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The Police Exception And The Domestic Abuse Law
Number of Words: 770 / Number of Pages: 3
... to
continue his services for his county and his fellow police officers. Many
people feel that this officer is being done a great injustice and should be
allowed to continue his otherwise flawless career as an officer of the law.
Interesting.
One simple conviction could ruin the lives of every cop in the country. Hard
working, one-time offensive policemen and women would be barred from police work
forever. Many people think that this is entirely too harsh for a poke in the
chest or a slap to the face of a spouse. Many people think that the law was
produced in haste and that the solution is simple ...
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Criminal Law Investigation
Number of Words: 661 / Number of Pages: 3
... consent of the victim. Consent is just if the victim said it was all right
for the accused to do what he/she did. The other two are self explanatory.
The maximum penalty is 5 years imprisonment, but commonly punishments include
fines, good behaviour and community based orders.
A recent case in Australia was of a man who was stabbed outside a nightclub by a
group of people.
Rape
Rape is any introduction of any object into the vagina or anus of another person
without their consent.
To prove rape it must be proven that it was committed without the consent of the
victim.
The common def ...
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History And Uses Of Marijuana
Number of Words: 817 / Number of Pages: 3
... that marihuana use spread explosively. The chronicle of its
3,000 year history, however, shows that this "explosion" has been
characteristic only of the contemporary scene. The plant has been
grown for fiber and as a source of medicine for several thousand
years, but until 500~ AD its use as a mind-altering drug was almost
solely confined in India. The drug and its uses reached the Middle and
Near East during the next several centuries, and then moved across
North Africa, appeared in Latin America and the Caribbean, and finally
entered t ...
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The Need For Extreme Criminal Justice Reform In California
Number of Words: 2736 / Number of Pages: 10
... Punishment Act of 1994." (Senator Quentin Kopp, Time Magazine Feb 14,
1996) C. By passage of this act, the State of California has acknowledged the
limitations of incarceration as both punishment and a deterrent to criminal
behavior. D. The legislature has in fact declared that "California's criminal
justice system is seriously out of balance in its heavy dependence upon prison
facilities and jails for punishment and its lack of appropriate punishment for
nonviolent offenders and substance abusers who could be successfully treated in
appropriate, less restrictive programs without any increase in danger ...
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Illegal Drugs
Number of Words: 802 / Number of Pages: 3
... at
home in the office and on the road. Everybody pays the price of drug abuse:
more cops and prisons more hospitols and treatment centers and many lives
lost.
But drug users hurt themselves more than anybody because they are
supporting violent crimes in the drug world.
Just by using drugs they become part of that drug world. They are
already commiting acrime. But the relationship between drug use and crime
often means that drug users go on to commit crimes like
robbery,burglary,assult, and murder.
Drug addiction means that the brain is saying I need drugs now it
must have drugs. This offten me ...
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Capital Punishment: The Just Punishment For Serious Crimes
Number of Words: 182 / Number of Pages: 1
... punishment serves this purpose by the "a life for a life" principle.
Also, it is an effective crime deterent which , by simply incapacitation of
the criminal, the chances of committing crimes of that criminal is
eliminated. Potential serial killers could not have been serial killers if
they were executed after the first murder. Furthermore, it has a
threatening effect to the public, making use of human's basic fear of
death, implying that the society would deal with capital offences with a
just hand , by taking away the lives of the criminals who knowingly
forfeits others' right to life.
Capital ...
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Computer Generated Evidence In Court
Number of Words: 4698 / Number of Pages: 18
... out in detail
in section 69 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984 (see further
Nyssens 1993, Reed 1993 and Tapper 1993).
In general the principles of admissibility are that the evidence must be
relevant to the proof of a fact in issue, to the credibility of a witness or to
the reliability of other evidence, and the evidence must not be inadmissible by
virtue of some particular rule of law (Keane 1994, pp 15-20; Tapper 1990, pp 51-
61).
Real evidence usually takes the form of some material object (including computer
output) produced for inspection in order that the court may draw an in ...
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The Advantages Of Being Legal
Number of Words: 949 / Number of Pages: 4
... nausea, vomiting, and loss
of appetite caused by chemotherapy treatment. It does the same for people with
AIDS. By reducing intraocular pressure, marijuana helps slow or halt the
gradual increasing eye pressure suffered by glaucoma patients. Marijuana reduces
the muscle pain and spastically caused by multiple sclerosis. It also helps some
patients control their bladders. With some epileptic patients, marijuana
prevents seizures. Marijuana is also a very effective pain reliever.
Hemp, a plant mainly grown for its use as a fiber source, is from the
same plant that produces marijuana. It is different ...
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Religion And Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 3079 / Number of Pages: 12
... but rather "morally acceptable" legalized murder.
The opening quote of this paper comes directly from the Holy Bible. It suggests to the reader that God did not make death and He doesn’t delight in the death of a human being, regardless of the cause. The Holy Bible is one of the best places to find information about death and how to treat capital punishment. In setting out the ten commandments, one of its best known passages, in the Bible it is stated that: "Thou shalt not kill." (Dt. 5:17). This is not a conditional statement. Rather, it is direct, to the point, and does not incorporate any mod ...
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Why Drugs Should Be Legalized!!!!
Number of Words: 3260 / Number of Pages: 12
... in 1933, politicians
buckled and repealed the 18th Amendment. The Prohibition attempt of the early
20th century provides the perfect historical support for the decriminalization
of drugs.
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species
of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that
it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of
things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very
principles upon which our government was founded."
The rise in violent crime over the years has been a con ...
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