Essays on Criminal Law

Their are many pros to prop 19 as well as cons. I believe the pros out weight the cons. Some of the pros would be a common sense control of marijuana, it will help stop wasting taxpayer dollars on failed marijuana prohibition. Controls and taxes marijuana like alcohol, and will only be available to adults….

In the wink of an oculus, North America was informed of Susan Smith ’ s tragic loss of her two immature male childs. No 1 would hold guessed that such a violent offense could hold occurred in a little town. Throughout the ordeal, constabularies began to see the defects in Susan Smith ’ s narrative….

The Illinois Department of Corrections ( IDOC ) has been in charge of administrating all “state prisons. juvenile centres and grownup and juvenile word services” since its creative activity in 1970. It has been entrusted with mission of protecting “the public from condemnable wrongdoers through a system of captivity and supervising which firmly segregates wrongdoers…

Federal justice Sonia Sotomayor was born as the eldest of two kids in the South Bronx country of New York City. on June 25. 1954. Parents Juan and Celina ( Baez ) Sotomayor. who were of Puerto Rican descent. moved to New York City to raise the household. Sotomayor’s household functioned on a really modest…

The Homolka case of 1993 saw a controversial ban in Canada on publication of the details of a murder trial. Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo, commonly known as ‘Killer Barbie and Ken’, are a Canadian couple who engaged in a series of videotaped sex murders. Karla Homolka, with her partner Paul Bernardo, was convicted of…

Fatal Vision: A false case of murder can be well-constructed, without giving room for any legal lacuna;   an innocent individual can be taken to the gallows. In a real case of murder, the murderer can go scot-free, when the law fails to establish the murder. The fabricated cases are drafted in consultation with the wily…

Probable cause must be present when stopping a citizen for a traffic violation. Officers must follow rules just like the people in the community or face consequences. This paper will describe the article titled “Judge Throws out Lance DUI Case” and analyze the requirements for search and arrest warrants and how they relate to probable…

In the case of United States v. Jackson, police officers rented a motel room adjacent to Mary Wanna’s room and listened in on her conversations by placing their ears against the shared wall. The key issue at hand is whether this action constitutes a violation of the Fourth Amendment. According to the Supreme Court, it…

In the United States, customary laws of the indigenous Indians are not explicitly recognised in criminal laws of federal or states law.[1] There is instead an indirect recognition of customary laws through the “recognition of tribal sovereignty and the separation from the federal and state laws.”[2] Tribal sovereignty was reduced and limited through the passage…

Serapio is a member of a beggars’ federation. The federation collects all the alms gathered by its members and distributes a portion to each member as well as a percentage to the founder. The situation arose when two prostitutes, both members of the federation, informed the founder that Serapio has a daughter. These two prostitutes…