Admiralty Outline Fall 2003 Overview Admiralty is federal law‚ originating in Article III‚ § 2 of Constitution. i. First Congress included Cases of Admiralty/Maritime in Judiciary Act. ii. Supremacy Clause. b. If say that case is admiralty/maritime case‚ governed by admiralty law‚ is to say that substantive admiralty law applies. i. Differences: statute of limitations‚ comparative laws for recovery‚ etc. a. Main: trial by judge. From very beginning‚ admiralty cases are w/o juries
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Different types of evidence in Eye witness testimony: When deciding the guilt or innocence of individuals in court‚ juries‚ judges‚ and police investigators rely on three major types of evidence. Often‚ experts are relied on for information. For example‚ the mental state of the individual being accused. This “expert testimony‚” is not often relied on in Canadian court because some judges believe the information that is offered by experts‚ Psychologists in particular‚ is common sense. There are
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Trace Evidence Trace evidence is an important part of a team in solving crimes in forensic investigations. According to Edmond Locard‚ there is specific that no matter wherever people interact with their environment or is physically involved in a crime often leaves something at or something away from the scene. Those in this category of evidence include many diverse types of macroscopic or microscopic materials that certain examples are easily visible to our “naked eye”. The subject is broad and
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which is most often refers to the belief that jurors have come to demand more forensic evidence in criminal trials‚ thereby raising the effective standard of proof for prosecutors. While this belief is widely held among American legal professionals‚ some studies have suggested that crime shows are unlikely to cause such an effect‚ although frequent CSI viewers may place a lower value on circumstantial evidence” ( Kim‚ Young S; Barak‚ Gregg; Shelton‚ Donald E 2009). This issue has caused researchers
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Please explain the Frye Standard. 1. The Frye Standard is a standard used to determine the admissibility of an expert’s scientific testimony. A court in which applies the Frye Standard must determine whether or not the method which the evidence was obtained was generally accepted by experts in the field in which it belongs. When did this standard come into effect and why? 2. The Frye Standard came out of a 1923 legal decision (Frye V United States). It was a case discussing the
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Running head: DNA Evidence and Job Description/Ethics Name Course Tutor Date How would the environment affect this fragile evidence? II. Collecting Fingerprints from a Weapon Describe how you would collect a fingerprint from a weapon that could possibly have touch DNA on it as well. UNIT 9: Job Description for Latent Print Examiner Write a job description for a Latent Print Examiner. Latent Print Examiner Salary scale: Between $ 70‚000 and $
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TRACE EVIDENCE AS AN IMPORTANT TOOL UNDER FORENSIC SCIENCE Introduction Edmond Locard‚ founder of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyon‚ France‚ developed what has become known as Locard’s Exchange Principle. This states that “every contact leaves a trace”‚ implying that a criminal will leave trace and take away trace evidence when at a crime scene. Trace evidence often refers to minute samples of a substance‚ particularly fibres‚ hairs‚ glass fragments and paint chips. Crime
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Anzhela Kryvych W1415168 Question 1. Tesco PLC is a British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer as well as retail baking and insurance services provider in the UK‚ China‚ the Czech Republic‚ Hungary‚ the Republic of Ireland‚ India‚ Malaysia‚ Poland‚ Slovakia‚ South Korea‚ Thailand and Turkey. Question 2. The financial statement of the Tesco PLC have audited for the financial year ended 23 February 2013 which includes the Group income statement‚ the Group statement of comprehensive
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Administrative Law‚ Trimester 2‚ 2012 Assignment Question „[The] statutory “no evidence” ground of judicial review is both wider and more specific than was the case with “no evidence” grounds for judicial review at common law.‟ Justice Kirby‚ Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Rajamanikkam [2002] 210 CLR 222‚ at [111]. Of the judgments in Rajamanikkam‚ which do you prefer‚ and what justification can you provide for your preference? In answering the question‚ you should read the
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DNA and Evidence DNA is one of the most important roles to evidence and in a criminal case. It helps to prove a convict guilty or help those wrongly accused or convicted. DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. Just about every cell contains DNA. The DNA that’s in people blood is also the same DNA in people’s hair‚ bone‚ saliva‚ skin‚ tissue and everything else. What’s great about someone’s DNA it does not ever change throughout their life. DNA was first used as a way of finding out paternity so
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