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    DNA Sampling Controversy

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    Technology has made a major impact on the world we live in today keeping it both current and informative. It serves a great purpose providing various benefits. However, the use of technology can also raise some controversy. The advancement of DNA technology is imperative and it has significantly changed the legal system in the way cases are questioned, investigated and solved. On the other hand, DNA sampling raises issues involving privacy and the violation of human rights due to its personal,…

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    Due Process Clause

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    The Constitution of the United States the preamble introduces and states that the government comes from the founding fathers and the people. The Constitution is a well-organized and well thought out document that is detailed and gives us a guideline for the government and citizens of the United States. For example, the Constitution states that as a government we provide a better cooperation among the states interest in justice and peace that provides for defense against foreign enemies that…

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    Pop Culture

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    The legal profession, including law schools, not only leaves an impression of prestige and justice on the general public, it also carries a very different cognation. Hierarchy and social order contracts lay embedded in the legal system, much as the underlying of societal structure today. With the impact of television crime shows and movies based on criminal events, the general public gains a fictional awareness of the ways in which the justice system works. In actuality the discourse of law not…

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    Gina Glass CJ 507 Seminar in Legal Issues Dr. Dial Mid Term Exam 1. Outline the flow of decision –making in the criminal justice system. • It begins with a complaint by a citizens or when a police officer witnesses what looks like criminal activity. The police officer will then investigate the crime and if they feel that they have enough evidence to establish probable cause they will swear out a warrant for their arrest. Now if the police observe the actual crime they normally do not have time…

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    Question 1: The scandals that attribute to the current findings of having an issue with the methods being used to obtain forensic evidence, the first to speak of would be Hoffman v. Florida where there was a Brady violation due to the fact that the prosecution did not turn over exculpatory evidence to the defense. This was because there wasn’t enough of it to pass onto the defense which is why prosecution did not do so to begin with; even though this was the case it was still the law that all…

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    The Lemon Test- http://www.pewforum.org/2009/05/14/shifting-boundaries6/ Aguilar v. Felton (1985). Was a federal program that paid New York City public school teachers to provide remedial instruction to students who lived in low-income neighborhoods. The teachers delivered these services at public and private schools, a substantial number of which were religious. Aguilar required the government to monitor whether the government-funded teachers incorporated religious content into their secular…

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    Discrimination In Baseball

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    Racism is one the single greatest injustices known to mankind. So much hate and violence that exists in this world comes from racism. African Americans struggle with this everywhere and even struggled with it in the post WWII booming economy at their jobs. Employment discrimination was impossible for African Americans to avoid in this post war era. This discrimination impacted all forms of employment for African Americans including “America’s Game” of baseball. Discrimination in the workplace…

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    article, Stille uses two very important men who highlight, understand and represent many of the different complications. In the first section of his account, Stille introduces Mishra, a professor of hydraulic engineering and a devout Hindu. Mishra’s double identity is significant because he understands the religious and scientific implications of the river. It is the hope that every…

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    Estate Market”. The data from the State Department confirms the figure Chinese nationals accounted for about 85% of visa recipients in 2014 alone. english.cri.cn, January 6, 2016 2. Foreign investment is good for economic growth, but also becomes double-edged sword if there is no fair regulation that protects the livelihood of its market. One thing for sure about foreign investors is their sole purpose in business as others as…

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    Social Dichotomy

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    position before any tort transgression. With both private and public law an individual can be held equally accountable for the same transgression. Res judicata shall not apply under common law when already judged in the public court. The doctrine of Double jeopardy will only apply to public law prosecutions. A hypothetical situation will be a railway crash causing fatalities through negligence. The directors of the train company can be prosecuted under corporate criminal liability. Corporate…

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