Jury Duty Essay

Should Have States Enacted The Stand Your Ground Law? In 2005, Florida became the first state in the United States to enact the Stand Your Ground Law. Before the enactment of this deadly law, the justifiable homicides per year was around twelve. Many incidents have occurred since 2005. In 2016 seeing the stand your ground law are no longer foreign but, domestic. Violent altercations, police brutality, and naive judgements are the main reason why America is America. According to Criminal Law

Abstract The Bill of Rights or the First 10 Amendments to the Constitution guarantee certain uninhibited rights to all criminal defendants of the United States whether innocent of, suspected of, arrested for, or being convicted of a criminal act. In particular the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th amendments keep would be felons from being denied the inherent rights given as protection to all of our nation’s children. Each of the four rights will be discussed in detail herein and how they affect the Criminal

"You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change.", Deray Mckesson speaks to the youth of our country, attempting to get it across his message across of justice and equality. Many individuals are not aware of the fraudulence that our criminal law system holds, and activists such as Mckesson try to bring as much light as possible to this urgent topic. Awareness is watered down significantly of the issues that

After reading the play 12 Angry Men I have come to the conclusion that the 12 jurors let a guilty man go free. The play begins with the 12 jurors in a murder case being very divided over what the verdict of the case should be. Even though there were more jurors who believed the man was guilty, with a combined effort of convincing and describing the evidence in different ways, they ultimately come to a not guilty verdict. When deciding if a man is guilty or not you should look at the suspect's background

now becomes your duty to try to separate the fact from the fancy. One man is dead. The life of another is at stake.” Every juror, hopefully, fulfills their duty to attempt to deduce the truth or as the judge put it, “separate the fact from the fancy”(Rose 5). However, each Juror will determine for themselves whether they hold the fact that “one man is dead” or that “the life of another is at stake” as more significant. In this instance both Jurors Four and Eight fulfill their duty to attempt to deduce

the potential harm that they might foreseeable cause to other people.” Similarly medical negligence is a professional negligence in which health care provider (doctor) breach his duty which he owes towards the patient. A doctor owes certain duty towards the patient who consults him for illness. Deficiency in this duty which causes injury and death of the patient result the negligence. In medical negligence compensatory damages are awarded to the patient for the injury caused by the doctor negligence

burden is not a burden of proof. It is a burden of raising, on the evidence in the case, an issue as to the matter in question fit for consideration by the tribunal of fact”. The evidential burden is referred as the burden of adducing evidence and the duty of passing the judge. In a criminal trial, the prosecution will bear the evidential burden. The prosecution must adduce sufficient evidence for the judge to not withdraw the case. Thus, even if the prosecution has discharged the evidential evidence

can sue the defendant for the loss occurred due to negligence of the defendant. There are three basic fundamental steps to prove negligence under the Civil Liability Act that the plaintiff must be able to prove:  Duty of care: There is a duty to full fill in the conditions  Breach of duty: The action of the defendant in the conditions did not meet set level of standard of care  Damage: The plaintiff has suffered damage or loss due to the conditions which could have been foreseen. (Hobart Community

nursing was not right for me. I struggled for a year to figure out what I wanted to do. I didn’t want to keep wasting time and money to go school. I took a year off to figure out what to do the rest of my life. During this time, I was picked for grand jury duty, it lasted about 6 weeks during spring 2016. To be honest I was excited because I want to experience something different. I heard many different cases throughout the week. I learn how Justice and legal system works. I learned some of the legal terms

enroute to the hospital, the individual began flailing his arms and was able to pull the breathing tube that had been inserted to help him breath. The individual died later on at the hospital. Kusmider was arrested and the case went to trial. The jury found Kusmider guilty of second degree murder. A pathologist during the trial testified that the victim did die from the gunshot wound, but that the injury might have been survivable. This was enough for Kusmider to request from the judge to present