High Court of Justice

BAIL AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE Introduction The granting of bail is guided by the constitution and the criminal procedure code. Bail is granted to arrested persons either at the police station or after one has been charged in a court of law. An arrested person or accused is presumed innocent till proven guilty thus his/her freedom of movement should not unnecessarily be curtailed. Therefore issuance of bail is aimed at ensuring that the accused person attends his trial when required to do so. In my…

Crime continues to be an important issue of the 21st century. In the 1980s and early 1990s, crime was high. The increase in crime was very short but it still has a lasting effect on the juvenile justice system. Because of the many youth gangs, gun violence, and drugs, they created three agencies that present new ways of handling youth offenders on a separate system. The first agency was the way that they portrayed the violence of the youth. Because of that, the fear of crime to the public was…

discovered in the justice system” (Lopatto, 2014). Further, that four percent of individuals are still living human beings who deserve some sort of justice for the actual lack of justice received in the trial proceedings. Unfortunately though, even if those on death row are able to produce evidence suggesting or affirming their innocence per the Supreme Court ruling of Herrera v. Collins, it doesn’t matter (Capital…

in Becoming Justice Blackmun demonstrates the forcible, yet changeable, as a matter of law, nature of precedent with regards to the penetration of the lives of the United States citizenry. Most prominently cited, the Roe v. Wade decision, altered the age-old belief of the criminalization of abortion. Blackmun wrote in his notes, “‘Here we go in the abortion field” (Greenhouse, 72), prior to the hearings of three cases involving abortion; thus, Blackmun, as well as the other Justices,…

Warren court was a time full of life changing events, whether they were good or bad they affected everyone. Changes were being made quite frequently to civil rights, judicial and federal powers. The Warren court was known for several different things such as: ending racial segregation, putting a stop to prayer in public schools, making the right to privacy very clear through the constitution, and much, much more. Without the Warren court, there is no say on how the United States would be right…

Balkin, R. S., Miller, J., Ricard, R. J., Garcia, R., & Lancaster, C. (2011). Assessing Factors in Adolescent Adjustment as Precursors to Recidivism in Court-Referred Youth In this article court-referred adolescences completed the Reynolds Adolescence Adjustment Inventory Screening. They also took part in an intervention program where they were monitored for a total of two years. Their main focus was to classify the probability of juveniles reoffending. Researchers refer to genetics being…

Thurgood Marshall is arguably one of the most important Supreme Court justices in the history of the United States. Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, he graduated from Lincoln University and from Howard University Law School. Thurgood began his legal career at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Working his way up to Chief Legal Officer, Thurgood ran the effort to end racial segregation for the next twenty years. One of Thurgood’s most famous cases…

Clause, and it has been used by the Supreme Court even before it received its name. The term Lochnerizing come from the decision of the case Lochner v. New York 1905, when the Court decided to strike down New York’s sixty-hour limit for work based off of the right to have “freedom of contract”. This is right was said by the Court to have been implicitly implied by the 14th amendment. With this decision the Supreme Court overturned almost 200 Federal Court decisions in regards to economic…

are relevant. The first factor, the state of the legal rules that the Court interprets, means that justices must interpret existing laws and we see this in Casey v. Planned Parenthood. The majority opinion adheres to the rule of stare decisis and this case upheld the Court’s prior ruling in Roe v. Wade. Each Justice, in his or her own way, interpreted past laws and cases to make their decision. The second factor, the justices’ personal views, is very surprising in this certain case. In the…

Justice is a universal part of everyday life. We often think of it as an if-then scenario; if you cause trouble in school, then you don’t get recess. If you steal from somebody, then you go to jail. But the idea of justice is much more complex than that. Justice is an intricate ethical system with implications that range from the fair treatment of everyone to the equal distribution of government resources. If Justice is the idea of treating people fairly, then it is sensible to question what it…