election of judges. Texas is one of the few states that choose their judges using a Partisan voting method. Partisan elections can be unreliable and deceitful. A high legal position such as a judge should never be chosen in such a manner. Judges are not chosen based on merit or skills. Partisan elections do not represent the population accurately. The public is usually uninformed about the candidates they choose. In addition‚ partisan elections cost more than many other election methods. Therefore
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Salem Massachusetts in the late 1600s was to live a life that was led by his faith and by what the Bible tells people to do. Men were supposed to go to church on the sabbath day and not do any physical labor for the rest of the day. If one was to judge John Proctor by these standards‚ they would look at him as a man who is not holy and will not go to heaven after he died. He made bad decisions‚ and caused the people that were closest to him much strife. However‚ John Proctor was a honest man that
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Case Study - Hamilton County Judges Case (Chapter 4) Commom Pleas Court Q. 1Probibility of Cases Being Appealed and Q. 2 Probability of Q.3 Probability of Judge Reversed Appeal Rank Reversal Rank Fred Cartolano 0.04511 14 0.00395 Thomas Crush 0.03529 4 0.00297 Patrick Dinkelacker 0.03498 3 0.00636 Timothy Hogan 0.03071 2 0.00358 Robert Kraft 0.04047 10 0.00223 William Matthews 0.04019 7 0.00795 William Morrissey 0.03991 6 0.00726 Norbert Nadel 0.04427 13 0.00676 Arthur Ney Jr. 0.03883 5 0.00435
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Lay magistrates do not have to have any legal qualifications; with a few exceptions‚ anyone is eligible to serve as a magistrate and that includes blind people . However‚ the Lord Chancellor‚ who by section 10 Courts Act 2003 is responsible (on behalf and in the name of Her Majesty) for the appointment of magistrates (apart from those in Lancashire who are appointed by the Duchy of Lancaster )‚ will not permit the following to become lay justices: anyone outside the ranges of 18 to 65 years of age
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finance. The sub judice rule is where the MPs in the House of Commons are unable to comment on current or pending cases. This keeps the judiciary free from political interference and prevents prejudice against judicial decisions. This rule is followed by ministers and civil servants too. Judges are said to be kept neutral because they lack politically ‘partisan activity’ as they don’t comment on ‘matters of public policy’ and avoid siding with different party governments. Another way the judiciary has
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Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee Part One Description/Synopsis Judge Dee was a statesman to a town called Chang-Ping. He lived in the Tang Dynasty. He was known to be a famous detective and by his crime solving. The book‚ Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee‚ is broken down into three parts. This is because he is faced with three murders. The first murder‚ The Double Murder at Dawn‚ was the murder of the two silk merchants. The second murder‚ The Strange Corpse‚ was the sudden death of a young husband
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Federal and State Sentencing Instructor Class Date Name In 1998 the District of Columbia Sentencing and Criminal Code Revision Commission was charged with developing a comprehensive structured sentencing system for the District. The Commission concluded that the District could benefit from a comprehensive structured sentencing system. Next‚ the Commission embarks the difficult task of creating workable sentencing guidelines for felonies. As Washington‚ DC follows the lead of other jurisdictions
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Kill a Mockingbird‚ Tom Robinson was accused of many things and got sent to prison due to the color of his skin. However‚ in this time period‚ if a white did all the wrong that Tom did they would not be sent to prison. This is an example of don’t judge a book by its cover. Throughout the story this is the theme that Harper Lee is trying to get across. In this book‚ Harper Lee clearly demonstrates the importance of not judging a book by its cover by adding Boo Radley into the story. Boo was a boy
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The purpose of this essay is to identify the significant themes in Murmuring Judges by David Hare and to show how these themes have been presented to the audience. David Hare graduated from Cambridge University in 1968; that same year he co-founded the Portable Theatre Company with his friend Richard Bicat. Ironically he was to launch his writing career because the Company was left in the lurch by a playwright just four days before rehearsals were due to start. Hare jumped into the breach and
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personality or character. Thesis It is my belief that‚ in society today‚ everyone has the tendency to judge people. These judgments‚ whether rational or irrational‚ are‚ more often than not‚ based on biases and prior beliefs. These judgments could be right but‚ is it right to judge people? In a sense‚ can judging people based on your own perceptions be acceptable? There is the age old proverb: Don’t judge a book by its cover. This idea seems to be very true‚ because often we make judgments when we first
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