English Essay Question – Identify one interesting character represented in Witness. How has Weir used film techniques to shape your response to the character? “Witness” by Peter Weir portrays several interesting characters. John Book is a prime example of these characters. Weir has incorporated several techniques in various scenes to shape John Book’s character traits. The “Barn Dance Scene”‚ the “Barn Raising Scene” and the “Showdown Scene” are crucial in understanding and analyzing John Book’s
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MPDVPK Act. 2. In that Court Mamta was examined on 21.3.03 as prosecution witness and she is alleged to be eye-witness of the incident. 3. Thereafter‚ she submitted an affidavit on 31 .3.2010 in the trial court in favour of the present applicant and co-accused stating therein that when her statement was recorded on 21 .3.03 she was under pressure and she has not seen the incident of Vishnumangal’s murder and she is not a witness of occurrence. 4. Thereafter‚ one application was preferred
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Cir. 1980) (prosecutor with exclusive jurisdiction over juvenile witness whom defendant wanted to call would have granted use immunity as long as the U.S. Attorney agreed; wrong for U.S. Attorney to withhold agreement); see also People v. Shapiro‚ 50 N.Y.2d 747‚ 762‚ 409 N.E.2d 897‚ 904‚ 431 N.Y.S.2d 422‚ 429 (1980) (error for prosecution to withhold immunity from defense witnesses who asserted fifth amendment only after prosecution threatened to prosecute them for perjury if they testified). Other
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cross-examination is to find the truth and defection of falsehood in human testimony. It is design to destroy or weaken the force of evidence a witness has already given in person or elicit something into your favour which he has not stated to discredit him by showing object of cross-examination from a litigious standpoint. Whether a prosecution witness once had impeachment proceeding completed against him‚ ought to be still cross examined by the defence counsel or not ? The matter about the cross-examined
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Antigone Mock Trial Antigone: Charged with treason against The State and contempt What if Antigone had been given a fair trial with a jury of her peers? Would they have condemned her still? You get to be the prosecution & defense in determining a fair fate for Antigone. You must ask yourselves‚ did Antigone act with treasonous intent against The State or were her actions otherwise motivated? Even further‚ was this an act of the gods and beyond her control? During this trial‚ you must
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evidence was arranged in its natural order. • In the witness order condition‚ evidence items were arranged in the closest to the original trial. • The defence items comprised 39 notguilty pieces of evidence and the prosecution items‚ 39 guilty pieces of evidence from the original case. Conditions: 39 PROSECUTION ITEMS IN STORY ORDER 39 DEFENCE ITEMS IN STORY ORDER 39 PROSECUTION ITEMS IN WITNESS ORDER 39 DEFENCE ITEMS IN WITNESS ORDER Results table showing the % of participants choosing
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subject to the rules of admissibility. * A witness is compelled to give evidence‚ even if it’s against his will. * Failure to do so will result in contempt of court. However it is also contempt of court for a witness to refuse without lawful authority to answer questions put to him. * The modern test for the competence of witnesses varies‚ depending what type of case it is (civil or criminal). * And also the status of the witness (child‚ adult‚ accused‚ accused spouse‚ person of
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Shirley A. Hicks Criminal Justice Individual Project Unit 4 1. Due process of law Is a basic‚ constitutional guarantee that every one legal proceedings are going to be honest which nobody are going to be given notice of the proceedings and a chance to be detected before the govt. acts to require away one’s life. liberty‚ or property. Conjointly a constitutional guarantee that a law shall not be unreasonable‚ arbitrary‚ or capricious. The Fifth Amendment It implies
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case and arrive at an independent conclusion as to whether the said evidence can be relied upon or not and even if it can be relied upon‚ then whether the prosecution can be said to have been proved beyond reasonable doubt on the said evidence. 2. Harchand Singh & Anr v. State Of Haryana‚ 1974 SCR (1) 583‚ at page 588 If in a case‚ the prosecution leads two sets of evidence‚ each one of which contradicts and strikes at the other and shows it to be unreliable ‚ the result would necessarily be that
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law system. An adversarial trial allows the accused or defendant to be given a fair chance to prove his or her innocence. The Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution states that the defendant is to be given a fair chance to oppose the prosecution‚ have witnesses to help with his or her defense‚ face and question the complainant‚ and for his or her case to be heard by a group of people who are unbiased and impartial. This group is known as the trial jury. Jury Selection. To start the process
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