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The Importance Of Plea Bargaining In Criminal Trials

Screeech! That is the sound of our court system coming to a grinding halt, if plea bargaining were no longer utilized. Not only does plea bargaining save taxpayers an enormous amount of money, it often provides the evidence for a conviction and allows public defenders and other court officials ...

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Affirmative Action

as defined by the Meriam Webster's Dictionary is an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups or women. In 1961 John F.Kennedy issued an executive order calling for Affirmative Action as a means to promote equal opportunity for racial ...

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Capital Punishment And The Death Penalty

Capital punishment is the legal infliction the death penalty. It is obviously the most severe form of criminal punishment. (Bedau1) Capital punishment is a controversial way of dealing with violent criminals. The main alternative to the death penalty is life in prison. Capital punishment has been ...

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Legislative Proposal For New Indecency Language In Telecom Bill

I. Summary Although the October 16, 1995 legislative proposal purports to regulate “ computer pornography”, the proposal contains fatal flaws which render the proposal at best counterproductive and at worst devastating to on-line communications. First, it prohibits, but fails to define, ...

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Sexual Harassment

A sincere compliment, a reassuring hug, a pat on the back, discussing the latest sex scandal, a dirty joke, a sexual invitation; where does a woman draw the line between a comfortable working environment and a hostile one? Since the 1991 trial when law professor Anita Hill filed charges against ...

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The Evolution Of Inequality In

In the United States, true equality has never existed. From the Declaration of Independence to modern times, the U.S. legal system has failed in any attempt at equality. The ideology of "all [men] are equal but some [men] are more equal than others" has been present throughout the history of the ...

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Kurds Vs Turks

Kurdish lands, rich in natural resources, have always sustained and promoted a large population. While registering modest gains since the late 19th century, but particularly in the first decade of the 20th, Kurds lost demographic ground relative to neighboring ethnic groups. This was due as much ...

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Kafka's The Trial: The Reality Of Guilt

"Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning (FK 1). " In his book entitled "The Trial," Franz Kafka introduces the reader to the main character and presents a major theme in the novel with this sentence. ...

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Capital Punishment

is the legal infliction the death penalty. It is obviously the most severe form of criminal punishment. (Bedau1) is a controversial way of dealing with violent criminals. The main alternative to the death penalty is life in prison. has been around for thousands of years as a means of ...

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Review Of Amistad

In April of 1839, a group of militant Portuguese abducted a group of 53 Africans, and shipped them to Havana, Cuba. In June of 1839, the Africans were purchased as slaves by four Spaniards and put on the schooner La Amistad (Spanish for “the friendship”) for a voyage to Principe, an ...

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Djibouti

Despite 1992 constitutional changes that permitted the creation of four political parties, President Hassan Gouled Aptidon and the People's Rally for Progress (RPP), in power since independence in 1977, continued to rule the country. 's two main ethnic groups are the politically predominant ...

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Brown Vs Board Of Education

The Brown decision had a major effect on Americans. This case changed the way many would live their lives forever. By the 1920’s many civil rights groups had decided that the Plessy decision did not give equal rights to black Americans and had to be overturned. The lead group trying to get the ...

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Earl Warren

, better known as a chief justice who led the Supreme Court of the United States in making difficult decisions in changes with civil rights laws and criminal cases, was an American jurist and political leader. Warren was born on March 19, 1891, in Los Angeles California. He attended the ...

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Crime Scene Dynamics Frye Standard

Daubert and Frye Standard Marco A. Dieguez Crime Scene Dynamics Daubert and Frye Standard March 29, 2012 The Frye standard is the admissibility of scientific or expert testimony in courts of law. To gain acceptance the proposed evidence or testimony must agree with generally accepted ...

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Marbury V. Madison

MARBURY V. MADISON 5 U.S. 137; 2 L. Ed. 60 (1803) Nature of action. It was an original case action started in the Supreme Court of the USA. Issue. Whether the plaintiff has right of his commission and the Supreme Court has authority to issue a writ of mandamus. Decision. Yes. The ...

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The Ethical Delimma Of Journal

ist Society must have media law to protect confidentiality of people and organizations, as moral principles would not sometimes rescue them from journalism greed. The example of rape case would powerfully explain how important of media law is, in order to protect the victim. Furthermore, public ...

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Modern Torture

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 states in Article 5 that "No one shall be subjected to torture, or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Yet, almost fifty years after the declaration, physical and psychological abuse of men, ...

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Censorship And The First Amendment: The American Citizen's Right To Free Speech

Censorship and the First Amendment: The American Citizen's Right to Free Are we protected from censorship under the First Amendment? In other words do individuals or groups have the right or the power to examine material and remove or prohibit anything they consider objectionable? This argument ...

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Political Economy Of The Ancient India

1. India from the Paleolithic Period to the decline of the Indus Civilization 2. The early Muslim period(North India under Muslim hegemony, c. 1200-1526) 3.Early Muslim India (c. 1200-c. 1500). The Delhi sultanate 4. The Mughal Empire, 1526-1761 : The significance of Mughal rule The ...

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Civil Rights Movement 3

Civil rights are the freedoms and rights that a person may have as a member of a community, state, or nation. Civil rights include freedom of speech, of the press, and of religion. Among others are the right to own property and to receive fair and equal treatment from government, other persons, ...

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