Arraignment

The criminal justice system is made up of three major components – law enforcement, the courts, and corrections. Law enforcement officials strive to keep innocent citizens safe and stop criminals. The courts make sure that everyone involved in a case is treated fairly and determine if the suspect has actually committed said crime. Correction facilities punish and rehabilitate the convicted so crime are not repeated. The United States has this system so that when all of these components work…

An arrest is “the use of legal authority to deprive someone of his or her freedom of movement” (“Arrest”, n.d.). Law enforcement officers make an arrest when they take a suspect into custody. The general law of arrest includes probable cause, an arrest warrant, and the procedure of an arrest. For an arrest to be legal and valid, an officer must have probable cause that the suspect committed a crime. An arrest warrant is not always required. This paper will give a detailed discussion on the…

Sports are a big part of schools in the United States for many reasons. Yet many believe that they should be removed from schools, but why? These extracurricular activities work harmoniously with the education of students. For example, the incorporation of these activities helps students form fundamental bonds and boost their self-image. They also give students who lack motivation in school a reason to pursue their education. Sports can help students pursue higher level education through GPA…

money, then she should be able to keep her child without it being given to the parents in the contract in question as you should not be able to put a price tag on a life. B. The contract should be enforced. She was a willing participant of this arraignment and the plaintiff paid for the medical expenses and the monthly payments of 8,000 to the defendant. The contract is valid as it is a binding legal document, thus giving custody of the child to the couple, as originally stated in the contract…

I have always heard good things about the film “My Cousin Vinny”, but never got around to watching it. The film follows the experiences of two young men mistaken for murderers in fictional Beechum County, Alabama. When the boys, Bill Gambini (Ralph Macchio) and Stan Rothenstein (Mitchell Whitfield), discover that they weren’t being held for theft of a tuna can, but instead for murder, they anxiously call their families for help. The family employs Bill’s cousin, Vinny (Joe Peschi), a New York…

separate from the British indefinite, war was inevitable. Yet, what drove the colonists to believe the only solution was battle? Much tension between the two was already established. The American colonists had become adjusted to different living arraignments than when they were originally living in Britain. However, the British government as well as its King, began to tax the colonies without fair representation, placed absurd Acts to keep order over the colonists, stationed military in the…

if there is one thing college has taught me, it is that it does not matter what you think you are going to become, or how far back you start from, but it is that determination in the place of those disadvantages is what makes all the difference. I did not choose to be a lawyer because anyone in my family was, in fact, no one in my family worked anything close to it. My mother has worked as a waitress, a seamstress in a factory, and finally as a baker since arriving in this country. I took it…

If the court finds that there is probable cause the defendant is "bound over" to the next stage and if the court finds a lack of probable cause the judge can dismiss the charge and the defendant. The next stage is for the defendant to enter the arraignment, which is a hearing where the defendant enters a plea of guilty, not guilty, or no contest. If not guilty, the judge will set a trial date. If guilty, the judge sets a date for sentencing. If defendant enters a no contest, which means he or…

According to legal scholars, the minority communities, and racialized groups have certain specific legal concerns. These include damaged esteem, violence and increased risk of prosecution. As such, they have higher anxiety and stress levels, and might easily be depressed or have suicidal thoughts. The role that culture plays cannot be underscored, particularly when it comes to influencing legal behaviors of racialized groups (Phillips, 2015). Culture directly shapes how these groups communicate…

The 1931 Al Capone Case of Al Capone could be described as an attempt to prosecute whatever will stick. More specifically, Linder states that a man who could not be punished for murder, is later punished for tax-evasion (Linder “All Capone Trial (1931): An Account”). However, the trial itself was not easy. More specifically, the witnesses needed to be made up of individuals who would turn on Capone (Linder “All Capone Trial (1931): An Account”). Even more so, Capone attempted to influence the…