Test Lindsay Lohan may have some expensive bling, but the Komofie & Co. gold necklace she allegedly stole last month is not all that, her attorney claims. Four days after the 24-year-old "Mean Girls" star pleaded not guilty to stealing a chain from a Venice, Calif. boutique on Jan. 22, her lawyer says the necklace isn't worth anywhere near the $2,500 the store was asking for. Various Los Angeles jewelers have appraised the one-of-a-kind piece Lohan is alleged to have taken at between $800
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in Australia is called the Adversarial system, in this system there are two opposing sides, with each trying to prove the other wrong (Law Institute Victoria 2013). The adversarial system has many features including the role that the judge has at hearings. The judge acts as an impartial and individual participant (Law institute Victoria 2013), their primary role is to adjudicate rather than participate in the disputes (Creighton 1999). The adversary system
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get into trouble when they are an adult he or she should already know and understand that their history of criminal behavior may not be open to the public’s eye but, the judge will more than like know their criminal background all too well. No matter what one thinks, as a juvenile what they truly do not know is prosecutors, judges as well as defense attorney knows every angle of the criminal justice system and all who pass through it and if a juvenile is a repeated offender in the delinquent age trust
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Victimized By the Court's Appointed Counsel When working with a court appointed lawyer you need to research and follow up on guidelines that carry with your charge. You have to learn how the court system works. Lawyers that are hired by the court to represent the low and middle-income people are lazy in doing their job. There are many reasons why court appointed lawyers don't do their best for their clients involving the court cases. Pretrial court is usually within a week from the date that
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Title and Citation Mark Koding v. Public Prosecutor [1982] 2 MLJ 120 Facts On 11 October 1978, the Accused, Mark Koding, a lawyer and member of the Dewan Rakyat made a speech in Parliament which was thought to be seditious. He was subsequently charged with committing an offence under Section 4(1)(b) of the Sedition Act. Issues 1. Whether, as a Member of Parliament (MP), the Accused’s right of free speech in Parliament, given by sections 3 and 8 of the Houses of Parliament (Privileges and
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all areas. 266 Criminalistics- The profession involved in the application of science to recognize, identify, and evaluate physical evidence in court proceedings. 268 Federal sentencing guidelines- Mandated sentences created by Congress for use by judges when imposing sentences (recent Supreme Court decisions have overturned the mandatory nature of the guidelines). 277 Chapter 9 Questions: 1. Explain the confidentiality rules of defense attorneys, and some situations where they may be able to disclose
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cause. This did not work in the favor of Timothy Foster, who was found guilty in killing elderly white woman, and was sentenced to death. “Foster's lawyers argue that black jurors were systematically excluded from the jury at his trial in 1987, while judges at all levels looked the other way for nearly three decades thereafter” (Totenberg, November 2 2015, Para 4). In Batson v. Kentucky
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some states like Oregon, where judges are allowed to fine parents or require them to attend parenting classes if their children violate a law. Edward in his article (Edwards and Baron, 1995) focuses more on the structural issues within the juvenile court system wherein sometimes same families appear before different branches of the court system for family related matters, which leads to a lot of duplication of effort to learn about same people by different judges. It may also subject a family to
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Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. April 19, 1970. Page 1104 Ashton R. Hardy, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellants. Phillip A. Wittmann, David L. Stone, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs-appellees. Before RIVES, BELL and DYER, Circuit Judges. RIVES, Circuit Judge: Mr. and Mrs. Nordmann sued the National Hotel Company for damages which resulted from a robbery and assault committed upon them in a Jung Hotel room in New Orleans between 12:10 A.M. and 1:10 A.M. on October 18, 1965. The Nordmanns, accompanied
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are being heard by the Court of Appeal. 1. Where possible, state the following regarding the trial you watched (this part may be answered in point form) * The name of the case (x v. y) * The date(s) you attended * The name of the Judge hearing the case * The names of the lawyers for each party * A brief summary of what was going on in the trial while you were watching. 2. From your observations and from what you have learned in class about trials, would you say that
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