Contemporary philosophers such as‚ G.E. Moore‚ C.L. Stevenson‚ and J.L. Mackie‚ all have theories that develop different views concerning the status of moral judgments and the existence of moral facts. Moore‚ in his‚ Subject Matter of Ethics‚ argued that moral facts do exist and can be true or false but must be indescribable. Stevenson‚ in his‚ The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms‚ disagreed with Moore and said that moral judgements can’t be true or false they simply can inspire certain feelings
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R. v Burns case Brief Case Facts The defendants Glen Sebastian Burns and Atif Ahmad Rafay were accused to have committed aggravated first degree murder in Washington State. In a confession to an undercover RCMP officer in British Columbia‚ posing as a mob boss‚ it is clamed that Burns was a contract killer hired by Rafay to kill his parents so that Rafay could get insurance money for their deaths. It is claimed that Burns beat the victims with a baseball bat while Rafay watched (para.10). They
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Illinois‚ Supra and United States v. Di Re‚ 332 U.S. 581 (1948). In Ybarra‚ police officers obtained a warrant to search a tavern and its bartender for evidence of possession of a controlled substance. Not only did the police search the tavern and the bartender but all the patrons that
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The Supreme Court case of Gregg V. Georgia dealt with administrative law‚ which is the legal field that regulates the due process clause in the Constitution. The clause is about the Government having the obligations to respect and uphold the legal rights of American people during and after they are arrested. Troy Leon Gregg and other inmates on death row believed that the death sentence was in direct violation of the 8th and 14th Amendments‚ which dealt with cruel and unusual punishment and that
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Case Brief 1. CASE: Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co. Inc. 556 U.S. 868 (2009) 2. FACTS: A West Virginia jury issued a verdict against respondents (“Massey”) in the amount of $50 million. After the verdict‚ knowing that the West Virginia’s Supreme Court of Appeals would consider the appeal‚ Blankenship‚ the chairman‚ CEO and president of Massey contributed $3 million to help Benjamin run for office in that court in West Virginia’s 2004 judicial election. Benjamin won the election in a close
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employer must have ‘strong basis in evidence‚’ that will be subject to ‘disparate impact liability’ if it fails to take discriminatory action.” Similar to City of Richmond v. Croson‚ the court declared there was not sufficient evidence to require special actions to be taken to fight
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Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson gives an inside look at the twisted justice system‚ and how innocent lives are lost & ruined due to bias and injustice in the justice system. The book reflects on how there is corruption in the courts‚ how Bryan Stevenson overcame these difficulties to help Walter McMillian. Walter McMillian was wrongly sentenced to death after someone murdered a girl at a store. He was betrayed by Ralph Myers‚ who gave false accusations about the case‚ and the officials‚ who wanted
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sentenced to death. In the Atkins v. Virginia (2002) case‚ Supreme Court ruled that execution of such a person constitutes cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the 8th amendment (Bethany A. Young-Lundquist‚ 2012). Standardized tests were the method used to test intellect. The purpose of this study was the focus on potential limitations of adaptive functioning. It has been thought that individual s with high levels of psychopathic
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History 368 Midterm Essay Examination Part 1‚ #1 Betts v. Brady in 1942 is a court case about an indigent white man named Betts who was charged with robbery. As soon as Betts got arrested he requested council and he was immediately denied. Betts was extremely poor‚ and he was very backwards to society. The reason why he was denied council was because his request for council was not handled as “special circumstances.” Justice Owen Roberts viewed Betts as an ordinary citizen‚ one with “ordinary
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Year 12 Legal Studies Crime Assessment Steven Fraser - R v Fraser - Murder of children Legal Citation: R v Fraser [2003] NSWSC 965 and R v Fraser [2004] NSWSC 53 Elements of the Offence: Steven Fraser murdered his three children – Ashley (7)‚ Ryan (5)‚ and Jarrod (4) – on the weekend of the 18 – 19 August‚ 2001. They were staying in his Caringbah apartment on a custody visit‚ where Steven was living after separating with his wife Maria Chona two months prior. Ryan and Jarrod were given doses
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