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Misconduct and Jury Incompetence

way to enough blood loss volume to induce death (2000). They used their medical expertise during deliberations which led to the ve...

Process of Jury Selection and Discrimination

OJ jury, they might have convicted him. Much attention has been paid to race and gender as a result of Batson v. Kentucky, a case ...

Leadership and the Film Twelve Angry Men

The Architect does not profess belief in the boys innocence, at this point, but simply indicates that he feels a moral obligation ...

Isolation Theme in 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

An Effective Closing Argument in a Death Penalty Case

one chosen for consumption. Bill was only 14 years old. Mike dies after rescue and Mark seems to have had a psychotic break. Mark ...

Principles of Jury Nullification

positive development, scholarly opinion uniformly refutes this position, seeing instead of "power to the people," that rule of to...

Counter Closing Argument Construction

one were to counter Spences arguments, one would first have to make the company, Kerr-McGee look as if it were not the big bad ind...

Short Stories and Rounded Character Building

The ways in which rounded characters are constructed within short stories are considered in a six page examination of Guy de Maupa...

Spectator Article on Jury Nullification

they had heard much worse and thought the boys should be allowed to go. They believed they were doing the right thing but of cours...

Jury System's Significance

to stifle its newspaper critics through criminal prosecution, New York grand juries refused to indict, and a petit jury famously r...

History and Evolution of Grand Juries

In eight pages this research paper traces the evolution of the system of grand juries from its early days in England to the contem...

Is a Man with a Brain Tumor Who Commits Murder Guilty or Not Guilty?

In five pages this essay considers whether or not a jury should find a man who committed murder while suffering from a brain tumor...

Fiction and the Portrayal of Management Leadership

In nine pages this paper examines the leadership of characters depicted in 'The Moviegoer' by Percy, 'Shooting an Elephant' by Orw...

A Twenty First Century Platform for the Democratic Party

Racial inequality, problems in higher education, and affirmative action, jury nullification, and restitution are all issues that s...

Process of Jury Selection

In eight pages the O.J. Simpson case is featured in this consideration of the process of jury selection with ethnic composition an...

The Group Dynamics of the Jury in 12 Angry Men

which a jury debates the evidence it has just seen presented in a murder trial. This paper reviews the film as well as discussing ...

BASINGER, BOXING HELENA AND LAW SUIT

In 1991, Main Line Pictures sued Kim Basinger (and others) for breach of contract in connection with the film "Boxing Helena." Bas...

Against the Practice of Race-Based Jury Nullification

to be guilty, innocent, in order to nullify unfair laws. This is particularly true of black juries finding black defendants innoce...

Death Row: Why is it Racially Imbalanced?

properly! Crime is not racist. Some criminals may be, but crime itself is not. People of all races commit crimes. We would like ...

Are Judges an Anachronism to the Criminal Justice System?

For all of its faults and shortcomings, the American legal system is the best in the world. That system revolves around two prima...

Women’s Writing and Male Domination

both the other woman and herself. She tells her shocked husband, who faints when he sees her creeping around the wall, that she ha...

HOT COFFEE, MCDONALD'S AND ETHICS

will burn if they drink it too fast, and the best way to ensure they wont be injured is to wait for the coffee to cool a little. T...

"A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell

This essay pertains to Susan Glaspell's " A Jury of Her Peers." The writer argues that Glaspell provides a scathing social critiqu...

Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the two stories Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers and the relationships between the women in...

U.S. Government's Post Second World War Realism

the reverse side of the same coin on which liberalism resides, it generally is seen to be diametrically opposed to any liberal ben...

AIDS Stigma and its Effects Upon the Gay Community, the Government's Executive Branch, and Biomedicine

In five pages this paper examines how these areas have been affected by the HIV and AIDS stigma in the United States. Five source...

Progressive Era and Government's New Role

the 1890s (Mattson 337). The reformers tried to improve the status of direct democracy through such things as the social center mo...

Prime Ministerial Government and Cabinet Transformation of the British Government During the Late 1990s

to join the battle. Poland, who was no match for Germanys fighting technology, was crushed in a relatively short amount of time. ...

Year 2031 and the U.S. Government's Strengths and Weaknesses

In thirteen pages this paper examines the year 2031 in an evaluation of the U.S. democracy and government's strengths and weakness...

Checks, Balances, and the US Federal Government's Executive Branch

as the man in the White House was to be under control and working in a particular paradigm set up by the Constitution. How can the...