evidence as to a defendant’s mens rea‚ mental capacity to commit the crime‚ or ability to premeditate. Defendants need not assert a “mental disease or defect” in order to assert a defense based on “mental status.” To the extent that the Kansas Supreme Court declined to apply Buchanan because Cheever’s intoxication was “temporary‚” our precedents are again not so narrowly circumscribed. Like voluntary intoxication‚ extreme emotional disturbance is a “temporary” condition‚ at least according to
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The roles have switched it seems as if John is the student getting told off by a teacher which results in a shift of power as Carol stands up for herself. The audience could be shocked by Carols response as the play was released in the early 1990’s where behaviour was different compared to this century you wouldn’t expect a student to respond like that towards someone who is in power. It could be seen as the characters lack of clear communication is the result of a possible non-existent issue
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kidnapping as well as rape; he was punished twenty to thirty years in prison for each. The Miranda v. Arizona appealed but‚ the Supreme Court of Arizona maintain that Miranda’s Constitutional Rights existed in achieving the confession. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Miranda’s conviction but was retried and convicted‚ without the confession‚ by the State of Arizona.
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Political Science : Democratic Politics-II (Class 10) Power Sharing Q 1 Name two major parties of Germany. Mark (1) (Ans) The two major parties of Germany are:a. Christian Democratic Party. b. Social Democratic Party. Q 2 What is a coalition government? Mark (1) (Ans) A coalition government is formed by an alliance of two or more political parties‚ usually when no single party enjoys majority support of the members in a legislature. Q 3What is the major difference between the political
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In 1986‚ the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case established that there could be separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites‚ giving support to Jim Crow laws. The Supreme Court did not begin to reverse Plessy until the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case 58 years later‚ which established that segregating blacks and whites was unconstitutional and that separate could never be equal. After the period of reconstruction following the Civil War‚ many states in the south and
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Introduction There have been many Supreme Court cases that dealed with many concepts of the law‚ like obscenity for example. As a matter of fact‚ obscenity is a concept that Miller v. California deals with. To be more specific‚ this case deals with what is considered obscene‚ and if the specific obscenity mentioned in this case is protected by the first amendment‚ the freedom of speech. I will now explain this case in more depth. What brought this case about? In 1973‚ Marvin Miller
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involvement. Though the Captain-General of the New Model Army was a military mastermind‚ he turned over nearly all politics to his second in command‚ Oliver Cromwell‚ to handle. It is possible that the reason why Fairfax was such an involved field commander was that he was looking for ways to stay away from parliament. At the beginning of the Putney Debates‚ Sir Thomas Fairfax turned suddenly ill‚ and he selected Cromwell to take his place as moderator of the debates. Similar actions continued during
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Coal power vs. Nuclear power Safety & Efficiency With nuclear power came what was thought to be a more clean alternative to burning coal and other fossil fuels; Nuclear power does not produce nearly as much of the greenhouse gases as coal produces. People and society have given nuclear power a bad name‚ considering the amount of accidents that have happened. Although when you look at statistics it’s not as many as you would believe‚ or expect. When nuclear power is put head to head with coal
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Using the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) to locate the relevant research documents was the most logical course of action. With the aid of constructing a search strategy sheet‚ provided by Oxford Brookes University Library (Appendix 1) the search was narrowed down simply. In addition CINAHL was easy use and to navigate around the wide range of useful articles‚ texts and journals available. Nevertheless when performing the search for the research papers key words
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Power Annual Report 2011-12 Profile Reliance Power Limited (RPower) is a part of the Reliance Group‚ one of the leading business houses in India. RPower is engaged in the development and construction of one of the largest portfolio of power generation projects in India. RPower is presently operating 1‚540 MW of power capacity. RPower also has the largest captive coal reserves in the private sector in India‚ besides owning coal mines in Indonesia. Our projects are diverse in geographic location
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