Language Barriers and Lack of Interpreters in the Court Systems Tonya Barrett CJA/394 March 30‚ 2015 Mike Magee The following paper will discuss the current language barriers and lack of interpreter availability in the court systems today. The court administrator is responsible for addressing this problem and improving the situation. Therefore‚ this paper will also cover the efforts that the court administrator has made to correct the
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Foreseeable Reliance The promisee’s reliance must be reasonably foreseeable to promisor. Injustice Cannot be Avoided In deciding if injustice can be avoided courts will consider: 1. Availability and adequacy of other remedies‚ particularly restitution or cancellation. 2. The definite and substantial character of the action or forbearance in relation to remedy sought. 3. Extent to which the action or forbearance corroborates evidence of the making and terms of the promise. 4
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Learning unlike most of the other concepts that are involved in this lab as well as the pre-cursing studies‚ can not be directly defined. Instead Learning has to be inferred from the change of behavior observed in the subject. A more or less permanent change implies the subject has "Learned" the desired response. Operant Conditioning is conditioning a specific subject to perform an Operant response to receive a reinforcer (such as food). An apparatus used to achieve this would be the "Skinner Box"
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murderer should have his life taken from him! This kind of perverse logic‚ which has seldom been supported by the victims’ families themselves‚ fails to be convincing. In a similar vein‚ several other questions regarding the effect on society‚ restitution being denied‚ the rights of the convicted‚ and the possibility of the innocent being accused are not addressed convincingly by supporters of capital punishment. Another claim often touted in support of the death penalty is that it is a deterrent
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Six well-educated Confederate veterans from Pulaski‚ Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24‚ 1865‚ during the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War.[32][33] The name was formed by combining the Greek kyklos (κύκλος‚ circle) with clan.[34] The group was known for a short time as the "Kuklux Clan". The Ku Klux Klan was one among a number of secret‚ oath-bound organizations using violence‚ including the Southern Cross in New Orleans (1865) and the Knights of the White Camelia
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Over five million people are under the supervision of the criminal justice systems in the United States. Approximately‚ 1.6 million are incarcerated in local‚ state‚ and federal institutions. The remaining‚ or almost 70 percent of those under the responsibility of the criminal justice system‚ are being supervised in the community on probation or parole. This means that at any one time a large number of U.S. citizens are in the community under correctional supervision. For example‚ nearly 2 percent
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the lady and her husband and a friend who cut his finger tip off in an industrial accident. The Media covered it but never retracted anything and never apologized for the millions of dollars it cost Wendy’s and it’s stock holders or had to make restitution. As I said in the beginning the Media is not responsible to anyone and only cares about selling air time and commercial time. You and I are a minor inconvenience to exploit for there financial gain. Your grief‚ your misery‚ your pain and suffering
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I believe Stogner v. California (2003) favors the offender’s rights because the offender escaped justice due to passage of time. In some cases‚ I believe passage of time could be acceptable‚ but in cases of serious personal and psychological injury‚ I do not believe passage of time should be such a factor. When the law regarding sexual assault was written‚ these types of crimes did not carry the penalties and time limitations that they do now. I venture to say‚ it was not viewed as serious as it
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I think that there are multiple theories for why the events of 1692 took place. Superstition is the belief in the paranormal connection. In the articles "Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive." Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. "Salem Witch Museum." Salem Witch Museum. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. "The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692." The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. William Griggs‚ township physician‚ was summoned. He insinuated that the girls’ ailments might
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131 Chapter 9 Notes – Sentencing. Chapter Summary The text discusses several important aspects of sentencing in Chapter 9; it also describes five goals of contemporary sentencing: retribution‚ incapacitation‚ deterrence‚ rehabilitation‚ and restoration. Retribution corresponds to the just deserts model of sentencing and is best understood from the biblical reference to “eye for an eye‚ tooth for a tooth.” Incapacitation seeks to isolate offenders from society. Deterrence‚ both specific and general
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