OFFICE MEMORANDUM TO: XXXXXXXXXX FROM: XXXXXXXXXX DATE: December 3, 2005 RE: Office Memo on David Harrison’s Plain View Doctrine Case I. FACTS On July 30, 2004, the home of David Harrison was searched by two federal officers pursuant to a valid search warrant regarding his son, Joseph Harrison. The officers explained
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men leave the bathroom, both having a look of nervousness upon their faces. The officers proceeded to the bathroom, where several pills were seen in plain view, around the toilet on the floor. Both men were arrested. According to the plain view doctrine, the officers had consent to enter the premises, and observed in plain view, several pills that were projected to be the illegal pill called ecstasy. Later on, 4 baggies of Ecstasy pills were retrieved from the bathroom plumbing. Depending on whether
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[pic] Criminal Justice Procedures CJ227-1 Case Study of Officer Smith [pic] Officer Smith was on patrol and notices a vehicle that fits the general description of a suspected car in a recent roadside killing of a fellow police officer. In this paper I will discuss the actions taken by Officer Smith and if she had legal justification for her actions and if evidence found is admissible in the court of law. Officer Smith was on her routine patrol when she noticed the vehicle in front
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But it can get misinterpreted a lot. Many people can mistake it for being the castle doctrine. The Castle Doctrine is a law that enables or permits a person to use physical or deadly force to protect his or her home from intruders. Vehicles that the defender legally owns also counts in this law. The stand your ground law is very similar to the castle doctrine. They both permit someone to use physical or deadly force to defend themselves from an assailant. But the main difference
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t Stand Your Ground Laws Name Institution Date Abstract The dissension encompassing Stand Your Ground laws have recently seized the nation’s heed. So far about eighteen regimes have accepted laws extending the right to ‘self-defense with no duty to retreat’ to any region a person has a legal right to be. Several governments are also debating the passing of similar legislation. Inspite of implications that the laws may have for public well-being, there has been less empirical
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may use deadly force in self-defense without the duty to retreat when faced with a reasonable perceived threat. The laws expand on the “Castle doctrine,” which says that a person is protected under the law to use deadly force in self-defense when his or her property or home is being invaded. About sixty percent of the states have some kind of “Castle doctrine” or “stand your ground”. So what’s the problem with this law, it seems that since the shooting of Trayvon Martin this law got put in the spot
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of protection when using deadly force in a hostile situation. The Castle law touches the subject of retreat first such as mentioned “The Castle Doctrine recognizes that, when in the home, one has, in essence, retreated as far as possible” (Watkins, 2014). The Castle doctrine also acknowledges what a home environment is such as stated “The Castle Doctrine also affirms that the home should be a
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routes in search primarily of spices but also of gold and other precious merchandise. The Spaniards failed to develop mining in the country, but left behind one of the basic building blocks of the present-day mining laws–the Regalian Doctrine. In essence, the Regalian Doctrine stipulates that all minerals and substances underneath all lands, public or private belong to the state. In effect, the law rests on the principle of eminent domain which reserves to the state the right to develop the mines
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Th e T yranny of Gui lt • Pa s c a l B ru c k n e r Translated from the French by s t ev e n r e n da l l The tyranny of Guilt An Essay on Western Masochism • P r i n c e t o n u n i v e r si t y P r e s s Princeton and Oxford english translation copyright © 2010 by Princeton university Press First published as La tyrannie de la pénitence: essai sur le masochisme occidental by Pascal Bruckner, copyright © 2006 by Grasset & Fasquelle Published by Princeton university Press,
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