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Jury Trials and Juveniles

Court held in 1998 that a 13-year-old first-degree murder defendant had the right to jury trial because state law allowed juries f...

Glaspell: "A Jury of Her Peers"

and indeed she is the most likeable person in the story, because she is the one who solves the mystery and suggests its resolution...

Short Story Analysis: Three Literary Works

way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...

Faulkner and Glaspell: Two Short Stories

men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...

How Will the Supreme Court Rule on the Allen Snyder Case?

race, Snyder refers to Batson v. Kentucky, a case in 1986 that would not allow the practice of eliminating jurors due to race ("Co...

Ladies & Gentlemen of the Jury, I Present…the Nursing Documentation

was breached," the third is to prove that there was an injury incurred by the patient and the fourth must prove that this "injury ...

Amicus Brief: Recovered Memories

Children play an entertaining game of telephone operator, where one child whispers a short story to the next child in line, who th...

Writers and Their Times: John Steinbeck and Susan Glaspell

Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...

Ethical Dilemmas within the Legal Framework: “The Jury”

hours each. The first disk is concerned with the description of the crime and the selection of the jury; the second covers the pro...

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...

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 ...

Is Trial by Jury a Good System?

with jury trials. First, people have a common misconception that juries are there to find "truth"; however, this is not really the...

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...

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...

Judges, Juries, and Sentencing in Criminal Justice

The American legal system revolves around two primary players when it comes to criminal sentencing. These players are the...

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...

Pre-Trial Activities: An Overview

and walks of life. Generally, when one acquires a drivers license, registers with the Selective Service, or registers to vote, one...

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 ...

"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...

Overview of Jury Trials

number of challenges for cause ("Steps"). The number of juror selected varies according to the type of case. For civil cases and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The 1957 Film '12 Angry Men'

a jury in the wake of racial stereotypes and roles. The defendant is an uneducated, teenaged Puerto Rican slum dweller. The "peer...

Government Threats to Jury Trials

In five pages tis paper discusses the government's efforts to impede the extremely important trial by jury process. Three sources...

Great Britain's Jury Trial System

In a paper consisting of five pages the desire of the present government to abolish the system of jury trial in Great Britain is e...

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...

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...