Various Primary Sources of American Laws Gary Craddock Everest University Online Abstract There are various sources of American Law Primary sources of law are sources that establish the law and are in enforced by the controlling authority (the government’s) of a society. They consist of case law and common law doctrines‚ the U.S. constitution and the constitution of various states‚ statutory law including laws passed by Congress State legislature and local governing bodies‚ regulations created
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throughout the country due to evidence of their wrongful convictions. Just in 2003 alone‚ 10 innocent defendants were released from death row. Some factors that can lead to wrongful convictions are: inadequate legal representation‚ police and prosecutorial misconduct‚ perjured testimony and mistaken eyewitness testimony‚ racial prejudice‚ jailhouse snitch testimony‚ suppression and/or misinterpretation of mitigating evidence‚ and community/political pressure to solve a case. All these factors can
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Unit 6 Assignment Christian Detmer Kaplan University CM107 Professor Bone November 21‚ 2014 Dear Ned W. Mangum‚ I am writing to you today to talk about a hot button issue right now‚ and that issue is wrongful conviction. It has been 25 years since the first DNA test exonerated a convict‚ and back in 2009 there had been 286 people freed by DNA testing. There are a few reasons that I am writing to you about this‚ for starters I would like to inform you of the many reasons that wrongful
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should have barred prosecutors from using the cellphone records. Brown said the misuse of the records in the face of the “unambiguous warning” on AT&T’s cover sheet – and the failure of Syed’s original lawyer to do anything about this‚ amounted to prosecutorial misconduct and a denial of Syed’s right to due process. Although this evidence seems crucial to the case‚ Adnan’s lawyer never brought this up at trial‚ one may think that his lawyer may not bring the evidence to trial is because the state didn’t
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Capital Punishment The Death Penalty has no place in the modern United States Criminal Justice System. The moral correctness of the government sentencing prisoners to death is a long debated argument. Death penalty supporters may believe that death is a rightful punishment to those who are found guilty of murder‚ or that the punishment will deter future criminals from committing homicide. Capital punishment is a serious problem facing many innocent Americans‚ as well as slowing the progression of
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The values-learned perspective states that police officers learn their ethical or unethical behavior through indoctrination into the law enforcement organization they are a part of. The indoctrination into the subculture molds and shapes the behavior of new officers and as they learn to behave like their colleagues‚ what is expected of them in order to be included becomes their moral standard. One example of this from the audio recording is the officers who worked with Adrian Schoolcraft. These officers
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Espinoza‚ R.‚ & Willis-Esquenda‚ C Fortunato‚ J. (2008). Restoring a reputation: The Duke University lacrosse scandal. Public Relations Review‚ 34(2)‚ 116-123. doi: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2008.03.006 Franklin‚ T Franklin‚ T. (2010). Community influence on prosecutorial dismissals: A multilevel analysis of case and county level factors. Journal of Criminal Justice‚ 38(4)‚ 693-701. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2010.04.043 Garoupa‚ N Pyrek‚ K. (2007). DNA: Convicting the guilty‚ exonerating the innocent. Forensic Science
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POLICE DISCRETION Police officers are faced each day with a variety of situation in which they must deal; therefore we should ask ourselves the following questions: Should police officers enforce the law equally in all situations? In what situations should police officers be allowed to not enforce the law? What types of situations would they be required to fully enforce the law? Why does police discretion exist? What are its strengths and weaknesses? And what is the relationship between police
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history law enforcement officers have been given the power and responsibility to use discretion while preforming their assigned duties. In early history‚ law enforcement officers were given a lot of discretion‚ where as now‚ they do not. Many laws have restricted officer discretion because of abuse. There are many different scenarios when and how an officer can use discretion and as well as how much discretion they are able to use‚ depending on the situation. Furthermore‚ in some cases for example
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enforcement is about the code of ethics. How you should follow the code of ethics and it should represent everything and officer should be. As an officer everyday we have to make sure that Laws are being followed. Also the ethical dilemmas in police discretion so that no police officer is seeking a change in law to match their own personal views on any issue. There will be many occasions when the officers ’ ethics will be tested and it depends
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