At first‚ during the trial‚ I felt weird because no matter where I looked there was a person I and I didn’t want to stare too long or else they would think I was looking at them when in fact I was thinking about what the defense/prosecution were talking about and how I was to respond when there was an objection. As well‚ while Prosecutor M.Warren was argueing/badgering the witness‚ I was waiting for one of the defensive lawyers to object. They did object‚ but by the time they did the prosecutor was
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Hair Analysis Trial My name is Joshua Belle and I am an expert in Hair Analysis for the purpose of forensics. I am here to present evidence to the jury. As you all know‚ several months ago a woman’s dead body was found in the local dump‚ with several markings which indicate a murder. As you will see‚ I have found substantial evidence linking the defendant to the crime. To start with‚ I will provide you with some knowledge about the structure of hair. Hair is made up of two basic parts:
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The mock trial we held in class progressed pretty well within the two days we had. With the amount of time that we had to prep for the trial and the amount of experience we had about trials‚ we as a class improvised and adjusted perfectly. Our peek was on our second day‚ when everyone practiced their skills that they accumulated after messing up on the first day. The trial on the first day was a rough one‚ for everyone had to get into the mindset of what we needed to do‚ and everyone had no idea
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the American Jury System still a Good Idea? Most countries in the world today do not use juries‚ and only a small percentage of cases in the United States are decided by juries. So why exactly do Americans have juries? What role do they play in our system? And does it make sense for modern America? The jury system arose in England hundreds of years ago. If there was a crime in the community‚ the accused were brought to trial before a judge and a jury. The judge presided over the trial and served
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Drew Peterson Trial Drew Peterson was born on January 5‚ 1954. He graduated from Willowbrook High School in Villa Park‚ Illinois in 1972. He was a cross country runner at Willowbrook High school. After graduated from High School he joined US Army. Before moving to Falls Church‚ Virginia to train as a military police officer he briefly attended the College of DuPage. Peterson had a 30-year career as a police officer. In 1977‚ he began working with the Bolingbrook Police Department in Illinois
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influence the jury in the closing argument that convicted Louise Woodward. The prosecutor uses a variety of features in this argument to convince the jury persecute Louse Woodward. I will be going through these techniques and explaining why he uses them to influence the jury. Gerard T Leone Jr was the prosecutor in the case of the death of Mathew Eappen. He uses repetition in the first section of the argument by repeating the victim name‚ “Mathew Eappen.”The repetitions show that he wants the jury to focus
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"List and explain the differences between a trial jury and a grand jury." With every person convicted they have a right to trial and jury. There is a grand jury. Second kind of jury is a trial or petite jury. If the paragraphs below I will try to explain the differences between the two . A grand jury is a group of jurors who hear testimony for the prosecution’s witnesses as well as a statement about the crime from the prosecutor. A grand jury is run mostly by the prosecutor‚ and although the
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then the jury should vote the defendant not guilty. One may disagree with this statement because if the evidence that is presented in court is unclear‚ and then the jury grants the defendant not guilty and the defendant really did commit the crime then there is a criminal on the loose. For instance the OJ Simpson case when OJ tried on the glove and it did not fit. The jury saw that there was unclear evidence that proved him guilty and there was nothing that proved him not guilty but the jury still ruled
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there is a trial‚ a selective number of individuals are called before the court known as the jury. It is not only the right and duty of juries to judge the facts‚ but also what is the law. To ultimately determine a verdict‚ the jury must take all information into consideration plus the moral intent of the accused In the legal justice system of the United States‚ there are many perks or benefits such as being in the jury‚ or what I call the lucky 12. For example‚ being a part of the jury takes away
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To what extent is reasonable doubt an effective safeguard in the jury system? In the play‚ Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose depicts ‘reasonable doubt’ as an extremely effective defence in the jury system which leads to saving the accused from being sentenced. In the play the jurors are asked to determine whether the seventeen year old boy is ‘guilty’ of fatally stabbing his father beyond ‘reasonable doubt’ or not. Only Juror 8 plays a pivotal part in acquainting the other eleven jurors about ‘reasonable
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