We are taught that being selected as a juror is our civil duty and constitutional right as citizens. I see it as a position of honor because it is where ordinary people participate in making decisions on serious high court matters and those decisions exercise real power. On the other hand there are a lot of citizens that don’t feel the same and would rather not take part in this civil activity at all. Most of them view it as a great inconvenience and a waste of their time. I believe that if they
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Lyle Koehler argues that the Salem Witch Trials began due to witch hysteria caused by the fits of the young women being affected by witchcraft. They were given power to accuse the witches and used their power to attack their oppressing forces‚ such as authority figures. The act of accusing people of being witches was a scapegoat in order gain and retain power in a situation where people felt powerless. They also targeted nontraditional women as they were easier to justify. Many people were accused
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The Right to an Attorney Who Actually Does His Job The public defense systems of two towns near Seattle‚ Washington were found to be so in adequate that they violate the sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel in criminal prosecutions. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik condemned the cities of Mount Vernon and Burlington‚ Washington for failing to provide meaningful representation to indigent defendants facing misdemeanor charges. A class-action suit against the cities‚ brought by the
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Local gacaca trials offers these benefits of a more personal setting within the community in which the atrocity took place‚ and this has further benefits – increased unity and reconciliation. Seeing as how the gacaca form of justice aims to reintegrate the defendant back into society to become a productive and contributive member‚ it makes sense that the trials are held within the community – so that the victim and perpetrator can be in the same space and have justice be served while also allowing
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MCCARTHYISM ( Maddie ‚ Nicholas McCarthy accused innocent citizens of being communist. He ensured political success by corrupting the government.He would make false accusations during hearings to make things better for himself. ‚ Ashley ‚ Mary Beth ) 1. Who was McCarthy? Discuss his position in the senate as well as his perspective and role in the hearings. Senator Joseph McCarthy was the man who accused fellow government employees of being Communists. He would find evide
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What was the Nuremberg Trials about? The Holocaust was a trouble time for many people and when it was over of many it wasn ’t over for others. The Nazis did horrible things and people wanted justice‚ that ’s when the Nuremberg Trials started. The Nuremberg Trials concise of three main things‚ the crimes that were committed‚ what happened to the people that were convicted of the crimes‚ and who were people that here convicted with a crime. There were many crimes committed during the Holocaust; so
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Jeffrey Dahmer’s trial began after he pleaded guilty to 15 counts of murder. Dahmer pleading guilty meant he did not have to have an initial trial to establish guilt‚ but instead he had a trial to determine if he was insane. This trial took place in the Wisconsin Circuit Court and lasted a total of two weeks. The defense was claiming that because of Jeffrey Dahmer’s mental instability he could not help himself when it came to his impulses. The prosecution argued that even if he was insane‚ that his
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A jury trial (or trial by jury) is a legal proceeding in which a jury either makes a decision or makes findings of fact which are then applied by a judge. It is distinguished from a bench trial‚ in which a judge or panel of judges make all decisions. Jury trials are used in a significant share of serious criminal cases in almost all common law legal systems‚[1] and juries or lay judges have been incorporated into the legal systems of many civil law countries for criminal cases. Only the United States
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The Salem Witch Trials are known as a series of people being accused and prosecuted of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts beginning in February 1692 until May 1693. The trials began after a group of girls claimed that they were possessed by the devil. Several local women were accused of witchcraft and this began the wave of hysteria that would forever haunt Salem and leave a painful legacy for a long time to come. Nearly every major school of historians has attempted to explain the answer to the
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Brennyn Mackey 2 May 2011 The Secret War of Salem Exposing the Culprit behind the Mass Hysteria The Salem Witch Trials were a series of infamous events that demand an explanation for their occurrence. The trials that took place in 1692 caused neighbors in the community of Salem Village in the colony of Massachusetts to turn on one another out of paranoia‚ accusing one another of witchcraft. According to Carol Karlsen‚ a longtime author of the subject‚ nineteen people were hanged
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