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    Corey comes before the court today for the charge of contempt of court by withholding information. In Corey’s attempt to reestablish the integrity of Salem’s courts, Judge Danforth and his fellow abusers of power strive to silence Corey from exposing the court’s corruption. Although he selectively withholds information regarding his accusations, Corey remains innocent and deserves acquittal from the charge of contempt of court, since his actions intend to improve the court, not undermine it.…

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    on Monday, March 9h and the other on Wednesday, March 11th of 2015. The courtrooms that I visited are both parts of the Fayette County Court, located close to my home. On Monday the 9th the courtroom I visited was a Superior Court room with Judge Fletcher Sams and on Wednesday the 11th I visited a State Court with Judge Jason Thompson. Observing Superior Court was very interesting. I observed a child molestation case, which plead to a lesser offense. While the case we were supposed to observe…

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    A federal judge has ordered the attorney for the Utah Republican Party to show why he shouldn't be held in contempt of court for repeatedly missing filing deadlines in the ongoing dispute over a law changing the state's nominating system. U.S. District Judge David Nuffer said in an order Thursday that attorney Marcus Mumford has missed 17 filing deadlines after he was asked to toss out the party's latest motion for summary judgment in the case because it was not filed in time. Nuffer said…

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    Justice is the act of fairness and reasonability. In a court, it is the basis of all trials and determines a defendant’s end result. If justice is not carried out, it can cause an innocent person to be prosecuted. The Constitution is what dictates the fairness, claiming that all men have given rights at birth. It gives freedoms of speech and petition, protection against self-incrimination, cruel and unusual punishments, and establishes the idea of innocent until proven guilty. In The Crucible by…

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    observed that: “It is sufficient for the purposes of the section that the words used are calculated to excite feelings of ill-will against the Government, and to hold it up to the hatred and contempt of the people, and that they were used with an intention to create such feeling.” In the case of Ram ManoharLohia, the Court held that the restriction in question must have a proximate relation with the object…

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    first “case” being introduced in 1670- William Penn and William Mead (Quaker activists) were charged with unlawful assembly. According to the article written by Julian Heicklen, the judge of this specific case would not accept any other verdict in court other than guilty- jurors of the case refused to convict the two of those crimes, and because the judge was so mad that the jurors didn’t perceive the “convicts” of being guilty, he forced the…

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    WITNESS PROCTION IN INDIA- NEED FOR LEGISLATION - Pranjali P Devurkar & Reddy Pawan Kumar INTRODUCTION A witness is an indispensable part of a justice delivery system playing a pivotal role in determining the final outcome of a case. According to Bentham, witnesses are “eyes and ears of justice”. Often these “very” witnesses turn hostile, become untraceable or simply eliminated. In…

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    Family Court Case Analysis

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    essence on an to I the more you sure baby busy… that 's in the People get married to get divorced since I started 1949 when I passed wedding I think to myself that 's inventory. Statistics are the more money passes through family law court then all other law courts combine. The more you charge the more people willing to pay because they feel that money equals skill . You know we aren 't much different from any other segment of society in terms of money calling the shots. Either cases where they…

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    Argument for Tangible Detriment: The District court improperly granted summary judgment as a reasonable jury could find that Prufrock suffered a tangible detriment when he was denied tutoring and received the worst English grade of his college career after he rejected Crewel 's offer to "take care of things" for him if he was "a good boy".(DEP.) To determine whether plaintiff suffered a tangible detriment, courts consider whether 1) plaintiff suffered a material loss and 2) the loss…

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    Open Court Essay

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    Open Courts Based on the content of the common law, open courts is one of the ways to fulfil open justice. Publicity is an essential indication for open court concept. According to Baylis (1991), one of the most important concepts of justice is ‘justice must to be seen to be done'. Generating accessibility to participate in the court process can improve justice. Open court with public hearing is to ensure the enforcement of integrity within the law, the honesty of the evidence, and the…

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