Prosecution

not make a lot of sense. The report would defiantly try to raise awareness to issues of sentences received by non violent drug offenders and the lack of cases taken beign to trial. Also people would take issue to plea bargaining practices that prosecution is using. People would think that the system is unfair and broken if it threatens you with tougher sentences if you are trying to excursive your constitutional right to trial. Another issue that documentary is trying to raise is recidivism rate…

Dellway Investments Ltd & others v NAMA & others Introduction The appellants: DELLWAY INVESTMENTS LIMITED and Others The respondent: NATIONAL ASSET MANAGEMENT AGENCY and Others NAMA was set up to take over all the ‘bad loans’ from the banks when the financial crisis happened. The Government then put money into the banks to help them and to fix the balance sheets. McKillen took NAMA to court because NAMA took over all of the McKillen loans from the banks. McKillen said however that his loans…

Open Courts Based on the content of the common law, open courts is one of the ways to fulfil open justice. Publicity is an essential indication for open court concept. According to Baylis (1991), one of the most important concepts of justice is ‘justice must to be seen to be done'. Generating accessibility to participate in the court process can improve justice. Open court with public hearing is to ensure the enforcement of integrity within the law, the honesty of the evidence, and the…

Roe v. Wade was a milestone court case in women’s right to privacy. This case focuses on the issue of abortion and is one of the most well-known court cases from the 20th century. This all started when a single women, Norma McCorvey, got pregnant and decided that she did not want to keep her baby. She made many attempts of her own to get rid of the child such as claiming rape to get a legal abortion to trying to get the abortion done illegally. Having no success in either of those two options…

Every community has criminal activities that occur, some simple street crime, others homicide, yet many crimes that occur behind close door have business fraud or corporate negligence that can have more devastating results from their actions upon a community, a corporation, even stock holders nationwide. Some steal pennies, while others out right take everything. Corporate fraud, a white collar crime has been legally dissected and evaluated for years. The use of corporate guidelines and…

taken as a whole might well have influenced the jury's appraise of Rampilla's capacity"(Kennedy). This caused Rampilla's supreme court to have a different result. Also the commonwealth tried to use past conviction to convince the court about the prosecution case(Kennedy). Most of the time the supreme court justice uses the past conviction to persecute someone, even if they never committed the crimes. They will still use that to prosecute…

unethical. Another example can be taken from the attorney general. The attorney general is the chief of the legal officer of the state. One of the attorney general’s primary responsibilities is to handle criminal appeals and serious statewide criminal prosecutions. So, it would be unethical for the attorney general to ignore the laws and favor a…

But, was Clarence Darrow guilty of attempting to bribe a juror? That’s a question that Kevin Tierney asks in his biography of Darrow. Piecing together the evidence, Tierney (1979) writes that a good many people – including reporters and other attorney, such as Earl Rogers – thought he was guilty. Perhaps, Tierney says paraphrasing what Darrow said in cases he was defending, sometimes the ends justifies the means, and maybe this was a philosophy that was more than just courtroom rhetoric. Alan…

Animal Cruelty in the United States of America versus Other Countries Animal cruelty has been in the world since the neolithic revolution. In today’s modern era, the United States of America has one of the highest animal cruelty rates versus other modern countries, with having to euthanize 2.7 million animals yearly against countries like Australia, who euthanized 40,296 animals in the 22014-2015 year (Pet Statistics and Published Statistics). Animal cruelty is on the rise not only in the…

President Harry S. Truman Ruled Innocent! By Bena Yang –The Washington Times- Thursday, April 27 2017 Before the day of the Moot Court, many reporters went around and asked the defense and prosecution teams for the arguments they would use. The reporters also asked for their thoughts on the opposing team and the teams’ counter arguments. The defending team told the reporters that President Truman was right in ordering the dropping of the atomic bomb. They told the reporters that the atomic bomb…