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    Reading about Andrew Carnegie I got to learn more about the Gilded Age as well as the American Society during the time. Coming from a small house in Scotland to making 23 million dollars a year, Carnegie made the American dream a reality. Growing the steel industry to being bigger than any other company, Carnegie provided jobs and built foundations off his industry. Doing this Carnegie believed in Social Darwinism and felt that the working class was meant to stay poor. Underpaying his workers…

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    “Thud!” The car door slams shut, with me inside the vehicle. The engine revved as my dad and I pulled away from James S. Rickards Middle School. As we got on Interstate 95 we were disappointed as it was the peak of Monday afternoon rush hour traffic. Nevertheless my imagination still swirling as it was my first time traveling to this destination. The destination was Markham Park Shooting Range. As the car ride took about an hour, that alone gave enough time for my excitement to bloom. When we…

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    Importance Of Eyewitness Testimony

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    may have been asked to consider this standard for both Clark and Hendersen, although the jury’s attention was more focused on the eyewitness testimony of Womble. In conclusion, both an eyewitness and the reasonable person provide standards in the court of law that are used in determining whether to convict a suspect, as demonstrated by the eyewitness in the State v. Hendersen (2011) case. Unfortunately, both standards are based upon subjective perception. For example, human error in memory…

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    Marley was tried in County Court of New Hanover and was found guilty of assault and battery and insolence against a white man. He was then sentenced to be whipped twenty-five times. After receiving the punishment, Marley’s master appealed to the Court of Pleas for the same convictions. The court found Marley guilty and sentenced him to the same punishment the County Court gave him, twenty-five stripes. Another appeal was made by Marley’s master to the Superior Court where the Attorney-General of…

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    The Juvenile Rights Period

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    There are five periods of juvenile justice history. They include the colonial period, refuge period, juvenile court period, juvenile rights period, and crime control period. The colonial period lasted from 1600s to 1800s. During the colonial American period, two influences remained constant: the authority of the parent and the role of religion. Parents continued to be given wide latitude in dealing with their children, whether through abusive or other means. An example of this can be found in…

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    Beginning in the 1990s, virtually every state expanded their rules where to juveniles could be tried as adults. In May of last year, The Supreme Court ruled that juvenile offenders who have not been convicted of murder cannot be sentenced to life in prison without any chance of parole. A lot of people today are saying that the court system needs to take in to thought the juveniles psychological development and maturity. Williams’ attorney, said this, “We can never predict the future. I…

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    lecture (2011), a plea bargain is when a defendant pleads guilty to their offence to receive a less harsh punishment. There has been much controversy over this procedure due to its ethical and legal implications. In a very controversial case, Supreme Court ruling in U.S. v. Ruiz, 536 U.S. 622 (2002), it was expressed that to receive a plea agreement, the defendant waives the right to know all evidence against him. This…

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    the full picture of their lesson, which means knowing that they have consequences for every action and slow, knowing that it is not a good look on them. The reason why young minors learned their lesson back then was due to there not being an actual court for young juveniles. Law enforcement has been the hot topic of them all, which contains policeman’s dragging, shooting, and killing young minors for no reason. For instance, the Trayvon Martin case was a hurtful case because a young boy who…

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    Provincial Court System

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    members of the courts. The laws are practised in the provincial, federal and supreme courts. The provincial court is the lowest court in which cases are heard. “The court is an important place where public and private issues are resolved” (McCormick 1994, p.2). The justice system is based on an adversarial system in which the disputes that occur are represented by people who study the law. There are many representatives of the court such as the judge, lawyer, officer, court clerk and court…

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    are the first reason that our justice system is broken. He argues that many convicts don’t have the time to research lawyers, and the ones that are provided to them by the court are…

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