LAWSUIT FILED OVER PUBLIC DEFENDER A Eureka criminal defense attorney on Friday filed a petition with the Humboldt County courthouse asking for a court order to fire the public defender that started in February. Patrik Griego, an attorney with the Janssen Malloy law firm, petitioned the court to compel county officials to fire David Marcus on the grounds the public defender is unqualified. Griego also asked for a judge to declare the county’s hiring process for the county’s top defense position is unlawful.…
3) If Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim were sitting beside Steve Bogira in Courtroom 302 for the year spent observing the activities associated with Judge Locallo’s docket, Marx and Durkheim would not be too happy with Locallo. Marx would be upset on how the system is working because it looks like it is created to keep the minority population behind the bars. Marx would think that our current system is created to separate the wealthy from the poor or the white from the black. For example, in the book, Courtroom 302, “All-white juries …were apt to convict blacks and acquit whites on similar evidence, and would convict white on lesser charges when they convicted them at all” (67).…
MILLERSBURG — Outlining years of addiction that culminated in criminal charges for trafficking in drugs and an unrelated overdose, a Killbuck woman on Wednesday admitted to selling methamphetamine to an informant working with law enforcement. Devin Jade Williams, 22, whose last known address was 3251 Township Road 1021, pleaded guilty in Holmes County Common Pleas Court to two counts of trafficking in cocaine. In exchange for her guilty plea, the state dismissed four other drug trafficking charges. For her part, Williams agreed to repay $295 in buy money associated with all six charges.…
M1: Justify the use of adjudications and incentive schemes in relation to addressing offending behavior and the maintenance of control. M2: Analyze how developing positive relationships and addressing offending behavior benefits the individual and society. A prison’s sole purpose is for retribution, incapacitation, deterrence and rehabilitation. When an individual commits of crime/offence against the laws put in place by society and is charged for their crime; the prison system is used to protect society and punish those through taking away privileges and freedom.…
Student’s Introduction There is more than one interpretation to this hypothetical and so more than one IRAC is used. These IRACs use a combination of FYLSE style along with some extra citation content from the open book perspective. The IRACs here are arguments of potential solutions to the call of the question. The Subject Statement is used to infer the Subject and then the Rule.…
The Plaintiff, Savitri, filed a complaint that Rajendra negligently and intentionally inflicted emotional distress. She alleged that he used his psychiatric training in order to manipulate and brainwash the children into hating her. The defendant then made a motion for summary disposition, which the court granted. The court found the claim to be barred by res judicata. The plaintiff then claimed that by the court granting a summary of disposition was wrong, because her claim was based on relief and was not adjudicated by a court.…
Based on the aforementioned statements in this week’s assignment, I agree with the second statement regarding plea bargaining being right and proper. Like any tool utilized to find a solution, or to compromise, plea bargaining can be abused. A majority of the time I feel that plea bargaining is a great tool that allows for a reduction in the number of trails that judges oversee (Plea Bargaining, 2009). Moreover, I believe that our justice system is flooded and congested with pending trials and lacks the resources needed to pursue each trial with an equal amount of attention (Plea Bargain, 2009).…
two feet, gain their self-esteem, and regain their relationship with their children and family members (Kaye, 2004). Another problem-solving courts with successful results include domestic violence courts. Domestic violence cases arose in the 1900s and it was evident that not enough was being done in order to protect the victims. Problem-solving courts allow for one judge to overview the case from the beginning to the end.…
The Power of Guilty Verdicts There exists a world not too far from ours, a world where no one laughs, no one smiles, and no one has enjoyable thoughts. In this place there is nothing to be found other than a near endless maze with rows upon rows of cells lit by the only fluorescent light bulb which dangles ten feet high above your head, there is no natural sunlight to be perceived, the last glimpse of the warm life giving photons was left behind the moment one enters the large metallic doors of this sorrowed place. This is a place where the only thing to be seen are humans confined to a minuscule grey box barely large enough to live in and the only thing to be heard is the horrid, silent screams of the minds whom make this place home,…
The mayor of ACME city has made a discretionary decision, based on her opinion of criminals getting off easy due to plea bargaining, to ban the practice of plea bargaining by prosecutors. This discretionary decision is based off of the opinion that criminals are being let off easy and not being properly punished through the process of plea bargaining. Nevertheless, this decision is not a decision that should be agreed with. The argument against the mayor’s decision will be demonstrated through the positive effects that plea bargaining has on courts including the defense, prosecution and judges along with their staff and resources. Secondly, the penalties of removing plea bargaining would not solve any crime problems but would create and inequality…
On November 22, 2016, I sat in courtroom 507 of the Fresno County Superior Court, under the Honorable Judge Timothy Kams. Judge Kams was conducting a jury selection for a jury trial dealing with a felony DUI case. During the jury selection, I witnessed a Venire. A venire or jury pool, is a master list or jury list, from which a petit panel is selected, typically is based on names drawn from voter registration lists or lists of licensed drivers over eighteen years of age (Lippmann, 2014, p.518). I also witnessed a Voir Dire.…
The purpose of releasing a defendant on bond is to ensure that the defendant will make an appearance later on to continue the criminal justice process (Bohm & Haley, 2014). The setting of a bond allows defendants to be released to continue their day to day life but return at a later date to finish their case. Bond setting is a right that some defendants have under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution, it is not guaranteed (Bohm & Haley, 2014). In this scenario, I believe that the judge did have a right to release Danielle on bond. Both of her offenses were felonies, but they were not considered violent crimes.…
In our readings this week, we discussed procedural justice, due process and whether they are related, in my opinion they are. Procedural justice is the perception that decisions are implemented in fairness and transparency. Due process is when the employer advises the employee with a written notice of the reason for the termination and is presented at least 30 days prior to termination. A copy of the notice will also be sent to the Department of Labor office where the employee’s office is located. When the true process of procedural justice is implemented, people feel they have been treated with respect and dignity allowing the individual to accept outcomes they may not like (Burgess & Cast 2013).…
Serena Pang Professor Karl A. Boedecker BUS 301 April 6, 2017 I. Court(s) visited: San Francisco Criminal Divisions of the Superior Court, which is located in 850 Bryant Street, San Francisco. II. Day(s) and Time(s) Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 1:30 p.m. III. Judge: I could not hear the name of the Judge.…
P. 12(b)(6) be granted? 3. Does the Plaintiff state a claim…