construction of courts for youths who are between 11 – 18 years (juvenile court system). These courts are referred as peer courts or teen courts. More of concern any youth charged with an offense has the opportunity to undergo the hearing and sentencing proceedings of juvenile courts and should agree to a sentencing forum with a jury of the youth’s peers. The peer courts are under the supervision of a judge‚ youth defendants‚ and volunteers who play a variety of roles in the
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acknowledging case at the Supreme Court level it must be a case worth the argument to continue it. The Supreme Court is the highest court that a case can reach and doesn’t give the decision of the case but gives an opinion on what they believe is right and the lower court from which it came from decides what happens to the case. The Supreme Court deals with the highest level of cases and is the only court listed in the constitution (Federal Court Concepts). The Supreme Court is known for decisions in landmark
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An appellate court is a court that takes initial trial decisions into review upon the outcome being seen as unconstitutional by either the defendant or the government. Congressional act of 1789 Created a supreme court‚ appoint 6 justices and establish a lower federal court system. Various acts of congress have changed the number of seats in the supreme court over the years. the lowest amounts between 5-6 and the highest 10. In fact after the civil war the seats were fixed to nine‚ that’s 1 chief
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designation of our Supreme Court is to guarantee the honesty of the power allowed to Court Justices and protect them against unjust interference from either the legislative or executive branch. And also to protect our Supreme Judges from political pressure. But‚ I believe this can still be done by setting an specific time for the judge to leave the position and therefore‚ I believe it is unnecessary for judges to hold their position for lifetime. Having our Supreme Court Justice serving on the bench
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country‚ 158 laws have been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. TRANSITION……………………………………………………………………………………………. Our government has three branches of government‚ the Legislative‚ Executive‚ and Judicial. Because of the basis in which our country was founded‚ the political leaders of the past wanted to insure that none of these branches would retain too much control over the government. In order to do this‚ they created the system of checks and balances‚ which is the process in which different
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Prison systems have used an immense amount of capital to fund recreation for inmates. America uses more than $74 billion annually for recreation and the upholding of prisons (Godard‚ 2005). There is a push for the economics of prison recreation to be further analyzed to evaluate the pros and cons of enhanced funding. In America‚ more inmates being admitted to prison brings forth larger revenue for contracted businesses such as construct facilities‚ security‚ transportation‚ and other livelihood
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I. Introduction a. Since their creation in the 1990’s‚ problem-solving courts have become of much interest to the legal community. Not only are these courts revolutionary in their way of processing cases‚ but also they are proving to have great success rates. One of the most important aspects of the problem-solving courts is how much more involved a judge is with each case. In traditional courts‚ a judge will most likely read off the names of the people in the docket‚ and simply sentence an individual
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I think that enclosure has its pros and cons. The benefits from enclosure will help some of us only. If we enlcose land‚ the strips which are combined into larger bloscks may be more productive than before. We will get more food. We could grow what types of crops we want. The roads may also get better as we would have to travel to our blocks of lands. There might be less weeds growing as we would use all the fields. However‚ enclosure is bad for some. The poorer farmers will end up selling their
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An impending issue currently involves the terms of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices. They are enjoying extended stays on the bench due to an increase in life expectancy. In fact‚ Justices are now serving an average of 26.1 years before retiring or death—twelve years longer than they did when the average span of a judge’s tenure was roughly fourteen years. Therefore‚ a proposal has been offered that addresses this concern. Under this proposal a judge would serve a term of ten years; after ten years
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The system of criminal procedure primarily utilized in the United States is the adversarial system. The term adversary is easily interpreted to mean opposition. Our present criminal procedure pits two sides against each other to present their respective evidence and issues surrounding a criminal act. This paper will address the adversarial system and its expressed use in criminal court proceedings in the United States. Among the questions this paper will take into consideration are: Is the adversarial
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