. This is shown in the The Scottsboro Trials‚ which was a series of trials that involved nine Negro boys that were accused of raping two white women. The trial was actually a false allegation‚ of which the two white women were at fault. Furthermore‚ in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the character Tom Robinson had a case that was very similar. Tom was accused of raping a white woman‚ but he was falsely accused as well. Both cases have many things alike.
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The Scottsboro Trials The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenage boys accused of rape in Alabama in 1931. The landmark set of legal cases from this incident dealt with racism and the right to a fair trial. On March 25‚ 1931‚ several people were on a train traveling between Chattanooga and Memphis‚ Tennessee. Several white boys jumped off the train and reported to the sheriff they had been attacked by a group of black boys. The sheriff stopped the train and searched it. In Paint Rock‚ Alabama
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ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CRIMINAL TRIAL PROCESS AS A MEANS OF ACHIEVING JUSTICE. The criminal trial process is a vital part of the criminal justice system in NSW as it plays a fundamental role in achieving justice‚ by determining the innocence or guilt of an offender. Yet‚ despite the criminal trial process still having many complex issues that remove it of achieving its full means of justice‚ the process has stood the test of time and lasted for more than two centuries. It aims at lawfully
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Essay Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It Rebecca Tushnet† CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................... 537 I. OVERVIEW: THE FIRST AMENDMENT‚ COPYRIGHT‚ AND THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THEM ................................................................ 538 A. What Free Speech Is For ............................................................. 538 B. Copyright and Fair Use .........
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Trial by Media The justification system is quickly being scorched in America by how the media manages all lurid cases. People are getting prejudged by the press and public before any legal action has taken place. I believe it is completely amiss for the media to interpret whether a person is guilty or innocent‚ before or even after a verdict has been established in a court of law. Take O.J. Simpson’s case for instance. Simpson was accused of murdering his ex-wife‚ Nicole Brown Simpson. This
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The Nuremberg Trials More than half a century has passed since the end of World War Two and to this day it is still difficult to fully understand the severity of what was by far the most destructive war in human history. More than sixty million people were killed during World War Two and more than half of those were innocent town’s people. Among the dead were over six million Jews‚ which was two thirds of the total living race in Europe at the time. Beyond these general statistics were thousands
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