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    The Maid’s story was that she entered a room that was thought to be unoccupied. Upon entering a man attacaked her and focrebley incerted his penis in her mouth, afer restisting to the best of her abilities; she ran into the hall way and saw the man leave. After which, she reported the incedent to several emplyiess and later police invovemtn occurred. The Facts that can be claimed to completely ture, are the DNA samples that the maid spit out, containg both her saliva and his sperm. The other…

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    A substantial step is, "behavior of such a nature that a reasonable observer, viewing it in context could conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that it was undertaken in accoradance with a design to violate the statue" (Schmalleger & Hall, 2014 P.95). When it comes to this case I do agree that the girls had taken a substantial step towatd the commission of a targeted offense. For the reason that, Tracie planned with her friend Molly to poison her homeroom teacher. Not only did she planned the crime…

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    What this means is that if afforded an opportunity to file a motion to vacate, set aside or correct a sentence provided under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 the brothers will be able to show the Court that their acceptance of their plea and their convictions are not proper and that the violations of their constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel adversely affects their substantial rights of fairness, integrity, or public reputation of the proceedings and that they are entitled to relief.…

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    Investigator Baldwin testified about his meeting of the defendant and the statement that Mr. Defendant gave regarding the felonies in question. Observed defense gesture for a trial order of discharge and a conversation between the judge and the attorneys regarding the instructions to be given to the jury before they deliberated. The judge appeared to have things well under control in his courtroom and kept the proceedings moving…

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    duties because there was no court. Nonetheless, on Thursday, I had was able to attend the calendar call. During that time, the attorneys give the judge updates on the status of their cases. It was interesting to see another judge handle the nonjury trials. The judge went through every individual separately and gave words of advice to each person, which was a little more time consuming. Also, the dynamics of the court were also different because there were several individuals who were…

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    I am in receipt of your letter of March 25, 2016, to attend on a jury duty on May 5, 2016. I am honored by the privilege, but I am writing this letter request that I be excuse from Jury Service. I am currently a part time student and part time job, in order to pay for my tuition. My school takes up the day time and my job takes the rest of the day. Due to this situation, I can not miss a day from school nor from my job because I wouldn’t be able to catch up my lecture and most lecture work. I…

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    In the flashback it shows that Steve is guilty because King is trusting Steve. Steve repeats this sentence “So, what it is”(151). This usually means that a person is either scared and worried or just really confused. He did the same thing earlier in the book but with the words “What did I do?”. This proves that he is worried and scared about a few things in life so he might be hiding something from his family or the jury. Steve could also be innocent because in the conversation between him…

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    In 2006 the judge ruled in the prosecutor's favor, and finally in 2009 Alcala faced trail once again that would last more than five hours. However, at this trial Alcala was acting as his own attorney who would address himself as Mr. Alcala asking the questions in a deeper voice and then would answer them. He only provided one alibi which was for the Samsoe kidnapping and that he was at Knott’s Berry Farm, but did not offer defense for the other four cases. The charm that attracted the women and…

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    One table. Twelve angry men. Several votes. What happens if they make the wrong conviction? A kid winds up dead for the wrong reason, just like 6% of wrongful convictions. 72% based on eyewitness testimonies. One life already lost, is another on death row? 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose has several characters who are worth paying attention to as the play goes on. Even more so is Juror Number 7. A man who makes jokes to have others see his point. “You know what the soft sell is? You’re pretty…

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    Today, is the day where we get together in the court of justice.I as an judge is going to decide weather Michael is going to stay with his older siblings Darrel and Soda Pop or go to the county foster care.As an judge I most do whats best for Michael.I'll have the Division of Children and Family Services,police,and others here too listen and help me decide weather he should stay or go.Those people will have authority too talk and give me some reason why he should go or stay,and of course I can't…

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