Case Brief Assignment: Thomas verses Thomas FACTS: Drew Thomas started working at Thomas Motors for his father‚ Ron Thomas‚ in the fall of 1997. Drew was a salesperson of new and used cars at Lanny Berg Chevrolet in Caldwell‚ Idaho about eight years ago. During the summer of 1997‚ his father Ron offered him to work at Ron’s new-purchased car dealership. Drew states before he accepted his father’s offer‚ besides the salary‚ his father also promised him to give Thomas Motors to him after Ron’s retirement
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The State in the Modern Day Context The state can be seen as a concept which has emerged over thousands of years in order to sustain the needs of societies growing in size and complexity. This growth in size and complexity was coupled with the growing need for authority and order‚ due to special mechanisms being needed for society to benefit from its increased social power and productive capacity (Petho‚ 2010:6). State formation passes through stages of development and hinges upon ecological‚
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CHAPTER 1 What is Criminal Justice Chapter 1 - Multiple Choice: Chose the most appropriate answer to the following questions: 1. Which of the following had a profound effect on individual rights by the 1980s? a. The Civil Rights movement. b. The Vietnam War. c. Terrorism. d. The increased use of drugs. 2. Which model below best assumes that the system’s components work together harmoniously to achieve justice. a. Due Process Model b. Conflict Model c. Individual Rights
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society in which justice symbolizes the virtuous‚ since Plato believed justice is there to be the prescription for the evils. He used the Greek word "Dikaisyne" for justice which refers the work morality’ or righteousness’. The English word justice and the Greek word Dikaisyne’ capture imperfectness when explaining the same concept because the Greek one implies both law-abiding behaviours and institutions‚ and virtues of people in social context. However‚ neither justice nor fairness
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Is justice absolute? Justice in itself isn’t always just; it’s just a lid put on issues so we can close it‚ seal it off and chuck it away: we can ‘move on’. People say justice has been achieved when the bad guy goes to jail‚ but this isn’t so; justice just means someone pays for the crime. The innocent die and the innocent grieve. Justice is a ripple effect‚ forever taking its toll‚ and it is not always in positive way. In the old days‚ justice was righting a wrong‚ achieved usually through a
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“It’s a general problem not specific to the law of the United Kingdom a criminal justice system characterized by an emphasis on crime control rather than due process will inevitably produce miscarriage of justice.” In an imaginary world the law would always give the correct results but in a real world it’s the other way. When they don’t which way do they tend to err? Which way do we want to err? We want the law to err on the side of acquitting guilty people rather than convicting
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* NAME: Thomas Paine * OCCUPATION: Inventor‚ Political Leader‚Journalist * BIRTH DATE: January 29‚ 1737 * DEATH DATE: June 08‚ 1809 * PLACE OF BIRTH: Thetford‚ United Kingdom * PLACE OF DEATH: New York City‚ New York * FULL NAME: Thomas Paine BEST KNOWN FOR Thomas Paine was an English American writer and pamphleteer whose "Common Sense" and other writings influenced the American Revolution‚ and helped pave the way for the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Paine biography
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achieving ‘Justice’ involves great struggle. I suffer from many nightmares and have done so for many years. Strangely‚ I didn’t have them during the 15 years I in spent in prison after being wrongly convicted‚ with three others‚ for the 1975 Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings. It was almost as if I was in the eye of the storm while I was inside‚ and everything was being held back for a replay later in my life. Our case is well known now as one of first major miscarriages of justice. I am often
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essentially answer one question‚ what is justice? This question serves as a basis into the dialogues encountered in the literary work. Plato aims to answer this philosophical question through an analysis developed by Socrates; a Greek philosopher‚ prestigiously acclaimed‚ due to his analysis of such subjective thoughts. Justice can be classified in three subdivisions which include retributive justice‚ procedural justice‚ and social justice. Retributive justice can be best explained along the principle
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Biased Justice I remember this quote‚ “Equal justice under law is not just a caption on the façade of the supreme court building. It is fundamental that justice should be the same‚ in substance and availability‚ without regard to economic status‚ by Justice Lewis Powell Jr‚” when I read the cases of Edel Gonzalez and Ethan couch. On the light of above quote and the two cases (incidents that would be further discuss more) I would like to discuss the effects of rich power on the justice and how bad
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