LEJ 2 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF F A^ SUPREME COURT CASE NO. 1051361 BARBARA MORRI S N ‚ Plaintiff /Appellant versus PATRICIA T. SPIVEY ET AL‚ Defendants/Appellees 1 Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henry County ‚ Alabama 1 BRIEF ON BEHALF OF THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT ‚ BARB RA ISON Submitted by. . .... . ORIGINAL t Appellant Bar Russell Lee I y Albert H. Ada s‚ Jr. Attorneys for Plaintiff / ara Morrison Post Office ox 910 Eufaula‚ AL 36072-0910 TEL:
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to testify against the innocent accomplice. Nick denied the challenge of continuing a case that was not an absolute lost cause to keep his 96% conviction rate. When breaking the news to Clyde‚ he became filled with dysphoria‚ outrage‚ and dissatisfaction in the sense that his young‚ naïve daughter and loving wife would never be avenged for their wrongful deaths. Henceforth‚ Clyde proceeded to plan different methods to assassinate lawyers and attorneys associated with the case. Perhaps‚ if Nick exerted
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Wilynn Turner Heather Sciarappa English 122 Capital Punishment: Lethal Injection Murder is wrong! Since childhood we have been taught this indisputable truth. Ask yourself‚ then what is capital punishment? In its simplest form‚ capital punishment is defined as‚ one person taking the life of another. Coincidentally‚ that is the definition of murder. There are 36 states with the death penalty‚ and that needs to change. These states need to abolish the death penalty on the grounds that‚ it carries
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the death row just before the truth was established‚ and their innocence proven (Harris‚ 2012). From 1973‚ 11 Texans and 128 others across the United States have been set free and cleared from the death penalty as a result of proof of their wrongful conviction (All Voices‚ 2012). Generally‚ the death penalty is considered as the harshest sentence for any known felony. More so‚ it is the only punishment that will remain irreversible after the sentence has been made. When an inmate is found not guilty
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Summary: Frontline PBS Documentary on the real CSI In this video Correspondent LOWELL BERGMAN questions the scientific validity of forensic science. He also expresses that it is not as simple as it appears on television shows. Detective. Joanna Grivetti who is a crime scene investigator in Richmond‚ California explains that the real life CSI is getting dirty‚ smelling things you don’t want to smell‚ seeing things you don’t want to see and dealing with blood in order to collect evidence that may
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always accurate. The Innocence Project is a non-profit team of attorneys and law students that re-examines questionable murder convictions with the hope of using DNA evidence to overturn the sentences of defendents who’ve been wrongfully imprisoned. In the first 130 cases the Innocence Project overturned‚ eyewitness testimony played a part in 78 percent of those wrongful convictions. Other tests have proven that eyewitnesses aren’t as reliable as they claim to be‚ especially when those witnesses are older
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1 See further Garland D‚ Punishment and Modern Society (Oxford: Clarendon Press‚ 1990) p 282. 6/24/2010 3:25:44 PM The aims and values of ‘criminal justice’ activity within limits designed to protect people from wrongful treatment and wrongful conviction. In the rst three editions of this book we focused mainly on police‚ prosecution and court powers and procedures in respect of alleged crime‚ resulting in either ‘diversion’ out of the system (eg‚ through the imposition of a police
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pretenses there has been amplitude of research that has being placed into forensic psychology to help see how useful resources are when it comes to taking an eyewitness word. “The connection between erroneous eyewitness identification evidence and wrongful convictions has been the motivating force behind much research in forensic psychology” (Wells‚ 2006). When
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PART 5 : CAUSATION ( Neethling‚ Potgieter‚ Visser: Law of Delict‚ p 159 – 193 • Minister of Police v Skosana 1977 (1) SA 31 (A) • S v Mokgethi en Andere 1990 (1) SA 32 (A) • Meevis v Sheriff‚ Pretoria East 1999 (2) SA 389 (T) • Mukheiber v Raath and Another 1999 (3) SA 1065 (SCA) • Road Accident Fund v Russell 2001 (2) SA 34 (SCA) • Gibson v Berkowitz and Another [1997] 1 All SA 99 (W) • Groenewald v Groenewald [1998] 2 All SA 335 (A) • Minister of Safety & Security v Hamilton
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Evaluate the effectiveness of the criminal trial process in achieving justice Justice is the concept of moral rightness that is based on equality‚ access and fairness. This means that the law is applied equally‚ understood by all people and does not have a particularly harsh effect on an individual. In Australia‚ the adversary system is used as a means to achieve justice by proving the accused‚ beyond reasonable doubt‚ committed the crime. The criminal trial process has many features which aim
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