Jury trial

All of the above concerns regarding forensic testimony presents a significant problem in our courtrooms where the negligent action be extremely high. Juries give undue attention to the testimony presented by forensic scientists and the above issues can pose a significant threat to the resulting judgment. Any ethical forensic examiner would not mislead the courtroom but as depicted above, this is certainly not the case. Thompson & Dioso-Villa (2008) argue that many areas of forensic science are…

the situation. If you wish to be as prepared as possible, understanding the basic structure of anatomy of the lawsuit can be very beneficial. The anatomy of the lawsuit can be broken down into four basic sections or stages: pleading, discovery, trial and appeal. The pleading stage of a California lawsuit begins when a plaintiff files a complaint with the California Superior Court. This is a statement that lists allegations. If allegations included in the complaint are proved, the Plaintiff…

Good morning. My name is James Davis, and I am the prosecutor representing Jane Smith, age 36 of Raleigh, North Carolina. Our honorable judge, I trust that you will engage in the entire judging process in a rational, complete way, just as you would as the chief evaluator of any other case under your jurisdiction. After applying relevant rules and significant precedents to our current case, you will undoubtedly arrive at a solution where you will inevitably side with either the husband, the wife,…

of the major debate on this are that some juveniles that go to adult criminal court actually have some advantages. Some of these advantages include minors have the right to a jury trial in adult, were as in most states juvenile court does not have juries. (Michon) Also, juries may become more sympathetic to a minor on trial, such as in the case of Taurus Buchanan, who was charged with second-degree murder, when he was 16 years old, for throwing a single punch that killed 12-year-old Jacques…

some scholars have argued that plea bargains, in contrast to interrogations, produce particularly credible and valuable admissions of guilt. Indeed, the argument is sometimes made that plea bargaining is superior to trial because "the fact-finding task assigned to the jury at trial is displaced by the defendant's confession."(Garrett, 2016, para. 2). When a defendant can take a lesser sentence, they have beaten the system in the eyes of the public. According to Hendrix suggest that, “plea…

1. Who set the focus and what was it? A: The people who set the focus of the meeting of the jurors are the following: 1. JUROR NO. 8 • He insisted that the boy on trial should be given a fair chance and that they should not come to a conclusion before any discussion. • He refused to go along with the decision of other jurors and gave a not guilty verdict forcing others to deliberate over the matter. • In order to convince others that the proofs submitted in the courtroom were not fool proof he…

There are forms that take place in as many non-death penalty cases as they do in death penalty cases: racial bias in regards to jury selection, eliciting information that was or should have been excluded, and a failure to reveal exculpatory evidence (Minsker, 2009). However, there are some forms of misconduct which are more likely to appear in death penalty cases. They are the…

Clayton Johnson was 56 years old when he was convicted in 1993 for the murder of his wife Janice Johnson, who died on February 20th, 1989. Clayton was a carpenter, high school industrial arts teacher, church volunteer, and father of two. Clayton had already been heading out to work when Janice died. That morning Janice had fallen down the stairs, hit her head and been knocked unconscious, and by the time her body was discovered and rushed to hospital it had already been too late. She had been…

Queensland Double Jeopardy Provisions Double Jeopardy is a technicality law based upon the assumption that one cannot be repeatedly prosecuted in a criminal trial by either the jury, judge or appeal of court judges ("Questioning Double Jeopardy", 2016). This notion has been in existence for 800 years and originated from English Common Law. The double jeopardy protection averts three scenarios, a retrial for a crime that would attract a 25-year or more sentence if the original acquittal is…

“May it please the court, your honor, opposing council, members of the jury - an impossible burden means an impossible conviction,” Sophomore Lora Randa said to a crowd of people gathered in a courtroom in Eau Claire on Feb. 11. Tension and competition filled the room as she continued to tell the story of an innocent girl being accused of first degree reckless homicide. Randa is a dedicated member of the school’s Mock Trial team and is the attorney that closes the case for the defence. “The…