Drug Courts Elizabeth Johnson was a model student. She was characterized by her teachers as hardworking‚ driven‚ and goal oriented. After being placed on the honor roll and graduating early from Morris High School in Will County‚ Illinois‚ she attended Northern Illinois University to become a lawyer. Within her first year at college‚ her life derailed. She was caught by the police and arrested for possession of marijuana. Johnson was expecting to be placed in prison but she found herself in a drug
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Wrongful convictions are a horrible injustices that occur when innocent defendants are found guilty in criminal trial cases. People spend many years wrongfully convicted and are even put on death row. This has been an issue in the United States for a long time because there was no DNA testing. There are many factors which can lead to wrongful conviction such as false eyewitness misidentification‚ false confessions‚ forensic science issues‚ government misconduct‚ poor lawyering‚ etc. The innocence
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helping. I’ve always wanted to help others with their losses through Forensic Pathology. I was able to job-shadow the Peoria County coroner and one of the forensic pathologists that works with the coroner on December 9‚ 2016. This paper will include the details of my experience job-shadowing the coroner‚ my experience job-shadowing the forensic pathologist‚ what the future holds for both careers‚ what
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Forensic anthropology is the study of inspecting human remains. Forensic anthropologists often work and help out forensic cases‚ and they often help solve crimes that involve human remains that can’t be identified to just anyone‚ but for these anthropologists‚ they come in hand to help solve these cases. Forensic anthropologists are notably helpful with decomposed bodies that are found due from natural causes such as earthquakes or tsunamis or bodies that were burned‚ or unrecognizable. Forensic
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Another case that addresses drug testing is Aubrey v. School Board of Lafayette Parish (1998). In this case we are looking at the Fourth Amendment rights of employees. Aubrey was a custodian at an elementary school. In December 1992 the board adopted an Employee Drug Testing Policy stating all "safety sensitive" employees are subject to random selection and drug testing each year. In August of 1993‚ Aubrey attended and in-service where the y policy was dispersed and reviewed. On September 28
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UNIT ONE: Forensic Science II Text Questions Please complete the following questions. It is important that you use full sentences and present the questions and answers when you submit your work. Submit the work as a file attachment. This means you complete all work in a word processing document (e.g.‚ Microsoft Word) and attach the file using the dropbox tool. Use the Unit 1: Text Questions dropbox basket. The answers to the Review & Critical Thinking questions are worth 10 points. Review Questions
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AUDIT EVIDENCE Audit Evidence Definition : All the information used by the auditor in arriving at the conclusions on which the audit opinion is based. This includes the information contained in the account records underlying the financial statements and other information. Additionally‚ audit evidence should be persuasive‚ rather than convincing. There are different levels of reliability of audit evidence‚ some providing more evidence than others. There are nine types of audit evidence :
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Jose Abad Santos Campus in regards to the skills needed to become an effective manager‚ it emphasizes the technical‚ human and conceptual skills that has more important to the managers to manage a certain department. Hospitality Industry is broad and diverse; organizations within it share some things in common. One is the need for staff members with a variety of knowledge‚ skills and experience to produce the products and services that are needed or desired by consumers. Each job has specific requirements
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Since there have been very few reported cases challenging drug courts jurisdiction or procedure‚ there is no valid argument against its procedures in terms of constitutional rights. However‚ questions expressed by both advocates and critics of judicial innovation and the different roles judges partake are seen to show the constitutional rights of drug participants are being overlooked (Lane‚ 2003). The broad question remains is whether proactive judges taking on the role of problem-solving can still
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5/12/12 11-12am PS318 Dr Nandini Hayes Note-taker Zia Last week – we talked about PCR and how important it is in the forensic setting. We will finish off talking about PCR‚ and then we will discuss how it can be used. If we go back to the slide of the double stranded DNA‚ and if we take that to a high temperature‚ the two strands separate‚ you then add the primers‚ which interact with ? On the strand‚ synthesis takes place in the 5-3 direction‚ then you end up with 2 molecules identical to
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