unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana.” Judges in states that have legitimized medical marijuana are increasingly faced with the need to decide whether to prohibit medical marijuana use as a condition of probation. In 1972, marijuana was placed in schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, which reflected the U.S. government’s view of it as having” no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. Specifically, it indicated
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BOOK ONE CRIMINAL LAW - that branch or division of law which defines crimes, treats of their nature and provides for their punishment. CHARACTERISTICS OF CRIMINAL LAW 1. GENERAL - it is binding on all persons who live or sojourn in the Philippine territory (Art. 14, NCC) EXCEPTIONS: a) Treaty stipulations b) Laws of preferential application c) Principles of Public International Law. The following persons are exempted: a. Sovereigns and other chief of state b. Ambassadors,ministers
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[pic] The Criminal Justice System Tiffany Verin Professor: Tom Minkoff Introduction to Criminal Justice July 7, 2012 The criminal justice system is a well-defined assembly of legal and organizational systems originated and ruled by Governments to regulate and administer punishment on those who disregard or break laws. In the United States there are distinct federal, state and military criminal justice systems and each state has independent
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declined. In 2006, there were 4,800 juveniles at Texas Youth Commission facilities, (Marc Levin, 2010) nearly all of whom were housed in large institutions until an abuse scandal surfaced and redirected more youths into community-based juvenile probation programs. As of recently, and since redirecting to these programs, juvenile incarceration and crimes declined to 2,259 in 2014. (Marc Levin, 2010). Many people think of the juvenile justice system as a penal system similar to that of adults, but
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convicted were unconstitutional. The defendant contended that La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 40:961, 40:962 proscribed the status of being a drug addict. The court dismissed the defendant’s appeal, finding that the statute did not penalize the status or condition of addiction but rather the habitual use of narcotics leading to such a status. The court found that the intentional use
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illness that would help with their health. This paper would be talking about the problems that are arised and how the advocate would help the population. The content of the paper would discuss the area of domestic violence, education, housing, probation, short and long term medical care, and treatment. With the housing of a disables person is difficult for them to deal with on their own. With the many different agencies that would help the individual with finding a place that would console
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full time employee) are earned during the calendar year (2.5 days per month). Group insurance (retirement, death, disability): Each employee is eligible to join the ON Semiconductor Retirement Plan after he/she has successfully completed his/her probation period. On February 1st and August 1st every year, new hires will be added to the plan. The monthly employee contribution can be up to 4% of the gross salary (increments by 1%). The company contribution is 4% of the gross salary plus half the percentage
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and maximum sentence that a judge is allowed to give them and they are not all going to jail or prison. Since the jails and prisons are overcrowded for misdemeanor offences the judge might have them pay fines, do community service, go to rehab, probation, or do weekend time. Now for felony offense there are some harsher punishments then misdemeanors like parole and or sentenced to death. The punishment needs to fit the crime because the 8th amendment to the constitution is against cruel and unusual
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Justice System Position 1 Justice System Position Brandon Stockie Axia College of University of Phoenix Justice System Position 2 From a very young age children are taught that they are responsible for their own actions. They are taught that if they make a mistake then they will get punished for their mistake, but the parents also teach the child how not to make that mistake again and that it were rehabilitation comes in. This is a lot of people have a discussion on how to raise
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