Book of Judges

Who You Gonna Call? Judge Dee! The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee is an 18th century Chinese Detective novel written anonymously that focuses specifically on three investigations where Judge Dee acts not only as the judge of the said case, but as the investigator, prosecutor, and jury. Judge Dee is said to be based off of the historically accurate, Judge Dee himself, a Chinese magistrate from the 7th century. This novel shares many similarities of its Chinese detective story predecessors, with…

Criticisms regarding elections only reinforce Justice O’Connor’s claim that judicial elections represent an opportunity for partisans and special interests to install judges who will answer to them. In Citizens United v Federal Election Commission , by allowing such groups to spend without limits on communication tools during campaigns, the Supreme Court upheld these concerns. According to the majority, spending represents an exercise of free speech, a right guaranteed by the First Amendment ,…

Adjudicatory hearing – This is the actual trial that occurs in a juvenile case. The judge in this hearing will determine whether the facts in the petition (which will be defined separately) are actually true. This decision is made after the judge hears all of the information, along with any testimony. The entire process in an adjudicatory hearing is similar to some of the structure in that of an adult trial, but the hearing is a bit more controlled and without a large amount of the “adversarial…

others and himself to attempt at understanding the world. Since the book is an autobiography, it allows the reader to take a front row seat with the story. “Black Boy” is one of the many books that were challenged for a myriad of reasons. Those reasons ranging from political to religious. Although Richard Wright’s “Black Boy” was accused of multiple offenses, some teachers and students think the book still holds value. As the book was published and the general public began to read…

As an individual of society, most of us were probably taught to “not judge a book by its cover” or “walk a mile in someone’s shoes before you judge them”. This relates to “The Danger of a Single Story” where instead of getting to know someone, we prejudge them off what others say or what we see. Without getting to know who an individual really is or where they are coming from, we misconstrue and prejudge unjustly. Within TED Talk featuring Chimamanda Adichie’s speech “The Danger of A Single…

Andrew Napolitano is a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel. Judge Napolitano has written nine books on the U.S. Constitution. His background asserts that he is a reputable individual who is qualified to speak on this topic. Though his background in law and the judicial systems will…

accusations are true. Given that witchcraft is fake, it seems the accused would come out innocent. Why then, do the judges, the supposed rectifiers and justice league, continue to affirm people guilty of such charges? Why then, do the judges not see the justice and honesty in Proctor, Nurse, and Corey’s evidence and unfairly conclude that they have failed to defend their…

disunity. However, at the start of the story, this community begins to collapse when Reverend Parris caught a group of girls dancing in the woods, “I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand... I saw Sarah Good…

someone walking down the street is approached by a black male. The person will assume that they are about to get robbed. Without knowing the logic behind the approach, the person will automatically defend themselves and initiate a physical fight. In the book Picking Cotton, Ronald Cotton is being bothered by another inmate because of how smooth Ronald’s skin is. He is misjudged constantly as being so smooth like a women and Ronald puts a stop to the inmate by violently confronting him. The…

the Queen v. Dudley and Stevens. Our justice system need to see all parts of cases instead of hopping to conclusions there’s a reason we have a rather median population, yet the largest incarceration rate. In experiments like the Forgery Case we see judges either ruling in order to deter, judge’s ruling while taking in all the circumstances of the case, and judge’s ruling in order to rehabilitate the accused. In cases like Cook v. State though the ruling does seem harsh and somewhat unfair it…