Grand jury

Rapper/actor 50 Cent is ordered to pay $5 million in sex-tape invasion-of-privacy lawsuit filed by Lastonia Leviston. Fox 411, July 12, 215 reported 50 Cent put a sex-tape online of and her boyfriend without permission. He added himself as the commentator. However, the $5 million fine may not be all for 50 Cent. The jurors are deliberating next week on further charges. He may be slapped with punitive damages. Apparently, 50 Cent used a 13-minute in 2009 that he received from Lastonia’s…

A jury is a group of citizens, normally consisting of between 4-15 jurors who are randomly selected and are accordingly given the ability to make decisions in a legal case submitted to them to pass on a verdict. A juror is an individual citizen part of the jury. Jurors are normally made to attend to hear cases in the Coroner, District and Supreme Courts. They must settle on the facts before them and determine civil or criminal matters. They are the lone judges of the validity of the witnesses…

This essay serves to highlight the legal issues surrounding the incident of the search of the home of Adam Bangbroek. I will outline the specific criminal procedures that were transgressed, the constitutional rights that were violated and the criminality of the actions of the police during this incident. I will further use this incident to elucidate the “need for balance between crime control and due process”. The main problematic facts in this incident are as follows. The SAP searched the home…

Chapter 5: PLEA BARGAINING 5.1 Introduction The justice system is the mechanism that upholds the rule of law. Our courts provide a forum to resolve disputes and to test and enforce laws in a fair and rational manner. The courts are an impartial forum, and judges are free to apply the law without regard to the government's wishes or the weight of public opinion. Court decisions are based on what the law says and what the evidence proves; there is no place in the courts for suspicion, bias or…

tarnished the processes of the trial, fostering impartial judicial proceedings and ultimately disallowing justice. The trials ability in achieving justice was deterred as occupational status and race contaminated and fostered impartiality amongst the jury, the witnesses and the provided evidence; three of the fundamental components of a judicial proceedings. Firstly, the jurors of a trial are of…

winning the case. This was because the white jury already knew that Carl was guilty before the trial even began because he was black. Without the support of the white community Jake knew that they were not going to win, so he came up with a plane. On the last day of the trail Jake made the jury picture the horrible things James and Billy did to Tanya. He then made them image the same things, but with a white girl this time. That imagination made the jury realize that Carl was not a monster and…

I suggested. We had a student as a judge, one as the prosecutor, some students posed as the jury, and one who committed the crime. The student who “committed the crime” was able to pick their lawyer to defend them. Only the defendant knew if they really did the crime but could not tell the others in the class. As a class we went though this trial for a week and heard the evidence presented and had the jury deliberate. Although we got the verdict correct by stating the student was “guilty”, the…

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…

When asked “If you could only have one trait, characteristic, emotion,etc what you have?”, almost everybody say reputation and when they asked “What is the worst characteristic, trait or emotion to have”, they say intolerance but actually the worst trait and characteristic to have drowns out all other characteristics,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.…

regions. Often classified as substandard to American society, individuals of Mexican ancestry were underrepresented as constituents in the board of jury. In Jackson County of Edna, Texas, for the last twenty-five years, any individual attached to distinctive indicators of Spanish heritage such as a Spanish surname were denied admittance into serving jury. Consequently, a lack of representation from peers in the court of law was demonstrated in the case of the accused, Pete Hernandez in the…