Juvenile Justice
.... years of age were legally
incapable of committing a crime, and children between seven and fourteen were
presumed incapable, this concept being based upon a child's inability to have a
guilty mind, or mens rea. Thus, from almost the beginning children have been
treated differently from adults who commit the same acts.
The origin of juvenile corrections in the United States goes, back at
least to the opening of the New York House of Refuge in 1825. This house of
refuge was established to meet the same k .....
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Presidential Debate `96
.... points and some answers that were given
did seriously cause some thought not to where the vote is going, but where
it will lead us. The answers given were fairly definitive, and the only
topic not seriously touched was scandals such as Watergate, etc.
The debate was key in helping me decide a now important part of my
life. I have decided that I am a Democrat. I found most of what Clinton had
said to be closest to what I believe, but there were a few points where I
did agree with Dole. Particularly o .....
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Maritime Law
.... and conditions of the
contract entered into with the insurer determine the amount of reimbursement
that is to be received by the insured.
A contract of marine insurance is embodied in a policy, which specifies:
"1- The name of the insured, or of some person who effects the insurance on his
behalf.
2- The subject matter insured and the risk insured against.
3- The voyage, or period of time, or both, as the case may be, covered by the
insurance.
4- The sum or sums insured.
5- The names of .....
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Mitchell V. Wisconsin: Why Mitchell V. Wisconsin Sucked
.... unconscious, and remained in
a coma for four days. Mitchell was convicted of aggravated battery, which
carries a two year maximum sentence. The Wisconsin jury, however, found that
because Mitchell selected his victim based on race, the penalty enhancement law
allowed Mitchell to be sentenced to up to seven years. The jury sentenced
Mitchell to four years, twice the maximum for the crime he committed without
the penalty enhancement law.
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling was faulty, and defied a .....
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TLO Vs. New Jersey: When Is The Constitution Invalid?
.... rights were however, in fact not violated due to the
reasonable cause and suspicion of her smoking, so the search was truly
reasonable. And there is the fact that the teacher caught her smoking.
Obviously it is the teacher's responsibility to take the student to the
principal for suspension or other means of punishment. When TLO was asked
whether or not she had been smoking, she said no.
The school officials then had a reasonable doubt, and they now had by
all legal means the right to search TLO fo .....
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Olmstead V. United States (1928)
.... customers, Vancouver, to and from the office
building and ranch. Times were fixed for the delivery of the "stuff" to places
along the Puget Sound and from there was transported to the various caches.
The information leading to the arrests was made primarily by four
Federal prohibition officers. The officers placed small wires along the main
lines outside the homes of the four main conspirators and that of the office.
No intrusion was made into private property. Olmstead was found to have made
dealing .....
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Chris Moss Vs. Dr. Terry Preece And The Edgewoord Unified School District
.... to analyze the needs and potential of
individuals. 3. Each competent administrator shall support the process of
learning by providing appropriate and reasonable materials and equipment and by
making reasonable assignments and tasks. These are applicable laws that are
supposed to met by all the school district in the state of Independence,
including the Edgewood School District.
Through evidence which the court will hear today, we will prove that Dr.
Terry Preece , the school superintendend made it a po .....
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The Downfall Of Communism In Eastern And Central Europe
.... was at stake was a hyper-radical
shift from the long-held communist ideology to a western blueprint for
governmental and economic policy development. The problem inherent in this
type of monumental change is that, according to Ulrich K. Preuss, "In
almost all the East and Central European countries, the collapse of
authoritarian communist rule has released national, ethnic, religious and
cultural conflicts which can not be solved by purely economic policies"
(47). While tremendous changes are evident .....
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Haig V. Agee: Power To Revoke Passports
.... revoke passports?
"The Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be
granted, issued, and verified in foreign countries by diplomatic representatives
of the United States . . . under such rules as the President shall designated
and prescribe for and on behalf of the United States, and no other person shall
grant, issue, or verify such passports." 22 U.S.C. 211a (1976 ed., Supp. IV).
Since the Congress did not specify who has the powers to revoke passports, it
should be assu .....
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Fascism As Opposed To Communism
.... Immediately after Lenin's death, a man very much the same in nature
as Hitler, Stalin, came to control the Bolsheviks and throw Russia in a
civil war in a quest for power. You now have two men of equal aspirations
soon to be in control of two very similar governments.
In any rise of power, there needs to be a period of careful
planning requiring much thought. These two men had very little history with
which to work with which to model their revolutions. Times had been
changing rapidly, technolo .....
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R. V. Keilty
.... and as in R.v.Mancuso he should be found guilty. Also the actual
physical possession is not necessarily needed to be proven as was in R.v.Russo
where the defendant was convicted of possession and trafficking even though he
did not posses at any time the narcotics. In the case R.v.Piscopo it was
demonstrated that an accused can be convicted upon circumstantial evidence. The
accused can be convicted using all of the aforementioned cases. Another issue
is that if this case becomes precedent it would ope .....
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Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
.... their 1st Amendment rights at school. This landmark Supreme Court case was
known as Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District.
From the case of Tinker v. Des Moines Ind. School Board obviously came
some conflicting viewpoints about the armbands. The school board said that no
one has the absolute right to freedom of expression, where the Tinkers said that
only banning armbands and not other political symbols was unconstitutional. The
school board said that the armbands were disruptive to the l .....
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Law Of Precedent
.... precedents with
many new facts and ideas that render the basics of stare decisis much more
complicated.
One of the more common drawbacks to the law of precedent is that over
time, a law may be found as no longer applicable, or on the other hand, a new
decision may be found in a trial which can also be undesirable. Keep in mind
that the courts are not supposed to create new policies to deal with new
problems, that is the role of the legislature. This drawback is prevalent in
two forms: The first i .....
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Critque The Efficiency Of Of FDR's Administration At Alleviating The Suffering Of The Great Depression
.... This also helped the economy, the
people and the lending institutions in the long-run. The FHA was
incorporated into the new Deapartment of Housing and Urban Development also
known as HUD. The Office continued its role as mortgage guarantor and
widened it area of responsibilty to include mortgages lent to the owners of
multifamily dwellings and to public housing authorities as well as
individual homeowners. Focusing now on another program called the SSA also
called the Social Security Administration. Th .....
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The Canadian Justice System V.s. Aboriginal People
.... However one understands
discrimination, it is clear that aboriginal people have been subject to it.
They clearly have been victims of the openly hostile bigot and they have also
been victims of discrimination that is unintended, but is rooted in police and
law.
Two specific incidents in late 1987 and early 1988 clearly illustrate
this unacceptable discrimination. The first of these was the November 1987
trial of two men for the 1971 murder of Helen Betty Osborne in The Pas Manitoba.
While the trial est .....
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