someone of any gender is dangerous and destructive‚ but when done by men‚ it is less shocking. Most attorneys would not make the argument that the gender of the defendant does not have an immediate effect on the strategy to prosecute or defend. Prosecutors have been known to on a woman’s “failure to behave according to societal expectations‚ rather than just focusing on the elements of the alleged crime” ( ). Legal analysts‚ especially ones studying law and feminism have said that convictions are
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In The United States criminal justice system the informal arrangement between a criminal prosecutor‚ criminal defense attorney‚ and the judicial officeris called a courtroom work group. The courtroom workgroup was proposed by Eisenstein and Jacob in 1977 to explain their observations of the ways courts‚ especially lower level courts‚ actually come to decisions. This foundational concept in the academic discipline of criminal justice identifies the seemingly opposing courtroom participants as collaborators
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Crime Evaluation Victims and Crime Evaluation The role of the prosecutor A prosecutor is a law enforcement official who is the chief legal representative in the court systems in countries with either the common law adversarial system‚ or the civil law inquisitorial system. The prosecutor is responsible for representing the state‚ in presenting the case in a criminal trial against an individual accused of breaking the law. Prosecutors are typically lawyers who possess a law degree‚ and are recognized
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A call to exterminate Jews and Gypsies is not a crime On August 22‚ 2007 the Riga District Prosecution Office in Ieva Garancha’s person dismissed criminal case that was initiated against Andris Jordans according the part 1 of clause 78 of Latvian Criminal Law: “Violation of National or Racial Equality and Restriction of Human Rights. For a person who commits acts knowingly directed towards instigating national or racial hatred or enmity‚ or knowingly commits the restricting‚ directly or indirectly
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the Federal building‚ George Kazan‚ a successful attorney is seated next to Myra. He wears a grey Stacy Adams Sunny vested suit with black alligator cowboy boots. Kazan’s a highly skilled‚ bigheaded celebrity defense attorney that prosecutors fear. The prosecutors avoided trial with him if possible. George Kazan would use every trick in and out of the book. He once had an ex-wife of the presiding judge to appear as witness for the defense in a big celebrity divorce case. In the courtroom‚ George’s
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Before long I lost the urge to breath and succumbed to asphyxia. Where am I? My eyes strained under the blinding sunlight that illuminated the court room with a banana hue. As my senses returned‚ I heard the mention of Maman once again for the Prosecutor. If it had not been for the earlier warning from my lawyer‚ I would have lashed out as my ire gently welled in my chest. They speak of Maman as if they know her‚ I thought to myself‚ oblivious to the fact that my words had escaped my mouth to plant
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to material stored on your cell phone‚ or in the Cloud or on other storage media subject to a proper Public Records request. The case involved a County Prosecutor who was sued by a former employee for many reasons but in this instant case‚ she sued the County and the Prosecutor for the right to access emails and other material on the Prosecutors cell phone. In Nissen v. Pierce County‚ ___ Wn.2d ___ (8/27/2015)‚ Nissen sought phone records‚ including text messages‚ found on the prosecuting attorney’s
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state or federal prosecutor‚ sometimes even more power than the judge themselves. In fact‚ an analysis by the Federal Sentencing Reporter found that 92% of judges said their findings of fact diverge from the plea agreement either “infrequently” or “never.” That is to say‚ Judges forgo their independent assessment of facts in favor of deferring to the criminal prosecutor who is disproportionately likely to hit male defendants with more severe sentences. Indeed‚ these prosecutors charge male defendants
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economy. Many of the people who Lula had helped to rise from poverty and other hard-line supporters were shocked to find that he and others from the Workers Party were involved in multiple‚ far-reaching corruption scandals. “Deltan Dallagnol‚ a prosecutor‚
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at the … they decided this …. Facts : Thompson has been convicted for attempted armed robbery. Prosecutors failed to disclose crime lab report. A month before his schedued execution‚ the crime lab report was discovered. Issue : where it’s written « HELD ». the question they try to figure out‚ to determine. Can a prosecutor’s office be held liable for the illegal conduct of one of its prosecutors‚ on the theory that the office failed to adequately train its employees‚ when there has been only
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