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    What happened in this case was that the school believed that drugs were being sold on school grounds. They believed this due to students telling them this and giving names. They searched what I believe to be is two girls. Savana however, is the main person. Her parents made a claim against the school district stating that her daughter’s fourth amendment right was violated. This is because the school made her do a strip search to see if drugs were hidden in places that they could not touch…

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    California court system issue a writ to have Apple assist in the investigation, which later occurred. A writ, in legal terms, is a document from a court ordering someone to do something or not to do something, this was of course used to demand the creation of a back-door for the FBI. The specific passage that was argued in the court states “The Thirteenth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789 authorized the circuit courts to issue writs of prohibition to the district courts and the Supreme Court…

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    teenagers could name the five adult globe religions Only 10% could name all five and 15% could not name any. Religious ideas operate politics, economics, and law. The Supreme Court has indefinitely made pure that it is not necessary for fellowship in a strict exercise to be coerced for it to be unconstitutional. 5. The Supreme Court has rejected any distinction between generic “Judeo-Christian” prayers and more expressly Christian once in all of its cases complicate school-godparent…

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    Marshall was the main suspect, even though a lack of evidence, because “…he shared what [the Commission believed] was a general sense in Sydney’s White community at the time that Indians were not ‘worth’ as much as Whites” (AIDWYC, 2014). At trial, the Court depended on the evidence of two teenage would-be eyewitnesses, Maynard Chant (who was on probation at the time) and John Pratico (whose psychiatrist later testified that he was prone to self-congratulatory delusions) (AIDWYC, 2014).…

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    Evidently, the Supreme Judicial Council shares many duties with the United States Supreme Court, such as reviewing cases from lower courts, interpreting the law, and creating precedents. As for the judges of the Supreme Judicial Council, there are eleven members, one of them being the president of the council, five of them being full time members that “hold the rank of Chief of the Appellate Court”, and five of them being part time members that include “the Chief of the Appellate Court or his…

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    Magistrate Court Process

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    Introduction In Queensland , there is a process in action that places offending prisons in a Magistrate Court to preside whether or not they shall be put into imprisonments or not. The Australian courts follow a system of diplomatic hierarchy. The Supreme court followed by the District court and then Magistrates court. But before the process of the court a police arrest may occur, this report provided by the police is used as evidence in the process of the hearing. Research Methods…

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    Justice In The Crucible

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    traits, emotions,etc is hysteria or uncontrollable emotions or more specifically mass hysteria or group hallucinations of society threats caused and spreaded by fear and rumors. But in order to determine whether or not justice is best served in court of law, the terms justice and law must be defined first. Justice is broadly getting and knowing what is just based on moral concepts such as law, equity, ethics, rationality, religion,…

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    Miller Vs Alabama

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    many groups have changed and shaped the values and laws of this country. This happens because if the ordinary people aren’t happy their won’t a functional democracy. The case Miller v.s Alabama is a very controversial case that was heard by the Supreme Court in 2012. The case is about Miller 8th Amendment right of not being cruelly or unusually punish. Fourteen year old Evan Miller alongside his partner/co-defendant Colby Smith were allegedly accused of beating…

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    Reflection Paper: Juvenile Curfews and Courts Throughout the reading of “Juvenile Curfews and Courts,” Hemmens & Bennett outlines, and interprets the development of juvenile courts, and if curfews are an efficient tool to have within society. The author stresses that juvenile curfews treat children as second-class citizens that need to be protected more than adults, curfews threaten the exercise of a number of rights, and that by adopting these regulations it is a sign of public hysteria…

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    The court system in Ireland is fairly similar to that of the United States. The 1922 Constitution enabled new courts to be formed and the Courts of Justice Act in 1924 gave them legal basis (The Courts, 2016). Ireland’s current courts were set up by the Courts Act of 1961 and include “a court of final appeal (the Supreme Court), a Court of Appeal, and courts of first instance, which include a High Court with full jurisdiction in all criminal and civil matters, and courts of limited jurisdiction,…

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