Prosecutor

“the authority to make a decision between two or more choices” (Pollock, 2014, p. 2). The act of discretion, initiates with legislators; that creates and defines laws, and discretion extends to all areas of the criminal justice field to include prosecutors, judges, correctional officers, and to police officers. By empowering law enforcement officers with the authority of discretion, there is room for abuse, especially when the power is not respected. When the power of discretion is not…

Every year approximately 3.7 million homes are broken into, and of that 3.7 million about 28% of those homes were broken into while a person was home. 8% of the people who were at home were attacked and received some type of bodily harm (Auerbach). This percentage has been lowered since Stand Your Ground Laws were passed, but there was an increase homicides since these laws have been passed. Even though there has been an increase in homicides; Stand Your Ground Laws have allowed many innocent…

However, the prosecutor claims that Meursault buried “his mother with crime in his heart” (Camus 96), implicating that a man who does not cry at his mother’s funeral is capable of being a murderer. For the most part, people view murderers as heartless monsters, so the…

Jed and Jane robbed a bank in Washington, D.C. For this crime they can be charged in either the State District Court in Washington, D.C. or a U.S. District Court. The primary role of the Federal Court is to hear cases that have violated Federal Statutes that are either criminal or civil in nature. Civil cases make up the majority of the Federal Court docket with lawsuits involving the U.S. Government. Federal Courts have the jurisdiction to hear cases of bank robberies as well as the State…

750-1,000 words in which you describe the procedural steps in a criminal trial. An evolution has established the current the state of criminal trials. There exists, on both the State and federal level, a mostly standardized set of procedures. In this set of standardized procedures, a typical trial would be inclusive of beginning with the selection of trial type, a middle that would discuss evidentiary issues, and end; sentencing. The following paper will discuss the parts of a criminal trial.…

Smith was facing three and half years to ten years initially, but instead after the prosecutors brought up Smith’s juvenile record the judge sentenced him taking that into consideration. Now, Smith was sentenced six to thirty years as a habitual offender. Smith and his attorney was trying to get an appeal of the judge’s decision because of…

Amanda Knox was a 20-year-old college student who was studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. She was convicted of killing her roommate Meredith Kercher on November 1, 2007. Meredith was found November 2 around 12:00 pm laying on the floor dead, she had been stabbed repeatedly and died from exsanguination. Amanda and her boyfriend at the time Raffaele Sollecito noticed something was wrong when they arrived at Via della Pergola 7 to find the front door open and drops of blood in the bathroom that…

that all negroes lie, that all negroes are basically immoral beings” (Lee 273). Similarly to the rest of the town, the prosecutor sees Tom as no more than liar and not even a moral human being. Consequently, this reinforces the themes of racism and prejudice because all of the townsfolk and the prosecutor only look at people according to their race. Smykowski…

only two that were main contributors in the beating because only two of the officers felt that deadly force was required. The turning point in the trial was when Prosecutor White was prosecuting Officer Powell. According to Douglas linder, professor of law at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, the transcript states that “PROSECUTOR WHITE: So you go up to someone and say, "How many people did you beat today?” Powell went on to say that his statement was only professional police jargon and…

possible to know the number of wrongful convictions by mistaken identity, because many who are mistakenly identified will never have a chance to prove their innocence (Project, 2016) Moreover, the problem cannot be known because occasions when prosecutors drop the case or when people are acquitted after reversals on appeal. While appellate decisions are published and readily available online, the problem with trial acquittals or dropped cases, is that they are not systematically catalogued and…