attorney as soon as possible; some important strategic decisions must be made at your arraignment and you want to be prepared. If you plan to plead guilty‚ you will usually be offered a lesser sentence in order to take a guilty plea through the process known as “plea bargaining.” You may be offered an ACD if you have no or limited criminal history. If you are offered an ACD then there is no reason to plead
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Explain the offence of defensive homicide under the Crimes (Homicide) Act 2005 Under defensive homicide in the crimes act (2005)‚ A person who‚ by his or her conduct‚ kills another person in circumstances that‚ but for section 9AC‚ would constitute murder‚ is guilty of an indictable offence (defensive homicide) and liable to level 3 imprisonment (20 years maximum) if he or she did not have reasonable grounds for the belief referred to in that section. Explain the law of self defence in relation
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Crime Lynetta Gibson CJA/ 204 August 4‚ 2014 Erica Veljic Crime One will learn the definition of a crime throughout this paper. Crime is an act of unacceptable behavior that is recognizable as a violation therefore granted the appropriate punishment. A criminal act can be described as an activity that involves breaking the law‚ or act considered morally wrong. Crime is an infringement of the law. Any of these examples is considered prohibited by law. In our society when you have crime we
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are accorded due fairness and equal opportunity regardless of gender‚ race‚ age‚ religious affiliation nor any other factor. They also see to it that trials are completed successfully. The concept of court room working group is associated with plea bargaining. The courtroom working group has shown tremendous explanatory power in overburdened courts dealing with huge case loads. Describing and Evaluating Roles of Courtroom Work Group Professionals that serve in the court‚ each have a commitment to
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Cost of Capital Punishment Some believe if they ban the death penalty the state can save millions. There are claims that the death penalty is more expensive than life without parole. The expense of capital punishment and life without parole is very contentious issue. A study done by the Sacramento Bee‚ argued that California would save ninety million dollars per year if it were to abolish the death penalty. Many opponents presently say that the cost of the death penalty is so expensive‚ at
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profession provided he or she will not be a threat to the community (Caputo‚ n.d.). Finally‚ these problems can be addressed by provision of plea guidelines to prosecutors which they scrutinizes for racial disparity‚ and reduce the power of the prosecutor from threatening people with long sentences if they go to trial. The District Attorney should look at the plea bargaining outcomes and look
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THE SENTENCING PROCESS * The hearing Once the jury has determined the guilt of an offender‚ the jurors are dismissed and their role in the trial is over. It is now time for the second stage of the trial in which the judicial officer of the court-judge or justice-will determine the sentence imposed. The trial judge will look at many factors when determining a sentence. These factors include; the defendant’s state of mind‚ his or her criminal record-if any; and addiction the defendant may have
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Due Process Nancy Nevarez August 25‚ 2010 Hal C. Kern III CJA 224 Due Process Due process is procedures that effectively guaranteed the individual rights in the face of criminal prosecution and those procedures that are fundamental and rules for a fair and orderly legal proceeding. Due process have the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments constitutionally guaranteed rights of an accused to hear the charges against him or her and to be heard by the court having jurisdiction over the matter. It
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University of Phoenix CJA/214 February 15‚ 2011 The organizational structure of most American police departments is a bureaucracy with an authoritarian management style; the only exception is smaller departments which have a more informal management style and simple organizational structure (Katz and Walker‚ 2008). Most departments have a civil service system to govern personal policies‚ except for the smallest agencies. The majority of larger departments have collective bargaining contracts with unions
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part of the life is loss. Grief is a range of emotions and behaviors shown by people when confronted with a sudden loss. Kubler-Ross made a great contribution to the study of mourning in 1969 by introducing the “5 stages of grief”: denial‚ anger‚ bargaining‚ depression and acceptance. In the book of Job‚ the brief prologue setting forth the story and the brief epilogue completing it sandwich a lengthy series of dialogues and monologues regarding the nature of and reasoning for suffering. Job’s visiting
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