Quaid vs. Baxter Healthcare Corporation Brief Fact Summary Plaintiffs, Dennis and Kimberly Quaid parents and next friends of Zoe Grace and Thomas Boone Quaid, brought an action in the circuit court of Cook County against defendant, Baxter Healthcare Corporation alleging negligence and strict liability for administering an almost fatal dose of Heparin instead of the prescribed dose of Hep-Lock to the infant twins Zoe and Thomas Quaid after hospitalization for a staph infection. Plaintiffs appealed
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shooting was spontaneous and resulted from a chance encounter that day, resulting in a finding of less than first degree. “Spur-of-the-moment,” Justice Eugene Ewaschuk interjects. Security cameras captured plenty of evidence of the event that evening. Court saw a detailed outline of the episode in both video and still images. The jury has already seen footage of Hassan and Nirmalendran drop to the ground, while Husbands stands over top of Nirmalendran and pumps multiple bullets into his already mortally
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argues that the trial court incorrectly rejected his affirmative defense of necessity. Defendant was driving his father to the hospital with a broken ankle resulting from a fall from a barstool. The defendant cites ORS 487.560(2)(a) as the basis for his appeal. The Appeals Court task is to determine whether said statute demands proof of severity of the injury to be “life-threatening” as interpreted by the lower court and the state. In making this determination, the Court looked at the meaning of
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My role in the trial is the defendant witness, Sydney Miller, and she was the physician that treated Dominique Stephens when she came in to the hospital with physical injuries that may have been caused by physical abuse. As a defendant witness, I was responsible for aiding the defense attorneys in trying to prove Dominique Stephens innocent of the first degree murder of her husband in cold blood. In Sydney Miller’s statement, she said Dominique Stephens had been at the hospital six times due to
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In March 1893, J. McKeen Cattell asked a series of questions which “might naturally be asked in a court of justice” to fifty-six college students at Columbia University. They were given thirty seconds to consider each question and write their answers, along with their degree of confidence in each one. This short, informal study (and the unreliable and inconsistent answers which it produced) became one of the very first on the psychology of testimony, and inspired one of the most significant studies
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examining the High Court rejection of the appellant’s submissions that ‘…sentencing courts should take into account the “unique circumstances of all Aboriginal offenders” as relevant to the moral culpability of an individual Aboriginal offender,’ and that ‘…courts should take into account the high rate of incarceration of Aboriginal Australians when sentencing an Aboriginal offender.’ The grant of special leave in, Bugmy v The Queen had provided occasion for the High Court to rule on the significance
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In the case Canada (Attorney General) vs. Bedford, in 2007 three prostitutes Terri Jean Bedford, May Lebovitch, and Valerie Scott brought to the court an application to change or demolish three sections of the criminal code. These women felt that they needed to be demolished because they violate the right to security to people in their field of work. The three parts that they are challenging of the Criminal Code, RSC 1985, c. C-46 are, Section 210 where it states, “Every one who keeps a common bawdy-house
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As the book progressed, a new character came into Meursault’s life. This was the prosecutor of his case. The prosecutor and Meursault obviously did not have the same kind of relationship that Meursault had with Marie and Raymond. However, this relationship was still a significant part of the book. The difference between Meursault and the prosecutor is that the prosecutor has a ton of confidence while Meursault lacks confidence. As a prosecutor, a trait that one needs to possess is confidence
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In this section, I would like to address additional answers to rule Livel’s case. I consider that the court should not follow the decisions of other courts that have overlooked or disregarded the strong presumption against extraterritoriality. In addition, SMUG does not allege any domestic actionable conduct by Lively. SMUG shows to be changing tactics, asserting for the first time in its opposition to Lively’s motion to stay; much of actionable conduct took place in Springfield, Massachusetts”()
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The jury system in a criminal trial process determines whether the accused is guilty or not guilty rather than the judge. There is generally 12 members but under the Jury Act 2006, 15 members are required for a lengthy criminal proceeding. In order for the jury to operate properly they must abide by the Jury Act 1977 (NSW). This makes the jury more reliable because it allows the defendant to have a fair trial by selecting ordinary people from electoral rolls and must uphold the community’s current
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