Voir dire

On July 26 1983 three Americans were driving back from Canada to their homes in the State of Michigan. As the three individuals approached the International Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, another vehicle cut in front of them and forced them to stop. The driver and passenger of the vehicle got out of the vehicle and came over to the American’s car. The driver of the car punched one of the Americans while his passenger slashed all three with a knife. One victim had to be hospitalized because of the…

will be tried by a judge or jury. Juries usually have 12 members, but some states allow juries as small as six people. Jury selection. If the trial will be held before a jury, the defense and prosecution select the members through a process called "voir dire." In federal courts, the judge carries out this process using questions suggested by the attorneys, along with questions that the judge comes up with on his or her own. Evidence issues. The defense and prosecution request, before trial, that…

The pitfall of the stereotyping in the jury rooms is that creates an injustice to the defendant and that corrupts understanding and therefore, blocks the logical reasoning in the decision making process of reaching a fair verdict. Juror number eight, in the movie, displays many of the characteristics of a critical thinking compared with other jurors. He “strive for understanding, keeps the curiosity alive, remain patient and ready to invest time to overcome confusion” (Ruggiero, 2012, p.21). He…

The case takes place on December 28, 2009 at a condominium in Halifax, where the appellant, Erin Lee MacDonald, was entertaining coworkers before the whole incident occurred. Throughout the evening, loud music was coming from the unit which resulted in the building’s concierge, Mr. Sears, to receive a noise complaint from another tenant. He knocked on MacDonald’s door and received no response, however as he was about to depart, he witnessed the guests exiting the unit. Mr. Sears took this…

Question 1 I can assure you that Vladimir will not disappear while in custody. I am aware that in the past, Russia has assumed suspected criminals guilty until proven innocent, this does not hold true in the United States. In fact, suspected criminals are to be treated as innocent until proven guilty. Russian police were also prone to not allowing a suspect to consult with an attorney until interrogations were concluded, during which they used torture and beatings to gain confessions (Kramer, p…

themselves into when they are obligated to attend a case that may consist of the death penalty. The second principles, on the other hand, requires Jurors to use the law properly when it comes to capital punishment, for if a Juror is telling the judge in Voir Dire that he or she will not convict the defendant if he or she is going to trial for the death penalty, they will not be allow to join the Juror pool (Gardner and Anderson, 2010). No matter what religion the potential Juror is, everyone…

experience (Andrews, 2005). Some of services provided by trial consultants include, but are not limited to, change of venue studies, expert testimonies, witness training, focus groups research, mock jury trials, pro bono services, witness preparation, voir dire strategy, community attitude surveys, post-trial juror interviews, trial simulations, studies for nonjury settings, pretrial case analysis, pretrial survey analysis, pre/ in-trial/ and post trial consulting services, etc. (Andrew, 2005)…

The American legal system is widely admired for its laudable moral qualities such as liberty, justice, and due process. Americans take great pride in seeing the legal system administer swift and fair penalties to those who have committed crimes. But what happens if the legal system is wrong? What if the person that was sent to prison, or executed by the state, did not commit the crime they were punished for? This was the situation that Ronald Cotton found himself in during the 1980s and 90s…

CHECKS AND BALANCES The criminal justice system is comprised of individual components which play a part in the process of justice. Each of the different branches of the United States government, the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial, all provide a series of checks and balances meant to keep any one branch from gaining too much power over the accused (Aberle, 2014). All three of these branches work in conjunction to provide the accused an opportunity for the fair application of the justice…

Aaron Torres Gonzalez Professor Burns Bus 117 08/01/2017 My Cousin Vinny “My Cousin Vinny” begins with two students who are from New York deciding to road trip all the way to go to UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) where they will be attending school. However on their way to their future school they stop at a gas station and then are later arrested for the murder of the convenience store clerk. They are mistaken for somebody else who committed the crime but are an example of bad…