Court Report Cases: District court 10:00-11:30 14/03/2013 * R v Daniel 2012/00617533 (x1) (Trial) Judge M Finnane * R v Reynold Glover 2009/00188829 (x3) (Trial) Judge P Zahra * R v Jorge Eliecer Henao Palacio 2010/00401797 (x3 ) (Trial) Judge G Woods * R v Amanda Lee Roberts 2011/00165714 (x2) (Trial) Judge J Bennett District Court 21/03/2013 * R v Jorge Eliecer Henao Palacio 2010/00401797 (x3) (Trial) Judge G Woods * Case List Thursday 21 March 2013 Downing Centre
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killed in 2011. All those deaths were because of different events that took place. Some because of officer neglect‚ others because of officer safety. A majority because of the everyday citizens that decide it’s ok to take an officers life. Officer discretion is a very important aspect of policing. Making sound judgment is imperative in police investigations. Above anything in the realm of Law Enforcement is officer safety. Far too police officers have lost their lives in the line of duty. Police officers
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organization. Brian Cook stated‚ “In contrast to instrumental [reasoning]‚ consecutive reasoning is reasoning about forms and purposes. Consecutive reasoners (thinkers) have a lot of discretion and they are the ones who control or lead‚ the instrumental thinkers. The Instrumental thinkers do not have any discretion for example a hammer as what Cook would explain in the handout. The Bureaucrats are the instrumental thinkers while the constitutive thinkers create government. The instrumental thinkers
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addition‚ we will also analyze the culture for women and the ethnic minorities. Also‚ on how they can achieve equality in law enforcement for women. Moreover‚ we will be going more in depth with internal and external mechanism that control police discretion. Analyze Police Culture‚ including the Significance of Stress in Policing There are many factors that contribute to the stress of a police
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Wuornos was born as Aileen Carol Pittman in Rochester‚ Michigan. She had one older brother named Keith‚ who was born in February 1955. Her mother‚ Diane Pratt‚ was 15 years old when she married Leo Dale Pittman on June 3‚ 1954. Less than two years into marriage and two months before Wuornos was born‚ Pratt filed for divorce. Pittman was a child molester who spent most of his life in and out of prison. Wuornos never met her father‚ as he was imprisoned for the rape and attempted murder of an eight-year-old
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sentence but it would be in fact the prison authorities that determined the term of the sentence. Prison Authorities could in fact with reason exercise this power with little or no supervision. A Pro of Indeterminate Sentencing if that it allows for discretion to adjust the length of the sentence to fit the individual circumstances (CJ 2010 Textbook Pg.139). A Con is that it can result in intentional and unintentional discrimination sentences from judge to judge that may vary so much as to appear as unfair
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Tyler Rave C. Kelly 10/9/12 Assignment 1 Crime Control vs. Due Process and Discretion Today‚ there are two main competing models of justice‚ the Due Process Model‚ and the Crime Control Method. The Due Process Model (DPM) is known as obstacle course justice with an ideology that relies on the formal structure of the law and legal guilt. The DPM’s primary goals are to protect the due process rights of the accused and limiting the powers of the state. It runs completely with an underlying assumption
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exoneration and release of more than 15 death row inmates since 1992 in the United States‚ but DNA evidence is available in only a fraction of capital cases. Others have been released on the basis of weak cases against them‚ sometimes involving prosecutorial misconduct; resulting in acquittal at retrial‚ charges dropped‚ or innocence-based pardons. The Death Penalty Information Center (U.S.) has published a list of 10 inmates "executed but possibly innocent". At least 39 executions are claimed to have
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In The Specter of Salem‚ Gretchen A. Adams studies the ways nineteenth-century Americans deployed the history of the Salem witchcraft trials to influence debates over national identity‚ the sectional crisis‚ and new religious movements. Adams situates her work within a wide range of historical and sociological literature‚ including studies of collective memory‚ nationalism‚ and language. Her research is based on the legal records and histories written immediately after the trials‚ as well as nineteenth-century
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Mandatory sentencing: judges are too soft on criminals. Their entire focus should be on punishment and retribution‚ and if they keep wasting their time with other considerations then we should introduce mandatory sentencing. To what extent do you agree and why? The sentencing system should not be altered‚ for decreasing the focus and increasing the frequency of sentencing would do more harm than good. An emphasis on merely punishment and retribution in criminal sentencing would prevent the right
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