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    CSI Vs PIRO

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    Scene Investigator‚ there are actually a few characteristics that make CSI and PIRO different. PIRO job is to collect evidence at a crime scene whereas a CSI job is to investigate suspect and to determine if evidence is sufficient to recommend prosecution. A PIRO job involves finding pieces of evidence left behind by the killer. Their job requires the use of an alternative light source to find hair‚ fibers‚ and shoeprint‚ and also they use chemical and powder to lift latent fingerprints from the

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    development in the 1600s in England when judges started to say that an act alone could not create criminality unless it was adjunct with a guilty state of mind. The degree for a particular common law crime varied for mens rea. Murder required a malicious state of mind‚ whereas larceny required a felonious state of mind. Men’s Rea is generally used along with the words general intent‚ however this creates confusion since general intent is used to describe criminal liability when a defendant does not

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    compare and contrast criminal afnd civil law. In civil law‚ a private party (e.g.‚ a corporation or individual person) files the lawsuit and becomes the plaintiff. In criminal law‚ the litigation is always filed by the government‚ who is called the prosecution. Punishment One of the most fundamental distinctions between civil and criminal law is in the notion of punishment. Criminal Law In criminal law‚ a guilty defendant is punished by either (1) incarceration in a jail or prison‚ (2) fine paid

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    negligence or ignorance and the interlocutory order or decree be manifestly unjust‚ the penalty shall be suspension . granting bail to a nonbailable offense Art. 207. Malicious delay in the administration of justice. – The penalty of prision correccional in its minimum period shall be imposed upon any judge guilty of malicious delay in the administration of justice. frequent grant of postponements‚ delaying the decision or failure to render the decision within the time allowed by law However

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    Computer Viruses

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    everything on the hard disk‚ and also spread through downloads on Internet. They can be hidden in pirated software or in other files or programs that you might download. Including the first Internet Worm‚ were written as experiments or pranks. Today‚ malicious software is used primarily to steal sensitive information of personal‚ financial‚ or business importance by black hat hackers with harmful intensions. Worms spread automatically through email messages‚ networks‚ or operating system vulnerabilities

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    or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony” (qtd. in Clark). The major con of this law‚ as its critics think‚ is that it essentially gives individuals with malicious intent a legal loophole to avoid criminal prosecution for killing someone if these individual state that they had to defend themselves. Eric Holder‚ the US Attorney General‚ is among those opponents of Stand Your Ground laws who believe that these laws will allow individuals

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    Criminal Law : Intention

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    Answers * Assess the modern approaches to the definition of ’intention’ in English criminal Law -look at hierarchy of fault elements‚ intention v recklessness‚ foresight and intention 1) For some offences prosecution must prove BRD that the accused intended a particular consequence. ie murder‚ intention to kill/GBH ‚ recklessness will not suffice 2) also in OAPA 1861‚ s18 intention alone suffices ‚ intent to wound/GBH 3) there is no stat definition of intention. Its meaning is found

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    Jennifer Beck AMST 2103 February 5‚ 2013 O.J. Simpson Trial: How Racism and Culture Created a “Monster” Today in America‚ the idea that every man and woman is created equal is embedded into the brains of our youth at a young age. They are taught that every American citizen is entitled to equal rights regardless of his or her race‚ gender‚ or religious background. In spite of this‚ racism always has been‚ and always will be‚ a part of American culture. It is found everywhere. Racism exists

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    express your opinion and won’t go to jail for it. You can disagree with what someone says‚ but you are free to do so because of the first amendment. This is‚ in my opinion‚ how the world should work. You should be able to say what you want‚ without malicious intent being obvious‚ and you won’t get fined‚ thrown in jail‚ or murdered. The military is the one who fights for your freedom. They are the ones brave enough to go out in hostile territory fighting against the ones who want to strip you of your

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    Aswina’s case she would be claiming involuntary intoxication and therefore has the evidential burden which means she must bring in some evidence of the involuntary intoxication and its effect on her mens rea. The legal burden then passes to the prosecution to disprove her claim beyond reasonable doubt. Involuntary intoxication‚ if successful‚ is a complete defence to all crimes and can be incurred in one of three

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