How does the plea bargain process help the prosecution? The defendant? The People? Answer 2: A plea bargain is a process where a criminal defendant and prosecutor each reach a mutually satisfactory disposition of a criminal case, with the courts approval. With a plea bargain it can conclude a criminal case a lot faster without a trail.
Samantha Martin The news article I chose to compare and contrast is the release of George Zimmerman. If you have been keeping up with the news you know that Zimmerman is the neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed seventeen year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26th as he walked home from the store after purchasing a soda and a bag of Skittles. Today April 23, 2012 Zimmerman was released on 15,000 dollars bond witch was ten percent of the 150,000 dollar bond set by the judge earlier this week. Msnbc.com has video coverage of Zimmerman walking out of jail escorted by police clutching a brown paper bag. The links on this site are very useful if you want to follow the story from the beginning.
By specifically training an officer for such a unit, it would put the officer at the victims’ level and offer much more help than the average police officer would. If this was implemented, more victims would come forward because they would feel comfortable with reporting the incident. Other policies could be having the perpetrator pay restitution to the victim or possibly hasher punishments to deter future instances of stalking. Stalking should be treated as a significant problem; the survey found that stalking is more prevalent than previously thought (Tjaden & Thoennes,
Using my detective reasoning and the evidence found at the scene of the crime, I have deducted that the suspects Louise Hume and Gary Adams are indeed the culprits of this murder. My educated guess is that Louise Hume is the murderer and that Gary Adams served as an accomplice. The couple claim that Gary and Clark were hanging out at 10pm drinking and that Louise Hume arrived at 12.30am to find Gary and Clark arguing, Clark then supposedly pulls a knife on Louise but Gary tries to stop him and in the scuffle stabs Clark in self-defense, Gary then tried to drag Clark towards the road to help flag down a motorist to help. Many elements of their story don’t add up, they said that Clark and Gary were drinking at 10pm and that when Louise arrived they were already arguing, even though there was 3 chairs found at the scene, a discarded lipstick container and an empty tequila bottle with lipstick and DNA belonging to Louise Hume on it, the guys would have already finished drinking the bottle before 12.30am and they also said that Gary and Clark were already arguing by the time that Louise arrived and that was when he drew a
His ambition and non-stereotypical attitude helped serve justice to the rightful murderer. This goes hand in hand with the fact that there is some bad law enforcement but also good ones. Gerard plays the role of a good cop whose fate intertwines with the fate of Sheridan’s. Rogue cops can be anywhere and work for any country. I feel as if the US needs to be more careful with their way of getting such law enforcement officers.
Now it needs to figure out if it wants to be effective. We now live in a world where information moves faster than we can assess its value, and this is especially true in times of panic, disaster, and crisis. While an active terrorist investigation might not be the best place to allow candidate with no training be a detective, but, there are certainly situations where they can be helpful. We each have the potential to play a role in being guardians of public safety, but this requires from us a large degree of focus, caution, and care. Ultimately, these are the things which separate an empowered crowd from a raging
But in contrast there are very different at the same time. The crime control model is used in the criminal justice system for the prevention of crime. The crime control does not exclude that is possible to make a mistake, but based on the circumstances of the laws, the person is considered guilty until her or she is proven innocent. This model is based on old fashion laws which allow rapid and speedy convictions despite the mitigating factors of the case and the victim. The results, of the crime control model are wrongful convictions, being over-turned and this is a major downfall in the criminal justice system.
This book explores the views of eight different men who have well-educated yet differing opinions on the issue. In this book I am drawn to the experiences of Alex Kazinski, a federal judge for the court of appeals. He discusses the case of a young man named Thomas Baal who brutally stabbed a thirty-four year old woman for money in 1988 (2-4). Kazinski states, “Whatever qualms I had about the efficacy or the morality of the death penalty were drowned out by the pitiful cries of the victims screaming from between the lines of a dry legal prose” (Bedau and Cassell 3). He goes on to explain how Mr. Baal refuses his right to appeal and instead expresses his wish to be put to death (Bedau and Cassell
The more time passes the more we have to look in order to find new techniques. Tasing is a much more civil way of taking convicts down as well as the safest plan. It is also one of the best ways for self-defense and now it is being considered more everyday over guns. This just show that law enforcement is starting to learn how to use as less force as possible and that they should use more apprehending forces to preserve the suspect and detain him in the easiest possible
Introduction Forensic science has evolved into a necessity for the criminal justice world. Before the development of forensic science, many of the cases heavily relied upon confessions and testimonies of the witnesses. Forensic science has given police officers the ability to efficiently and effectively collect, analyze, and process evidence. Without forensic science, criminals would be committing the same crimes repeatedly. While criminals get more creative, the criminal justice system and forensic science specialists have to update the techniques and tools that are used while obtaining evidence for the new crimes.