innocent person to enter the guilty plea‚ is that there is a possibility that when entering guilty plea they could possible get charged with a lesser crime. It is known that if someone was to go in front of a jury and get charged with a crime it will be a much larger sentencing time than if the defendant would of taken a plea bargain in the first place. So in this day and time it could be easier for someone to see the outside world again to just take a plea bargain and plea guilty to something rather than
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Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity? Lori Sheets The insanity defense is a defense by excuse. The defendant argues that they should not be held criminally responsible for breaking the law because they were mentally ill or mentally incompetent at the time of their alleged criminal action. The thought behind this is that someone suffering from a mental disorder is not capable of knowing or choosing right from wrong so they should not be punished. When this is the case‚ they are pleading not guilty
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A Guilty Conscience Before Gwilan discovered her talent playing the harp‚ she attended school like any other girl and had many friends. One of her closest friends was Genevieve. They did everything together‚ and people often commented they looked and acted like sisters. However‚ as they grew up‚ Gwilan and Genevieve discovered different interests‚ and did not spend as much time together. Eventually‚ Gwilan drifted apart from Genevieve and found she loved playing the harp. The more famous
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In most societies‚ there is one question that can provide clarity to people when a situation goes awry; guilty or innocent? When reading the play‚ Oedipus the King‚ written by the playwright Sophocles‚ there were many instances that could be used to declare Oedipus guilty or innocent. Oedipus is very much guilty because he should not have thought he had higher authority than the gods and he should not have insisted on continuing to look for the answers to all his questions. Sophocles did a fantastic
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the public’s misunderstanding of exactly what happens when someone is found “not guilty by reason of insanity”. It is because of cases like John Hinckley and Andrea Yates where the defendants are found not guilty by reason of insanity coupled with the public’s misunderstanding that causes the public to become so outraged with the insanity defense. The public has this common misconception that someone found not guilty by reason of insanity is just let go and is not punished for his or
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In recent discussions of Sacco and Vanzetti‚ a controversial issue has been whether or not the two men are innocent or guilty. On the one hand‚ some argue that they are innocent. From this perspective‚ there was little evidence to support the verdict. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that they were guilty. From this perspective‚ there are letters that were recently released that link them to the crime. In the words of Bartolomeo Vanzetti‚ “I am convinced that the human history has yet
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In 399 B.C.E‚ a jury of 501 Athenians sentenced Socrates to death for being found guilty of corrupting the youth and for not believing in Athens gods. In the trial‚ Socrates entertained and addressed two sets of accusations: the old accusations and the new accusations. In the old accusations‚ Socrates was accused of “investigating the things under the earth and the heavenly things‚ and by making the weaker speech the stronger‚ and by teaching others these same things” (19b). In the new accusations
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There’s a great difference between being guilty and non guilty‚ but would you want to be in a trial where the verdict will most likely always be guilty no matter what the crime is? In John Grisham’s novel‚ A Time to Kill‚ two white men rape‚ abuse and leave Carl Lee Hailey’s ten year old daughter‚ Tonya Hailey‚ close to death. Carl Lee Hailey took the law into his own hands and murdered the men that did something so brutal to his little girl. Throughout most of the novel‚ two most intelligent lawyers
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Although undoubtedly guilty of murder‚ there is no doubt in my mind that this is a clear-cut case of diminished responsibility. Throughout the whole sordid business the defendant whom I am representing has been beset with evil influences designed to erode his free will and conscience. If there was a penalty for the only flaw which he showed before he was mercilessly exploited by these evil forces‚ which was that of ambition‚ I believe we would all be convicted at some point in our lives. Without
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OJ Simpson-Guilty or Innocent? The OJ Simpson case is one that has left a stain on law enforcement and put a pock down on the chain of command issues as well as the collection and contamination procedures across the US. Although more than most of the evidence could have put Mr. Simpson in prison for the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman if it had been found to be creditable‚ the fact that the investigation and collection were so splotchy and unorganized‚ with evidence being misplaced
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