Garrett v Dailey is a case that revolves around a 5-year old boy moving a chair, causing his aunt to fall and injure herself. The case revolves around the question: Did 5 year old Brian Dailey have the intent to harm and/or knowledge that his actions could result in a battery? Battery can be defined as the intentional infliction of a harmful bodily contact upon another. The court stated it’s interpretation of how battery should be viewed by saying: “it is not enough that the act itself is intentionally
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1. The ethical implications of the judge's decision in the case regarding Floyd Mayweather may have been base in how the case was presented to the judge's as well who had the best lawyer the could sale the story. The firs thing I notice was the Floyd Mayweather may the allegation the one of the allegation agains him was base in him restricting a women the was under the influence of a type of drug. The second, was the level of physical harm if the bruising was not visible enough to persuasive the
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On February 28, 2018, at approximately 0825 hours, Investigator Mems conducted a recorded interview with, Joshua Hodgkiss, at Pulaski County Criminal Investigations Division. Mr. Hodgkiss was read his Pulaski County Sheriff's Office Advice and Understanding of Rights Form. Mr. Hodgkiss acknowledged he understood his rights by indicating yes next to each and initialing. Mr. Hodgkiss then waived his rights and agreed to make a statement in reference to a Burglary of Residence and Theft, which occurred
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responsibility of deciding a court case as the jury. The fate of the accused is in their hands. The twelve jurors who hold this power show their contradicting opinions and personalities early on, and are influential to the decision. In the beginning, the jury seems to have agreed that the boy is guilty, but Juror #8 stands alone in the 11 to 1 vote. He digs deeper into the evidence, bringing up points that prove possible innocence. This forces the jury to spend more time on
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In his trial for felony murder, the defendant maintained his innocence and claimed that the victim choked to death. Although a non-testifying expert created an autopsy report, it was not introduced into evidence. The questions before this Court are (1) whether the testifying expert violated the Confrontation Clause when he (a) opined about the victim’s cause of death and (b) recited his stomach contents, and (2) if so, whether the violation harmed the defendant. BRIEF ANSWER Dr. Dyer’s independently-derived
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A digital forensics investigation is conducted after a significant security incident has been identified. The goal of a forensic investigation is to answer why, when, where, what and who though a meticulous scientific process of identifying, preserving, documenting and analyzing extracted information from digital evidence (Marcella & Menendez, 2008, Chapter 1). The following are examples of activities which may warrant a forensic investigation (Marcella & Menendez, 2008, Chapter 1): Fraud Hacking
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Schreier and a jury for the 1980 homicides. Prior to the trial, Kidd's open protectors endeavored to forgo the jury for sentencing. They needed to do this on the grounds that, under Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510 (1969), planned hearers who say they would not force a capital punishment might be barred from sitting
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One of such is known as the prosecutor’s fallacy. Statistical Consultants Ltd. (2010), stated “prosecutor’s fallacies (with respect to statistics) are fallacies of statistical reasoning that can result and have resulted in miscarriages of justice,” and gave the following example of DNA evidence presented: “Let’s say that a crime scene DNA sample is compared against a database of 20,000 men. The DNA sample matches the profile of one of the men, and that man is accused of the crime. At the trial it
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The Innocence project has been helping bringing innocent people out of prison and putting the criminals in prison. This is done by the advances in technology, especially DNA related advances. Michael Morton was convicted guilty of murder of Christine Morton in 1986, he was successfully exonerated in 2011 by DNA evidence. . Christine Morton ( Wife of Michael, Mother of Eric Morton) was found murdered on August 13th of 1986. Michael got ready for work after celebrating his birthday the night
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upon the type of indictable offence, the Criminal Code will determine whether the trial can be heard by a magistrate, a high-court judge, or by a court composed of a high court sitting with a jury. Generally, when an accused is going to have a trial by a high-court judge or by a court composed of a judge and jury, he has the right to a preliminary hearing. Whether an accused is charged with a summary conviction offence or an indictable offence, he is eventually called upon to state in open court whether
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