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Jury Trials and Juveniles

Court held in 1998 that a 13-year-old first-degree murder defendant had the right to jury trial because state law allowed juries f...

An Effective Closing Argument in a Death Penalty Case

one chosen for consumption. Bill was only 14 years old. Mike dies after rescue and Mark seems to have had a psychotic break. Mark ...

Process of Jury Selection

In eight pages the O.J. Simpson case is featured in this consideration of the process of jury selection with ethnic composition an...

Short Stories and Rounded Character Building

The ways in which rounded characters are constructed within short stories are considered in a six page examination of Guy de Maupa...

The 1957 Film '12 Angry Men'

a jury in the wake of racial stereotypes and roles. The defendant is an uneducated, teenaged Puerto Rican slum dweller. The "peer...

Spectator Article on Jury Nullification

they had heard much worse and thought the boys should be allowed to go. They believed they were doing the right thing but of cours...

Jury System's Significance

to stifle its newspaper critics through criminal prosecution, New York grand juries refused to indict, and a petit jury famously r...

History and Evolution of Grand Juries

In eight pages this research paper traces the evolution of the system of grand juries from its early days in England to the contem...

Is a Man with a Brain Tumor Who Commits Murder Guilty or Not Guilty?

In five pages this essay considers whether or not a jury should find a man who committed murder while suffering from a brain tumor...

Government Threats to Jury Trials

In five pages tis paper discusses the government's efforts to impede the extremely important trial by jury process. Three sources...

Great Britain's Jury Trial System

In a paper consisting of five pages the desire of the present government to abolish the system of jury trial in Great Britain is e...

Principles of Jury Nullification

positive development, scholarly opinion uniformly refutes this position, seeing instead of "power to the people," that rule of to...

A Twenty First Century Platform for the Democratic Party

Racial inequality, problems in higher education, and affirmative action, jury nullification, and restitution are all issues that s...

Fiction and the Portrayal of Management Leadership

In nine pages this paper examines the leadership of characters depicted in 'The Moviegoer' by Percy, 'Shooting an Elephant' by Orw...

Amicus Brief: Recovered Memories

Children play an entertaining game of telephone operator, where one child whispers a short story to the next child in line, who th...

Writers and Their Times: John Steinbeck and Susan Glaspell

Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...

Ethical Dilemmas within the Legal Framework: “The Jury”

hours each. The first disk is concerned with the description of the crime and the selection of the jury; the second covers the pro...

Ladies & Gentlemen of the Jury, I Present…the Nursing Documentation

was breached," the third is to prove that there was an injury incurred by the patient and the fourth must prove that this "injury ...

Short Story Analysis: Three Literary Works

way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...

Faulkner and Glaspell: Two Short Stories

men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...

The Group Dynamics of the Jury in 12 Angry Men

which a jury debates the evidence it has just seen presented in a murder trial. This paper reviews the film as well as discussing ...

BASINGER, BOXING HELENA AND LAW SUIT

In 1991, Main Line Pictures sued Kim Basinger (and others) for breach of contract in connection with the film "Boxing Helena." Bas...

Against the Practice of Race-Based Jury Nullification

to be guilty, innocent, in order to nullify unfair laws. This is particularly true of black juries finding black defendants innoce...

Death Row: Why is it Racially Imbalanced?

properly! Crime is not racist. Some criminals may be, but crime itself is not. People of all races commit crimes. We would like ...

Pre-Trial Activities: An Overview

and walks of life. Generally, when one acquires a drivers license, registers with the Selective Service, or registers to vote, one...

Is Trial by Jury a Good System?

with jury trials. First, people have a common misconception that juries are there to find "truth"; however, this is not really the...

Women’s Writing and Male Domination

both the other woman and herself. She tells her shocked husband, who faints when he sees her creeping around the wall, that she ha...

HOT COFFEE, MCDONALD'S AND ETHICS

will burn if they drink it too fast, and the best way to ensure they wont be injured is to wait for the coffee to cool a little. T...

Overview of Jury Trials

number of challenges for cause ("Steps"). The number of juror selected varies according to the type of case. For civil cases and...

Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the two stories Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers and the relationships between the women in...