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    (consensual: agreed to by the people involved in it.) The two men have evidence they want to present at the trail which are, a fourth person witnessed the accuser flirting aggressively with numerous men at a local bar. The second is that the accuser had openly tried to seduce the older brother of one of the defendants. Lastly, another witness had seen the accuser sitting on a soda crate in front of the defendant whom was zipping up his pants. Based on the rape shield law…

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    case of Mayella Ewells in To Kill a Mockingbird or the 2 girls who accused the Scottsboro boys of rape. Mayella Ewells, Ruby Bates, and Victoria Price are all accusers and victims because of society. Mayella Ewells and Ruby Bates have been made victims of our society. Mayella and Ruby are both in the same scenario, either they be accusers and save themselves at the cost of someone else’s life, or they can do what they know is the right thing and take the blame for their actions.…

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    Out of all of Socrates old accusers, Aristophanes is arguably the most dangerous. Socrates recognizes that Aristophanes is a dangerous man, as Socrates states so in the Apology, “and the most unreasonable thing of all is that it is not even possible o know and to say their names, unless a certain one happens to be comic poet.” Furthermore, it is accurate to say that Aristophanes can be considered the fundamental motive for why Socrates was put on trial.” For example, Aristophanes is the author…

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    with. Socrates accusers claimed that he “failed to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges” and “introduced new deities.” They felt that because of this he was also corrupting the youth of the city-state. Socrates is very clever with his words using irony to debunk his accusers. Socrates admits to the court that he is 70 years old and has no experience with the law whatsoever. He starts defending himself by stating that he will speak nothing but the truth unlike his accusers. He claims…

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    explaining the unexplainable is explaining the cause of this whole ‘which ‘witch’ is a witch’ hysteria. My first piece of evidence came from Doc B (the accused and accuser chart). According to the chart, 61 out of the 110 females accused were married. Meanwhile, on the accuser chart, it shows that 23 out of the 29 female accusers were single. This means…

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    you think Introduction: What will happen if you are charged with a crime? Will you see the accuser and know the charge? What rights do you have if you cannot afford a lawyer? According to the Amendment 6, people will have a nice protection system when they are accused of a crime. When having a public trial, the witnesses should be there and fight against the accused, but people are worried about the accusers’ safety. Every accused can have a lawyer to help him or her with the case. There may be…

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    she was one of the first accusers along with Betty Parris, Abigail Williams, and others. Secondly, Ann was the only accuser ever apologize. The reason she apologized because she wanted to become part of the church and had to admit any wrongdoings to. Finally, Ann Putnam was a great influence because she had a legitimate motive for being an accuser. Her family neglected her, and when her parents died, she…

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    unpopular individual who did no right or just in the eyes of his accusers. The account of Socrates’ defence was a long and detailed account which at times was hard to comprehend but it is evident that his approach towards his trial and his accusers was factual. There are many allegation’s put forward on Socrates. He in turn provides a detailed defence against the allegations of corruption and against the different thoughts of his accusers. Socrates is accused of not believing in the same gods as…

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    The Salem Witch Hunt was a series of execution that took place in 1692 after a group of young women began having fits and accused several people of bewitching them. The accusers were named based on conflicts and other factors that they had with the afflicted girls and others. The Puritan’s fear of the Devil made their society more susceptible to the hysteria. Puritan religious beliefs, Puritan attitudes toward women and also their interaction between the natural and the supernatural phenomena…

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    And that the incriminated were older espoused woman. As the accusers were adolescent single woman. Document B, shows that there were more incriminated and accusers that were woman then there were that were men. Withal, that the inculpated were 41-60 years of age, and the accusers were 16-20 years of age. Maybe, this wasn't a coincidence. This would designate that adolescent girls were jealous of older espoused women?…

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