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Papers on Legal Issues
When Society Kills
Number of words: 886 | Number of pages: 4.... Defendants must have a dual trial--one to establish guilt or
innocence and if guilty a second trial to determine whether or not they
would get the death penalty. Defendants sentenced to death are granted
oversight protection in an automatic appeal to the state supreme court.
These constitutional safeguards translate into:
- a more extensive jury selection procedure
- a four fold increase in the number of motions filed
- a longer, dual trial process
- more investigators and expert testimony
- more lawyers specializing in death penalty litigation .....
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Drug Trafficking In Mexico
Number of words: 536 | Number of pages: 2.... told Congress last week, blaming the failure on corruption and lack of security. U.S. officials said the Mexican government failed to finance the task forces and that U.S. agencies had borne the full cost of Mexican operations until last September. At that point, U.S. officials said, Mexico said it no longer wanted U.S. funding and that the task force would be paid for with money confiscated from drug traffickers.
The analysis of the effort's failure comes as some members of Congress gear up to try to overturn the Clinton administration's decision last week to certify Mexico as fully cooperating in the anti-drug war. .....
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The Mafia
Number of words: 1785 | Number of pages: 7.... Crime).
Immigration to the United States, from Italy, began around 1870. “
Of the approximately 5.3 million that have followed, approximately 25
percent came from Sicily” (Italian 4). The mass immigration took place
for many reasons. Many wanted to move because of poverty and rampant
inflation. Others wanted to move because of social and economic
immobility. Another reason for immigration to the United States was
because Mussolini thought that the Mafia was a threat to his facist regime.
He began an Anti-Mafia campaign. It’s leader was Cesare Mori, who was
known as the “Iron Prefect.” His campaign caused the ar .....
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Capital Punishment
Number of words: 2571 | Number of pages: 10.... community. The essential basis on which community is built requires each
citizen to honor the rightful claims of others. The utter and deliberate denial
of life and opportunity to others forfeits ones own claim to continued
membership in the community, whose standards have been so flagrantly violated.
The preservation of moral community demands that the shattering of the
foundation of its existence must be taken with utmost seriousness. The
preciousness of life in a moral community must be so highly honored that those
who do not honor the life of others make null and void their own right to
membership. Those who violate the personh .....
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Software Licensing And Piracy
Number of words: 3739 | Number of pages: 14.... and licensing.
Information can qualify to be property in two ways; patent law
and copyright laws which are creations of federal statutes, pursuant to
Constitutional grant of legislative authority. In order for the government
to prosecute the unauthorized copying of computerized information as theft,
it must first rely on other theories of information-as-property. Trade
secret laws are created by state law, and most jurisdictions have laws
that criminalize the violations of a trade-secret holder's rights in the
secret. The definition of a trade secret varies somewhat from state to
state, but commonly have the same ele .....
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Problems With Gun Control
Number of words: 906 | Number of pages: 4.... to bestow unlimited rights upon the people.
The question to ask today is, are the people responsible enough to have the
unlimited rights that they seem to have under this Amendment. Clede states,
"that does not mean that the government can constitutionally prohibit all
weapons, but it probably means that the government can reasonably regulate and
limit their use." I agree with Clede's point. The language of the
Constitution is very vague. The second amendment states, " A well-regulated
militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the
people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Never did t .....
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Gun Control
Number of words: 585 | Number of pages: 3.... They do not stop crime while it is happening. Armed citizens can stop the crime before it ever even happens. How many times have you read about someone walking into a public place and opening fire? Sometimes the person even stops and reloads. What would you do if you were there? Hide and wait to be shot? Or would you hope that someone else is armed? After all, one-armed citizen could stop the shooting! Criminals don't wait for you to call the police! Why should you have to wait on the police to come to your rescue? Don't you have the right to defend your own life? Does the constitution offer protection for private individuals cho .....
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Capital Punishment: For
Number of words: 734 | Number of pages: 3.... crime ranging from auto theft to
1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their actions.
Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the individuals themselves. Every human has a
personal set of conduct. How much they will and will not tolerate. How far they
will and will not go. This personal set of conduct can be made or be broken by
friends, influences, family, home, life, etc. An individual who is never taught
some sort of restraint as a child, will probably never understand any limit as
to what they can do, until they have learned it themselves. Therefore, capital
punishment will never truly work as a deterrent, b .....
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Divorce Litigation
Number of words: 289 | Number of pages: 2.... or abandonment, done by the defendant to the
plaintiff.
In the past, almost every state divorce law required the plaintiff
to prove one of a number of recognized grounds for divorce, included
adultery and desertion, even when both spouses wanted the divorce. The
divorce system also required that the plaintiff be without fault, and
therefore a variety of fault-based defenses were recognized.
By the mid-20th century most state legislatures had recognized one
or more no-fault grounds for divorce, usually consisting of a substantial
period during which the spouses had lived separate and apart. However,
even th .....
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The Death Penalty
Number of words: 660 | Number of pages: 3.... "Applying without prejudice is an impossible feat in the judicial system. All of us carry a certain amount of prejudice, so who is the perfect one to make the judgement whether someone lives or dies?" Williams said, "I don't think any of us can stand and say this person deserves to die." The race of someone can be part of the decision that is made. Of the roughly 3,000 people on death row in the United States, 40 percent are black and 48 percent are white. Yet blacks make up just 13 percent of the national population and whites 74 percent.
should be abolished because nobody on this earth has the right to play God. The most log .....
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