The death penalty is a topic that lies between the lines of opinions and feelings based on each person's culture. ... For example, if there is a case of self-defense, should that person be acquitted or tried? There is never a certain way of knowing someone who seems "innocent" is not really guilty. ... The only twist is that rarely innocent people are killed due to the death penalty, and being falsely tried and convicted. ... A better jury system needs to be set up to avoid the death penalty being the result of n innocent person's death. ...

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Reasonable Expectation of Privacy Under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated." ... Ideally, the result of the Miranda trial has saved many innocent citizens from confessing to a crime that they did not commit (Berman & Murphy, 2003, p. 478). ... Criminal Rights or Safer Streets The problem with extending civil liberties to cover a broader range of situations is that while liberties protect the innocent from false imprisonment, they ...

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Opponents denounce it as murder, say that it does not cause deterrence but rather promotes violence and claim that it introduces the chance of an innocent person being executed. ... Life without parole is the only way to go it costs less than a third of what it costs to execute a person on death row. ... There have been cases where innocent people have been executed. ... James Richardson was an extremely lucky man, but what about those who died knowing the whole time that they were innocent. ... Making a person sit on death row for multiple years is cruel. ...

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Opponents denounce it as murder, say that it does not cause deterrence but rather promotes violence and claim that it introduces the chance of an innocent person being executed. ... Life without parole is the only way to go it costs less than a third of what it costs to execute a person on death row. ... There have been cases where innocent people have been executed. ... Making a person sit on death row for multiple years is cruel. ... Beyond its horror and incivility it has neither protected the innocent nor deterred the wicked. ...

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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...

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A first reading of this phrase one might be think that this right, that which gives a person accused of a crime to have lawyers for his defense, is common knowledge being that it is among the most basic rights given to the citizenry of the public. ... From the outset, Gideon insisted that he was innocent. ... Under the laws of the State of Florida, the only time the Court can appoint Counsel to represent a defendant is when that person is charged with a capital offense. ... The unanimous decision was delivered by Justice Black, who wrote: ...In our adversary system of crim...

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Baird, ". . . in which the court found unconstitutional a law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried persons" (Making Gay Okay 75). ... In 1973 the court ruled that an unborn child is not a person and therefore is not sheltered by due process or equal protection. The one time where legal precedent should protect the rights of a person, it fails to adhere to the constitution. ... From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life (CCC 2270)...

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The majority argued that the crown didn't have to prove the mental intent or men's rea without a reasonable doubt for sexual assault violated the Daviault's due process rights of innocent until proven guilty. ... A person in a state of automatism cannot perform a voluntary willed act; it would equally infringe s. 7 of the Charter if an accused who was not acting voluntarily could be convicted of a criminal offence. ... To briefly explain the case, the Family Law Act, Section 29 defined "spouse" in s. 29, which includes a person who is actually married and also &quo...

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In today's high schools, too many innocent youths become fatalities due to gang warfare that has spread into the school system. ... These clothing accessories too often cost well over a person's weekly salary. ...

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The US is the only nation to used methods such as the electric chair, and the only nation to execute persons for crimes they committed as juveniles. Furthermore, the recent use of DNA evidence has found that 1/3rd of all death row inmates could not have committed their crime (are innocent). ...

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