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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...

Trial by Jury - Inefficient and Biased or an Essential Check on Legislative Power?

principles within a constitution (Conrad, 1998). There has been long term support for the use of juries; in 1953 The Royal Commiss...

Judges, Juries, and Sentencing in Criminal Justice

The American legal system revolves around two primary players when it comes to criminal sentencing. These players are the...

Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Study:

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

Pros and Cons of Mock Juries

In twelve pages this paper evaluates the system of mock juries in terms of their pros and cons....

The Traits of a Political Trial

law and order. Many of them came to see these protests as an attack upon the American way of life on behalf of two common criminal...

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...

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...

Nonfatal Offenses and Consent

of course each case must be determined on its own. But as we will find out just because one party consents to do something, it do...

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...

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...

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...

Wales and Englands' Trial by Jury System

It is this generalised and random nature of the jury that is often criticised. Those making the judgment have no special qualifica...

America's System of Justice and the Influence of the British Examples

during the seventeenth century, where jurors were disqualified from judging if they had a precious knowledge of that case (Smith ...

Tracking Juvenile Crime

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

Outline for the Effect of Jury Selection and Trial Outcome

the same applies to research into the efficacy of scientific jury selection. Outline I. Introduction A. Clarence Darrow 1. Jury pe...

The Importance of Covering War Crimes Trials

killed after an attempted assassination against himii. But it is not clear whether or not he did receive a fair trial and media di...

The Persuasiveness of Socrates in Plato's Apology

so that his assets could be pro-created and he could be put to death. Will Socrates did refuse the request, he simply went home ra...

Comparative View of Salem's Witch Trials

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of the Salem witch trials presented in Francis Hill's A Delusion of Sata...

Trial of the King Killers: English Civil War

This essay presents a review of "The English Civil War: Trial of the King Killers," which is a short video that dramatizes several...

Media Coverages of Juvenile Sniper John Lee Malvo's Trial

are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...

Mersault's Trial in The Stranger by Albert Camus

In this paper consisting of five pages the relevance of the evidence presented to the jury and how the concept of justice is shape...

Workplace Civil Disputes

In eight pages workplace mini trials are discussed. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

An Article Analysis of Jury Selection and Affirmative Action

In a paper consisting of ten pages the article 'A Quota Jury: Affirmative Action in Jury Selection' by Hiroshi Fukurai is discusse...

A Prejudice Experiment

In eight pages a student supplied hypothetical experiment is used in order to discuss how juries are selected in an instance where...

GUILT, PUNISHMENT AND PLEA BARGAINING

The purpose of Bjerks (2007) article entitled Guilt Shall Not Escape or Innocence Suffer? The Limits of Plea Bargaining When Defen...

Controlling Jury Awards

One jury may contain accountants and business owners who do not like money to be given away freely. Other juries may be comprised ...

A Jury Selection Experiment and Prejudice

A paper that contains eight pages considers a student submitted case study in which a white man is found not guilty and an Hispani...

Prejudice and a Jury Experiment

the control and experimental groups and what exactly was accomplished. A student will want to point out that an attempt to explain...