Arrest • Arrest takes place when a person suspected of a crime is taken into custody • An arrest is considered a "seizure" under the 4th amendment and the constitution requires that seizures be reasonable. ... • If, on the basis of the information provided, the judge finds probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and the accused committed said crime, then a warrant will be issued. No time for a Warrant • Police can make a warrant-less arrest based on probable cause • Probable cause is defined as a reasonable belief that a p...

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The Legal Structure of South Africa The South African legal system is similarly based to that of the United States. ... The High Court, however, does preside over serious crime hearings such as murder. ... Because South Africa's democracy is not yet established and still emerging, it is increasingly affected by high levels of violent crime. ... More serious crimes are presided by the High Courts. ... A new superior court, the "Constitutional Court" was established to decide matters based on Constitutional provisions. ...

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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 White House can also act as a type of lobbyist as seen when Leon Kodak and Lewis Rothschild call up Congressmen to rally support behind the crime bill and the environmental bill. ... Another example is when Shepherd's staff is trying to rally support for crime and environmental bills, one Congressman says, "Lewis I support the President 100%. ... Shepherd, who has a 63% approval rating, knows that now is the time to introduce his crime bill as it will most likely become a law. ... The manner in which all three coexist is through a favor based system, such as if a senator supports a b...

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This inherently leaving various law enforcement agencies with less ability to confront other crimes. ... The statistics show a rise in crimes concerning personal property; drug abusers in hopes of supporting their drug habit committed seventy-five percent of all property crimes such as burglary and robbery. Studies have shown that out patient drug programs or programs that offered drugs for a lower cost drastically reduced the amount of crimes committed. ... This would lead one to acknowledge that maybe our opinion drugs may be based in fear and social The Goal The optimal goal of any policys...

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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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(MacKinnon 9) MacKinnon feels that pornography is responsible for crimes such as rape, sexual harassment and child abuse. ... Rape, murder, child abuse, sexual harassment etc. are crimes where the perpetrator has some mental illness prior to committing the crime. ... If MacKinnon's argument was enforced, then violent movie would be to blame for violent crimes, and sitcoms such a Married with Children would to blame for the break-up of the traditional values within the family unit, and the slippery slope mentioned previously would begin. ... "Empirically, all pornography is made under con...

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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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Both proponents and advocates of gun control policies have arguments based on legitimate concerns. ... They believe that the increasing rate of crime and shootings is reason to amend the bill of rights. ... Opponents also argue that blaming guns for crime is like blaming spoons for obesity. ...

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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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Both proponents and advocates of gun control policies have arguments based on legitimate concerns. ... They believe that the increasing rate of crime and shootings is reason to amend the bill of rights. ... Opponents also argue that blaming guns for crime is like blaming spoons for obesity. ...

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Both proponents and advocates of gun control policies have arguments based on legitimate concerns. ... They believe that the increasing rate of crime and shootings is reason to amend the bill of rights. ... Opponents also argue that blaming guns for crime is like blaming spoons for obesity. ...

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Which mean in order to get a warrant, they have to have "probable cause" to think that you might have had something to do with a crime, like that you committed a crime, or that you bought stolen property, etc. ... That's why at the end it said that neither the federal government nor any state government could prevent a person from voting based on "previous condition of servitude" The XIX Amendment The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. ...

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With that being said, all females who give birth are not capable of taking care of their babies, about 28% of children end up in foster care a year. 1.14 million kids end up on the street per year because of neglective parents, with would lead them to a legal crime violence, selling drugs, prostitution, raped or even killed. ... Abortion is view as a negative way in the United States since you are ending an unborn life, but if we make abortion a crime the percent of children rape and prostitution would continue to increase. ... Viewing that the future president will run the nation i...

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Constitution were based on the Bible. ... Some of our laws that have been passed through Congress are also based on the Bible. ... This is a government building where people are sentenced to be incarcerated for committing crimes in society where the laws have been created and based on the Bible. ...

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Padilla is an innocent victim of the government's war on terror nor do I propose that he is a terrorist, but simply that as an American citizen he cannot be held indefinitely without any formal charges or right to counsel based on an executive order. ... Two of our most fundamental rights granted under the constitution are the right of due process of law, and the right to counsel: Amendment V 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 land or naval forces, or in the...

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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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The 13th amendment simply abolished slavery throughout the US except for as a punishment for crime. The 15th amendment was known as the "black suffrage" amendment; so in other words this ad on to the Constitution prevented the discrimination of voting based on race or color. ... The spoils system is when high-level officials in governments such as the President, Speaker of the House, or Secretary of State give out bureaucratic positions to his friends or close acquaintances instead of basing the positions on merit. ... This stage was primarily based on the theory of Devolution, or gi...

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Wade 1973 case where the court's judgement was based on the decision that a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy came under the freedom of personal choice in family matters as protected by the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. ... Rumsfield the courts found that President Bush did not have the authority to set up war crimes tribunals and found the special military commissions illegal under both military justice and the Geneva Conventions. ... Furthermore the 15th amendment, introduced in 1870, prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on race, colour or previous serv...

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In 1871, Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Acts, or Enforcement Acts, proscribing state governments from discriminating against voters based on their race. (Document H) The acts gave the federal government superiority over state courts and the power to try crimes of individuals in federal courts. ...

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