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    (i) The accused along with eight other people hatched a conspiracy to snatch away the bag of cash of the deceased. (ii) On 2nd August 1999, after closing the shop, the deceased- Rama Krishna Rao, was closing his shop and proceeding to his house, he was suddenly intercepted by the accused and demanded the bag of cash. (iii) When the deceased tried to resist, the accused opened fire from the pistol at the deceased and snatched the bag and ran away. On being taken to the hospital, he was…

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    is a fiction novel written by Chris Cleave. Little Bee is narrated by Little Bee and Sarah who live in two different countries but a tragic encounter brings them together. This novel is about a little girl that is captured and placed in a refugee detention, where she compared herself to a British coin. She is frightened and feel abandoned because she has no one to talk or interact with. She goes through so many emotions and issues to press forward with her life. I think this book would be a good…

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    The Migration Act 1958

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    People who are forced their homes due to persecution whether individually or as part of a mass exodus due to political military, religious or other issues are known as refugees. “According to the Migration Act of 1958, (“Migration Act 1958”) children of parents who are classified as a refugee are given the same rights as their parents.” The aim of this paper is to identify and explain how The Australian Legal System does not adequately protect and enforce the rights of children seeking refugee…

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    of the US Criminal Justice System has led many to question the effectiveness of juvenile detention centers. The goal of juvenile detention centers should be to ensure that the individual, on release, can be a functional law-abiding citizen. Currently 54,000 juveniles are in youth prisons. If it were one prison system, “it would be the fifth largest in the US”. The greatest concern about juvenile detention centers is whether or not it is creating a culture of violence in which these thousands…

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    Should juveniles be sentenced in prison for life? Should juveniles be trial as an adult after committing a heinous crime and sentenced to life? As a teenager, this question if far complicated to answer due that i am a teenager yet in my opinion i believe that juvenile should not be sentenced to life. I believe that there 's others way to punish them for their crimes. The last execution was on 2006 in California. On June 2012, the supreme court of justice ruled that juveniles cannot be…

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    The origins of such a conflict are cloudy. The first anti-drug laws were passed well before Richard Nixon declared drugs public enemy number one, but for a completely different reason then what you may think. The earliest anti-opium laws were passed in the 1870s. You may ask yourself why they would only target opium, and the answer to this question has everything to do with race. These early drug laws were aimed more towards the Chinese immigrants entering the country than the opium that they…

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    The Death Penalty has been a topic of interest recently, with many people arguing both sides. There are claims that it’s inhuman, that incident people are being killed, and that it cost the tax payers more money then a life sentence, but what about the other side of this complex argument? Is the death penalty really an cruel and painful process that cost taxpayers millions? The death penalty has been made out to be a horrible injustice to both the perpetrators and the tax payers, in reality it’s…

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    Criminal punishment is an immensely ongoing controversial and societal issue in the United States, Europe and other parts of the world. There are thirty-one states that have kept the death penalty as a legal punishment and nineteen states that have abolished the death penalty, including New Jersey in 2007. Statistics show that 39 percent choose life without parole plus restitution, 33 percent would choose Capital Punishment, 13 percent chose life without parole, 9 percent picked life with parole…

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    In the book Monster written by Walter Dean Meyer, Steve Harmon, a 16 year old black boy, is by going a trial determining if he will spend his life in jail or not. Steve’s outcome of the trial was not guilty with which many would most likely not agree with. In what was supposed to be just a robbery turned into the murdering of Nesbitt, the murder with which Steve was allegedly the look out for the whole thing. Most believe he is guilty, but not on the account of murder just on the robbery. He…

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    A juvenile can be tried as an adult and be given a life sentence in prison for numerous reasons, but the main one being murder. According to the Offices of The United States Attorneys, a juvenile is someone who has "not attained his eighteenth birthday." In other words, a juvenile is a minor, which is someone who is under the age of eighteen. A juvenile is someone who is legally not yet considered an adult in the eyes of the law. A juvenile is basically a child. Although the child may have…

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