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Breach Of Contract Recover Damages
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Civil Cases - Return to Table of Contents Civil
cases are those in which individuals, corporations
or government agencies seek to recover damages,
enforce their rights or otherwise protect a legal
interest from interference by another.
Essentially, the civil law enables people to
assert or defend their rights in an orderly,
nonviolent manner and enables them to resolve
legal disputes in a fashion which society finds
acceptable. As might be imagined, civil cases
encompass a broad range of legal s...
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Burden Of Proof Voir Dire
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... als. In both types of cases, provisions are
made for alternate jurors to replace a regular
juror who may become ill or disabled during trial.
In a civil case, the trial jury is composed of 6
persons, with provision for the selection of
alternate jurors. The trial jury is selected from
the group previously described. A panel is called,
and they take their place in the jury box
(criminal) or impaneling room (civil). A process
known as voir dire then takes place in which the
attorneys, and some...
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Supreme Court Ruled United States V
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Despite the efforts of lawyers and judges to
eliminate racial discrimination in the courts,
does racial bias play a part in todays jury
selection? Positive steps have been taken in past
court cases to ensure fair and unbiased juries.
Unfortunately, a popular strategy among lawyers is
to incorporate racial bias without directing
attention to their actions. They are taught to
look for the unseen and to notice the unnoticed.
The Supreme Court in its precedent setting
decision on the case of Batson ...
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Los Angeles Times Voir Dire
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... e blacks comprise 4. 5 % of the population
countywide. The court maintained that the Sixth
Amendment right of a fair trial does not limit
governments ability to define the community from
which jurors are selected. Albert J. Master, a Los
Angeles Deputy Public Defender, stated that the
decision on trial transfers conflicted with the
historic American legal tradition of trying cases
in the community where a crime occurred... giving
the defendant a trial by peers and the immediate
community a d...
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Corrupting The Youth Socrates Believes
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The Apology, written by Socrates student Plato, is
a narrative of Socrates addressing the Athens
Court of Justice for which he states he is on
trial for being an evil doer, and a curious
person, who searches into things under the earth
and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the
better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid
doctrines to others (Harwood 201). In another
passage in the Apology Socrates states others
accuse him of not believing in the gods of the
state, but in other divinities, a...
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Australia Unfair Legal System
820 words
In theory all jury systems (which have existed for
almost 800 years) are fair and just. The jury
system originated in England and has so far failed
in cases (all too common) when defendants are
wrongfully prosecuted or convicted of crimes which
they did not commit. In societies without a jury
system, panels of judges act as decision makers.
They weigh the evidence and apply the law. In the
court system, criminal law is interpreted by a
jury who are seen as expressing the sense of
justice of ordi...
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Grand Jury Private Citizens
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For important study links to this article, please
visit: web 1. Everyone, including President
Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines, exactly knows
that the lack of economic growth and absence of
political stability in the Philippines are
primarily caused by Graft and Corruption. The
present form or political structure of the
government has nothing to do with graft. The
corrupt politicians who cannot steal enough the
entire patrimony of the Filipino people that run
the government are the problem. S...
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Does Trail By Jury Need Reform
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H 2 >Question: How far do you agree with the
proposal that trial by jury should be radically
reformed? (note this is an English law essay) In the last year a number of legal reforms
have been proposed by the current government.
Firstly there are the Mode of Trial Bills,
currently No. 2 is going through its readings. No.
1 failed to make it through the hose of Lords.
Then there is the Auld report that recommends a
radical restructuring of the court system and
cutting down on the number of...
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2 Nd Edition British Politics
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... cause they think that a jury is more likely to
acquit them, 3 it delays the prison sentence or at
least allows some of it to be served in more
comfort while awaiting trail. Currently 80 % of
either ways elect to be summarily tried by the
magistrates. Of those who go to the crown court on
2 in 7 are the defendant elections the remaining
five are directed there by the magistrates. The
main compliant against loosing the right to elect
which court the defendant is tried is that
magistrates once ...
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United States V Bill Of Rights
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... ry of what they should have been, and such
actions left the colonists shocked at the possible
consequences. 2. In Taylor v. Louisiana 1975, the
Court examined a case regarding a Louisiana state
law stating that women would be excluded from jury
selection unless they specifically asked. The
basis for this law was that selecting women on
juries would upset their family life. This law was
struck down by the Court on the grounds that to
have a jury pool that accurately represented the
community,...
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Fugitive Slave Law Trial By Jury
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Jury nullification means that a jury finds a
defendant innocent because the law itself is
unjust, or is unjust in a particular application,
and so should not be applied. So really what this
means is that no mater what the law says the jury
will pretty much have the right to choose weather
the person is going to be guilty or innocent and
that is kind of ok in some cases but then again
its not in others so we should not expect our
juries to judge our laws only the case that person
is being tried i...
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Emma Goldman Great Lengths
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Few people are fearless speakers. As students, we
generally feel the rumble of butterflies in our
stomachs, but the most we have to lose is a good
grade. For Emma Goldman, the stakes were
considerably higher. She had the daunting task of
speaking to secure her own freedom when she was
placed on trial for obstructing the draft in 1917.
The country was awash in patriotism, and she was
prosecuted as an enemy of the state. When
preparing her speech, she realized that a seated
jury would be a microco...
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Twelve Angry Men Reasonable Doubt
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CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MOVIES TWELVE ANGRY MEN
AND RUNAWAY JURY Twelve Angry Men is a
black-and-white film produced in 1957 that
presents the "imperfections" in the American jury
system. It is a courtroom drama set in a
deliberation area as a jury of twelve men convenes
to make a decision on the fate of an ethnic young
man accused of stabbing his abusive father to
death. A common vote is necessary to either
convict or acquit the accused. Otherwise, it will
be a hung jury and one more trial wil...
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Youth Of Athens Court Of Law
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Plato's Apology In The Apology Socrates makes a
speech in defense of himself. During the course of
that speech he presents himself to the men of the
jury in two different ways. In the beginning of
the speech he presents himself humbly. As the
speech goes on he begins to show himself as more
and more important. This sense of importance is
who he really is. He perceives himself to be an
important man. His students also perceive him to
be important, otherwise why would one of his
students have even...
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American Legal System Supreme Court Case
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American Legal System The American Legal system
has been a strong order of justice since our
forefathers created it when America was being
born. Since there are so many parts and processes
of the justice system, it has been divided into
different agencies and departments, to ensure that
system works in a manner that is efficient as
possible. Like any other country in the world, the
Unites States has crime and has a way of defending
and regulating its control with police, courts,
and a correction...
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Jury Trial Questions Asked
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... called for a particular case are referred to
as the panel, and are selected from the jury lists
of the County or Federal district in which the
Court is located. Local laws, rules or regulations
usually determine the number of jurors whose names
are to be maintained on the jury list. The names
on the jury list are usually selected from the
registered and qualified voters, and the list
checked at regular intervals to replace those who
have died, moved away, or for some other reason
become inel...
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Death Penalty Statutes Eighth Amendment
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The use of victim impact evidence, usually in the
form of a victim impact statement (VIS), in death
penalty litigation is relatively recent. This type
of evidence falls into three categories:
information pertaining to the characteristics of
the victim, information about the repercussions of
murder on family and friends, and opinions of the
victims family members concerning the crime, the
defendant, and the proper sentence. 1 The Supreme
Court first considered the issue in a 1987 case,
Booth v. M...
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Emma Goldman Great Lengths
1,621 words
Few people are fearless speakers. As students, we
generally feel the rumble of butterflies in our
stomachs, but the most we have to lose is a good
grade. For Emma Goldman, the stakes were
considerably higher. She had the daunting task of
speaking to secure her own freedom when she was
placed on trial for obstructing the draft in 1917.
The country was awash in patriotism, and she was
prosecuted as an enemy of the state. When
preparing her speech, she realized that a seated
jury would be a microco...
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Second Degree Murder First Degree Murder
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Double jeopardy is the prosecution of a person for
an offense for which he or she has already been
prosecuted. The double jeopardy clause, which is
in the Fifth Amendment of the United States
Constitution, was designed to protect an
individual from being subject to trials and
possible convictions more then once for an alleged
offense. The idea was not to give the State too
much over the individual, this way no individual
will be subject to embarrassment, expense, and
ordeal against being tried f...
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Amount Of Information Good Job
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Camden Clay Mock Trial Evaluation The Patty Hearst
Trial The Patty Hearst trial is a well-known
criminal case originally tried in the 1970 s.
Wesley Walker and I reenacted the Patty Hearst
case as the prosecuting attorneys. In this case
there were several facts we had to provide to the
jury in order to effectively prosecute this case.
Patty was on trial for the use of an assault
weapon to commit felony bank robbery, and we had
to prove to the jury, beyond a reasonable doubt,
that she indeed comm...
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