International Criminal Court

The court system, also known as the judiciary, is a structure that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state. As such, there are multiple divisions and even more types of cases. The classifications of cases that are typically seen within the courts are: debt, contract, property, corporate, torts, criminal, public law, and family and estates. Over the years, different types of cases have appeared before the court, some most often than others. In Herbert M. Kritzer, Paul Brace,…

County Civil Court. I heard five misdemeanors cases in those ninety minutes I was in there. The courtroom was filled with different type of employees. There was the Judge,the security and the lawyers. There were also police officers bringing in the people who were in custody. They will make sure is them and they would call them up and take a picture of their eyes. They made sure it got cleared and after that the person in custody could speak with their lawyer. There was also the court reporter…

Nearly 150,000 viruses and malicious codes circulate through cyberspace infecting over 148,000 computers daily, (KPMG International, 2011). The cost of information lost to cybercrime in 2008 ($265 million) doubled in just a year when measured at the end of 2009 in the amount of $560 million within the US alone, (KPMG International, 2011). Cybercrime along with the targeted victims have grown in complexity as well. In 2000, the first documented cybercrime (the “I Love You”…

INVESTIGATION OF PLEA OF ALIBI: In criminal trials the accused persons most of the times place reliance on the plea of alibi for their defence as they believe that such a plea would be easy to prove through simply creating an impression that the accused was not present at the place where the occurrence of crime took place. However, it does not mean that a plea of alibi, pleaded by an accused, is not subject to the confirmation of court by means of proper investigations. This is to say that a…

evidence submitted before a court of law is accurate such as how the evidence is collected, if proper protocell was followed before the laboratory’s handling of the evidence, and if the evidences was accurately processed by the crime scene laboratory by various forensic scientists. Furthermore, with the advances in technology in today’s society, various pieces of evidence such a DNA analysis have been considered a crucial element…

-Magellan cases had a superior involvement in the statutory child protection department, utilising the focus upon child protection. -Magellan cases had an average of 6.2 court events, comparatively Magellan-like cases had an average of 10.9 court events. -With a focus on the same members working on a Magellan case from start to finish, they were dealt with by 3.4 different judicial officers on average, compared to 5.7 for Magellan-like cases. -Also significantly…

Angelique Lavallee was a 21 year-old woman, who was charged with murder after shooting her spouse in the back of the head while he was leaving the bedroom. Kevin Rust, her spouse, had threatened to kill her that night and loaded the gun for her. But instead Ms. Lavallee ending up shooting him that night with the intentions of missing. The psychiatric, Dr. Shane, did an assessment stated her as being terrorized by her partner such as physical, sexual, emotional and verbal abusive. Therefore, in…

On the day of Friday October 21st, 2016, at the scene of Mays Landing Court House inside the Criminal Division court room, the Honorable Judge Damon G. Tyner, JSC presided. Throughout the day Judge Tyner observed both sentencing as well as motion cases. Before arriving to the court house I reflected on my expectations; I was expecting to see this large courtroom with ten to twelve rows and massive windows. I expected to hear no talking while the Judge spoke, I also expected most to be dressed…

Introduction In accordance with the criminal law, the judges in both cases concluded that the state’s monopoly over the use of violence was abused by the police. That being said, referring to the liberal principles, there are many reasons that I will be arguing throughout this paper that will explain the reasonings behind the judge’s conclusion. In reference to this, I will argue about both the Lacy MacAuley and Adam Nobody cases in regards to how the police misused their authority by using…

increasingly limited after a sale has occurred. Indeed, “[a]fter [a foreclosure] sale, the borrower is ordinarily limited to raising procedural irregularities in the conduct of the sale.” Thomas v. Nadel, 427 Md. 441, 442-43 (2012) (holding that a trial court may sustain “exceptions to the foreclosure sale on the ground that the deed of trust securing the consolidation loan was invalid.”). Procedural irregularities that may be raised via post-sale exceptions are generally limited to issues…