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Papers on Legal Issues
Facts About Marijuana
Number of words: 1254 | Number of pages: 5.... In
2,700 B.C. that same "mythical" emperor said it helped female
weakness, gout, rheumatism, malaria, beri-beri (?), contipation, and
absentmindedness.
In 1979 (A.D.) Carlton E. Turner visited China and found
marijuana was not in use in formal medical places. J. D. P. Graham
of the Welsh National School of Medicine wrote, "One not need take to
seriously the anecdotal use of it's use for many purposes in China or
by the Hindus in the pre-Christian Millennia ...and by the Arabs!" In
1890 in Engla .....
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Date Rape
Number of words: 756 | Number of pages: 3.... woman back to his apartment or dorm. This is dangerous for both parties. The man may think that the woman is leading him on, that if she agrees to go with him that it is an invitation to have sex. If the female seems to be enjoying kissing or fooling around with the guy, he may think she is teasing him if she decides to stop. The man may feel angry or rejected if this happens, and may want sexual gratification anyway. The result can be rape.
If only the woman is drunk, the man may see this as an opportunity to take advantage of her because she will most likely be less defensive towards him. Some men plan the act of rape, and may us .....
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The Effects Of Race On Sentencing In Capital Punishment Cases
Number of words: 1134 | Number of pages: 5.... eliminate racial bias.
Since Gregg v. Georgia the total population of all 36 death rows has
grown as has the number of judicial controls used by each state. Of the 3,122
people on death row 41% are black while 48% are white (Gest, 1996, 41). This
figure may be acceptable at first glance but one must take into account the fact
that only 12% of the U.S. population is black (Smolowe, 1991, 68). Carolyn
Snurkowski of the Florida attorney generals office believes that the
disproportionate number of blacks on death row can be explained by the fact that,
“Many black murders result from barroom brawls that wouldn't c .....
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Gun Control
Number of words: 713 | Number of pages: 3.... the number of teen murders by all other means has stayed the same."
C. Black Market is a great sorce of gun trading
Munsey, 96' (Christopher, March 31)
"Firearms stolen from residents and gun stores are the number one outlet for for
criminals. 'They are traded on the street in the brisk black-market whirl that
includes drugs & cash.' state police said.
D. Guns kill more teens than all diseases conbined.
Neergaad, 96'(AP, July 13)
"Guns kill more teen-agers than all other diseases combined. Gun related
homicides & suicides are rising. Firearms send almost 40,000 americans to thier
graves each year."
Contention 2. Avail .....
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Adult Entertainment And The City Of New York
Number of words: 1590 | Number of pages: 6.... Entertainment enterprises are three-fold. First, in the process of zoning property boundaries, the government must avoid a regulating factor that allows a commercial business to have no other competition. A monopoly is an illegal economic entity in our free-market system. If only one adult establishment can be present in a zoning area, it is then a restriction of the competitive market where there can not be a choice for the consumer. This is the weakest of the three arguments and it will just be mentioned but not pursued.
Second, it seems that the realm in which the city defines the "Adult Establishment" as a commercial e .....
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The Importance Of Plea Bargaining In Criminal Trials
Number of words: 1322 | Number of pages: 5.... the truly guilty criminal is punished. In
our less than perfect world, plea bargaining is easily the lesser of the evils.
I agree with the definitions submitted by the affirmative speaker.
Americans have always emphasized getting a job done. We place a great
deal of value on efficiency and industry. The government is expected to run
with efficiency and operate with the good of the people in mind. Every aspect
of our lives is governed by this utilitarian value. Why do we place such
importance on efficiency? Because without it nothing would ever get done. If
we all constantly obsessed over minute details and unrealistic .....
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Capital Punishment: Is It Required
Number of words: 1997 | Number of pages: 8.... the United States
Constitution as "...cruel and unusual punishment." In this country, although
laws governing the application of the death penalty have undergone many changes
since biblical times, the punishment endures, and controversy has never been
greater.
Perhaps the most frequent argument for capital punishment is that of
deterrence. The prevailing thought is that imposition of the death penalty will
act to dissuade other criminals from committing violent acts. Numerous studies
have been created attempting to prove this belief; however, "All the evidence
taken together makes it hard to be confident that capital pun .....
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Law Does Not Drive Us, Reason Does
Number of words: 884 | Number of pages: 4.... without any
other
parameters, this natural state of existence would govern its
behavior. Fortunately there are parameters, and they are laws.
(Mosier)
What this basically says is that laws are made up to maintain order, monitor
actions, and work for the best interest of society as a whole. If their were no
laws chaos and anarchy would be widespread. This is why society has set up
governments. To maintain order and to gives us safety.
All of the above sounds good to me; however I have written a term paper
on international politics that points out where our own government has broken
its own laws .....
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The Death Penalty
Number of words: 709 | Number of pages: 3.... individuals' chance for salvation. Human life has intrinsic value, even if a person has murdered another. Nobody should ever be killed, even by the state.
Moreover, human beings such as the poor, males, and racial minorities are over-represented among those executed. A study of over 2 dozen convicted criminals on death row found that all had been so seriously abused during childhood that they probably all suffered from brain damage. To further this subject, women convicted of murder are almost never executed. For instance, in March 1998 Judy Beenano aged 54 in Florida, was called the "Black Widow" for poisoning her husband, dro .....
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Substance Abuse Increasing In Inner-City Minorities
Number of words: 1099 | Number of pages: 4.... though crack and cocaine are the same drug (just in different forms) the
courts give out stiffer sentences for crack offenders than powder cocaine
offenders 7. According to federal law if a person is caught with five grams of
crack they get a mandatory five year sentence 8. To get a five year sentence
for trafficking powder cocaine a person would have to be caught with 500 grams 9.
African-Americans account for 88.3 percent of all federal crack distributors 10.
This sentencing shows how the judicial system goes harder on black people for
drug violations than whites 11.
The upper and middle class teens do there far .....
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