Attorney-Client Privilege: The Flaw on Our Justice System Abstract This paper explores what I think is the constitutional flaw of our criminal justice system‚ attorney-client privilege. Under certain circumstances‚ information possessed by an attorney cannot be disclosed to others without the client ’s consent because of the attorney-client privilege or certain other legal concepts. The attorney-client privilege‚ which dates back to the reign of
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Edward Snowden‚ the twenty-nine-year-old N.S.A. whistle-blower who was last said to be hiding in Hong Kong awaiting his fate‚ a hero or a traitor? He is a hero. (My colleague Jeffrey Toobin disagrees.) In revealing the colossal scale of the U.S. government’s eavesdropping on Americans and other people around the world‚ he has performed a great public service that more than outweighs any breach of trust he may have committed. Like Daniel Ellsberg‚ the former Defense Department official who released
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judge people based on their skin and are able to lie when they are facing lawsuits. Toobin believes that judges occasionally do not believe the cops’ claims because of them lying in the past court cases. Noted researcher Jeffrey Toobin argues that‚ “In decision after decision‚ she has found that cops have lied‚ discriminated against people of color‚ and violated the rights of citizens‚” (Toobin par 4). What Toobin is trying to say is that police have constantly violated people’s rights because they
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Term Limits for the Supreme Court Justices Intro Paragraph Imagine one of the highest ranked government officials having a memory loss disease such as Alzheimer’s. One-in-nine Americans over 65 has Alzheimer’s disease. Currently‚ seven out of the eight Supreme Court Justices is over the age of 65. Supreme Court justices serve a life-long term according to the Constitution‚ but there should be a term limit. This would make sure that there would be a balance of older and younger justice to balance
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He unveiled the extent of NSA spying‚ and generated a massive number of headlines and discussion on whether what he did was right or not. For example the article by Jeffrey Toobin says that he could have followed the laws regarding whistle blowing or went to congress‚ and not just release everything in one big act of civil disobedience. I believe that what he did was the best way to bring attention to the issue: by being
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CASE ANALYSIS THE CASE OF MARTHA STEWART FACTS Beginning with a small catering business in the 1970s‚ Martha Stewart built a vast media conglomerate spanning books‚ magazines‚ television‚ radio and the internet‚ devoted to providing helpful tips with the sign-off: “It’s a good thing”. After her company‚ Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia‚ (MSL) went public in late 1999; her stake was briefly worth more than $1 billion. (New Yorker‚ 2003) 1 However‚ she was confronted with a far greater challenge
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victory was less than 0.5% of the votes cast‚ so a statutorily-mandated automatic machine recount occurred. On November 10‚ with the machine recount finished in all but one county‚ Bush’s margin of victory had decreased to 327. According to author Jeffrey Toobin‚ later analysis showed that a total of 18 counties—accounting for a quarter of all votes cast in Florida—did not carry out the legally mandated machine recount‚ but no one from the Gore campaign ever challenged the notion that the machine recount
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first attracts worldwide attention‚ two journalists from The New Yorker publish articles to present their totally different opinions about him on account of their evaluation of the government’s eavesdropping. While writer and legal analyst Jeffery Toobin writes the article naming “Edward Snowden Is No Hero” that distinctively presents his attitude toward Snowden‚ Toobin’s colleague John Cassidy argues that Snowden is a hero and the government should let him return home. Their different judgments about
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Harrison Bryant6/9/13 Introduction In the fiscal year 2012‚ the United States Internal Revenue Service collected $2.5 trillion. That’s more money than any of us could even begin to fathom. With this comes a great responsibility to the agency to conduct itself in an equal manner among all of its patrons. Lately‚ the IRS has been under intense heat that has sparked from its quesitonable treatment of several groups seeking to operate within a tax-exempt status. In order to better understand what’s
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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION and THE FRAMING OF THE CONSTITUTION 1. What was the first permanent colony founded in America? When was it founded? - Jamestown - 1607 2. What was the first representative assembly in America? - The House of Burgess 3. Which foreign nations controlled which geographic areas of North America in 1760? - France controlled the interior of North America (as well as Canada) - Spain controlled Florida and the west - England controlled the 13 colonies that occupied
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