If you have ever been arrested or questioned for a crime, you are probably familiar with these famous words. ... At trial, his conviction was based only on his confession he gave during the interrogation. ... He was later retried and convicted based on other evidence and served several years in prison. ... A person cannot be tried twice for the same crime (also known as double jeopardy). ... The Accused must be knowledgeable about the crime he is accused of. ...

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It is believed that if students were made to wear uniforms the crime and discipline in public schools would decrease. ... Taking that away from child should be a crime not wearing baggy pants or not tucking in their shirt tails. ... These incidents were serious crimes which included robberies, vandalism, rapes, stabbing, bombings, shootings, and even cold blooded murders. These crimes were committed by students with problems a lot larger than what they were going to wear to school. ... The idea that they could is not based on facts but pure opinions. ...

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I guess that could be one of the consequences of committing a crime. ... Granted they are paying for their crime, but that is not helping them stay clean from drugs and alcohol when they get out. ... Most of the offenders are under the influence at the time of their crime. ... Since 1960 inmates have had constitutional rights based on the 1st, 4th, 8th,and the 14th amendments. ...

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America being a country which started with thirteen charter governments, based off of customs from Great Britain, and it was hard to make laws. ... So why would they let someone go who they thought committed the crime? ... The first step of the process is when a crime is thought to be committed. ... Once ruled not guilty, a person cannot be re-tried for the same crime. ... This is where those convicted serve their sentences for the crime they have committed. ...

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The police were frantic and, from letters left at the different crime scenes, the press eventually dubbed him, Son of Sam. ?... A law was passed that permitted the state to seize and hold for five years any money earned by an individual from the sale of his or her story of crime (Pember, p. 113). The money was then set aside to compensate the victim or victim's family of the crimes perpetrated by the felon. ... law was a content-based regulation that violated the First Amendment (Pember, p. 113). ... And while the people who commit these crimes are monsters in our minds, our hearts will...

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With the birth of man comes the birth of crime and hence with the birth of crime is the origin of punishment. Punishments vary based on the seriousness of the offense; robbery can result to months in prison and murder can lead to the death of the convicted man. ... In France, the method of execution was intended to match the crime and the convict's social rank. ... More states began to reduce the number of capital crimes and made laws more flexible. By 1846 in Michigan, treason was the only capital crime. ...

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The article presents the issues that the juvenile justice system was founded upon in order to hold juveniles accountable for their crimes, while supplying treatment and rehabilitative programs. ... An international movement to abolish the death penalty is discussed and the article seeks to provide as an effective resource toward "humane responses to juvenile crime and violence" (Cothern, 2000, p.1). ... Cothern states that twenty three states condone the death penalty for juveniles and currently seventeen have been executed for their crimes as juveniles and seventy-four people sit on death row...

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The case is important because it indicates that the justices may be starting to reconsider the court's extremely expansive view of Congress' power to regulate based on the commerce clause. ... It argued that violent crime in or near schools harms the quality of education, causing graduates to be unprepared for gainful employment, thereby affecting interstate commerce, which Congress has the power to regulate. ... S. vs Lopez the Court, by a 5 to 4 vote, found unconstitutional a provision of the Gun-Free School Zone Act that made it a federal crime to possess a gun (even one that ne...

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Almost every program on television has violence included in the story line, every thing from news to cartoons, dramas, sitcoms, and reality-based TV shows. ... Based on the viewpoint of Patrick D. ... I don't see how that would do so because, by denying violence for entertainment, the Government is preventing possible future crimes. ...

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The 4th amendment states The Fourth Amendment prohibits the police and other government officials from searching people's homes or offices or seizing their property without reasonable grounds to believe that a crime has been committed. ... Based on this decision, as many as 1000 foreigner was gather search that they can find the attackers. As we look back at the amendments this points out the 5th amendment, which is states that no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the...

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But if we go back a little further we see that USPA is basically an expansion of the parameters of Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. ... The orders are available based on the government's certification, rather than a finding of the court, that the use of the device is likely to produce information relevant to the investigation of a crime, any crime, 18 U.S.C. 3123. ... The USPA modifies the procedure at each level they are: • permits pen register and trap and trace orders for electronic communications (e.g., e-mail) • authorizes nationwide execution o...

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One of the most important rights of someone accused of a crime is the right to be represented by an attorney. ... Without an attorney most persons that have been accused of a crime would have almost no chance of being acquitted. ... This decision by the court was based on a prior case, Betts v Brady. ... These prisoners were not retried; some were guilty of the crime they had committed and were now free in society. ...

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Physician-assisted suicide is generally recognized as illegal under the parameters of homicide, however it is very difficult to meet all of the elements of the crime and conviction subsequently becomes nearly impossible. ... At the time of the appellate courts hearing of the Campbell appeal, there was no other codified law expressing what crime an assisted suicide would fall under and the homicide charges were dismissed. ... Persons who are for active euthanasia believe that legislation against it is violative of the fundamental concepts of liberty, freedom of choice, and self-determination Th...

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?School sponsored prayer in public schools should not be allowed because it violates the United States Constitution.? To better understand this statement we must first identify what a public school is. The definition of a public school is an elementary or secondary school in the United States supp...

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Today, based on the Professor Dicy's definition, we explain the rule of law in four aspects. ... This person's parents required the police to give them the evidence about what crime their son have ever committed, and clear reason for their son's death. ... Ideally, everybody is equal before the law, that means the law must apply to everyone and the application of law to the sme meterial facts must give rise to the same answer in every case.( Hubbard, Thomas and Varnham p35) Theorically, if the prisident in China committed the some crime with a common citizen, the prisiden...

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Well I think, it means when the reason for a warrant doesn't make sense and isn't based on probable cause, which is the thoughts of everyday people/average person. ... A police officer may enter a person's home with a search warrant, which allows the officer to look for evidence that could convict someone of committing a crime. ... They did have a search warrant, but the warrant wasn't based on probable cause. ... The agents might have a reasonable suspicion, based on objective facts. ...

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Court Decision Involving Flag Burning and the First Amendment Rights It was 1984 when demonstrators rallied down the street of Dallas to protest the policies of the Reagan administration and certain Dallas-based corporations. ... Of the approximate one hundred demonstrators, Johnson alone was charged with a crime, the desecration of a venerated object in violation of the Texas Penal Code. ...

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As studies have shown many physicians, anonymously report that they have partaken in physician-assisted suicide regardless of statues in place making their actions a crime. ... Physician-assisted suicide should be protected under the Constitution of the United States based on Americans" due process rights and equal protection. ...

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He was not allowed to enter these courses so in his spare time, he began writing a program based on the Windows operating system. ... Technically, our government has the right to shut down Napster and its productions because it serves as a base for music piracy. ... The laws of our constitution will most likely be altered in the near future to prevent electronic crime and piracy. ...

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Inmates have the right to be free from sexual crimes, including sexual harassment. ... The Eighth Amendment has been the topic of much controversy mostly concerning the death penalty, but it also covers the treatment of those convicted of crimes. It is thought that the Eighth Amendment was written to eliminate torture which had been used in dealing with those convicted of crimes. ...

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Both cases seem to be based on opinions and what each side promptly believes in. ... Both the sides display their statements based on some facts and some opinions on their own, but whose side is the government on, which side does the law support? ... Since the decline of common law crimes in the early 19th century to the intervention of Supreme Court in the 1970s, states have widely criminalized abortion. ...

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The officers acted as agents of the government, but they attempted to combat crime too "energetically" and forcefully. ... The state of California was not authorized to base a conviction upon a coerced confession. ...

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Al Gore supports the Employee Non- Discrimination Act and tougher hate crime legislation while George Bush opposes both. ... Gore's campaign should have focused on the fact that the President of the United States should be elected based on who is the right man for the office, one who has experience and knowledge of running the government, not who you would rather have over for tea. ...

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Florida recognized that lack of intent normally diminishes the "moral culpability" that attaches to the crime. ... Moreover, Substantive Criminal Law has been based on the idea of "transferred intent....

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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist with the United states, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. ... While this case was based on an aspect of segregation, it is actually the successor to the case of Plessy v. ...

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