This is wrong because small cases also have lawful claim to a reasonable share of judicial time and attention. ... When it comes to sentencing most of the cases never even go to trial and this is because the person accused of the offense plead guilty to the offense that he have been charged, or plead guilty for a lesser offense. In this case he will be charge with a crime less serious that the original charged, for a lighter sentence than the one he would have received if he was tried and found guilty of the original offense (Haugen). ... There should be a balance that create a just and fair s...

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After that Pirone slugged Grant in the head because he saw Grant put his hands on another officer. ... On August 1, 2010, Marissa Alexander was in her house with her husband. ... Marissa Alexander was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. ... Michael Dunn felt threatened and he started arguing with the teenagers to turn down their music. ... This follows if defendants are awarded sentence or other concessions to induce them to plead guilty. (3) Because of the above two considerations, there is a trade-off between the number of convictions and the sentences received by person...

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It has been said that because of the time it takes to fund, plan, and build a new prison, we are building prisons for today's fourth grader's. ... They do not benefit from probation, rehabilitation, or alternative sentencing. ... Policy As added incentive for their construction and use, many rural areas struggling with high unemployment rates clamor for prisons, public or private, because they mean jobs; and local legislators are often anxious to gratify these wishes whether or not the facility is needed. ... These include many people who have completed their criminal sentences...

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"It is an affront to the founding principles of America to lock peaceful people into cages just because they consume or sell drugs" (HLPR). ... "For example, the HOPE (Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement) program, started by a former federal prosecutor in Hawaii, conducts frequent drug tests backed-up by swift and certain sanctions for violations, usually a few days in jail" (ROC). ... The Sentencing Project is a research and advocacy reform that tries to solve issues in the prison system that many have over looked. The Sentencing project along with a numer...

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Federalism is a concept that started many years ago during the times of the ratification of the document we live by called the Constitution. ... With its largest effect was during the Civil rights movement. ... Washington put his newly acquired freedom to use when he started a black industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama. ... Ironically with all the women's suffrage bickering, women did not receive the ballot until 1920 by the 19th Amendment. ... The new deal had again failed with the creat...

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Some type of intelligence has been used since the very beginning, starting with the first civilizations. When a new nation starts, intelligence is key to grow and sustain their culture, much like the Americas. ... Some believe because of this statement, he is the father of ancient intelligence. ... Sun Tzu finishes his book with these sentences. ... When they landed and started the first colony, ideas of a revolution were already stirring. ...

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With the enactment of the Volstead Act in 1919, America embarked on a social experiment known as Prohibition. ... The black market provided minors with easy access to bootlegged alcohol, which was frequently of poor quality and unsafe to drink. Faced with the disastrous consequences of Prohibition, Congress decided in 1933 to repeal the Volstead Act. ... Alpha waves are generally associated with meditative and relaxed states, which are often associated with human creativity. ... Of the people incarcerated in federal and state prison and in local jails, 37,500 were charged with marijuana offen...

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This is especially the case in countries with mixed cultures, as in the United States. ... Prison sentences of up to 5 years if conducted. ... Thus I believe that a 5 year sentence is not enough, there needs to be more public education. ... No physician's help was sought because the family believes in faith healing. The cults devotion led to the deaths of more than 172 children between 1975 and 1995 - all because parents refused to seek medical treatment for their children's illnesses. ...

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The Civil Rights Movement got off to a swift start in 1960. ... In my opinion the Greensboro sit-ins were the starting line for the entire Civil Rights Movement. ... This was a brave act indeed and literally started an entire movement that has changed the course of history for the greater good. ... This affected Meredith because he was convicted of false voter registration. ... Both were sentenced to life in prison. ...

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Daly was simply looking for one of his students who earlier that morning had left the school upset because of a fight with a classmate. ... Daly's death were sentenced to 25 years to life based on their convictions of second-degree murder. ... Shamel Burrough, both 18, were given their sentence despite pleas of leniency by their attorneys. A third youth, Jermaine Russell, 19 was sentence to 20 years to life because he had no previous criminal record. ... After these findings some of the television networks must have started feeling the pressure and conducted studies of their own. ...

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Children were tried and sentenced for crimes they committed and were even sometimes put to death. ... Missouri the court found that it is not unconstitutional to sentence 16-18 year olds to death. ... People that are poor are more prone to commit crime because they may live in places with substandard living conditions or may sometimes even be homeless. ... This is because poor family youths may have to contribute to the family and start working. ... This affects the individual because hes not going to be able to get a high paying job with the amount of education he has. ...

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Thurgood hated the ideal of our young and proud Afro Americans boys and girls having to travel outside their school districts just to attend colored schools, because their local elementary and high schools were not segregated. . ... As a boy, Thurgood was always driven with the desire and the will to succeed from his parents. ... Thurgood heard one of the police officers tell the black prisoner if he didn't shut up, he would talk himself into a death sentence. ... Thurgood would get into heated debates with fellow students on his indifferences. ... Thurgood voted with the majority upperc...

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First of all because Miller's interpretation of the amendment is not the same as it seems many hold today. ... You see these earlier cases that seem to be fairly to strongly anti-incorporation, but some cases in the future would suddenly see debates over whether incorporation should happen, with incorporation starting to win out rather quickly. ... This would be either in connection with, or attributed to, the rise of federalism in popularity. ... Both cases had to do with a possible violation of the plaintiff's Fifth Amendment rights. ... Admiral Dewey Adamson was sentenced to death...

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The conflict in Vietnam started well before the United States got involved. ... Because of a complex set of individual motives, both domestic and international, each of the participants had a serious interest in arriving at some workable settlement... With the Cold War, the United States had promised to keep communism from spreading. ... He was a Catholic which caused much tension because the majority of the Vietnamese people were Buddhist. ... With his new authority and power, President Johnson believed that the United States needed to stay involved in the Vietnam conflict because America had...

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The mannerisms in which minorities are dealt with and looked upon show the true forms of intention and persecution these groups feel because they do not and can not assimilate to the majority party. ... Competition for labor with white workers would eventually lead up to the 1871 Chinese Massacre. ... From the first moment Asian immigrants stepped onto the land they were viewed with disdain in California. ... On the other hand, others wanted to start a new life in the new land, but most immigration decisions involved family. As the Chinese took over most of the jobs, complaints about the ...

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Crimes with guns and knives wouldn't take place without the students having access to those weapons. ... It is escalating to great proportions and this problem must be dealt with by our society. School violence starts out with the bully on the playground, or the pushing and shoving in the lunch line, but given the right set of circumstances what might have been prevented with some supervision instead turns into something deadly. ... A child who starts acting violently will often do so during periods of unstructured and unsupervised time. ... Sometimes after consulting with parents, the s...

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Nations have increased security because of the threat of terrorism. ... Many industries were also opposed to the increased border security between Canada and the United States because it slowed down delivery time on shipments of parts. ... Instead, there is just one you agree with more than the other. ... Most people have traveled on a plane sometime in their life and came into contact with TSA agents. ... Many illegal immigrants are trying to better their family and their lives because of the terrible conditions in Mexico getting paid less than a dollar a day. ...

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He is affiliated with the Democratic Party. ... He is affiliated with the Republican Party. ... He affiliates himself with the Republican Party (Biography, 2014, William). ... He is one of the most important legislators because he appoints all of a committee's chairpersons and members. ... She is affiliated with Republican Party. ...

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Capital Punishment is a new idea or way of dealing with criminals. ... The first death penalty sentence to ever be recorded was that of 16th century B.C. in Egypt, where a noble was accused of performing magic. ... Most people during this time where killed with an ax. ... But we couldn't allow criminals free just because there was no longer a death penalty. ... When Edison Company, with its direct current, and Westinghouse Company, with its alternating current, began a com...

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All immigrant students entering public schools, is believed, will automatically start the so-called "americanization" process. ... Slowly many immigrants are faced with the confusing problem of learning a new culture, the "American Culture". ... But Latino support seemed to have shrunk with every new poll. ... Because bilingual teachers get paid more, they"re accused of being in it for the money. ... The further argued that such "one-size-fits-all" program that treats all children the same, may rise more problems simply because the method may work in Los Angeles but not in Fresno. ...

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Moll's "Contrãre Sexualitãt- for example could only be procured with a physician's certificate. ... Even years ago, when I still knew nothing about sex psychology and my own familiarity with homosexuals was limited to a few women whom I got to know in jail, where I wound up because of my political convictions, I firmly stood up in defense of Oscar Wilde. [Wilde was convicted of homosexual acts and was sentenced to two years' hard labor in May 1895] . ... As fools, they could speak the truth because they were not taken seriously. ... Because of his unobjectionabl...

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A description of the programs and review of the problems and attributes associated with each follow. ... Because reading was restricted to primarily religious education, very few people were actually allowed to read. ... There is also a problem associated with the English language itself. ... As stated earlier, the English alphabetic system has 44 phonemes associated with its 26 letters. ... Phonetic instruction is also associated with the future reading success of preschoolers. ...

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They committed various forms of theft and robbery, along with extortion and rape. ... At the same time, the media began with a trend toward more overt violence. Gangs started to reflect this change and became more violent. A crack cocaine epidemic began in the mid-1980's and public concern of drugs and violence combined with youth gangs heightening. ... Many join because they are poor, and need to find legitimate income. ...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. ... In direct correlation with our nation's constitution is a political philosophy know as libertarianism. ... John Locke was the first to propose the idea that individuals are borne with natural rights prior to the existence of government and it is the government that ought to safeguard those rights. ... Thomas Paine played a pivotal role in galvanizing American thought, with his revolutionary...

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Also all cases in which the death penalty has been sentenced are automatically sent to the appeals courts. ... The Supreme Court is made up of nine justices, with one of the presiding as Chief Justice. ... With the ages of Chief Justice Rhenquist and Associate Justice Stevens, also with Associate Justices Day O'Connor and Bader Ginsburg both having cancer, the court would lose two of its liberal opinions, and a moderate opinion. ... Because of its size, the House is more bound by rules. ... Each senator is elected to a 6-year term, with 1/3 of the membership being elected every two yea...

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