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Annotated Bibliography on the Salem Witch Trials

accused. This paper will identify the struggles and issues which typically faced the residents of Salem at the time which will re...

Research Questions

set up in a laboratory or other controlled conditions in order to test the different hypothesises that surround this idea and test...

Legal Analysis of a Slip-and-fall Case

complaint and denied the plaintiffs cross-motion for leave to reargue. In this case, there were multiple defendants, one of which ...

12 Angry Men/TV's Law and Order

entitled "House of Cards," the detectives and attorneys who are featured in the show similarly face what seems like a case of cert...

The Problems with Eye Witness Testimony

in the way that evidence is initially gathered (Wells et al, 1990, 1998). There are thee main principles that can explain the w...

Jury Duty Aversion

of jury selection procedures" (Oliver and Wolfinger, 1999, p. 147). Second Example : "Jury service in the United States is both ...

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 ...

Are Judges an Anachronism to the Criminal Justice System?

For all of its faults and shortcomings, the American legal system is the best in the world. That system revolves around two prima...

How Will the Supreme Court Rule on the Allen Snyder Case?

race, Snyder refers to Batson v. Kentucky, a case in 1986 that would not allow the practice of eliminating jurors due to race ("Co...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Glaspell: "A Jury of Her Peers"

and indeed she is the most likeable person in the story, because she is the one who solves the mystery and suggests its resolution...

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...

Isolation Theme in 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

Leadership and the Film Twelve Angry Men

The Architect does not profess belief in the boys innocence, at this point, but simply indicates that he feels a moral obligation ...