...Benjamin deBorde EVAN101 B22 LUO September 5, 2011 Testimony Paper Part ONE – My life before I came to Christ. My life before Christ is pretty much the typical testimony you hear. I grew up in a Christian home and regularly went to church. I never really felt my need for Christ nor did I really search for Him. I went on about my life without a care in the world. Yes I had times where I felt God speak to me at various youth events but never really applied it to my own life. I didn’t really see the importance. I knew I was doing wrong things that were considered sin, but after all I was a teenager and the only thing on my mind was me. Part TWO – How I came to see my need for Chris. The summer after I graduated high school I began a job at Nike, where I had a devout Christian manager. He would occasionally witness to me but never told me my life was wrong. I eventually began seeing what he had and I became jealous of his joy and patience and all around happiness of his life. So then I asked the questions of how I could get that. I finally saw my need for Jesus. Part THREE – Circumstances surrounding your conversion My conversion wasn’t typical or huge. It was a simple, glorious eye opener in my own car before work. I prayed and told God that I wanted Him, all of Him and that I didn’t want to bath in sin any longer. My chains were broken. I felt more free that I ever have before. I opened my bible and read then entire book of James through tears of joy, sorrow, and...
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...Testimony Paper Timothy E. Beville, Jr. Liberty University Online My life before I came to Christ. I had the privilege of growing up in a Christian home. I was raised by my grandparents, a Baptist preacher/funeral director and a grandmother who was the church organist. My early years were spent in the church, Tuesday evening testimony service, Wednesday evening bible study, Thursday evening prayer, Friday night choir practice, Sunday morning church school, then service and capped off with Sunday evening worship. I went to all of these things, and just did what everyone else did and said. Deep down, in my mind I had always thought, when I get old enough I am never going to church again. I was just faking it! How I came to a cognitive knowledge of who Jesus is and what He did for me. I had everything a young child could ask for, yet I was still full of hatred toward my father for the way he treated my mother and I. My grandfather explained to me that the only way to be made whole was to truly allow Christ into my heart. He told me that Christ came to bear my sins, so that I could have a life that is full and rich. It was then that I realized my thoughts were truly sinful in nature, and I needed to change that. Circumstances surrounding my conversion. I was fourteen years old and attending Baptist Bible Camp that was hosted by my grandfather. During a sermon entitled “And You Think You Can Do This Without Him”, I realized deep in my heart that I had to forgive...
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...Tenisha Harrell Evan 101 November 7, 2011 Testimony Paper Part ONE – My life before I came to Christ. Before I became to know God for myself I was very much in the world. Although, I was very quiet, and conscious, I did explore a lot with boys especially with oral sex. Just because I thought everyone was doing it and I didn’t want to lose my virginity. I also drank alcohol without my grandparents knowing I had boy’s over when they weren’t home I just was doing what I thought all the kids my age were doing rebelling. It’s crazy that I even acted this way because I did grow up in a church home my grandmother took us to church all the time sunday’s, wednesdays, whenever there was a church function. Even though I was aware of God and knew about all he had done I was not aware of my sinful nature. Part TWO – How I came to see my need for Chris? They way I became to know Christ was I went to teen church at my now church home Bethany Baptist Church. My youth pastor was teaching on sin and what sin is in today’s world it just felt like he was talking directly towards me. Then when he came down the aisle and looked at me in the row something just came over me and I just started to cry I knew at that moment I needed God in my life and it was time for a change. Part THREE – Circumstances surrounding your conversion? After I went to the alter to give God my life a lady came to me and she took me to the back of the sanctuary and explained to me about coming back to Christ, and...
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...Christian Meulemans EVAN 101-B04 LUO 8-28-2012 Testimony Paper Part ONE – My life before I came to Christ. My life before Christ was quiet simple; I was consumed with myself, only carried about myself and what I wanted to do with my life in whatever way I saw fit. I had no time for God or His word. Part TWO – How I came to a cognitive knowledge of Who Jesus is and what He did for me. Throughout my life I had heard off and on the gospel of Christ Jesus but never really took it to heart, sure I wanted to be saved from hell but that was it. The true understand did not occur until I started to read the bible on my own around late May of 2005. This is why I believe faith was truly triggered in my mind and heart which lead me to an understand of my wickedness before God Almighty. Part THREE – Circumstances surrounding your conversion. It was about an eighth month process which began around Oct 2004 leading to June 17th of 2005 of the Lord God dealing with me daily, especially with His Holy Spirit. I had a few dreams that really shook me up and lead me to daily engage with my thoughts concerning if I was truly a Christian as I had always thought I was. Almost every day my mind was bombarded with thoughts like, “If you are really a Christian then why do you not, pray? Why don’t you ever read the bible? Why have I been experiencing these dreams and in the dreams? If I am really a Christian then why don’t I live like one?” After wrestling with these questions for such a long time...
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...TESTIMONY PAPER My life before I came to Christ wasn't a long period of time. I was adopted by a Christian family when I was four and a half. At the age of five years old going to a Christian Baptist school in Raleigh, NC called Friendship Christian. I ran from God my whole life and didn't really start living for Him until about two years ago. The situation of my running from God reminds me of the story of Jonah in the Bible. I came to a cognitive knowledge of Christ when I was young. That didn't mean I always lived my life by His rules. During the time I thought I was living for myself, I was still in the plan that God had for me. It took many mistakes before I accepted that Christ was all I needed in my life. I lost my biological mom in a hit and run when I was ten. The major circumstance surrounding my conversion to live for Christ and serve Him was the death of my adoptive mother three years ago to cancer. This was what broke me from running from God. I would describe my spiritual growth in the last two years as monumental. In the past two years I have helped bring nine people to Christ and had six baptized in Jesus name, this number including my two children. I struggled for a place to live but trusted God and he blessed me with a house. I also struggled to get into school and the Lord blessed me with an answer to that prayer also. Praise God, I am now studying religion at Liberty University...
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...Testimony Paper My life before I came to Christ. My life before I came to Christ was really hard. I use to drink and party all the time trying to escape the pain and hurt I was feeling from such a bad childhood. Not to mention, I was in an abusive relationship with my kid’s father that had me depressed and empty. What am I going to do is a question that I asked myself time after time, looking down at my boys who often seen the abuse and so many times we tried to escape but couldn’t. I was torn inside and didn’t know how fix it. So I thought my drinking could take me away from it, away from the pain, a least for that moment. How I came to a cognitive knowledge of Who Jesus is and what He did for me. But this day I did something different, after talking to my grandmother who was very religious. She told me to pray, pray and believe the Lord for he is God almighty, and I did just that. I prayed, I prayed that God take him out of my life, but lord I don’t want him to die just to be removed. A month later he was at the wrong place at the wrong time (really right time) and was sentenced to eight years in prison. You see that sincere prayer that day changed my life, it allowed Jesus to come in and rescue me from my kids father and myself, I was totally broken and no person on earth could have fixed me. But Jesus saved me and delivered me. Circumstances surrounding your conversion. I forgot to mention that everything I had belonged to my kid’s father so I had nothing...
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...CJ 1130 Criminal Evidence Project Directions: Answer the following scenarios utilizing the Ohio Rules of Evidence or the Federal Rules of Evidence. Respond to each scenario using the formula detailed in class: 1) respond to the question 2) state the pertinent rule or concept, and 3) correctly apply the rule to the case. Papers must be word processed. No handwritten work will be accepted. Projects are due at the beginning of class on the day of your class meeting during the week beginning October 6, 2014. Due to the nature of the assignment, NO LATE PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED!!! Feel free to turn the project in early. 1. To impeach Walt Dipsey’s primary witness, the Evil Stepmother, Snow White plans to introduce testimony of seven diminutive witnesses in the neighborhood who will testify that the Evil Stepmother has a reputation for untruthfulness. On what basis can Dipsey exclude some of the witnesses? 2. Charles Foster Kane is arrested for possession of cocaine, which the prosecution asserts was contained in a “snowy” paperweight on Kane’s desk. The prosecutor offers as evidence a lab report stating, “The “snow” in the subject paperweight is 95% pure cocaine hydrochloride.” Is the report hearsay? Why or why not? 3. Peter Pan gives John, Wendy and Michael fairy dust to fly. He is arrested on narcotics charges. Wendy is called as a witness at trial. She can’t remember exactly what happened, but, when she is shown some notes she made at the...
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...Daubert Paper Lisa Boetta Acct343-F1WW Tricia Bell October 27, 2013 The Dauber standard is the standard used by trial judges to determine if an expert witness’ testimony is based on scientifically backed up reasoning and if it can be applied to the facts of the case at hand. There are multiple factors to determine if the criterion has been met. They are: “(1) whether the theory or technique in question can be and has been tested; (2) whether it has been subjected to peer review and publication; (3) its known or potential error rate; (4) the existence and maintenance of standards controlling its operation; and (5) whether it has attracted widespread acceptance within a relevant scientific community”. (Daubert Standard) In Daubert vs. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, suit was brought against the makers of Bendectin. It was alleged that the drug caused serious birth defects in children whose mothers had taken it while pregnant. Copious amounts of published scientific literature stated that there was not a link between the consumption of Bendectin and birth defects in humans. Eight well credentialed experts testified that Bendectin can cause side effects in animals as well as in humans, however, their testimony was deemed by the court to not meet general acceptance standards for the admission of expert testimony. Since their findings have not been published by the scientific community, they were not considered to be generally accepted (Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals...
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...the opening statements and ends with a verdict. In this paper, those procedures and all the ones that fall in between will be discussed. Opening statements begins a trial and are given to the jury and judge by attorneys for both sides of the case. Starting with the prosecuting attorney, an explanation of the case as well as a summary of what the attorney is asking for the jury to decide is given. Once the prosecution has made their statement, the defense attorney is permitted to give their opening statement, however the defense attorney may request to hold their opening statement until the beginning of the defense case. Once the opening statement has been made, the prosecution begins to present their case. This is where the prosecution calls forth any witnesses they may have to provide testimony for the case. Anyone involved in the arrest, interrogation, or investigation of the crime as well as any witnesses to the crime, may be called to testify. Throughout the testimonies evidence is permitted to be admitted to the court to further help the case. The defense is the allowed to cross examine each witness so that they may try to discredit any statements given that may help to prove the prosecution’s case. After the prosecution has presented its case, the defense attorney may now begin to present their case to the judge and jury. Just like the prosecution, the defense brings in any witnesses or experts to provide testimony along with evidence that will help to prove their case...
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...Debate Paper XBCOM/275 November 12, 2014 Heather Fontaine The topic that I have chosen for the subject of my debate paper is the trial of George Zimmerman. On February 26, 2012 a man that was unknown at the time was about to be the center of controversy when he shot and killed a 17 year old boy named Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. The man in question George Zimmerman was a patrolman for the local neighborhood watch in his area. Trayvon Martin was visiting his father who lived in a gated community one of which is where the shooting occurred. That morning Zimmerman had noticed a male lingering in the neighborhood, he then called the non-emergency line to report this. While on the phone with the police the dispatcher informed Mr. Zimmerman not to follow the individual and that police were on their way. When the police arrived moments later they did not find a male lingering in the neighborhood what they had found was Trayvon Martin on the ground lifeless he had been shot in the chest. As the police walked the crime scene, the items that were found were a cell phone, ear buds, iced tea and a bag of skittles, no gun. The only person that was holding a gun was Mr. Zimmerman, this was to be the only gun found at the scene. This sparked outrage within the town, state and country. Mr. Zimmerman was charged with murder and arrested, he had non-life threatening injuries to his head which were treated. Mr. Zimmerman was questioned for many hours, after being questioned...
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...action which was tried on March 7, 2012. At the trial of this case, Plaintiff’s representative appeared as the Records Custodian and corporate representative of the Plaintiff, Bank. In seeking to introduce the admission of the Note, Mortgage, payment history, demand letter (Intent to Accelerate), and The Plaintiff’s Records Custodian testified under oath: a. That the records sought to be introduced were made at or near the time of the event; b. The records were made by or from information transmitted by a person with knowledge; c. The records were kept in the ordinary course of a regularly conducted business activity; d. And that it was a regular practice of Bank of America to make such a record. Pursuant to Fla. Stat. 90.803(6) this testimony is sufficient for the introduction of the Plaintiff’s records under the Business Records exception to the hearsay rule. See Freemon v. Deutsche Bank Trust Co., 46 So. 3d 1202 (4th DCA 2010) (affirming judgment for bank where affiant for bank in foreclosure action did not attest that she personally made all the entries for any particular mortgage, and that the default by defendant, and the amounts due and owing were acquired by “imputing the mortgagor’s name into the computer which contains...
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...Abdoul Fofana 10/24/11 Integration Paper A lot of the time, the evidence produced by eye witnesses can determine if someone is convicted or set free. It is not always good to put so must trust in eye witnesses because we are all human and we make plenty of mistakes. Jurors are influenced by what eyewitnesses have to say and usually base their decision on the eyewitness’s testimony and evidence. They sometimes rely too much on them which cause problems in the legal system. This issue and problem has occurred on numerous occasions and had led to many wrongful convictions. In the Greene book, it states that errors can occur at the moment the crime is committed at any of the three phases of the memory process: encoding, storage, and retrieval. Also, questioning and new experiences can alter what is remembered from the past. It is good ideas to have psychologists testify as expert witnesses so they can point out the problems in eyewitness testimony and to be able to question their memory. In the Ronald Cotton case, he was charged with rape and burglary and sentenced to life in prison plus 54 years. When the case was sent to appeals, his sentence was overturned because one of the victims picked out a different man in the lineup and none of the DNA matched Cotton. A man who was convicted of similar crimes admitted to the crimes that were associated with Cotton. This just shows eyewitness misidentification and how innocent people can remain in prison for several years for a crime...
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...Eyewitness testimony is a legal term. It is the detailed account given by a witness in a courtroom, describing what they perceived happened during the specific incident under investigation. This is used as evidence to show what happened from a witness’s point of view. Eyewitness testimony is a crucial area of research in cognitive psychology and human memory; studies into eyewitness testimony have found that it can be affected by many factors. Elizabeth Loftus, a leading researcher in eyewitness testimony, conducted studies to demonstrate that memory is not a factual recording of an event and that memories can become distorted by other information which occurs after the event. Loftus and Palmer (1974) study consisted of two laboratory experiments; both were examples of an independent measures design. The independent variable in both of the experiments is the verb used. The dependent variable in the first experiment is the participant’s speed estimate and the dependent variable in the second experiment is whether the participant believed they saw glass. In the first experiment 45 students from the University of Washington were shown video clips, short excerpts from safety films made for driver education, which were 5 to 30 seconds long. They were split into 5 groups, with 9 participants in each group. After each clip the students were asked to write a report of the accident they had just seen. They were also asked to answer some specific questions but the crucial question...
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...99 Chapter 8 Litigation Services Provided by Accountants CHAPTER SUMMARY Overview This chapter explains what standards apply to accountants when they perform litigation services, discusses how to qualify as an expert witness, gives tips for testifying at a deposition or trial, and points out the potential liability that accountants risk when they testify at trial. Litigation in the United States ¶8001 U.S. Tort Costs Climbing The U.S. tort system cost $248.1 billion in 2009, which was about $808 per U.S. citizen ($12 in 1950). U.S. tort costs accounted for 1.74 percent of GDP (2.09 in 2002). Increasingly inefficient, the U.S. tort system returns less than 50 cents on the dollar to people it is designed to help; only about 22 cents to compensate for actual loss. ¶8006 A Dispute Begins There are two different courtroom environments: civil and criminal. Some experts believe it is more difficult to convict in a criminal trial (e.g., Casey Anthony). Types of Litigation Services Provided by Accountants ¶8011 Consultant An accountant may be hired by an attorney to gather and interpret facts, prepare analyses, help the attorney interpret evidence, advise about issues and strategies involved in a legal matter, locate other accountants to act as consultants or expert witnesses, and help expert witnesses form their opinions. Accountants acting as consultants will not be asked to testify in a judicial or regulatory proceeding, and their work usually will be protected from disclosure...
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...Minnesota v. Riff Sarah Clutter, Michelle Capps, Adrien Watkins, Brandie Scott, Marcia Matthews CJA/304 November 14, 2011 Timothy Sullivan Minnesota v. Riff The Minnesota v. Riff court case is complex and has different types of communication involved. In the case, both written and oral communications are presented. During this paper we will discuss the communication used for the prosecution, defense, witnesses, and the judge. We will also discuss the guidelines for each communication in the court case. The duties of the prosecution, defense, witnesses, and the judge are important to every trial. The prosecuting attorney communicates both orally and in writing. The main goal of this attorney is to prove that this defendant is undeniably guilty to the judge and jury. He does this by beginning orally with an opening statement, stating that Ronald Rift did knowingly commit the crime of Breaking and Entering (1) 2911.13 F5; and Burglary (1) 2911.12 F2; on 09/30/11 between 12:10 and 12:20 A.M. This was located at Marquette’s Market 1234 Main St. Midtown, Minnesota 44333. The owner is Speedy Marquette (owner of Marquette’s Market). It is up to the prosecution to share all written evidence with the defense attorney before the trial and to present all evidence against the defendant to the judge and jury. It is also up to this attorney to introduce the witnesses for the prosecution and to examine them orally before the cross examination of the defense attorney. The witnesses:...
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