AJ 101 Course # Court Visit On November 29‚ 2011‚ I had the opportunity to go to Los Angles Superior Court and was able to sit and observe during a Preliminary Hearing. The case that I sat in was about a rape case in which a young girl of approximately twelve years old said that her grandfather‚ who was about sixty years old would sexually touch her and do certain things to her everytime she would go over to her grandparents house. The prosecutor asked the young girl a serious of questions such
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weapon as being a large knife. In the situation that they were shown there was never actually a knife. The interviewer was able to get the subjects to remember an object without ever seeing it. This shows that when conducting an interview with an eye witness‚ ensure that you are not asking leading questions that may persuade them into thinking that there was evidence that was not
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County March 14‚ 2005 ■ Procedural History Carter K. Libbey brought this case to court to exclude the defendant’s witness Allan F. Tencer‚ Ph.D.‚ and any exhibits that he had from testifying because his defendant didn’t comply with the Court’s Scheduling Order. ■ Facts The Court’s scheduling order was dated for March 8‚ 2004 for the defendant to disclose its expert witness together with the expert disclosures before January 3‚ 2005. The defendant
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few more questions‚ to which the petitioner answered‚ and then the interview was over. After being held on unrelated charges prosecutors soon decided that they didn’t have enough evidence to prosecute and Salinas was released. A few days later a witness claimed to have heard Salinas confess to the killings. With this new evidence the prosecutors decided to try the case‚ but when officers went to arrest him he had absconded. In 2007‚ Salinas was discovered in the Houston area living under an assumed
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Jessica Chiang Student ID #1361045 Management 200 B: Ken Myer Court Observation Assignment On May 7th‚ 2014 Wednesday‚ I visited the King County Superior Court in the afternoon. Although criminal trials sound a lot more interesting‚ the basic law I learned is based on civil law more‚ therefore I decided to observe the one and only civil trial on that day: “Chism v. Tri-State Construction” trialed by Judge Ken Schubert. The plaintiff‚ Geoffrey Chism‚ represented by attorneys Lindsay Halm and Thomas
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ADJOURNEMENT Definition Adjournment may be defined a s a putting off until another time or place . In other words‚ it is a putting off or postponing of business or of a session until another time or place; the act of a court‚ legislative body‚ public meeting‚ or officer‚ by which session or assembly is dissolved‚ either temporarily or finally‚ and the business in hand dismissed from consideration‚ either definitely or for interval. If the adjournment is final‚ it is said to be sine die. No
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In order to introduce the tape-recorded statements against Sanders‚ the declarant (Blair) must be unavailable as a witness according to Fed.R.Evid. 804. The statements by Blair fall under an exception to the hearsay rule‚ Fed.R.Evid. 804(b)(3)‚ which provides that when a declarant is unavailable as a witness‚ statements against interest are not excluded by hearsay. When a prosecutor seeks to introduce evidence of a statement that inculpates the accused‚ a number of courts require that statement
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known of him. Two months had passed and the maid hadn’t seen him until yesterday very late in the night. A splintered part of the cane was found in a gutter near the victim’s body‚ the other half was later found by the police in Mr Hyde’s house. A witness recognises it as one he’d given to as a present to one of his friends some years ago as a present this friend also knew Mr Hyde. Last night London was startled by a crime of incredible ferocity and rendered all the more notable by the high position
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of blood transfusion in the health care setting. The Jehovah’s Witness Society inaugurated in Pittsburgh in 1872 believed that the reason for the declination of blood transfusion is to avoid the peril of their spirituality. In 1961‚ members who agreed to have blood transfusion denounced consequently from the religious group‚ including segregation from their families‚ and friends. In June 2000‚ the governing body of Jehovah’s Witness called the Watchtower Society changed its policy regarding members
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7O6BNJ54Y01G7O69QZTYB8OCEW8 WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT SCW 2601: ASSIGNMENT 1 SUBMISSION DATE: 16 AUGUST 2013 UNIQUE NUMBER: 847256 ANSWER 1.1: The function of maintaining peace and order by making people take responsibility for their actions through criminal sanction. The second function is to balance the interests of both the individual and community regulating mutual relationships between individuals
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