The Accused

592). The law allows a criminal investigation officers to search the accused when he or she is arrested which includes searching their body, clothes, and belongings (Terrill, 2013, p. 592). If the accused is a female, a female investigations officer will perform the search (Terrill, 2013, p. 592). The law designates the search warrant to collect information associated with the crime…

long. Even though there were various of cases that were dealing with different types of crimes, I saw that the legal system was still fair with their decisions towards the accused. A small case that occurred was R v. Stanley and the type of case was assault which is under section 265.1(a) in the criminal code. The name of the accused was Alloq Stanley, the crown 's name was Mr. Humphrey who was also the crown for the rest of the cases, and Judge Kehoe was present in this case and the rest as…

rights should take priority over the rights of the accused. Both viewpoints have valid points warranting consideration; for example, evidence indicates that criminals should be held accountable for crimes they have commited. In contrast, evidence suggests that the accused are not always guilty, therefore, they need more protection from the law. While both sides of the argument have valid points, the claim that victim's rights should not trump an accused person's rights is…

research should cover the following details: 1 The individual or group that had their rights infringed—who were they? Olaf Dietrich had his rights infringed. 2 Which right(s) was infringed? How was the right(s) infringed? Olaf Dietrich was accused of a number of drug-related offences. He was unable to afford legal representation and was made to go to trial without counsel. Dietrich had applied to the Legal Aid Commission of Victoria, who rejected his claim on the grounds that he was not…

INVESTIGATION OF PLEA OF ALIBI: In criminal trials the accused persons most of the times place reliance on the plea of alibi for their defence as they believe that such a plea would be easy to prove through simply creating an impression that the accused was not present at the place where the occurrence of crime took place. However, it does not mean that a plea of alibi, pleaded by an accused, is not subject to the confirmation of court by means of proper investigations. This is to say that a…

presided over by three Puritan judges who in regards to the witchcraft trails, would order the accused person/people to appear before the court and the accused would have to answer a series of questions from the judges in order to determine their guilt or innocence. Additionally, there no lawyers…

The Salem Witch Trials One of America’s mistakes involving false persecution was the Salem Witch Trials. This was a great example of sexism and religious persecution because the biggest victim of the trials were women, also a great number of the accused were just part of a different culture or a different culture, and there were many unfair trials between men and women because men were respected more. The name Salem, also meaning peace, was originally given by the English puritans with a vision…

that they would become accused of witchcraft and working with the devil. While Abigail Williams played a big role within the accusations the fear would rise within the people, such as Mary Warren. The fear of being accused as a witch is portrayed during a trial in which Abigail claims to see evil birds coming from Mary Warren (The Crucible, Act 3). The fear of being executed takes over the mind of the girl and accuses John Proctor as devils works, in order to not be accused of witchcraft from…

communist the in 1950s, it is still a factor in today’s society. In Good Night and Good Luck, people feared being accused of being communist. They feared this because they didn’t want to lose their jobs and friends. McCarthy and his committee were on the hunt for communists trying to ruin the United States government. Nobody wanted to interfere with McCarthy because they may get accused of being communist. In the movie Milo Radulovich is dismissed from the Air Force because his father has…

or had different ideas compared to them. This led to many of the people who the Puritans felt were off or strange to be accused of witchcraft. The people who were at the most risk were elderly women whose husbands had died, spoke out against the Church, or believed in another religion. Men could be accused, but they were normally related to the women who had already been accused. Individual…