Plea Bargaining Controversy in Society Councilman Dennis Gallagher was accused of raping and assaulting a Queens woman. The alleged event took place on July 8‚ 2007. Although Councilman Gallagher said it was consensual sex‚ the plaintiff says otherwise. When it was brought to trail by a grand-jury preceding the judge claimed the defense team had unfairly presented their case to the grand jury. About a month from the ruling‚ Councilman Gallagher was offered a plea deal reducing the charges brought
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I always thought that eyewitness testimony was a bullet proof plan in the judicial system. I always thought that eyewitness testimony wasn’t malleable. You would think that when you are being raped and you analyze the rapist face you will know exactly who it is. I never considered how a weapon can effect what the brain focuses on. But if I thought about it more it does make sense. Because your brain is in survival mode because there is a knife to your neck. Your brain is not focusing on remembering
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Applied Collective Bargaining Course Work Question: Summarize three (3) topics covered during the semester and discuss the issues. To complete this paper the topics chosen are: The Collective Bargaining Process: Preparation‚ Strategies and Tactics The Collective Bargaining Process: Preparation‚ Strategies and Tactics Introduction Collective bargaining can be defined as a process where workers’ representative and management’s representative meet and treat at the bargaining table to determine
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Conversely‚ one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” (382) Just and unjust; right and wrong is the basic skill that everyone have to learn when they were young. People come to school to learn how to follow the laws‚ and it is true that laws are made to protect people and make things fair for everyone. However base on Martin Luther King Jr‚ I recognized not all laws are ethical and just. Arizona’s immigration law is an unjust law and it should be abolish because it creates racial profiling
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DISADVANTAGES OF PLEA BARGAINING Plea bargaining is a very familiar process in our criminal justice system. Usually‚ the defense is allowed to bargain with a prosecutor to have a defendant plead guilty to a criminal accusation with the hope of getting a lighter punishment. The problem with this immediate approach is that dangerous offenders are pleading guilty to small misbehavior charges and they are keeping a cleaner record than they should have and getting reduced sentence. Plea bargaining is needed
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Validity of eyewitness testimony Eyewitness testimony are accounts given by an individual about the details of an event that may include‚ what the perpetrator was wearing or physical description of the person ‚ in what direction did the person run‚ details of a crime scene of a accident etc..‚ but can the eyes lie? Eyewitness testimony has been recognized as the leading cause of wrongful convictions in the U.S and because of this there are organizations in place such as the innocent project‚ which
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There are numerous theoretical approaches which attempt to define the term “collective bargaining”. The contributions are mainly pluralist in nature and propose the idea that collective bargaining is a necessary and desired activity for resolving conflict arising from the inequality in bargaining power between the ‘strong’ employer and the ‘weak’ employee [1‚ 2]. Trade unions are able to overcome this predicament by functioning as a third-party intervention‚ thus allowing the employees’ views to
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A large portion of society opposes the insanity plea because they believe that criminals falsely enter the plea to be acquitted of a crime. According to the court‚ there is doubt in the defense and their ability to properly diagnose an offender. Psychiatrists may have disparate diagnoses and this takes away from the legal value of not guilty by reason of insanity (Doherty). In past cases‚ the jury is not quick to acquit a criminal‚ due to insanity‚ because of the small chance that the offender may
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defendant has used the insanity plea as a defense‚ in which they have thought out and did intend on executing the crime as a result of mental illness. Even though some people are right about abolishing this legal defense because some defendant may take this as an advantage and hopefully be declared as not guilty‚ I still believe that the insanity plea is still an essential part of a rational criminal justice system. According to Psychology Today‚ the insanity plea has been used less than 1% of all
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Bargaining Power Model- The Laws of Human Resources Application of the Bargaining Power Model to Evaluate the Outcome of the New York City Transit Employees Strike of 2005 Background: On December 20‚ 2005 the Transport Workers Union (TWU) called a strike in the city of New York after initial talks to resolve issues on a new contract with the Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) failed. The strike was‚ “Over wage rises‚ health-care and pension costs and the retirement age of employees.”
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