The Cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. W.E. Dubois‚ American Social Reformer and Political Activist (1868-1963) The day the war officially started on Iraq‚ thousands of people gathered at the Texas Capitol to protest the U.S. involvement in the war. That morning‚ as a government employee working at the Courthouse‚ I was notified via email of the impending protest. The email urged supervisors to let "non-essential personnel" leave early so that they could avoid the turmoil that
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“Gentlemen‚ Your Verdict” Michael Bruce 1. From what perspective is the story told? (1 mark) This story is told in limited omniscient third person perspective. This is because the narrating voice enters the minds of most characters‚ excluding the radio telephone scenes. You can only hear Lieutenant Commander Oram’s voice‚ not the character on the other end of the radio. 2. Through which literary device does Michael Bruce tell his story? (1 mark) The literary device used was flashback
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"This Be The Verse" is a lyric poem in three verses of four iambic tetrameter on an alternating rhyme scheme‚ by the English poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985). It was written around April 1971‚ first published in the August 1971 issue of New Humanist‚ and appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows. The title also ironically recalls the recurring phrase in the Old Testament threatening the sins of the father against his sons: "for I the Lord‚ thy God‚ am a jealous God‚ visiting the iniquity of the
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Jury nullification July 28th 2013 CJA/344 Johnny Cotton Jury Nullification Page one Jury Nullification Ethnicity plays a big role in courtroom proceedings as well as judicial practices from all parts of the criminal justice system. It is anywhere from the initial intake of a person to the time the person is sentenced. Everyone involved in the proceeding has to perform certain duties to their highest ability and they have to be fair to everyone that is involved in
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Jas Gentlemen‚ Your Verdict Feb.13‚11 There are twenty men trapped at the bottom of the sea in a submarine. Help will not arrive for a week. There is only enough oxygen left for about three days‚ but the oxygen will last five men for a week. What should the captain decide‚ and how? Five men were picked to live and the rest were killed without knowing. Considering all the facts‚ Lieutenant-Commander Oram should be innocent. The men were in the submarine when the explosion went
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The Jury System The Jury System is a worldwide legal system aimed to determine the genuine facts of an issue in a lawsuit‚ however many individuals strongly oppose the efficiency and accurateness of the jury system‚ adopted by the English during the middle ages. The jury system exists to bring law to common sense and the through the judgement of the community‚ as well as considering the values and standards of the state. Nevertheless‚ there are current debates on whether the jury system should be
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DECISION-MAKING OF JURIES Characteristics of the Defendant In an ideal world‚ a jury would be made up of unbiased and unprejudiced people‚ intelligent enough to comprehend the evidence and with the necessary verbal and social skills to contribute to discussion. In the real world however‚ research has shown that jury verdicts are influenced by irrelevant aspects of the defendant such as their physical attractiveness‚ gender‚ race and even their accent. Physical attractiveness: It does
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Projective verse I recorded my voice when I was talking to my friends on the phone‚ when I was teaching in class and when I was talking to my dog. When I listened to them‚ I found one common element of the way of talking‚ which is: I don’t breathe! I go bla bla bla bla bla bla not until I finish one long sentence that I won’t stop. No wonder I always feel very tired after talking or speaking to friends. But I am softer when I am talking to my dog. According
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Pretrial and Trial On T.V. pretrial receives very little attention but is an important aspect of the criminal justice process. There are seven steps to the pretrial process including‚ arrest and booking‚ the criminal complaint‚ arraignment and plea‚ probable cause hearing‚ discovery‚ pretrial motions and plea bargaining. First is arrest and booking‚ this step begins one of two ways. One is the typical way of making an arrest and the second way of the process starting is by having an arrest
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Equality: Women Serving Less Time than Men for Identical Crimes Abstract The Federal criminal sentencing guideline which was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 required that males and females who commit the same crime and have the same prior criminal history be sentenced equally (Oaxaca‚ Sarnikar‚ & Sorensen‚ 2007). By using data obtained from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice records‚ we examine the existence of any gender-based bias in criminal sentencing decisions (Oaxaca
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