Plea Bargaining Controversy in Society Councilman Dennis Gallagher was accused of raping and assaulting a Queens woman. The alleged event took place on July 8‚ 2007. Although Councilman Gallagher said it was consensual sex‚ the plaintiff says otherwise. When it was brought to trail by a grand-jury preceding the judge claimed the defense team had unfairly presented their case to the grand jury. About a month from the ruling‚ Councilman Gallagher was offered a plea deal reducing the charges brought
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Plea Bargains and Mandatory Sentencing I would like to take this time to explain my position on Plea Bargains and Mandatory Sentencing. I will show both pros and cons for each topic‚ as well as give you my personal brief on which one I support. There are two types of plea bargains : The first one is a charge bargain. When the prosecutor allows a defendant to "plead guilty to a lesser charge"‚ or to only some of the charges that have been filed against him. For example‚ a defendant charged
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NOTIONS OF WOMEN IN A PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY ‘Lajwanti’ the title itself‚ is meant to depict women as weak‚ fragile and brittle’. They are not expected to revolt or defend a just cause‚ like gender equality‚ in any manner. In ‘A girl’s plea’‚ the girl describes that her father sees her as ‘A meek‚ dumb‚ shy‚ submissive‚ frail woman.’ She is made to ‘eat humble pie and drink sheer humiliation’ indicating that oppression was her food and drink. The torture was inevitable and on a daily
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There are numerous theoretical approaches which attempt to define the term “collective bargaining”. The contributions are mainly pluralist in nature and propose the idea that collective bargaining is a necessary and desired activity for resolving conflict arising from the inequality in bargaining power between the ‘strong’ employer and the ‘weak’ employee [1‚ 2]. Trade unions are able to overcome this predicament by functioning as a third-party intervention‚ thus allowing the employees’ views to
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The three basic types of plea bargains can be summed up as: 1) Plead to a lesser offense. 2) plead guilty to receive lesser sentence. 3) plead guilty to one charge to have another dropped. If prosecutors decide to bargain‚ there are three main factors that play a role in whether or not to offer a bargain. The first is the seriousness of the crime. The more serious the crime‚ the less likely a bargain will be struck. The second factor taken into consideration before a plea bargain is offered‚ history
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Why did you choose a particular bargaining style? Agulto chooses different bargaining style‚ first he used the hard-bargaining style‚ to intimidate the seller and to set a standard. Using hard bargaining style gives the advantage to the buyer‚ winning it at all cost. Then he talks to the seller like giving a commitment that if they sell us at a particular price we will order from them another sets of sack of rice. And we bombarded them with flinches or offers that will reach their concession. And
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Kristen DelGuzzi of The Cincinnati Enquirer conducted a study of cases handled by Hamilton County judges over a three-year period. Shown in Table 4.1 are the results for 182‚908 cases handled (disposed) by 38 judges in Common Pleas Court‚ Domestic Relations Court‚ and Municipal Court. Two of the judges (Dinkelacker and Hogan) did not serve in the same court for the entire three-year period. The purpose of the newspaper’s study was to evaluate the performance of the judges. Appeals are often
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association and the right to form unions; III. Article 18 proscribes the right of its citizens to enter upon any lawful profession or occupation and to conduct any lawful trade or business; IV. Article 25 lays down the right to equality before the law and prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of sex alone; V. Article 37(e) makes provision for securing just and
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more relevant in the case. Legal Subsystems (Collective Bargaining) • Collective bargaining was attempted in order to resolve the Metrobus/employee contract issue • Relevant in this case because it is the desired outcome Economic Subsystems (Product/Service Market) • Metrobus is relied on to supply a service to the residents of the city • Relevant in this case because a strike (stopping the service) will bring extra issues such as extra
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The Knowledge Workers’ Strike Case Analysis Any negotiation can be tricky‚ but especially ones in which differently positioned‚ opposing sides are trying to decide what is fair. These situations can grow from a single spark into a raging firestorm before either side knows what really happened. In the situation of Detonation and the Software Engineers Guild (SEG)‚ both sides sit anxiously to determine what issue the other side is willing to give on in order to strike a labor deal. The ball
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