blameless because he killed an authoritarian‚ Caesar‚ who was only poisonous to Rome. Brutus had no other option but to do the utmost for the citizens of Rome. Caesar would have possessed all of Rome and enslaved all the people who loved adored and admired him. Caesar broke two laws; he crossed the Rubicon with his troops and started a ferocious war in Gaul. Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his army dressed in their war colors‚ which was against the law. He crossed the Rubicon because he knew that
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s the ‘Scarlet Letter’‚ Hester Prynne‚ a puritan woman; in the town of Boston‚ Massachusetts. Was found guilty of Adultery. Her punishment was being sentenced to prison‚ and being forced to wear the letter ‘A’ for adultery. When Hester Prynne got pregnant with her daughter‚ Pearl. The townspeople began to talk and eventually figured out she committed adultery. Although‚ some people‚ such as the townspeople and the governor‚ believe Pearl is some sort of devil child. (Hawthorne
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Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Look into the Insanity Defense On Friday‚ March 3‚ 1843‚ the trial of The Queen v. Daniel McNaughton (West‚ Walk 12) began. The verdict of this trail changed the way the civilized world views the criminally insane. People who were criminally insane went from being viewed as evil and wild beasts to people who could not be held accountable for their actions at the time of the crime they committed. As time progressed‚ the insanity defense became an acceptable
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Charles Manson (born November 12‚ 1934) was an American criminal who was convicted of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. He was born to Kathleen Maddox‚ a 16-year-old girl who was both an alcoholic and a prostitute. Kathleen later married William Manson (not his father but took his last name through marriage)‚ but the marriage ended quickly and Charles was placed in a boys school. Kathleen was absent for much of Manson’s early life. She was imprisoned with her brother in 1939 for
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But Was it Murder? Jania Barrell On a Friday evening in November‚ Inspector Eliot is called to the scene of a murder in Blackheath‚ south London. With his assistant‚ Detective Bowen‚ he examines the victim – Alex Forley‚ who seems to have shot himself. Is it straightforward suicide or murder? A search reveals the victim was wealthy and lived alone. The neighbours‚ Ronald and Catherine Crowther‚ tell Eliot that they have not seen Forley for a week. Eliot learns that Forley ran an antiques shop‚ and
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bathroom floor. She believed that he was taking a shower and eventually slipped on a cake of soap. She also claims that when she saw him‚ she didn’t do anything except put a blanket over him and called the doctor immediately. From all the evidence I gathered‚ Minnie Verbermockle is guilty for the death of her husband. For the first evidence‚ there were a trace of footsteps coming out of the shower. Footsteps usually imply that someone was there or something was there but it definitely looked like
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Due process stands behind the words ‘innocent until proven guilty’ which is a building block in our adversarial system. Herbert Packer theorised the two models of ‘due process’ and ‘crime control’ to describe the competing values in our criminal justice system. Due process can be described as “at least as much to protect the factually innocent as it is to convict the factually guilty” (Henry‚ S. and Einstadter‚ W.J.‚ 2006.‚p.61) whereas crime control protects the victim with the insurance of justice
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“mens rea‚” the basis for the establishment of guild in a criminal case. The criminal should have a guilty mind when he commits the crime. My client‚ Oedipus‚ has been charged on the account of patricide against his father and incest with his mother. Although the evidence has showed that my client has indeed committed these crimes‚ he should be acquitted because he was not aware and did not have a guilty mind when he
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Suzette Guijosa US History Research Paper 01-18-13 When a person is found guilty of murder and they are given the death penalty‚ and later it is found that the person is innocent‚ you cannot correct it and bring them back to life. Is that justice? Every day in school we recite the pledge of allegiance and it states that we have justice for all but did Warren McCleskey receive the right justice? In the Preamble of the Constitution‚ the first thing it states is to establish justice. The Declaration
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“Innocent until proven guilty”‚ one of the most well-known quotes heard in media coverage on some of the highest profiled cases trial in the United State Courts System. Acquiring the comfort to know that everyone is assumed innocent until evidence proves otherwise can only be done knowing that all evidence would be collected to the fullest of the law and in the best upheld standers of the court system. The integrity of the evidence is what balance’s out the outcome of all criminal cases and the integrity
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