Plea bargain

The United States of American is a civilized society that promotes freedom, justice, and peace. Once as a primitive culture, great injustices where bestowed upon others during times of war and slavery. As a nation, it was recognized that injustice and bias was not the moral standard of this great nation and laws were enacted to protect society. However, as a civilized society the use of capital punishment is still a viable sentence for criminals who perpetrate heinous acts against others…

“How come life in prison does not mean life? Until it does, we are not ready to go away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers” (Jesse Ventura). Is the best way to punish an individual by keeping him or her in jail? The cost of death penalization impacts the US citizens drastically. The laws help determine if the person is qualified for the death penalty. The death penalty should…

Introduction When it comes to Criminal Defenses and Criminal Punishments, perceptions of others can sometimes vary. Some may agree that the punishment goes with the crime, while others may argue that there are stipulations that can be enacted due to extenuating circumstances for the defendant of the crime. In this body of work, the key points involved in the court determining the lawfulness of the use of force, the fundamental difference between the castle doctrine and the stand…

“Boys Don’t Cry” was written by Kimberly Peirce and Andy Bienen and is based on the true story of Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena was born Teena Brandon, in Lincoln Nebraska. He is a transgender male and none of his family or people from his home town understand. In the opening scene Brandon is going on a date. Things go very well and when he takes the girl home they kiss. Unfortunately, some guys find out and chase Brandon back to his cousin’s house shouting obscenities, threatening him, and…

The concept of death is being diminished by our society’s assumptions. It 's letting a court rule whether a man or a woman gets to live in a jail cell or die on a jail table. The ruling that the court provides to elicit fear in those accused of a crime that rattles a society. Rattling that lets those convicted envision the grim reaper at their cell door on that set date instead of a spontaneous point in time. Eliminating any sort of speculation in the convicted to insure that the passing will be…

Recently, there has been a trend in keeping people who are accused in remands. The accused are more likely to be denied bail. It is a form of keeping our community safe from the accused. However, may not be beneficial for the person being accused. Many of us may think that keeping people who have committed crimes in remand is good and that our community is becoming a better place to leave in. But most crimes that arouse police officers are pity crimes. Nonetheless, they are still crimes. Yet,…

We, so often as people come across mysterious and unusual cases on the news, which in the end creep the hell out of us. They creep the public out or sometimes astonish us or sometimes even mess with our minds as we try to differ truth from lies, right from wrong. There was one particular person who did this to the public his name was Eric Rudolph. Rudolph was a person who thought of himself as righteous, he believed that his course of actions were right. What he did was wrong to many people, but…

activities for its members. Officer Berk , was undercover at one of the parties,witnessed Mrs Pettit, give three men fellatio(oral sex) within in a one hour period. This lead to Pettit getting arrested and charge with oral copulation. Pettit agreed to a plea bargain and pleaded guilty to misdemeanor of outraging public decency. In the aftermath of the incident , Petitt did managed to get her teaching contract renewed for the next year, but two years later the Board of Education stripped her…

In 2001, a fourteen-year-old juvenile by the name of Lionel Tate was charged as an adult with murder in the first degree. In relation to the Criminal Justice System, multiple articles and other numerous sources, such as Michael J. Dale (2004), state that Lionel Tate “was considered the youngest person in the United State to have ever been given the sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.” At the age of 12, Lionel Tate murdered a little 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick in Pembroke…

Over the course of time, laws and policies have been changed to conveniently to ensure it is easier for police to search and arrest African Americans. Initially, police could only search citizens with a search warrant and probable cause. However, it has become normal for people, especially those of color to be search without either. When these searches are conducted they are labeled safety searches (or what they 're most commonly referred as, "stop and frisk") and are allegedly conducted in the…