According to Legal Definitions.com, 2004-2007, no contest “refers to the defendant’s plea to the court that he or she would not fight against or dispute the allegations or charges filed against him or her.” If the defendant enters a plea of not guilty, and the crime committed is severe enough, the defendant may be applicable to with stand a jury trial. These crimes mainly include major drug trafficking, murder, kidnapping, etc. Steps in a Jury Trial The first step in a jury trial is the selection of a jury. Selection of a jury is a process that begins with a large group of individuals in the same room interviewed, and asked questions by a lawyer to determine his or her eligibility. The jurors must not withhold any personal biases and must be completely honest in his or her answers.
Sergio hernandez Pre-Columbian civilizations The Aztec Empire was peopled by a group that was once nomadic, the Mexicas. After their long journey from Aztlán, they found themselves to be outsiders until their god Huitzilopochtli sent them a sign to build their city. Within a few years after they started to build their city, Tenochtitlan, it became one of the largest cities in the world and their power became greater. Their power became greater and stronger because they formed alliances with two other cities, they were known as the Triple Alliance. The Aztec Empire approximately ruled from 1325 to 1510 during which they depended on social structure, religion, and food to maintain their stability.
For Aztec dancers, Conquest is a complex concept. It is not only associated to European and Euroamerican dominance, as it is in the case of American Indians in the United States, but to a certain sense of liberation. Before the Spaniards, there were indigenous groups that dominated the others, most of the times by means of war and cruelty. The Conquest, for Mexican Indians was a way to build on a new society, the Conquest was, beyond military, cultural; and it set the grounds for mestizaje, the cultural syncretism which is the root of our present society, in which we still have our Aztec dances, or variants such as Matachines, in Señora de Guadalupe
They are shown to a bench where they are allocated to chair the main charges court with two other magistrates, Great efforts are made to list magistrates from all walks of life to provide a ‘mixed’ bench in every sense to hear the cases., Defendants who are found guilty in magistrates’ courts can appeal against the verdict or sentence to a more senior court. The prosecution has a more limited right to appeal, too, but only if the magistrates have made an error of law. In practice, less than 3% of decisions in the magistrates’ courts are ever appealed. An example of a case handled by magistrates is of two 19-year-old men, charged with assaulting the landlord of the pub where they had been drinking the previous night. They were told that they are not ready to enter a plea, as evidence has not been disclosed.
Personal Dilemma Paper Chaz Gonzales CJA/324 Charles Barth April 29, 2015 Personal Dilemma Paper Criminal justice isn’t immune to criticism and dilemmas concerning ethics as well as conduct when it comes to those working in the field. One such area that is always scrutinized and watched like a hawk is the police department. Although overall any allegations made by individuals with past dealings with the police are invalid, there are those times that the allegations are warranted. Albuquerque is no exception nor in any way unfamiliar with such issues. Recently the Albuquerque Police Department officers, one being Officer Cedric Greer, 24, accused in the March 20 beating of an individual were arrested by New Mexico State Police on the
Sunny Lee Mr. Brad AP World History CHAPTER 11 QUESTIONS The Aztecs continued the culture of the classical Mesoamerican civilization of the Toltecs by keeping the same language, Nahuatl, that the Toltecs had spoken, the religion, traditional deities, that many of the Toltecs had worshiped, and the rituals, cult of warfare and sacrifice, that preexisted. Aztec's social organization became more hierarchal as the empire grew and social classes with different functions developed. The Aztecs were divided into seven calpulli and the local life was based on the calpulli. They were governed by councils of family heads, but not all families were euqal and not all calpulli were equal. As the empire expanded, the class of nobility started
Newspapers, television, personal beliefs, internet, almost anywhere you can think of. It’s impossible to get a bias-less jury. Everyone has their own biases. Some are more prevalent than others such as this statement from Juror #10, “I don’t understand you people...you know how these people lie...they don’t care......most of them, it’s like they have no feelings.” He let racism interfere with a fair trial. Is this the kind juror you’d like having judge your case?
They also deal with both way offences which can be tried in both magistrates and or crown court. Indictable offences are referred to crown court after the accused appear before the magistrates to confirm their name and charges. Magistrates’ courts also deal with family and youth courts which may include adoptions, maintenance payments and care proceedings. In youth courts the public are not allowed in apart from only those directly involved in the case. 95%of criminal offences are tried and dealt with in magistrates’ court.
Justice is the concept of moral rightness based on rationality, natural law, fairness, law, equity, and ethics (Dictionary.com, 2009). Justice to me means giving what that person deserved for what crime they committed or in other terms giving each person their due. I also believe that everyone should be treated the same when being arrested no matter if you are a celebrity or not. There are to many times where celebrities get the easy road and do not even receive any jail time for a crime they have committed. If a regular citizen committed the crime they would receive time in jail for whatever crime in which was committed.
Criminal defense of insanity is one type of popular strategy which is tried to be used by many criminal offenders whom are found to be guilty of their crimes or are about to fall within law’s hands. This type of defense is not just common in the courtroom but within the public television shows or movies, it is that of a great factor that plays roles well in sitcoms or popular movie scenes. What the insanity defense means is that a person has indeed committed the crime, but cannot be trialed or be sentenced to any jail time or anything because he/she did not know they were doing anything wrong due to their illness. There was case of a women by the name of “Andrea Yates who filled a bath with water and methodically drowned, one by one, her five children; Noah, 7 years old, John, 5 years, Paul, 3 years, Luke, 2 years, and Mary, who was just 6 months” and after being sentenced to life in prison and not the death penalty she was retrialed and clarified after she pleaded insanity (web.ebscohost.com). The affirmative criminal defense can be described as being like an option of actually agreeing with the prosecutors, but with the