...Racial Diversity in Jury Selection Barbara Sigler Unit 3 American Intercontinental University Abstract The selection process of juries was designed to select citizens that were equal peers of the person involved in the trial. However, many disparities exist and the selection process at times seems to be disproportionate relating to race or ethnicity. Reform of the legislature would benefit those that are not being properly served. It is the right of every citizen in this nation to have his or her case decided by a fair and impartial jury. The selection of the jury panel is one of great importance and one that can have a great effect on the outcome of the case. Therefore, it is obvious that the attorneys have a great interest in manipulating the jury selection to include who they may feel would return a favorable verdict for their client. Attorneys generally favor potential jurors that share certain characteristics to include race or gender with their client. The attorneys feel that there is increased empathy when these similarities exist, possibly resulting in a favorable verdict (Frank, 2011). According to a case study of two separate counties, it is obvious that demographics did not play a role in the jury selection process. County A had a population of approximately sixteen thousand with one fourth of the population being African American. Yet only ten to fifteen percent was black. In addition, in the past years not one single black has...
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...COM 120 Entire Course http://homeworkgallery.com/index.php/product/com-120-entire-course/ http://homeworkgallery.com/index.php/product/com-120-entire-course/ COM 120 Week 1 Single Mother Single mothers in America” is the title that I have chosen for my persuasive essay. I feel that being a single mother myself I can relate to them on the same ground as I am living a life walking in the same shoes as them. “With great power comes great responsibility” is a well known line from the movie Spider man. COM 120 Week 1 Capital Letters 103 1. – At the turn of a new century and a new Millennium, many people are reflecting on the historical changes that have taken place during the past hundred years. – At the turn of a new century and a new millennium, many people are reflecting on the historical changes that have taken place during the past hundred years. 2. – In the late 1990s, Americans began making lists reflecting their choices of the greatest Events, Literature, People, and Films of the century. – In the late 1990s, Americans began making lists reflecting their choices of the greatest events, literature, people, and films of the century. 3. – Most Americans would agree that the two World Wars shaped the twentieth century and this country’s role in it. – Most Americans would agree that the two world wars shaped the twentieth century and this country’s role in it. COM 120 Week 1 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 562 1. Most people are familiar...
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...McKenzie Lynch College English Final Essay The novel “How to Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee has a view of how things were like in the South in the 1930’s. The book is written in the eyes of two characters Scout and Jem Finch. Scout is a young girl who is growing up around different races due to her father’s Atticus Finch’s defendant. Atticus Finch is helping a black man named Tom Robinson with the charge of raping a white girl. These two lives changed from the racism involved with their everyday activities. The jury at Tom Robinson's trial shows racism because all the evidence indicates that Tom is innocent but all the jury members plead him as guilty.Helen Robinson Tom’s wife faces prejudice due to her husband supposively raping Mayella therefore it becomes very difficult for her to find a job and get hired. Tom Robinson the defendant of this case faces racism from Bob Ewell Mayella’s...
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...in some cases without any sufficient evidence against these people. The purpose of this essay is to find the rules of the expert’s evidence opinions in criminal law and how the experts can present the evidencein any case. What is the procedure of the judge which can accept the expert witness opinion or to test the evidence before admitting it to the court. Recognising the issues which have happened in the past due to expert witness evidence without any sufficient proof and whether it is real evidence or margin evidence. Consequently, a lot of people areaffected by the law and causing some people to enter jail without evidence against them. In this essay...
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...Essay Inequality of the sexes back before the 2000’s was very prominent. Trifles (a play) and A Jury of Her Peers (a short story) by Susan Glaspell are both the same story. Throughout both works, there are many instances in both that show this inequality. In both, it shows that women like to worry about things that don’t matter so much (at least to the men). This shows that men think that only they think about what is important and women only think to look at insignificant things. The characters spend the whole story/play searching for clues regarding the murder. Although women are thought to be the lesser, they actually discover the important information, not the men, which is ironic. The Sheriff, County Attorney, and Hale, all search the house and barn for evidence on their own, and make fun of the women. The women having focused on the quilt, broken bird cage, and dead bird, are able to piece together what happened. The women were able to figure out who the murderer was by paying attention to what they thought had mattered, and prove that these things are important regardless of what the men had thought at first. At the start of the play, all of the characters enter the abandoned farmhouse of John Wright, who was recently hanged by an unknown killer. The Sheriff and County Attorney start scanning the house for clues as to who killed Mr. Wright, but make a major error when they search the kitchen poorly, claiming that there is nothing there “but kitchen things.†This...
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...section Vi essay forms Many people use the term “essay” to mean any paper written for a class. In actuality, there are many different types of essays, each of which has a unique purpose, form, and style. We call these different types of essays “modes of discourse,” and they include expository, persuasive, and comparecontrast essays to name just a few. This section of the Guide has a dual purpose. First, various types of essays are described and suggestions are included about how to approach each particular type of writing. Second, the sample essays are good tools for you to see how these different essays look in their final form. These are not templates (no essay can be a carbon copy of another even in form), but they will give you a good idea of what a final piece of writing for each mode of discourse looks like. It would be advantageous to critically analyze the form and content of each sample against the instruction for how to write each type of essay. chapter 21 expository essays Jennifer propp An expository essay explains something using facts rather than opinions. The purpose of this type of essay is to inform an audience about a subject. It is not intended to persuade or present an argument of any kind. Writing this type of essay is a good way to learn about all the different perspectives on a topic. Many students use the expository essay to explore a variety of topics, and do so in a wide range of formats, including “process” and “definition”...
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...Revenge is a Wild Justice The man with a calm head will lead a life more enjoyable than he who has a short fuse. If a person stresses their self out twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, they will probably never sleep or develop an ulcer. American society was founded on the principle that problems should be handled calmly and respectfully. When a citizen commits a crime they don’t have the same offense done unto them. A jury of their peers tries them. At first, the Narrator of Brady Udall’s short story “He Becomes Deeply and Famously Drunk” does not understand this concept. He has the unconditional desire to kill his father’s killer. By the end of the story, the narrator realizes the errors of his way. Francis Bacon’s short essay titled “Of Revenge” reinforces the conclusion that Udall’s narrator reaches: revenge is not healthy. Revenge is a bad memory that a person is unable to move past. For Udall’s narrator, the bad memory that ate away at him was losing his father Quinn at a young age and having the killer walk free. Growing up with the desire to avenge a father’s death is not healthy. Those wishes will poison a child’s thoughts with hate. This is evident in the first few pages of the story: I have something wrong with me, something bad inside that builds up until I have to let it out by talking, shouting, raging, letting it all loose, even if there is no one there to listen. (I even thrash and holler in my sleep sometimes-one more thing Richard holds against...
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...your pencil when it is actually in behind you ear, or assuming which character is the killer in our favorite movie, we all have misjudgements all the time in our lives. When was the last time you have mistaken a situation? The theme of false judgement demonstrated in the play “Othello” by Shakespeare, the short story “The Invisible Wound” by Karoly Kisfaludi, and the film “To Kill a Mockingbird”. In these three storylines, the author exhibits the theme of false judgment through a character of innocence that is poorly misjudged and ends tragically for them. Othello accuses his wife, Desdemona of adultery, while the unnamed protagonist in “The Invisible Wound” also inaccurately assumes his wife is cheating. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, the jury accuses Tom Robinson of a crime that he did not commit all because of the colour of his skin. Given the above, it is clear that these three story lines hold the same theme of an error in judgement occurring. Throughout the play, “Othello” by William Shakespeare, a few of the characters are condemned on untruthful information. Desdemona and Cassio are victims of poor judgement. Accusations towards Desdemona seem to be the most prominent to any reader – which all begin when Othello falls to Iago’s manipulation that causes Othello to poorly judge his own wife. Othello accuses his wife, Desdemona, of adultery. Iago provides “proof” of Desdemona’s unfaithfulness such as Cassio leaving Desdemona very quickly and then right after Desdemona’s pleading...
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...Valerie Carpenter Dr. Alan Turley SOCI-1301-052 25 Nov. 2014 Deviance & Crime “Stop! Put your hands where I can see them punk!” At that moment that's when you knew you screwed up big time. Getting involved with the cops is never fun for anyone unless you’re the cop. In this essay I will be disusing the difference between crime and deviance, The National Crime Victimization Survey, feminist approaches. Also will be getting into the different age/race/class crime rates, and the rates of crime back in the day and crime rates today. Crime is behavior that breaks the law, and deviance is behavior that differs from the socially accepted norm. Deviance is a much wider and obscure concept than crime and is therefore more difficult to define. Deviance exists in relation to what is considered `normal` in a society. For example of deviant behavior is like getting a facial tattoo or a very bold body piercing. When on the other hand an example of crime is rape, homicide or aggravated assault. Which the punishments ranges from more than a year to a life time. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), is administered by the Bureau of Justice Statistic. This national survey asked household in the United States twice a year if they have been victims of a crime and hasn’t been reported to the police. They ask approximately 49,000 to 77,400 households in the US. The survey is usually focused on rape, assault, robbery, motor vehicle theft, burglary and larceny. They use this information...
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...Mike Hopkins Essay 3 Prof. Dowd Final Draft Doubt In the 1960’s, American society was going through drastic times of change. The civil rights movement was in full force, and the women’s rights groups were joining together for the same purpose of equality among all. Due to the societal changes, instability was present in schools, places of employment, and religious institutions and generally regarded gender, race, sexual preference and religion. In John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt,” all of these variables were used to create an open ended play that allowed the audience to decide the guilt or innocence of the character Father Flynn, the integrity of Sister Aloysius, judgment of Donald Muller, the inconceivable acceptance of Mrs. Muller, and finally the varying perceptions of Sister James. Upon reflection I firmly believe that Donald Muller was the victim of Father Flynn’s sexual deviance who was chosen because of his anticipated short stay at the school, and the color of skin. I also believe that Sister Aloysius only struggled with doubt because her suspicions were never validated or disproven. The era for which this play was set provides a means to understand why Father Flynn was never tried among a jury of his peers. John Jay College of Criminal Justice published a report stating “clergy sexual abuse of minors in the American Catholic Church is a historical problem with the vast majority of cases occurring from the mid 1960's to the mid 1980's” (Plante). The hierarchies...
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...It is fashionable in some feminist circles to argue that the struggle for freedom from male oppression is, in part, a struggle for freedom from rationality and intellectuality. Julia Kristeva, for example, attacks women writers who value "science, philosophy, [and] professorships," calling them valorizers of "phallic dominance" (1974, in Marks and de Courtivron, 1980,166). For Kristeva, a truly revolutionary woman who wishes to succeed in exploding existing social codes must flee everything phallic, and this means that she must reject everything that is "finite, definite, structured, loaded with meaning." In the same vein, Helene Cixous, in her influential essay, "The Laugh of the Medussa" (Cixous, 1976, in Marks and de Courtivron, 1980,245-264), challenges women to forge for themselves, through writing, the "antilogos weapon." This weapon, supposedly the product of writing that "inscribes femininity," will be used to liberate women from the "phallocentric tradition," that is, the tradition of "male writing," which is the "effect" and "support" of the "history of reason." Views such as these are very much alive today. That there is at present tremendous interest in Cixous' writings, for example, is made evident by the listing of no fewer than 160 citations of them in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index for the years 1990-2. To what extent do these views deserve our support? It cannot be denied that some women are still oppressed today, treated unjustly and ...
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...3 Учреждение образования «Брестский государственный университет имени А. С. Пушкина» Кафедра английского языка с методикой преподавания М. В. Гуль EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. COURTS AND TRIALS СИСТЕМЫ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ И ПРАВОСУДИЯ ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИИ И США Практикум по английскому языку Для студентов 4-го курса гуманитарных и педагогических специальностей (специальность 1-21 06 01-01, современные иностранные языки специальность 1-02 03 06, иностранные языки (английский, немецкий)) БрГУ имени А. С. Пушкина Брест 2009 4 УДК 372.016 : 811.111(076) ББК 74.268.1(Англ)р Г94 Рецензенты: Кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры иностранных языков технических специальностей БГТУ Д. В. Новик Зав. кафедрой кафедрой иностранных языков второй специальности БрГУ имени А. С. Пушкина, доцент В. М. Иванова Практикум направлен на совершенствование навыков и развитие умений диалогической и монологической речи по темам: система образования, система правосудия Великобритании и США, а также на совершенствование письменной компетенции студентов. Каждый раздел содержит тематический словарь, ряд упражнений на закрепление лексики, достаточное количество текстов по теме, упражнения на повторение. Практикум предназначен для аудиторной и самостоятельной работы студентов 4-го курса, изучающих английский язык как основную специальность. 5 Educational System (the USA and the UK) Topical Vocabulary Nursery school, kindergarten, elementary school, high school (junior, senior), secondary school...
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...precisely the actual circumstances of human life in literature and the practice of reproducing subjects as precisely as possible in the visual arts (Yahoo! Education - Dictionary). Zora Neale Hurston, an African American writer, anthropologist, and folklorist, was a naturalist. She was born in the town of Eatonville, Florida, which is five miles from Orlando. Eatonville was the first all black community to be incorporated. Ms. Hurston grew up uneducated and poor, but she was immersed with black folk life. She had little experience with racism early on in life which caused her to have unconventional attitudes later in life. After graduating from the Morgan Academy, Ms. Hurston attended Howard University and received her associates’ degree in 1920. Ms. Hurston worked several jobs during her college years but was still often in debt. She struggled with poverty throughout most of her life despite her hard work. From 1925 on, Ms. Hurston lived in New York and eventually joined the Harlem Renaissance. She was one of the shapers of the black literary and cultural movement of the twenties. Ms. Hurston was the first black scholar to research folklore on the level that she did. From 1930s to the 1960s, Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific and accomplished black woman writer in America. During that thirty year period, she published many short stories, magazine articles, plays, and seven books. She gained a reputation as an outstanding folklorist and novelist. She drew...
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...English 175-‐02: Introduction to Literary Genres Instructor: Aaron Schab aschab@uidaho.edu 209 Brink Hall Department of English University of Idaho Course Meets: Life Sciences South 163 Monday/Wednesday/Friday 9:30 am – 10:20 am January 9, 2013 – May 10, 2013 Course Description In this class, we will learn about the basic conventions and terms used to understand and discuss the three major genres of literature: fiction, poetry, and drama. This class will help you understand the sometimes baffling world of literature, and is intended to provide the general student with basic experience in literary analysis. Additionally, I hope this class will lead you to a lifelong appreciation for (and engagement with) reading literature. Although this class features extensive reading and writing, it is not necessary for you to be a bookworm or a writing superstar to succeed in this class – if you ...
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...from the norm in regards to the minimum age of responsibility in the UK and there have been considerable publications pushing for the UK to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility in the last decade, providing substantial evidence in favour of doing so. The evidence supporting the need to raise this minimum age can be found not only in psychology and scientific research regarding the brain development of youth and autonomy of children at this age, but also the severe social implications of criminalizing our youth. In order to argue that the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) should be raised it will be necessary to identify and evaluate this evidence, as well as identifying the issues that having a low MACR brings. This essay will first review the history of the MACR and discuss the effect of abolishing the doctrine of Doli Incapax on youth offenders, before presenting the neurological evidence regarding the lack of development that has taken place in a child’s brain by the age of ten. The severely detrimental social, psychological and physiological effects of...
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