Judge

Albert Einstein once said, “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” This quote is important to me because if you don’t challenge what is given to you and you judge it, people would never be able to accomplish anything believing they are stupid. This encouraged me to make Manual Arts a better place because I believe in helping people and challenging what we are limited to, and what we are told we can…

Do Not Judge By Appearance I have had many people stop me and ask “what do your tattoos mean?”, “Do you understand what that will look like when you’re old?”, “you’re such a pretty girl why would you wreck your imagine with tattoos?” and etc. Many people give me looks of scorn because I have tattoos and piercings. I work 2 part time jobs, go to school, church, am as active in my community as much as possible, babysit/nanny as often as possible, and am family/friend oriented. Never once have I…

also envelop the common practice employed by judges of “dispassion” to prevent “emotion from exerting any influence" wherever such opportunities exist in order to maintain fairness and equality to all in the courtroom regardless of standing or background. This admonition and instruction by Judge Ito to the jury also alludes to the virtue of testimonial justice described by Miranda Fricker in Epistemic Injustice in that the jury and as well as the judge…

Addressing Diversity in Criminal Justice Policies Dolores Jackson Williams Colorado Technical University Most judges are elected; would it be better to have the judges appointed by a committee? Why or why not? Explain. I don’t believe that judges should be appointed by a committee, because they run the risk of violating the Judicial Code of Conduct at some point. When a judge is elected they are not swayed by special interest group or partisans, as I come to learn their main purpose to see…

that the trial judge had failed to consider that the defence might have honestly believed that consent had been given even if that was a mistake (para. 30). The R. submitted that the trial judge did not make a mistake in the assessment of the evidence and that the defense’s argument, that there was a mistaken belief in consent, was inconsistent with the Apl. admittance that such hits fall outside what is expected in a non-contact hockey league. (para. 31) ISSUES a) Did the trial judge speculate…

theory, namely judges are ‘not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one’. Lord Esher’s judgment in Willis v Baddeley contended that judges ‘frequently have to apply existing law to circumstances as to which it has not previously been authoritatively laid down that such law is applicable.’ They believe that judges’ role is just to discover law and apply it to different circumstances. However, this theory then was widely condemned by lawyers, judges, and…

the party labels on the ballot. Candidates are chosen based on their partisan affiliation just like those who run for presidency. According to Wallace B. Jefferson, the newly retired Chief Justice of Texas's Supreme Court, the way Texas selects its judges is wrong. In the article “Chief Justice Condemns Judicial Elections” he points at the problems inherent in judicial elections in Texas. According to Jefferson the judicial election system in Texas is broken. It doesn’t function well and it has…

1) The first Objection based on legal realist of law is that law is made by legal legislatures and constitutions which works in one state might not work in another and that it could go both ways and it is left in the hands of the judges to make a decision which could affect both parties. Law as stated above is made by constitutions and legislatures but the law is merely a state prediction as to how it will follow. The example given is of a taxi business which is owned by the Jones family who own…

The Controversial Merit Selection The current debate on how judges should be selected is not a new one, but one that began with adaption of the United States Constitution in 1787, as more states joined the union in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The main issue of the debate is whether or not judges, who are sworn to apply the law with total objectivity and independence, should be appointed by an executive or elected by the…

The United States adopted the English Common Law and court structure in the early day there were quarter sessions courts and surrogate courts. America was a frontier country, and each colony adapted differently. This all changed during the Constitutional Convention the decision was the separate the federal court and the state court known as the dual court system. Even in today’s society, we are under that same dual court system. A parallel system of criminal justice was formed with this.…