A deeper objection to Euthanasia is the truth that we lack the moral right to take innocent human life-even our own. ... Yet conscience tells them that innocent life must not be destroyed. ... Marking the devaluation of human life would then lead to steps of ending the lives of mentally ill persons or non-terminally ill patients who are just in a state of depression. ...
As innocent people, it's a not only illegal but disrespectfully intrusion to invade our privacy without our acknowledgment or consent. ... This puts many innocent people in jeopardy of unlawful invasion of privacy. ... Around the United States innocent people's lives are being intruded daily without their acknowledgment or consent. ... Although the FBI and CIA are able to obtain information helpful to criminal activity, it still doesn't give the right to invade every single person's privacy as a whole. ...
Although a lack of privacy granted to individuals may help to fight crime, innocent people are affected by the lack of privacy as well. ... The majority of these methods do not only affect the guilty person; in cases of wiretaps both parties of the conversation are being listened to. Therefore the privacy of innocent people along with the suspect is being invaded by law enforcement. ... This ruling goes against the Fourth Amendment that protects the area around a person's house as well as the house itself. ... In a general ruling the Supreme Court has decided there are limits to a per...
Why are we paying for innocent people to be behind bars when there are real criminals out in the world being overlooked every day? ... This will allow consumers to know everything about the product and help contain any other concerns that could deem hazard to the person and people of the US. ... It has great health benefits, flexibility, and is cheap that any person with medical problems could really benefit. ...
This is essential to protect the innocent from unjust convictions. ... Consent now is widely held to mean a consent freely and voluntarily given by a person with the mental cognition to give such consent, and without in any way affecting or limiting the meaning otherwise attributable to those words, a consent is not freely or voluntarily given if it is obtained by force, threat, intimidation, deception or fraudulent means. ...
In the past this would possibly have gone unnoticed until perhaps the offender re-offended, causing unknown amounts of harm and suffering to innocent children (DeMichele 3). ... The handheld Breathalyzer that has been in circulation for years and used to detect the use of alcohol in a field setting was the starting point for an alcohol detection device that prevents an intoxicated person from starting a motor vehicle (Burrell). ...
Glanville Williams, for instance, has voiced the concern of many by focusing on the very foundations of the system: the calibre of individual jurors: "persons whose ordinary occupations are of a humble character rarely qualify to be regarded as first rate intellectual machines. ... This Assize was to replace the earlier case settlement method "trial by battle" (where the parties duelled to determine successful party) or "trial by ordeal" where an accused person would have to undergo a rather gruesome and painful task on the premise that, if they completed without inju...
The person who will sell you marijuana in a dark alleyway usually is the same person that could introduce you to harder and more dangerous drugs such as cocaine, extacy or heroin. ... Current marijuana laws jail otherwise innocent people and break up families, further overcrowd jails and divert police resources away from problems that really need attention. ...
This case doesn't turn out well - although Tom's lawyer tries to convince the jurors and the judge that Tom was innocent, they still didn't believe him because Tom is African American. ... On the night of February 4th, 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed and innocent African immigrant, was gunned down in a hail of 41 bullets while standing in the vestibule of his apartment building in the Bronx. ...
Justice would rarely prevail and the accused persons would stand no chance in their defence of the charges against them. ... "All persons shall be equal before the courts and tribunals" and therefore wealth, social status, race and other social differences should have no influence in the process of justice. ... Perhaps the most important right that a person accused of a serious offence has is his right to legal representation. ... Of course a wealthy person has an obvious advantage in obtaining a very resourceful and strong defence over the poor man who struggles to afford the basic court cos...
What would the Federal, state, and local governments do with an extra $40 billion each year? That is the amount of money spent on the War on Drugs each year-$1,271 per second spent on law enforcement, incarceration, and interdiction. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), 1,356,307...
The wording of these statutory provisions is based directly on legislation enacted in England in the nineteenth century: Sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. The crime of "unlawful abortion" may be committed by the pregnant woman herself, by the person performing the abortion, or by anyone who assists. ... At the beginning of the 13th century, Pope Innocent III wrote that "quickening" (the time when a woman first feels the fetus move within her) was the moment at which abortion became homicide; prior to quickening, abortion was a less serious sin. ...
To understand political power aright, and derive it from its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man. ... But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence; though man in that state have an uncontrollable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself, or so much as any crea...
In other words, if there is a person residing on someone else's land without any right, title or payment of rent under government regulation, this person is allowed to acquire the title to the land and extinguish the rights of the 'paper owner'. ... It balances the equity between the person using the land and the owner who may not even know he has the land and encourages the alienability of the land. ... It is a necessary legal rule in order to ensure the benefit of innocent third parties. ...
The UN Secretary General Koffi Annan on his part defined that rule of law as "a principle of governance in which all persons, institutions and entities...including the state itself, are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and....which are consistent with international human rights norms and standard.......
