United States Court of Claims

When someone is being questioned intensely, most people called that giving the “third degree.” Before the court case of Miranda vs Arizona, the police would use varies methods to get a confession out of a person such as intimidation or coercing. Thanks to the Miranda Warning, the police can no longer, well they are not supposed to use any of those methods as acquiring a confession out of a person. The reason for the Miranda Warning also known as the Miranda Rights, is because in 1966 Ernesto…

exist in Australia’s states and territories governing the abortion laws were largely outlined from the British Offences Against the Person Act of 1861, which was implemented to protect women from unsafe abortions. (Walker, 2016). While it is undisputed that abortions are a hot topic in many people's lives it is also a hot topic for governments as it has uprises of whether or not the laws against abortions should be changed or even made lenient to special cases. In each state and territory there…

In 1973, Roe v Wade was sanctioned by the United States Supreme court to allow all women to access safe and legal abortions. Getting to that stage was not easy, however. The case took years until the legal system would even consider making the operation legal. (Procon.org) In the 1960’s, many groups were concerned regarding the termination of a pregnancy. Physicians worried about the fatality rates that illegal abortions caused, the women’s movement sparked concerns, environmental groups wanted…

the suspect or perpetrator is of another race, and it is referred to as a cross-race or own-race bias. This was evident throughout the present case of R. v. Sykes (2014), and it was particularly noted when eyewitness Ms. Ackerman identified Sykes in court during her testimony, when he (Sykes) was the only black man present and who was the only one not in police or other clothing of…

law clerks. The research of this paper is to find whether law clerks influence the votes cast by Supreme Court justices on the cases they hear. In the unlikely case that if research discovers that if law clerks have a large influence in determining the outcome of a case, the judiciary could have a longer and more complex process of reviewing law clerks before they are assigned to the court. If a justice discovers that one or several of their clerks has been manipulating the justice into ruling…

Exclusionary Rule. The purpose of the Miranda warning is to protect the Fifth Amendment rights of a person in police custody from coercive police interrogation explains Carl A. Benoit, J.D. The Supreme Court created the warning in 1966 in the case known as Miranda v. Arizona. To prevent coercion, the Supreme Court requires police to inform a person in custody that they have the right to remain silent (among other things). J. Jeffree Lee indicates that…

law does states that Ring can be sentenced to the death penalty if the judge finds any aggravating circumstance within the case. After the judge heard testimony from Ring’s accomplices the judge found that there were two aggravating factors within the case. Therefore, the judge impose the death penalty without any jury and sentenced Ring to death.The issue within this case was trying to figure if the Arizona capital sentencing violates Timothy Ring Six Amendment. The Six Amendment states jury…

children subsequently born to slave mothers. It obliged slave owners to care for these children until the age of eight. In exchange for whatever expenditures or inconvenience might be entailed in these responsibilities, slave owners could choose a state-financed indemnity of 600 milreis, in the form of thirty year bonds paying six per cent. Or they could employ these children (known as ingenuos- or free- born) until they reached the age of twenty-one.” The law…

considerations in favor and against allowing the plaintiff to pursue a lawsuit against OSHA, seeking a writ of mandamus from a federal judge, and requiring OSHA to adjudicate plaintiff’s retaliation claim against the employer? This case is about a man, Roger Wood, a former electrician that worked for United Engineers and Constructors at the Johnson Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System location and witnessed management and co-workers not using the proper safety precautions when destroying…

school seniors in public and private schools across the country had said they had smoked marijuana in the previous year. Studies have shown adolescents are more likely to use a drug if it is seen as unharmful to their overall health. With more and more states legalizing medical marijuana, and more recently, legalizing recreational marijuana, it is not viewed as dangerous as cocaine or other prohibited drugs. Recent studies have shown an increasing amount of high school users have reported they…