Plea bargain

Lennie’s Initial Visit to the Law Firm After Lennie explains the circumstances in which he needed a lawyer, many steps must be taken to ensure that a proper defense is set up so that he may he keep his freedom. Since there are many different aspects to the whole scenario, there will need to be several different defenses to ensure that Lennie is proven innocent on all charges and that his alleged accomplice isn’t charged as well. Did Lennie Cause The Death of the First Officer? The first officer…

interrogations in some form are Alaska, Minnesota and Texas. A study that was conducted in 2001 concluded that “videotaping interrogations gave judges a greater ability to assess the voluntariness of confessions, led to an increase in convictions and plea bargains, n4 and led to fewer charges of police misconduct” (Drizin & Colgan 2001). Videotaping all police interrogations will allow for confessions to be analyzed and reviewed, if needed. The videotaping process can also protect honest police…

In 2008, approximately one in every 31 adults (7.3 million) in the United States were either behind bars or being monitored (on probation and parole). From 1978 to 2014, our prison population has risen 408%, partially as a result of mandatory sentencing that came about during the "War on Drugs." Mandatory minimum sentences take away the freedom of judges in sentencing, who are bound by statute to place the convicted behind bars. Existing statutes don’t allow judges to hand down alternative…

Background David Hackett Souter was born on September 17, 1939 in Massachusetts. His father is Joseph Alexander Souter who was a banker and his mother is Helen Adams (Hackett) Souter who was a store clerk. He practices Episcopalian, which is a person who belongs to a Protestant Church. He moved from Massachusetts to New Hampshire when his grandparents passed away in 1950. He went to Concord High School where he was voted “most sophisticated” and “most likely to succeed” by his classmates. He…

serial killer in American history who openly confessed to killing seventy-one women and did not receive the death penalty. The Lineup’s rendition of The Green River Killer’s story states that “in order to avoid the death penalty, Ridgway agreed to a plea bargain…helping police find the missing bodies of several of his victims” (Gary Ridgway). That trivial information he offered is nothing in comparison to the damage he did over his killing spree. Ridgway…

An interview with the NCDAP states that “ the death penalty is an arbitrary and discriminatory punishment that has no place in a country which prides itself on equal protection for all citizens under the law.” Over the years, it's been proven that the death penalty discriminates; however, it's a very debatable topic. The death penalty should not be legal because it discriminates based on race, goes against human rights, and is immoral. First, capital punishment is very discriminatory based on…

When most Americans think of human trafficking, they think of third world countries. Countries that are so poor it has become acceptable to sell woman as a means for income. However, that’s not the case. The sad truth is human trafficking happens everywhere, even America, and a quarter of the slaves brought to America end up in Texas (Swartz). In just April of this year, a woman by the name of Medeles, was arrested for bringing illegal and underage girls into Houston, Texas. When testifying…

The Lincoln Lawyer The purpose of this paper is to apply Packer’s two models of the criminal justice system to a media depiction. The two models of the criminal justice system in which Packer speaks is the crime control model and the due process model. The goal of the paper is to find a better understanding of the two models through media depiction. This paper is going to illustrate how due process and the crime control model is depicted in the movie The Lincoln Lawyer. The Lincoln Lawyer…

Is there a more tragic story than an innocent person going to prison? Tragic, and powerful. That’s why The Shawshank Redemption is one of the most beloved movies of our time. That is why we’ve all heard of this quote from an esoteric 18th-century English guy, William Blackstone: “It is better that ten guilty people escape than that one innocent suffer.” And why real-life stories of the exonerated always make headlines. Here’s the first line of a Washington Post story about Glenn Ford, who was…

Kolberg’s stages of moral development are based on the assumption that, humans are inherently communicative, capable of reason and possess the desire to understand others and the world around. The theory holds that moral reasoning is the basis for ethical behavior; Kolberg identified six developmental stages, grouped into three levels in response to moral dilemmas. The three levels include; pre-convention level, which include obedience and punishment orientation and self-interest orientation.…