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murder that people from around the country wanted to follow. To intrigue the jury and public, the lawyers used multiple forms of evidence to win over their hearts. “Trial Lawyers to Jurors’ Demands for Visual Evidence” states “Carney, a former prosecutor, noticed over a decade ago that juries weren’t grasping evidence in criminal cases and his office wasn’t…

The death penalty has been a flawed American institution since it was established in the 1600s. It has been marred by complaints of pain, cruelty, inconsistency, discrimination, wrongful death, botched executions, executions of juveniles, mentally disable, and mentally ill, as well as the financial cost. The enforcement of capital punishment has not only been subject to review on the basis of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, but also due to scrutiny of public opinion and outrage. The first…

Capital Punishment: Guilty until proven Innocent Most people can agree that a death sentence is the ultimate punishment for those who committed a faulty crime. While death is the most extreme punishment there is, one has to really make sure that the ‘criminal’ is truly guilty of that specific crime. Many factors lead to the death of the innocent, such as weak legal representation, racial discrimination, mistakes in eyewitness testimonies or the “snitch” testimonies, inadequate evidence, or even…

George Soros Push to Transform the State Justice System Progressives led by Soros have trained their sights on electing prosecutors recent election cycles as a strategy to reform the criminal justice system. Besides supporting the presidential and congressional campaigns, a report published by Politico on 08/30/2016 show the longtime Democratic donor George Soros offered more than $3 million to support 7 candidates vying for district attorney positions in 6 states. The move aims to reduce the…

sexual crimes involving underaged victims. You Face Increased Legal Risks Without Strong Representation There is very real chance that you could be railroaded into an unfair sentence if you're accused of sexually related crime with a minor. Judges, prosecutors, parents and school and government officials rightfully take sexual crimes very seriously, but these crimes can also blind some overzealous people into overlooking your rights, imposing harsher sentences and prosecuting cases of involving…

A popular television show, “CSI”, is impacting not only the viewers, but also the criminal justice system. On the show, a crime is investigated, analyzed, and a conviction is made in an hour. While the span of the show may be a few days to a few weeks, in reality some investigations take months, even years, before a conviction. It has created a phenomena known as the “CSI Effect” and is basically exactly what it states. How has this television show, “CSI”, played an impact on the criminal…

charged with a serious crime (Juvenile Records, 2011). Criminal court access can only be done by a judge, and probation officer as the juvenile records are maintained within a central repository (Miller & McEwen, 1996). Moreover, the court and prosecutors have access to a subset of juvenile court records of serious juvenile offenders that can be utilized in adult court cases for sentencing and that are otherwise exempt from laws establishing confidentiality (Miller & McEwen,…

Within the past century, many changes have taken place in the Russian criminal justice system. The former socialist republic system during the 1920's, the communist era, was manipulated and dominated by a harsh communist party. Prison life at the time was under socialist regime and it was based on punishment and hard labor. The justice system was founded on the concept of gaining profit from the hard labor of convicted prisoners and the primary goal was to cause prisoners "hardship and suffering…

the suspects confessed the crime. And in all four cases, the procedure of suspects’ custodial interrogation has shared same collectively features that none of the defendants have been given an effective warning of their constitutional rights by prosecutors at the outset of the interrogation. Moreover, all of them have been cut off from the outside world, confessed the crimes either by an oral statement or writing statements,…

and is susceptible to change, at least to a higher degree than a 24-year-old is. . . . I think we have a real shot at trying to straighten out the 14-year-old, and even the people who are a little bit hard-nosed in the system, such as your average prosecutor, will sometimes grudgingly admit that, with a 14-year-old, given the proper level of accountability and the proper types of programs to change their behavior, we have a chance at salvaging these kids. But with a 24-year-old, I think the…