a 50/50 chance that they would say yes and that is extremely dangerous. For one they could crash or hit someone and that is terrifying that one choice can influence so much they could go to jail for public endangerment of even get charged with manslaughter. Studies prove that statistically 16-17 year olds are twice as likely to get in to car crashes verses 18-19 year olds. 16 year old drivers are simply too young to be allowed to drive‚ 18 is the legal age for almost everything else. The driving
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The Structure of the English Court System Courts of First Instance Courts of first instance are where matters are first heard and where the FACTS of the case are determined‚ for criminal courts‚ these can either be Magistrates courts or Crown courts. All cases (even murder) are first heard in a magistrate’s court‚ and if the cases are too serious then they are transferred up to higher court (Crown Court) this is mostly indictable offenses. Magistrate courts decide whether the defendant is guilty
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consecutive trials by fellow colonists‚ who refused to punish a white man for killing an American Indian. The governor‚ frustrated with the bizarre verdict‚ ordered a fourth trial‚ at which point Elkin was finally found guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter. 1669: When Murder Was Legal Public domain. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. As part of its 1669 slavery law revisions‚ the Commonwealth
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Derek Bentley: Derek William Bentley (30 June 1933 – 28 January 1953) was a British teenager hanged for the murder of a police officer‚ committed in the course of a burglary attempt. The murder of the police officer was committed by a friend and accomplice of Bentley’s‚ Christopher Craig‚ then aged 16. Bentley was convicted as a party to the murder‚ by the English law principle of common criminal purpose "joint enterprise". The judge in court sentenced Bentley to death based on an interpretation
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somewhere in between‚ sometimes subject to a cap. If a sentence gets reduced to a less harsh punishment‚ then the sentence is said to have been "mitigated" or "commuted". Rarely (depending on circumstances) murder charges are "mitigated" and reduced to manslaughter charges. However‚ in certain legal systems‚ a defendant may be punished beyond the terms of the sentence‚ e.g. social stigma‚ loss of governmental benefits‚ or‚ collectively‚ the collateral consequences of criminal charges. Statutes often specify
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In our current day and age‚ our society has been unsuccessful in dealing with the mentally insane and the mentally challenged. Our current legal scholars focus on debating the legal rights and challenges of the inhabitants of mental institutions. Obviously‚ those deemed insane in medieval England did not fare much better and in fact encountered even more difficulties by the very nature of society during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The king claimed jurisdiction over crimes and felonies
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of Massachusetts headed these demands for reform of the juvenile justice system and enacted legislation that‚ among other things‚ abolishes the trial de novo system in the juvenile courts‚ requires the trial of juveniles charged with murder‚ manslaughter‚ aggravated rape‚ forcible rape of a child‚ kidnaping‚ assault with intent to rob or murder and armed burglary in adult court and permits prosecutors to open to the public juvenile proceedings when they seek an adult sentence. Although proponents
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Crime and the Law Notes Syllabus Themes: * The role of discretion in the criminal justice system * Issues of compliance and non compliance in regard to criminal law * The extent to which the law reflects moral and ethical standards * The role of law reform in the criminal justice system * The extent to which the law balances the rights of victims‚ offenders and society * The effectiveness of legal and non-legal measures in achieving justice Chapter 1: The Nature of Crime Role
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Week 2 Mens Rea The defendant’s mental state. Mens Rea and Actus Reus are necessary for a crime; apart from in strict liability crimes when mens rea is not necessary. Different crimes have different mens rea. Example: murder requires intention to cause death or GBH. Sometimes an offence will have different mens rea for different aspects of the crime. Example: rape needs intention to commit sexual intercourse but only needs recklessness as to whether the victim is consenting
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ventilation. Women died in the building due to the locked exits and in order to escape some women jumped out onto the sidewalk. Once they jumped some landed on the net‚ but some died on the sidewalk. The women that survived had gone to court to file manslaughter against the owners. They went through the trials and once the verdict was chosen the owners were found not guilty. One of the survivors names was Katie Alderman; she survived by layering up in dresses and coats and jumping out the window to the
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