High Court of Justice

juveniles who commit murder is a great start to stop sending children into state prisons with adults. “On June 25, 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that juveniles who committed murder could not be sentenced to life in prison because it violated the Eight Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.” Alex Hribal, the 16-year-old suspect in a stabbing spree at a Pennsylvania high school, has been charged as an adult by local prosecutors. Children being charge as an adult is really outrageous. They…

was born on Oct 1, 1924 in Milwaukee, WI to his parents William and Margery Rehnquist. From an early age he embraced his family’s respect towards Republican Party leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Robert Taft (Biography, 2005). After graduating high school, Rehnquist attended Kenyon College for one year before entering the Army Air Corps during World War II from 1943 to 1946. Upon completion of his military service, he attended the University of Stanford where he earned a bachelor’s of arts…

OUHK LESM4009EF Introduction to Criminal Justice Li Lok Man, Marco higher diploma Assignment (Reflection Paper) Visits place: The Court of Final Appeal (CFA) on 1st March; The High Court on 10th March In this event, our class went to visit the Court of Final Appeal located on Jackson Road, another day went to visit the High Court located on Queensway. In guided visits on CFA, I followed instructions of the guided tour when I visit the court and other facilities, such as exhibition…

No matter which Justice on the Supreme Court one would pick, each have some sort of both bias and method when deciding their rulings. The overarching term for this is “judicial philosophy,” which ranges from conservatism to liberalism with moderates in-between. There are ramifications to wherever one sits on this scale, for instance, Justice Elena Kagan is liberal Justice, so it is likely that she will vote for something that matches up with her mindset, while a conservative Justice like Antonin…

Supreme Court shows its commitment to equality liberalism after an era of protecting economic rights. Brown is a proper use of the Supreme Court’s power and its four shortcomings legitimate their decision. This era of equality allowed the court and social movements to work in synergy allowing for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 to be established. Firstly, while the decision undermines the federal system that the 1787 constitution creates and forces the federal courts…

The amount of individual that go through the criminal justice system that have a mental illness has become a growing issue in the criminal justice system. Many individual that enter the criminal justice system are bound to end up in prison, where they have little access to mental health help. The amount of individual that enter the criminal justice system that have a serious mental illness is estimated to be 16.9 percent. These individuals are usually repeat offenders that circulate through the…

Leading up to the groundbreaking court case, the country was divided by segregation. In the south, there were Jim Crow Laws and the white population trying to limit the power the African-American had within the community. While in the north there was a large migrant of American Americans looking for a better life in the larger cities. Oliver Brown, Olivia Brown Father, wanted the best for his children and pushed for Brown v Board of Education to be heard in the courts. As in any case, there…

She was faced with lots of scorn and had many expectations on her shoulders. In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman justice to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court. Criticism from the conservatives branched from her lack of experience on constitutional and federal judicial knowledge. However, the liberals were much pleased to see a woman on the Supreme Court although they were dismayed at the simple fact…

Biography Sonia Sotomayor was appointed a Supreme Court justice in 2009 and became the first woman of Latin origin at the highest level of judicial hierarchy in the United States. Sonia Sotomayor was born in Bronx, New York, on June 25, 1954. Her parents were both born in Puerto Rico but moved to New York during World War II (Biography 2016). In Bronx, Sonia was raised in poor catholic Puerto Rican community and was speaking mostly Spanish (Lewis 2016). At age seven, she was diagnosed with…

Professor John Rawls believed one element of justice is equality; equality of opportunity and equal distribution of rights, powers, freedoms and resources in society (The Open University, (OU), 2016d, 7.1). This essay will look to see if justice delivered by the courts of England and Wales via the adversarial system is providing equality in the wake of recent budget cuts to legal aid, or whether adoption of an inquisitorial system is required. To do this, the nature of the cuts and changes to…