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    Sara Miller Sparknotes

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    Outline: The last day of baseball before spring break, Gabriel accidentally took Hudson’s bag, which had the school’s bat, chromebook, charger, and textbook. Gabriel went to Florida with his family and forgot the Chromebook. Cass County Prosecuting Attorney Sara Miller is taking him to court. Characters: Judge Gary Johnson, Attorney Robert Richards, Attorney Sara Miller, Gabriel Smith, Hudson Reeve, Coach Baxter, Machelle Webber. Items Stolen: Cleats $200, bag $120, bat $400, school chromebook

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    Supreme Court Cases Essay

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    United States Supreme Court decision that limited the power of the President of the United States to seize private property in the absence of either specifically enumerated authority under Article Two of the US Constitution or statutory authority conferred on him by Congress. The Majority decision was that the President had no power to act except in those cases expressly or implicitly authorized by the Constitution or an act of Congress. Marbury vs. Madison: A landmark case in United States Law

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    Marvin Anderson Case

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    evidence, allowing witnesses they know or should know are not truthful to testify, pressuring defense witnesses not to testify, relying on fraudulent forensic experts, making misleading arguments that overstate the probative value of testimony. Government misconduct took on a major role throughout the entire case in prosecuting Anderson. The innocence project mentions this, “In the years after Anderson’s conviction, when DNA testing had become widely available, Anderson sought to prove his innocence of the

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    Abstract Plea bargaining has been around since the early 1800’s and is a process where the attorney for the defendant negotiates a plea with the prosecuting attorney. This process which was simple in the beginning has changed dramatically over the years. Prosecutors have made it seem they have evidence for serious crimes and get people to plead guilty to a lesser offense. Many people will accept a plea bargain out of fear of what will happen at trial. Everyday people who otherwise would have been

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    arguably may still be the greatest threat to the survival of the United States since the Founding Fathers launched this “Great Experiment”. Only eleven days earlier Major Robert Anderson, the commander of the federal garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, had to surrender the fort to the Confederate Army. Lincoln was

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    Death Penalty

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    room for this individual. Death Penalty or capital punishment is the sentence of execution for the crime of murder and some other capital crime (serious crimes especially murder, punishable by death). The death penalty was practiced in the United States from since colonial times until today. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 1,289 people have been executed as of this date. 1,115 of which were executed by lethal injection. This is said to be the least painful method of death compared

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    in a form of physical assault, sexual assault, social abuse, psychological abuse, and financial abuse. The occurrence of the violence can be sometimes on and off, occasional or long-lasting. Many may confuse the term domestic violence as a simple argument, but that is not true. Domestic violence is a pattern of using threats and force to make someone do something. Many abusers use threats, physical and sexual violence, emotional insults and economic deprivation as a way to dominate their

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    Role of False Confessions

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    course not, says common sense. Naturally, it is difficult to understand why anyone would confess to a crime they didn’t commit. However, false confessions are one the leading causes of wrongful convictions.1 As the Supreme Court of Canada noted in R v. Oickle, innocent people are induced to make false confessions more frequently than those unacquainted with the phenomenon might expect.2 In North America, we can trace the existence of false confessions back to the Salem Witch Trials, where a number

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    children at a playground and into the surrounding woods. Knight raped the woman twice and beat her with the gun, which he left behind.2 Knight’s case had been transferred to adult criminal court because of the serious nature of his crimes. In closing arguments, prosecutor Michael Sinacore pointed to Knight, saying, “That young man is not a child. He stopped being a child when he forced [his victim] into the woods and raped her.”3 Following conviction, Knight was sentenced to 15 years in prison by Florida

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    Same Sex Marriage

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    WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG Advocates of homosexual practice often argue that “gay marriage,” or at least homosexual civil unions, will reduce promiscuity and promote fidelity among homosexual persons. Such an argument overlooks two key points. “Gay Marriage” as a Contradiction in Terms First, legal and ecclesiastical embrace of homosexual unions is more likely to undermine the institution of marriage and produce other negative effects than it is to make fidelity and longevity the

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