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can be unpredictable in their behavior and may rule against them. Prosecutors like sure things as does the State and a plea bargain gains an admission of guilt without the right to an appeal in exchange for leniency. However, a plea bargain may induce prosecutors to over-charge a suspect in an attempt to bully them into gaining a plea bargain. Plea bargains are also not conducted in open court so there is a lack of transparency that occurs (Carp, Stidham, Manning, & Holmes, 2017, p. 226).…

constitutionally be kept in separate facilities as long as they were equal. The Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education determined that racially separated schools were fundamentally unequal. Therefore, the Brown decision was significant to civil rights because it gave a legal rationale to challenge all forms of segregation, led to equal educational opportunities for those with disabilities, and influenced the way the Supreme Court interpreted the constitution. Without the legal backing of…

A chief justice is the name of a presiding judge, which is in federal appeals and state court, the judge that chairs the panel of 3 or more judges during hearings and supervises the business of a court having several members. The US Supreme Court has a chief justice and eight associate justices who sit together as a panel. The General Assembly can increase the number of Associate Justices, but to no more than eight. If the chief justices are unable to perform any of the duties that they need to…

United States. v. Dunn Bench Memorandum The purpose of this bench memorandum is to inform the District Court Judge on the significance of Dunn v. United States in refining 18 U.S.C. § 1623, “False declarations before a court or grand jury”, and 18 U.S.C. § 1621, “Perjury generally”, as well as explaining the fundamental purpose of due process. Specifically, this bench memorandum should serve as a reference for District Court judges on how to draft jury instructions about these laws. Statement…

The landmark decision by our Supreme Court in 1973, Roe v. Wade, is one of the most influential Supreme Court decisions affecting women still today. Prior to Roe v. Wade, society had just experienced a sexual revolution and a strong feminist movement of the 1960's. (thought) Women were empowered and wanted their voices heard. Women demanded rights and control over their bodies. The legalization of abortion, with an emphasis on privacy as it relates to abortion, was a fight that was not going…

can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?” History of Miranda Warning In June of 1963 Ernesto Arturo Miranda, a young man of 23 years of Mexican origin, was on trial for the kidnapping and rape of Jane Doe, a girl of 18, at the Superior Court of Maricopa County Arizona; not…

Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. is currently a Supreme Court justice and considered to have a rather conservative take on things. He is well known to lean towards making decisions that align with the ideals of a libertarian. On April 1, 1950, Samuel A. Alito Jr. was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He was raised in Hamilton, New Jersey. His father, Samuel A. Alito, emigrated from Italy and both of his parents were school teachers. Alito’s strong views on immigration originate from his father. Even through…

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed a total of seven justices to the United States Supreme Court. Professor of Law at Harvard, and author, Noah Feldman, focuses on the background and evolution of four of FDR’s most influential justice appointees—Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and Robert Jackson— throughout his book Scorpions. In the Supreme Court of FDR, and in our modern-day court, one often wonders how justices’ rulings are influenced. Throughout Scorpions, one…

- 02 Prof. Kahn Dec. 6, 2016 Prompt 6 (slippery slope) Slippery Slope: Legitimate Reasoning of the Supreme Court The slippery slope is a metaphoric way to describe undesirable possible future as a consequence of today 's event. When the Supreme Court is dealing with a new implied fundamental right, the slippery slope argument was employed to state possible disastrous consequences due to the Court 's specific decision, more specifically, whether or not to recognize the new implied fundamental…

established by John Marshall, the policy still remains relevant today. Essentially, if a state were to make a law(s) that limited the rights of a certain group of people, such as in the Brown v. Board of Education case, the Supreme Court has the right to deem it unconstitutional and prohibits enforcing the law. In the Brown v. Board of Education case, segregation of schools was argued and fought, and in 1954 the Supreme Court based their ruling on the Fourteenth Amendment. Over many years after…