Jury nullification

This court observation was my first time ever stepping into a court house let alone watching an actual trial take place. Like a lot of people, I assumed it would be just like the shows about criminal justice on TV such as Law and Order. I would come to find out that though there were multiple similarities between the two, there were also many differences and things I did not expect as well. Through this court observation I was better able to understand how the official court system works in…

treated as one. First, the process by which Daphne was identified; she argues that she was a suspect in the eyes of Gardai McKay up until Mark identified her, and evidence of the informal identification should not have gone to the jury. Second, the trial judge's charge to the jury about informal identification process was inadequate. Both of these grounds focus on the informal identification process. The precedent case for these issues is The People (DPP) v. Beroket Mekonnen. In my opinion,…

The original case before it went to the Supreme Court was State v. Fish and Hubbard. A fight broke out between Fish and a man named Miller in a bar in Black Eagle, Montana. Fish was with a woman named Skelton who called her brother Hubbard to help. Hubbard also brought his friend Lodge to help in the fight. Miller left the bar and Skelton, Fish, Hubbard and Lodge decided to go to Millers house directly. Miller’s fiancé got home and Fish, Hubbard and Lodge heard Miller speaking to her. Fish,…

I. PARTIES TO THE CASE: IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez, 546 U.S. 21 (2005) the plaintiff of this case is Gabriel Alvarez, Individually and on behalf of all other workers of Packing plant in Pasco, Washington. The employees had a class action lawsuit against the defendant Barber Foods and IBP. II. FORUM: In two separate cases, the employees of the packing plant sued Berber Foods and IBP in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. III. STATUTE(S) INVOLVED IN THE CASE: the statutory of the…

the juror number six took a last glimpse on the defendant. It seems that when having a preliminary vote, the juror number six hesitates for a moment. He does not raise his hand immediately, but rather waits for the reaction of the majority of the jury. When the juror number nine changes his verdict to non-guilty, the majority of the jurors in the room react with resent. However, the juror number six asks the other jurors to listen to what made the juror number nine to change his mind. He…

CHECKS AND BALANCES The criminal justice system is comprised of individual components which play a part in the process of justice. Each of the different branches of the United States government, the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial, all provide a series of checks and balances meant to keep any one branch from gaining too much power over the accused (Aberle, 2014). All three of these branches work in conjunction to provide the accused an opportunity for the fair application of the justice…

When defining sociology, it becomes apparent that the social science is about observation. In fact, “sociology is concerned with problems of society, [and] to understand what sociology is about, one has to look at oneself from a distance” (Elias 1978:13). Thus, studying society in any context is best done when immersed in that culture. Specifically, the sociology of law focuses on the law in society; and therefore, observation of the law in use is likewise the best way to understand the…

adequate success in some areas of the law such as the jury system, Legal Aid and the provocation defence. All these areas to an extent highlight the lack of success the criminal trial process serves in balancing community interests…

findings of this study might not be generalizable because the study was demographically restricted. Another limitation of this study is that the conceptualization of confidence included both verbal and nonverbal behaviors (Cramer et al., 2011). Although the age range of the participants of this study was broad and their ethnic backgrounds were not very diverse, the participant pool did contain Hispanic, African American, and five participants identifying as other ethnicities. For future…

had been talking O.J. Simpson for months and months there was a survey done of the most people who would believe O.J. innocent and the results came out that black women would be more likely to believe that Simpson was innocent (Linder). The ending jury pool for this case were eight out of the twelve jurors were black female. In order for anyone one be convicted there must be a unanimous decision of the twelve jurors. With those odds, O.J. Simpsons chance of receiving a fair and unbiased trial…