generally favor harsh punishments and long jail terms‚ claim that plea bargaining results in unjustifiably light sentences. As a consequence‚ prosecutors who regularly engage in the practice rarely advertise it. Plea bargaining can be a powerful prosecutorial tool‚ but this power carries with it the potential for musses. Because they circumvent the trial process‚ plea bargains can be abused by prosecutors and defense attorneys who are more interested in the speedy resolution of cases than they are
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Tiera Bristol November 19‚ 2012 Policing in Kelsey: Budget Report Professor Charles McClelland Abstract Working as the budget director for the mayor of the city of Kelsey‚ we have recently been getting numerous complaints from the citizens about an increase in crime and also an issue of the public demanding for more police officers. With the population of the city growing daily‚ the increase of crime is continuing to progress as well. The mayor has informed us that this past year is
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Secondly‚ police should wear body worn cameras because it provides visual evidence in court. Richard E. Smith‚ Wakefield police chief strongly asserts that‚ “Testimony can recreate but cannot visualize the actual event‚ prosecutorial position‚ evidence can be restored from the cameras” (Buote 2015). This Richard E‚ Smith is trying to say that if all police had cameras on them‚ if a crime that goes to court has the recording as evidence it can ultimately change the verdict. One thousand police killings
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Latino Deportations For many undeveloped countries around the world‚ the United States is seen as the land of the opportunity. The land where hard work will be rewarded and all goals can be achieved. However the real United States is not as wonderful as it seems for an immigrant‚ specially an illegal immigrant. It is no doubt minorities on the United States are discriminated and somehow targeted. Every day our jail population is growing and prisons are becoming more and more overcrowded. The “unworthy
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Cultural Diversity in Criminal Justice Paper Joseph Merritt CJA344 July 10‚2011 Melba Ferlow- Herrington Cultural Diversity in Criminal Justice Paper This paper will primarily focus on racial disparity in sentencing. While studying the different problems associated with racial disparity we will also look at why racial disparity exsist within sentencing. In society today there are a diversity of citizens‚ offenders‚ and leaders within the court system. However‚ race still plays a big role
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2010). Four reasons exist and cause racial disparity to prosper in the criminal justice system. The contributors are venue and jury selection‚ ineffective assistance of counsel and procedural bars‚ prosecutorial discretion‚ and the dominance of racist jurors (Misha‚ 2005). As for prosecutorial discretion‚ a Caucasian who committed a white-collar crime will not spend a day in jail‚ whereas a minority offender who committed a street crime will suffer harsh penalties. Ineffective assistance of
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charges Wednesday against the Pennsylvania cable company’s founder John Rigas and his son Timothy because they weren’t likely to end in substantial additional jail time or restitution. Proceeding with the case wouldn’t be "a prudent expenditure" of prosecutorial resources‚ authorities said. Authorities alleged in 2005 the Rigases had committed tax fraud when they failed to pay income tax on the proceeds of the fraud they were convicted of in New York a year earlier. The former executives fought the case
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela‚ the former president of South Africa‚ died Thursday. He was one of those committed citizens. Born in 1918 into a family of privilege‚ he was of aristocratic cloth. However‚ he realized early on that in order to unite and liberate all of South Africa he had to commit class suicide by resisting the divide-and-conquer mentality of the apartheid regime. As a boxer‚ attorney and revolutionary‚ he fully understood that the elements of self-sacrifice‚ humility and persistence
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__Prosecution_______ for the subject of the compelled testimony. 12. Non indigent accused criminals enjoy the right to ________Affective___ assistance of counsel. Chapter 11: Matching 1. Match the term with the correct definition with the corresponding prosecutorial decisions. Write the Corresponding letter on the line provided. 1. selective prosecution__C___ | A. situation in which the prosecutor either (1) brings multiple charges against the same individual in thesame trial or (2) brings charges against
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multiple or they span to multiple states the federal criminal justice system will handle those cases (HG.org‚ 2012). “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other federal agencies employ their far-reaching investigative and prosecutorial services to deal with white collar criminals and their various crimes” (HG.org‚ 2012). When a company suffers from fraud from any source‚ the consumers are the ones that suffer. Companies make up the difference by raising costs‚ which
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