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Los Angeles Times Voir Dire
1,390 words... 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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Property Without Due Process Trial By Jury
2,207 words... Drug Enforcement Administration. National Drug Control Policy Director William Bennett has declared that some indoor lighting and hydroponic equipment is purchased by marijuana growers, so retailers and wholesalers of such equipment are drug profiteers and co-conspirators. Bjornson was not charged with any crime, nor subpoenaed, issued a warrant, or arrested. No illegal substances were found on his premises. Federal officials were unable to convince grand juries to indict Bjornson. By Februa...
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United States V Bill Of Rights
1,152 words... 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
1,997 wordsJury 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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Voir Dire Impartial Jury
2,870 wordsAnonymous Juries The American criminal justice system has traditionally made the identities and addresses of jurors known to the judge, the prosecution, and the defense. That tradition began to erode with the unprecedented sua sports trial court decision to use an anonymous jury in the case United States v. Barnes, a highly publicized criminal trial of notorious organized crime figures in New York City. Since Barnes, Federal prosecutors in New York have requested and been granted anonymous jurie...
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Property Without Due Process Liberty Or Property Without Due
3,984 wordsDate sent: Sun, 19 May 1996 00: 47: 27 - 0700 How many rights do you have? You should check, because it might not be as many today as it was a few years ago, or even a few months ago. Some people I talk to are not concerned that police will execute a search warrant without knocking or that they set up roadblocks and stop and interrogate innocent citizens. They do not regard these as great infringements on their rights. But when you put current events together, there is information that may be su...
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