...Should Cameras Be Placed in Courtrooms So That Criminal Trials Can Be Televised? It is axiomatic in democracy that everyone has access to the justice system and has the right to know how those laws are enforced. This can be ensured by having trials in courtrooms televised. Whether to have cameras in courtrooms or not was a huge debate that began back in 1977 in Miami (May 2008). After a long debate higher court judges decided to allow trials to be televised in Miami. Those debates never ended because of different judges all over the world having different opinions. Personally speaking, cameras should be allowed in courtrooms so that criminal trials can be televised, to make it clear to people what circumstances they would face if they were to do anything illegal. In every country in the world laws are made in the parliament by the government in regards to the opinions of higher court judges. Many proceedings carried in the parliament are allowed to be televised so that citizens can know what the laws they should abide by are. The irony in televising parliament proceedings is that people are allowed to watch laws being made, but they cannot see how they are being enforced. If criminal trials are televised then people can know how those laws are being enforced and would be more cautious by restraining themselves from breaking the law. This is because they would know what the circumstances of their actions are, thanks to the televised criminal trials. In the United States...
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...Should Cameras Be Placed in Courtrooms So That Criminal Trials Can Be Televised? It is axiomatic in democracy that everyone has access to the justice system and has the right to know how those laws are enforced. This can be ensured by having trials in courtrooms televised. Whether to have cameras in courtrooms or not was a huge debate that began back in 1977 in Miami (May 2008). After a long debate higher court judges decided to allow trials to be televised in Miami. Those debates never ended because of different judges all over the world having different opinions. Personally speaking, cameras should be allowed in courtrooms so that criminal trials can be televised, to make it clear to people what circumstances they would face if they were to do anything illegal. In every country in the world laws are made in the parliament by the government in regards to the opinions of higher court judges. Many proceedings carried in the parliament are allowed to be televised so that citizens can know what the laws they should abide by are. The irony in televising parliament proceedings is that people are allowed to watch laws being made, but they cannot see how they are being enforced. If criminal trials are televised then people can know how those laws are being enforced and would be more cautious by restraining themselves from breaking the law. This is because they would know what the circumstances of their actions are, thanks to the televised criminal trials. In the United States TV...
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...Media in the Courtroom COM 150 February 27, 2011 Media in the Courtroom In this day and age the public looks for information though the media to inform them on what is happening in the world today, but with all the different ways that we have to receive information via the newspaper, or TV news, should we also allow cameras onto our courtrooms? There have been several debates on whether or not cameras should be permitted in the courtroom during court proceedings even though the media feels that they have the right to inform the public about how the justice system works, while some feels that it is more for entertainment, and others feel that it is just an invasion of privacy on the part of the victim and the witnesses. In my paper I will examine both sides of the argument and leave it up to you to make your own decision on whether or not cameras should be allowed into the courtroom. The media has been reporting trials for decades by the use of newspapers and or radio. But in 1935 television broadcasted one of the first trials which they called “The Trial of the Century”. The trial that I am speaking about is the Lindbergh baby trial, it was a highly publicized trial that may have started the debated on whether or not cameras should be allowed into the courtrooms. From the day the trial started hundreds of reporters would flack to the court house in the town of Flemington, New Jersey. The media had gotten so out of control that judge Trenchard had to ban the use of all typewriters...
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...Greg Fleming PSYC 508 3/14/14 Position Paper #1 When most individuals think of television in the courtroom, they think of Judge Judy, Judge Mathis, or even Judge Lopez. Although these TV shows do exist, the reality of it is actually becoming more common among every day trials. There are several pros and cons to having television present in the courtroom. The pros and cons could be the dynamic affect it has on the actual trial process. Having camera’s present, can actually enhance or degrade the trial process. Some individuals argue whether it is fair to the defendant or does it violate the defendants right to due process. Whether or not defendants agree to the thought of having a camera present during trial, it is not entirely up to them. Some individuals would argue that camera’s in the courtroom are beneficial to a case. There are many pros and cons with having camera’s in the courtroom. When cameras were first present in the courtroom, some audiences began to feel that it might interfere with the sincerity of the case. During the OJ Simpson trial was a prime example of this. Some individuals were unsure whether the attorneys were acting for the cameras or if they were simply elaborating so that the jury could receive and retain important components of the case. Others may argue that having a televised trial may actually encourage the credibility of the witnesses to be truthful. Research has shown that camera’s offer insight...
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...Tired of all these fake, staged, and just outright untrue reality TV shows? Are you disgusted by the deceit and lies? Are disappointed and betrayed, the words that describe how you feel after watching the latest episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians? This is a drawback that keeps most people away from tuning into these shows. My plan will demolish that common belief of reality tv. My idea will take a few steps but it will be worth it, I swear. First you have to get a really big bowl (like really big), buy 325.7million 3" x 5" Blank White Index Cards from Staples®(preferably blank white, but blue is also acceptable), get a list of each individuals name living in the United States (address and social security number as well), gather your...
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...were actually guilty. These celebrity suspects are handled with kid gloves, booked at their convenience, and arrive chauffeured in limousines. Nancy Grace sets out to prove the impact 24/7 media coverage of these scandals and highlight the faults in today’s justice system. Do defense attorneys seek to find the truth and provide an equitable defense for the wrongly accused, or is it about winning and finding their clients innocent at any cost? The author cites her own experience when her fiancé was gunned down and killed in a random drive by shooting. This event motivated her to pursue a legal career and fight for the side of good against evil. She was a prosecutor in Atlanta’s Fulton County Court and later became a regular on Court TV. Nancy Grace feels that celebrity defendants receive special treatment at trials and sentencing. The book focuses on cases involving the rich, famous and infamous including Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant, Scott Peterson, Jayson Williams, Martha Stewart and Robert Blake. Our justice system should be about the state seeking the truth behind the crime and the defense protecting its client. The author feels it should be about both sides seeking the truth. Defense attorneys often allow repeat offenders to walk free and indicate that they are just doing their jobs, it’s part of the constitution. The duty of the jury is to render a...
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...merica’s bizarre fascination with the Menendez brothers’ killing of their parents did not end when Lyle Menendez’s hung jury resulted in a mistrial 15 days after Erik’s hung jury had resulted in one. The airwaves and print media became saturated with opinion-makers, offering both admiration and outrage over the audacity of the defense tactic of abuse/excuse. Dateline, Now, PrimeTime Live, 20/20, Nightline, Larry King Live, and Court TV devoted segments or entire shows to the trial’s astonishing dénouement, as did the less prestigious but highly popular tabloid and chat shows. No one was more visible or more vocal than the old scene-stealer Leslie Abramson, the head of the defense team, who, continuing her march toward glory and national recognition,...
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...house. Further, according to Simpson’s neighbor actor Kato Calin, from 21:00 to 21:37 they along with Simpson, went for hamburgers. Besides the defense had on hand another proof , between 22:00 and 22:10 Simpson called on his cell phone to his mistress Golf Barbieri. Although at the time that was not at home, but the telephone station recorded the call. A jury has found Simpson not guilty. The fact that the accused was black, and the victims were white, initially gave the case a racial accent. The defense insisted on the version according to which the police had a conspiracy “because of racist beliefs.” Los Angeles Police Department has earned such a reputation after the brutal police arrest of Rodney King, which was recorded by a video camera. After justifying the police officers involved in the arrest, the city erupted into unrest in 1992. According to a survey in the completion of the day October 3, 1995, 73% of Americans agreed with the prosecution, and 27% were against it: statistics reflect the then relationship between the white majority and colored minority. Among the 12-member jury at the trial was 8 black women and one black man, one Hispanic and two white women only. Thus, 83% of a jury made up of colored Americans. Just as the not-guilty verdicts in the trial of four LAPD officers accused of savagely beating Rodney King had outraged many Americans in 1992, the verdict in the Simpson case proved equally controversial. Predictably, the reaction broke down along racial...
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...many angles to see as to what extent TV has brought about changes in daily life of people and the nations as well. Here we will see some of the key changes affected by TV transmissions in general. Seeing is believing The authenticity of news and other informative material has never been more acceptable to people through other means of communication than the one available on TV. People already informed about an event still like to see the news along with footage on TV. For instance, the winning run scored by your favorite team in an exciting match is something people would like to see again and again although they know the outcome of the match. So is about visuals on accidents and unusual events like hanging of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussain etc. Changes in timings Most people have tuned their daily timings in accordance with their popular programs. Students tend to finish their homework before their favorite show. Housewives would make their cooking schedule as not to miss the soap tonight. Men would get ready for relaxing by watching programs of their interest. Much noticeable change is in bed-timings. Early to bed... dictum seems to have lost its meaning and watching TV till late night has become a norm at most households until children get a gaze from parents they tend to fight sleep only to watch a play or a show and discuss it next day with class-mates. Fashion Working on the psyche of youth, especially young ladies, TV plays and shows have concentrated over...
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...department known as the Special Victims Unit. These crimes are then passed on to the courtroom for prosecution. Description of Law and order In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses such as rape, torture, pedophilia and child-abuse are dealt with in New York City, by a special unit of detectives of the police department known as the Special Victims Unit. These crimes are then passed on to the courtroom for prosecution. Law and order is a crime-based drama, with a mixture of ‘court-room’ and ‘detective’, TV series, mainly shown on channel five. By reading the description of the show, I immediately realised that this is a show that is based around the world of crime and how the crime is dealt with within the city of New York. It starts from finding who the criminal is and then we follow the story up to the prosecution in the court room. Words such as ‘courtroom, ‘rape’, ‘victim’, ‘detective’ immediately grabs the reader’s attention, giving us the impression of the type of genre this TV series is. The picture that accompanies the description also shows that the genre of this series is crime as the main detective is pulling out her police badge and is what the audience see’s first when looking at the image. From observing the TV schedules I have noticed that different genres have different schedule times. For example, genres like Game shows, Animation and children tend to have early daytime TV scheduling. In comparison to genres like Horror, Crime and soap operas, which...
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...An Enron Jury Free of Grudges? Easy, Judge Says! HOUSTON, Jan. 29, 2006 Chances are that in this city's pool of 2.3 million registered voters, there are at least 16 people who are not angry about the implosion of Enron, the largest business collapse in history. But finding them in a single day could be a challenge.! That has not deterred Judge Simeon T. Lake III of Federal District Court, who will begin the much-anticipated criminal trial of the former Enron chief executives Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling on Monday.! Judge Lake said in court on Thursday that he expected to choose a panel of 12 jurors and 4 alternates from 100 prospective members in one day. After examining responses to the jury questionnaires, Judge Lake indicated that he felt they did not show evidence of prejudice against the defendants. "I've been impressed by the apparent lack of bias or influence from media exposure," he said.! The lawyers defending Mr. Lay and Mr. Skilling have contended for months that finding impartial jurors in Houston would be difficult, if not impossible. But the judge has rejected two requests to move the trial outside of Houston, where Enron was based, and has repeatedly denied pleas by the defense lawyers to allow them to question individual jurors during the final selection process, called voir dire.! The defense lawyers say they are deeply troubled by responses to jury questionnaires, which came back with mostly negative comments about Enron and the defendants. Many Houstonians...
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...How the Apple iCloud Works Cloud storage is a growing tech trend. Making use of cloud computing technology, cloud storage services give you password-protected access to online storage space. You can upload files to this storage space as a backup copy of content from your hard drive, as additional space to supplement your hard drive, or just to make those files available online from other computers or mobile devices. Apple's cloud storage product, iCloud, is designed to work seamlessly with all your Apple devices connected to the Internet. For example, you can upload photos from your iPhone and access them from your MacBook, upload music from your MacBook to listen to from your iPod Touch, or upload an important document from your Mac desktop to access from your iPad when you're on the go. But iCloud isn't Apple's first online storage service. MobileMe was iCloud's long-standing predecessor, offering synchronization services for an annual subscription fee. MobileMe's primary purpose was to keep certain files synchronized between multiple devices. This included e-mail, contacts, calendars, browser bookmarks, photo galleries and Apple iWeb and iDisk services. Though MobileMe was tailor-made for Apple products, it also gave users the option to synchronize data from non-Apple computers. Apple revamped MobileMe and merged its offerings into the new iCloud service. iCloud not only replaces MobileMe, it also adds features, flexibility and free service for up to 5 GB of storage space...
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...CRJ 311 Week 4 Assignment What's Your Impression CRJ 311 Week 4 DQ 1 Bite Mark Evidence CRJ 311 Week 4 DQ 2 Fingerprint Evidence CRJ 311 Week 4 Journal Cold Case Investigation CRJ 311 Week 5 DQ 1 Blood Patterns CRJ 311 Week 5 DQ 2 DNA Evidence CRJ 311 Week 5 Final Paper CRJ 311 Week 5 Journal Cold Case Investigation ======================================================== CRJ 311 Week 1 Assignment The CSI Effect (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.crj311nerd.com Read “Fact or Fiction?; The Jury is Still Out on the CSI Effect; A TV-Insprired Interest in Forensics Has Left the Courtroom Vulnerable to Junk Science,” which is located in the ProQuest database in the Ashford Online Library. What is the CSI Effect, and do you believe it is a legitimate concern? In your paper, address the following: Summarize the CSI Effect and evaluate if it is a legitimate concern. Analyze the impact of the CSI Effect in the courtroom. Interpret what prosecutors can do to overcome this phenomenon. The paper must be three to four pages in length and formatted according to the APA style. Cite your resources in text and on the Reference page. For information regarding APA samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center, located within the Learning Resources tab on...
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...spotlight on police brutality of the people. By people putting encounters of police brutality or police harassment on the web, they are speaking up against police officers who force people to stop recording. The Circuit courts and the Department of Justice, has weighed in that members of the public, “have the First Amendment right to record police officers in the public and that officers violate individuals Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when they seize and destroy such recordings without a warrant or due process”. (Lewis & Clarke Law Review 2014) In recent years, law enforcements have upgraded their use of digital technology to document their encounters with the public. They are doing this by, installing in- car cameras in the vehicles and also by attaching a camera to the police officers, themselves. This gives the investigators, a first-hand recording of any incidents taking place at any given time, by all policemen. Police interference is not a new thing to the members of the press. They are used to the harsh words and treatment from law enforcement. Officers that show actions of police brutality trying to stop people from recording and taking pictures at police encounters. The tensions rise between these two because you have the journalist who are trying to do their jobs or citizens exercising their rights and police officers who are trying to stop them. And when the police have encounters with journalists they are mostly violent. Sometimes they give warnings that turn into...
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...Present THE STONING OF SORAYA M. Directed by CYRUS NOWRASTEH Starring SHOHREH AGHDASHLOO MOZHAN MARNÒ and JIM CAVIEZEL Written by BETSY GIFFEN NOWRASTEH & CYRUS NOWRASTEH Based on the book “The Stoning of Soraya M.” by FREIDOUNE SAHEBJAM Rated R for a disturbing sequence of cruel and brutal violence, and brief strong language 114 Minutes NY PUBLICITY: Lina Plath/Clare Anne Darragh Frank PR 99 John St., #225 New York, NY 10038 Tel: 646-861-0843 Lina@frankpublicity.com ClareAnne@frankpublicity.com LA PUBLICITY: Fredell Pogodin/Bradley Jones Fredell Pogodin & Associates 7223 Beverly Blvd., Suite 202 Los Angeles, CA 90036 Tel: 323-931-7300 pr@fredellpogodin.com ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS: Veronica Bufalini/Meghann Burns Roadside Attractions 7920 Sunset Blvd. #402 Los Angeles, CA 90046 Tel: 323-882-8490 VeronicaB@roadsideattractions.com MeghannB@roadsideattractions.com For publicity materials, please visit: www.roadsideattractionspublicity.com Official Website: www.thestoning.com THE STONING OF SORAYA M. ABOUT THE FILM In a world of secrecy, corruption and injustice, a single courageous voice can tell a true story that changes everything. This is what lies at the heart of the emotionally charged experience of THE STONING OF SORAYA M. Based on an incredible true story, this powerful tale of a village’s persecution of an innocent woman becomes both a daring act of witness and a compelling parable about mob rule. Who will join forces with the plot against her, who will...
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