Mock Court Case Study

Therefore, suppressed the self-incriminating statements in Williams following trial but under the independent source doctrine still admitted the fruit of the poisonous tree evidence such as the body’s location and conditions. The Supreme Court said that the evidence would’ve been discovered in a short period of without the police officer’s interrogation, didn’t infringe William’s Sixth Amendment rights and highlighted that the rule was already in standard practice by most state and federal courts. The Court also stated that the state didn’t have to prove “good faith” in order for evidence to be admissible and used Wong Suns court case as it’s backbone. William again was convicted of first degree murder.

staff the emergency room operated by the Plaintiff at its hospital facility as evidenced by the on call schedules maintained by the Plaintiff beginning in October of 2011.

The court had reason that even though the defendant did not place the poison in the cup, but simply brought it to the crime scene, we also are well aware that the attempt law has been consistently and effectively criticized. One persistent criticism of the endeavor to separate "mere preparation" from the "act itself" is merely one of the termini on a continuum of criminal activity.

I returned Ms Dunlap call. She said wants to place a formal complaint against the CPS worker Miranda Larson because she illegally removed her children based on false accusations. She stated that Miranda, like the entire CW are doing criminal activities. She then asked me if I had talked to her attorney? What was my conversation about, What did I disclose to them? What did they told me about her? "Be honest" she said. I informed her that I do contact her attorney because in one her DHS 0170 form the Discrimination Complaint form, she provided us her attorney's phone number and my conversation was about how can we contact her. She said that we should not be talking to her attorney because she just fired her.

Laws have been put in place of the years to ensure that everyone has equal opportunities when it comes to getting a job, keeping a job, and having access to goods, services, and locations. Several of the laws that have been enacted over the years include the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, the Age Discrimination Act of 1967, and the Americans with Disabilities of 1990.

II. Whether the government’s presentation of circumstantial evidence showing that the defendant-appellant acted evasively in his dealing with the substance at issue, knew the chemical components that made up the substance, and knew the effects of the substance was sufficient to prove the requisite scienter element necessary to sustain

Defendants base their Section 2-619 motion to dismiss on Section 2-201 and 2-109 of the Tort Immunity Act, which immunizes public employees from liability where the injury claimed is the result of a "discretionary policy determination."Hascall v. Williams, 2013 IL App (4th) 121131, ¶ 23. A "determination of policy" are those decisions that require the governmental entity or employee to balance competing interests and to make a judgment call as to what solutions will best serve each of those interests. Id. However, although the Defendants may have made a discretionary policy determination, Illinois courts have held that public entities still have a duty to maintain public property in a reasonably safe condition for intended and permitted users.

Today (February 4th, 2016), I was placed in Courtroom 4C of the courthouse and instructed to sit-in and observe every case brought forward to the judge today. I have to say, some of the cases I heard about today were not your real average day cases. One thing one of my supervisors; Vinny, told me to look out for was the the college/high school students who got in trouble for underage possession because they stick-out like a sore thumb in the courthouse. He said you can tell which ones they are based on the way they are dressed and how nervous they look when they are sitting and waiting for their case to be heard. Vin was not wrong, once the room was open for people to come in, I saw a group of 5-6 college-age students walk in very well dressed and most of them came in with one or two parents next to them. Throughout the day, some of the cases brought forward to the judge

Your honor, ladies and gentleman of the jury, me and my co-counsel, Diego Espinosa and Andrew Cope would like to thank you for the generous time you have taken today. Now, this case is a very simple case about how one person is denied humanity and a chance at a different life for the so-called “crimes” that they have committed. Crimes put beyond the thought of normality. They are crimes that enslave innocent people. I would like to ask you one question… What is truth? Truth is facts, truth is evidence, and truth is as important as the quill pen of Thomas Jefferson’s hand for our America.

Felipe was a first grader at Littlewood Elementary School. English is his second language and Portuguese is his primary language. Felipe is fluent in speaking, listening, reading, and writing in the English language.

Frist of all the judge as no right to decide happy endings for people if both parties are not in agreement with such arrangement or decision; and what the judge should have included is to ask the case worker to supervise the placement of Sandy with her mother, by making sure everything is going well. Also, the judge would have given the other advocates the chances to address their concerns by discussing their investigative research on the case.

On the other hand if he swallowed it and choked or was in discomfort, this was proof of his guilt as shown in figure 2. Trail by hot water, Court officials would heat a laundry pot full, of boiling water, then place a stone into the bottom. The suspect must pick out the stone to prove his innocence. In serious cases, he or she must jump in her arm up to the elbow. So these few different techniques of determining innocence in the Middle

MILLERSBURG — For admitted stealing lawn furniture from two businesses, a former Millersburg woman on Thursday was sentenced to a suspended prison term.

Brie’s authority to consent to the search of the shoebox was not ambiguous because the searching officers’ reliance on clear indications of her mutual use of the shoebox was reasonable. Additionally, even if this Court was to find Ms. Brie’s apparent authority was ambiguous, this Court must find that such ambiguity does not defeat the searching officers’ reasonable beliefs in her authority as finding otherwise would impose an unreasonable burden on police officers that would cause them to be unable to effectively fulfill their duties. Second, this court must find the government presented sufficient evidence to prove the scienter element in Mr. Brie’s case because statements made by Mr. Brie and one of his customers to the police prove he had the requisite knowledge of the substance he was dealing with and finding to the contrary would make it unreasonable difficult for prosecutors to prove the scienter element in future analogue drug

For the mock trial I was assigned to be one of the prosecuting attorneys. After being presented with case materials which included facts of the case, statements from both prosecuting and defense witnesses, penal code for the alleged charges, and map of the crime scene, we as a group decided to create one Google Drive document. There we would upload our parts of the case and help other group members with their assignments.