Jury Selection Process, Sequestration, Verdict and Relevant Controversies: OJ Simpson's case had already set the record for being the longest jury trial in the history of California even before the commencement of closing arguments. For a better p Continue Reading...
OJ Simpson Versus the People: Impact on Criminal justice The American criminal justice process and system are responsible for shaping the present-day US laws; influential entities include even 19th-century governmental authorities and political lead Continue Reading...
DNA Analysis Abstract This paper discusses the history of DNA analysis, how it came about, how it was first used in a criminal case, and some of the limitations of DNA analysis as shown by later criminal cases. It looks at how DNA analysis is current Continue Reading...
Casey Anthony Trial The murder trial Florida vs. Casey Marie Anthony turned into a national sensation because of the alleged attempt by 25-year-old Casey Anthony to cover up the murder of her own 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony (Alvarez, 2011). Continue Reading...
DNA in Criminal Cases - Solving Cold Cases in California with Forensic Science This research will attempt to analyze and discuss the feasibility of DNA testing in solving cold cases and will study the impact that DNA fingerprinting has had on the fo Continue Reading...
Media Coverage of the Scott Peterson Case man allegedly slaughters his pregnant wife in cold blood! This sensational headline for the sensational case of Scott Peterson could very easily and ironically, accurately sum up the details of Peterson case. Continue Reading...
Although in this particular case it seemed that Scott Peterson was guilty, even if the evidence was just circumstantial, this type of evidence has sent many people to death, only to find out later that they were not guilty. This is actually a flaw o Continue Reading...
"The criterion for the admissibility of a confession has thus evolved into the quality of voluntariness. The aim of admitting into evidence only voluntary confessions is to prevent the introduction of unreliable evidence. & #8230; the result is Continue Reading...
Safeguarding the criminal justice system from wrongful convictions through an efficient innocence program policy evaluation proposalExecutive summaryConvicting innocent people is a global concern. The problem has been brought to the fore in the US t Continue Reading...
Courtroom TV The discussion below is an analysis of a criminal prosecution case that was celebrated The OJ Simpson Case; Criminal Procedures The presiding judge indicated that she was satisfied with the prosecutions argument. Judge Kathleen pointe Continue Reading...
Rational for Selecting Juries Page 3 Generalizations about juries Page 4 General comments: jury service Page 4 General comments: summoning juries Page 5 General comments: Simpson jury Page 6 Jurors errors and DNA analysis Role of Juries Close Continue Reading...
Pseudo-Event In the scientific literature it is difficult to find a useful concept for the news craze. In Media Matters (1994) John Fiske uses the word 'media event'. These kinds of events have their own reality and their own patterns. "The term med Continue Reading...
Blood evidence collection and sampling has always been an important topic. The subject has been idealized and glamorized by entertainment shows like CSI and others. However, the field is not as easy and basic as it may seem and the field is indeed co Continue Reading...
Both Andrew and Abby had been killed in a similar manner -- crushing blows to their skills from a hatchet (Tetimony of Bridget Sullivan in the Trial of Lizzie Borden). Just prior to the murder there was a great deal of conflict at the Borden house. Continue Reading...
" In order to see how this influences the show's representation of the interpersonal relationships of the family, one may examine a scene from the first episode, in which the editing choices serve to identify the shop as a particular kind of expressi Continue Reading...
If police officers are not sufficiently deterred by the prospect of evidence being suppressed at a hearing where a person's liberty is in jeopardy, it is a fortiori that they will not be deterred by the possibility of suppression at a civil forfeitu Continue Reading...
Programs and Services § Briefly describe the major programs and services, and the population intended to be served. Before choosing the programs it is pointed out that about three decades ago, the term 'organizational culture', came in vogue Continue Reading...
Criminological Event Racism has always been a defining feature of the American criminal justice system, including racial profiling, disparities in arrests convictions and sentencing between minorities and whites, and in the use of the death penalty. Continue Reading...
Airbrushing John Rawls' philosophical theme centers on the topic of "justice as fairness." It's hard not to relate this to one of the growing topics of discussion, namely the importance of digital deception which might well include the idea of airbr Continue Reading...
Therefore, by increasing the costs of imprisonment by the three strikes law, it is intended that there will be less crime. Marwell and Moody express several difficulties with the laws in the 24 states: Criminals are not always aware of the laws, at Continue Reading...
Death Penalty From the beginning of a capital punishment trial, the focus of the legal process is on the perpetrator's rights. If found guilty of the crime for which he or she stands accused, and once the death penalty sentence is imposed, the subs Continue Reading...
Court Was Correct: Silva Deserves to Teach Exordium: OJ Simpson was one thing; this time, the courts got it right. Professor Silva used questionable teaching methods, yes, but the federal court's decision was correct: Any possible improprieties di Continue Reading...
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter has become a symbol, both negative and positive, for American's judicial system. Rubin carter's case has had a profound impact on accused and convicted criminals today. The advent of DNA technology has helped to reduce the Continue Reading...
Double Jeopardy and Legislative Limitations The legal concept of "Double Jeopardy" is a rather simple one to define and to understand, but application of the Double Jeopardy standard is anything but easy or simple. On a very basic level, Double Jeop Continue Reading...
invasion of privacy under the fourth amendment. It briefly looks into the changes that have come about in this law and also the way that it is enforced. The invasion of privacy is something that is taken very seriously in the United States of Ameri Continue Reading...
2. Freedman, Jonathan. (2007). "No real evidence for TV violence causing real violence." Retrieved July 7, 2010 from: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=18490 This source is an Internet editorial article published online on A Continue Reading...
By virtue of the fact that sports such as baseball and football in the United States had begun to prove themselves enormously popular and profitable, the intrusion of sponsorship and advertisement as a regular element of the game had begun a century Continue Reading...
Integrity in Personal and Professional Life In the context of human psychological issues, integrity means congruence between one's expressed principles and internal values and one's external actions (Branden, 1985). A person who professes to respe Continue Reading...
real problems faced by real people in the world, it might seem foolish to analyze a fictitious character. But sometimes it is easier to understand human nature when we look to art or fiction, in part because art provides us with some needed distance Continue Reading...
Social Psychology The author of this report will be addressing four high-level topics during the course of this report. In order, those topics will be narcissism, self-esteem/self-worth, a definition and discussion of the self-efficacy theory of Alb Continue Reading...
But if there five or ten, along with other forensic evidence, it is enough to say that an individual committed a crime "beyond a reasonable doubt." The glove that didn't fit O.J. Simpson at his trial for the murder of his wife and another man is an Continue Reading...
J. Simpson or John Gotti. In both cases, the defendants are entitled to the presumption of innocence only in court; but there is no such "presumption" in the intellectual "court" of one's mind. A lawyer with integrity would refuse to represent any d Continue Reading...
The authors do not state that public perceptions of severity should be discounted, but merely that these should not be over-emphasized, as was the case in previous literature. Another existing mode of measuring crime severity is that of economic mo Continue Reading...
Racism in America: Where do we stand? From the time of the New World's discovery in the year 1492, racism has remained at the forefront of U.S. history. Even in the present day, it is reported that in America, one Black man dies from police confront Continue Reading...
Celebrity Endorsement Strategy: An Investigation Using Nike's relationship with Federer as an example, the paper analyzes the use of celebrity endorsement strategy of the brands beginning from choosing the right celebrity figures until the final re Continue Reading...
" The true significance of a strand of DNA is that it is sure to house all of the necessary information that is the blueprint or code for various aspect of the body that it represents. Consider that in the majority of organisms, genetics is establis Continue Reading...
Race, Class & Crime The confluence of race, class and crime is a hot topic nowadays. This is especially true when discussing events or topics of various types. Very or fairly specific examples of this would include the recent shooting of Mike Br Continue Reading...
We should be thankful for this amazing technological development," (Hatch, 2000). The death penalty must be altered, not abolished. In all new cases, if DNA evidence is not provided as conclusive for the conviction of the arrested, then capital pun Continue Reading...
