Criminal Law 101

Question 1 A. The court structure in Kansas consists of four levels and they are the municipal court, district court, the court of appeals and the supreme court. All four levels are important and play slightly different roles depending on the crime.

Issue 1: Homicide Rule: Homicide: The legal definition of homicide is the intentional, premeditated taking of the life of another human being.

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From: Brittani Herring To: Reader Date: July 24, 2013 Re: Status Punishment Facts In the case of Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 (1962), the Supreme Court ruled that a law may not punish a status; i.e., one may not be punished to being an alcoholic or for being addicted to drugs. However, of course, one may be punished for actions such as abusing drugs. The question becomes; What if the status “forces” the action? What if a person, because of his/her addiction to drugs, is “forced” by the addiction to purchase and abuse the illegal drugs? Would punishing that person be unfairly punishing a status?

dAssignment Module 1 I grew up in a neighborhood which is riddled with crime. Unfortunately, people who I grew up with became involved in gangs and criminal activities. Those actions led to them having a criminal record. When looking through the options of the podcast, People who are involved in the criminal justice system is the one I thought would be most interesting. The person Bradley Jacobs discusses what he does in the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES).

MIBC 104 – Political Science Unit 5 Assignment Write a one-page document discussing the types of law found in the textbook. (5) 1. Criminal law – This Law is widely statutory and covers a particular category of wrong that is considered social evils and threats to the community. Here the crime is against state regulations. Criminal Law is divided into three categories which are:

Argue for or against the theory that the courts should not hold a defendant of questionable competency to the standard sentencing guidelines.

Civil law is a system of law conerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious ethics. Criminal law is a system of law concerned with the punishment of those who committed the crimes. I believe in the Good Samaritan Case it is both a criminal and civil case. The case is criminal and civil case. The case is criminal because Broitzman and Larson where both charged for the crimes they committed. This case is also a civil law case because being a nursing home the actions of the girls charged also effected the community in more than just a criminal way. The

Question 7: Despite the wording of most statutes proscribing the offense of escape, courts increasingly require the prosecution to prove the defendant’s specific intent to avoid lawful confinement. Are courts justified in imposing such a requirement on the statutory law?

Advances in technology has brought many benefits but also problems. The use of new technology creates moral and ethical problems and conflicting attitudes in society. The complexity of the issues and the pace with which technology changes mean that legislators have difficulty making laws that can keep in control of these changes.

1. Criminal Law is largely statutory, and it covers certain kinds of crimes, such as murder, robbery, rape, fraud and extortion. In criminal cases, the state prosecutes the offender not the victim. There is three kinds of offenses and they are petty offenses, such as traffic violations, and they are usually punishable by a fine. Misdemeanors where you are charged a larger fine, and then you have the major offenses. They are felonies, which were mentioned earlier, those cases can be heard and prosecuted by the state or the Federal government, and they are usually punished by imprisonment. One example is the case of the OJ Simpson case, he was tried in Criminal court but he was found not guilty of Murder.

Which your land, personal property, bank accounts, and so on that might be seizure. Signature Bonds Allow release based on the defendant’s written promise to appear. This is nominal a minor offence like traffic violations, or some petty drugs violations. They may be issued by the arresting officer acting on behalf of the courts.

A) Civil law has to do with issues between person and person or between person and their government. While Criminal laws has to so with wrongful acts against society as a whole. For instance if I ran my car into someone’s fence it would be a civil lawsuit since it is between me and the person who I ran my car through their fence, but it would become a criminal lawsuit if I was drunk and driving and ran my car through the fence because I’m putting society in harm of my drinking and driving.

Doug will be eligible for reduction to voluntary manslaughter. Self Defense: Self defense is a general right to defend oneself against the use of unlawful force. One may defend oneself with deadly force only if the attacker threatens him with serious bodily harm.

In the Netherlands we have three types of law: • Civil law Civil law is also known as private law. It sets out the rules governing relationships between people. Examples of civil law are the law of persons, family law, commercial law, rent law and employment law.