Evidence law

necessary testing and cooperated with the law and rules of the business. When he received the call that his test was positive, he was terminated the next day, with no chance to redeem himself. Burton went and performed an at home test which came back negative and also went and visited a doctor who performed a urinalysis as well as a hair test, which can tell for 90 days, and those also came back negative. Burton could not be reinstated even with this evidence. In turn, Burton re-appealed the…

Are The Lockout Law Working In the early hours of New Year’s day, 2013, a young man by the name of Daniel Christie was king hit and assaulted in the nitrous Kings Cross nightlife precinct; Daniel dies in intensive care as a result of his injuries 11 days later. This incident added to an already large statistic of alcohol-related assaults, which caused the wider Sydney community to call for harsher regulation of licensed premises, specifically in the nitrous Kings Cross nightlife district and…

I was able to find several examples of court cases involving digital evidence and its admissibility in court, but the search for specific cases involving searches of seized or suspect digital media was little harder to come by. The laws have changed drastically over the last decade as digital information has become more prevalent in our daily lives. For example, most important court decisions involving digital searches happened within the last five years, which is just crazy considering digital…

saw the oil there, and one of the witnesses reported it to the maintenance man. Another witness didn’t notice any footprints in the oil. Lastly the elevator was inspected three days before the incident. The defendant argued back that there was no evidence as to how long the oil had been in the hallway. “The plaintiff a complaint for injuries he allegedly sustained when he slipped and fell. The tort in this case…

majority of lawsuits are settled out of court and it mainly due to the work that a litigation attorney does. Litigation attorneys do all the necessary work that is required out of court. They are responsible for filing lawsuits, gathering all the evidence that is required, meeting with the client and conduct the necessary legal research. They will also argue motions and file to defend their client. All this work is done way before the case will go to court and the attorneys will try and settle…

Cooper in class final 1.What are the Miranda warnings and why are those provisions important? You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law, you have the right to a lawyer, if you cannot afford a lawyer one will be given to you, do you understand the rights I have just read to you, with these rights in mind do you wish to speak to me. Those provisions are important because it protects a person's right not to self-accuse himself.…

Police officers are continuously under a large amount of scrutiny due to the amount of power individuals in this career possess (Taslitz, 2010). Law enforcement officers, while they are highly trained, have their individual decision making altered by external factors. These factors in particular causes a major discrepancy in the criminal justice system on how to avoid and neutralize bias influences (Kang, Bennett, Carbado, Casey, Dasgupta, Faigman &Mnookin, 2012). These biases can be both…

believe deception or lying by law enforcement is a justifiable interrogation technique. With that being said, caution should be taken when the decision to utilize such a technique as to prevent violating someone’s rights and prevention of any confessions being ruled coerced by the courts. In American history, police regularly used brutality to obtain information from a suspect (Skolnick & Leo, 1992). Due to things such as the Wickersham report from the 1920’s, changes in law, and…

amendment protects all citizens from illegal searches and seizure of their possessions and property. The Weeks v. United States case law was established in 1914, which consisted of police entering Fremont Weeks home and illegally seizing evidence of Weeks transporting lottery tickets through the mail. This case is what brought forth the exclusionary rule, which makes any evidence obtained during an illegal search and seizure possibly inadmissible in court. To uphold the fourth amendment,…

found in his occupation and he says it himself. Pg 286. "A strong sense of justice. It is abhorrent to me that an innocent person or creature should suffer or die by any act of mine." The definition of justice is the administration of the law or making sure the law is upheld. Abhorrent is an inspiring disgust. Knowing the definitions of the words, we can see Justice Wargrave doesn't want innocent people punished. He sees society better with innocent people in it than the guilty. Justice Wargrave…