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    Mechanical Engineer‚ for rigging the bidding for the construction of the wind break fence of its thermal power plant’s coal storage in Calaca‚ Batangas. After hearing‚ the NPC’s Board of Inquiry and Discipline (BID) found Tanfelix guilty of grave misconduct for rigging the bidding to favor ALC Industries‚ Inc. (ALC)‚ one of the five pre-qualified contractors. Two witnesses‚ the board chairman of one of the losing bidders‚ Ley Construction and Development Corp. (LCDC)‚ and the head of the latter’s

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    PinoyLaw.Net Notesbank Nachura Notes – Law of Public Officers (Kiddy) I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES Public Office - Right‚ authority‚ duty‚ created and conferred by law‚ by which for a given period‚ either fixed by law or enduring at the pleasure of the creating power‚ an individual is invested with some sovereign power of government to be exercised by him for the benefit of the people. - Elements: 1. created by law or by authority of law 2. possess a delegation of a portion of the sovereign powers of

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    This paper explores deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) collection and its relationship to solving crimes. The collection of DNA is one of the most important steps in identifying a suspect in a crime. DNA evidence can either convict or exonerate an individual of a crime. Furthermore‚ the accuracy of forensic identification of evidence has the possibility of leaving biased effects on a juror (Carrell‚ Krauss‚ Liberman‚ Miethe‚ 2008). This paper examines Carrells et al’s research along with three other research

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    Body Camera Research

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    force by officers fell 60 percent‚ while citizen complaints against police plunged 88 percent. (https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/police_body-mounted_cameras.pdf) Cameras have the potential to be a win-win‚ helping protect the public against police misconduct‚ and at the same time helping protect police against false accusations of abuse. We’re against pervasive government surveillance‚ but when cameras primarily serve the function of allowing public monitoring of the government instead of the other

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    Duke Lacrosse Case

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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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    Sacco And Venzetti Essay

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    anarchists‚ had very little chance of being granted a fair trial from the start. Normally your political affiliations arenʼt admissible in court‚ but in this case they became a huge issue. As the trial went on this prejudice carried through until their conviction. ! Before the trial they tried Venzetti for a previous crime of a failed robbery. This wasnʼt a conventional method and was rarely done in the Massachusetts courts. He was found guilty of this crime and it was detrimental to the murder case. Not

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    These obstacles make it almost impossible for the death penalty to ever be carried out. Typically‚ death row inmates end up dying due to other factors such as health complications rather than being put to death (Petersen & Lynch‚ 2012‚ p. 1270). Essentially sentencing someone to death‚ and placing them on death row is basically the same as a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. The difference‚ however is that the sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole

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    after the fact‚ if they are executed for crimes they did not do. If the Courts of Justice were to misjudge a person and claim them to be guilty‚ they cannot repair their mistake once that innocent person is dead. Executing an innocent is just as wrongful as any murder committed by in public. Perhaps it can also be considered murder if the jury causes the death of an innocent. Francois Robespierre‚ a well-known French revolutionist‚ once said‚ “Human judgments are never so certain as to permit society

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    Prison is an institution that society creates to confine people convicted of breaking the law. It is designed to be an institution that deters people from committing crimes‚ punishes and rehabilitates criminals‚ and protects the public by keeping dangerous offenders off the streets. It is important to study this social organization to gauge whether the manner in which society deals with criminality via prison is effective. In light of the evidence‚ it appears that the objectives of imprisonment do

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    five to fifteen years. Five years prior to the Central Park Five another individual by the name of Ronald Cotton was wrongful convicted of the rape of twenty-two year-old college senior Jennifer Thompson Cannino. Ronald Cotton spent over ten years in prison before DNA evidence pardoned him of any and all wrong doing. Ronald was thirty-two upon his release. Were these wrongful conviction of these individuals

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