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    Exercise 2‚ page 27 a. I think women are better listeners than men. | Pro (yes‚ for‚ good) | Con (no‚ against‚ bad) | 1. Women are nurturing by nature. | 1. Tend to get too emotional. | 2. Like to listen and be supportive. | 2. Don’t see a problem in sharing your personal issues with others. | 3. Care to know all details and facts‚ no matter how long it takes. | 3. Will tend to feel they know it all. | 4. Will give advice based on personal experiences. | 4. Can often talk endlessly

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    Forensic Science recommended offering more education for arson investigation and to carrying out these procedures to review old cases. Until now‚ at least one hundred and thirty eight people were wrongly convicted‚ who received penalty and were later found to be innocent. If someone is convicted of a crime but later found faultless‚ we can bail them out of jail but not from the grave. The death penalty is not effective in preventing crimes and murders. According to the recent FBI report‚ murder rates

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    Way too many innocent people have been put behind bars for absolutely doing nothing. Some people are just at the wrong places at the wrong time but others are framed. In this essay I will talk about a case that put an innocent man behind bars. Eyewitness Misidentification‚ bad lawyering and Government Misconduct all lead to his demise. These three things are reasons why an innocent person can end up behind bars for nothing. It bothers me because this could happen to anyone‚ to me‚ a family member

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    innocent (Global Registry of Claims of Innocence‚ 2014). Several factors prevent wrongfully convicted individuals from proving his or

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    life in prison. Sources below. Most disturbing is that innocent people have been sentenced to death. Lots of them. 130 people wrongfully convicted people were sentenced to death and were lucky to be exonerated and released‚ eventually. DNA‚ available in less than 10% of all homicides‚ can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people. Obviously‚ if someone is convicted and later found innocent you can release him from prison‚ but not from the grave. A big surprise: The death penalty is much more

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    even rightfully punish rebellious members of society. Rather‚ capital punishment has cost the American people millions of dollars in maximum-security prisons and executions‚ wrongfully sentenced innocent men and women‚ and blatantly gone against the eighth amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Every convicted felon waiting on death row costs the American people over nine million dollars yearly to imprison. Such an absurd amount of money should be spent on the rehabilitation of these

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    Brad v Ada and Connie v Ada Assault Brad and Connie may have an action of assault against Ana. To obtain damages‚ Brad and Connie have to demonstrate that there was an intentional act or threat that directly places them in reasonable apprehension of imminent contact due to the direct acts of the defendant. In Rixon v Star City Casino Pty Ltd (2001) 53 NSWLR 98 (“Rixon”)‚ assault requires proof of an intention to create in Brad’s and Connie’s apprehension of imminent physical interference but does

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    Divraj Gill T. Chaudhry CLU3M0-B Monday‚ November 3rd‚ 2014 Rubin “Hurricane” Carter Many rights and freedoms of Rubin Carter were violated due to the wrongful conviction‚ which he spent 20 years of his life in prison. Rubin was convicted twice for the triple homicide. The levels of government that were presented in the film and the case are both federal and provincial. The New Jersey Supreme Court declared Rubin guilty twice‚ a provincial function. The federal function in the movie

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    are severely understaffed. Therefore‚ they are represented by public defenders‚ which is a granted constitutional right in the case of Gideon v. Wainwright. This case specified that states are required to provide defense attorneys to defendants convicted of a felony or serious crime that cannot provide attorney representation for themselves. According to Brunt (2015)‚ “approximately 80% of the offenders that are charged with a felony are indigent.” This is a relatively large number

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    Bad Faith: Did the police wrongfully create the exigent situations with the bad faith intent to avoid the requirement to obtain a warrant prior to the search? No. The legal test in this case should be objective‚ based on the application of objective standards of conduct‚ rather than

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