She brought up another statement that the witness made to the police in the initial investigation. This is a hard one because there are times that people are in a state of shock and not thinking clearly so sometimes their statements might not be at 100%. Prior statement by witness are prior out-of-court statement by a person now available for cross-examination concerning it, under oath and in the presence of the trier of fact, should be classed as hearsay. If the Miss Maggie admits on the stand that she made the statement and that it was true, she adopts the statement and there is no hearsay problem. The hearsay problem arises when the witness on the stand denies having made the statement or admits having made it but denies its truth.
The mean speed estimate was calculated for each group. The group given the word ‘smashed’ estimated a higher speed than the other groups (about 41 mph). The group given the word ‘contacted’ estimated the lowest speed (about 30 mph) Loftus’ research suggested that EWT was generally inaccurate and therefore unreliable, but not all researchers agree with this conclusion. Yuille and Cutshall (1986) interviewed 13 people who had witnessed an armed robbery in Canada. The interviews took place more than 4 months after the crime and included two misleading questions.
Author Peter Moskos took a different approach to writing a book about the police than most authors do. Instead of interviewing different officers form departments and believing all they have to say (because they never talk up stories or stretch the truth), Peter Moskos became a Baltimore cop and worked in the ghetto of the eastern district. In his book Cop in the Hood, he talks about the everyday struggles of being a cop and also talks about his personal view of policing and the academy. In the beginning of the book Peter talks about how useless he and other officers feel the academy is. He says that the sole purpose of the academy is “to protect the department from the legal liability that could result from negligent training” (22).
This construction of a crime index show the nation where and what types of crime is frequently committed. The crime index system was discontinued because of the misrepresentation of the hard-core criminal activity such as murders and forcible rapes. The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) began in 1988 as part of an NCR program. The NIBRS was revised to be known currently as UCR/NIBRS (Schmallager, 2009). The early version was not detailed enough to represent criminal occurrence.
Ten years before, that total was $41 billion. To some degree, these costs are uncontrollable: many correctional (sic) institutions are under court orders to address overcrowding,
Rosenbloom (2008) when defines organizational structure/bureaucracy as “a hierarchy of authority to coordinate the activities of the specialized offices and integrate their jurisdictional authority” (p. 141). For instance in relation to the case, the separation of the departments of corrections, probation and parole it to different groups makes sense from an administrative standpoint but as we learned in the case this division came with many inherent problems. To illustrate, while Cartier was in jail the Boston Municipal Court issued an arrest warrant for failure to report to his probation officer – corrections had no idea what probation was doing and judges in different towns didn’t know what each other were ordering and as a result the suspension of sentences were disconnected from other violations (Stillman,
According to Gerri Detweiler of Credit.com, the average American household is in about $15,000 worth of credit card debt and chances are they are overwhelmed and at a standstill. IV. Today, I will like to convince you of the costly dangers of having credit card debt, the many problematic effects it could have on your life, and the ways to pay off the credit cards. Let’s, begin by explaining why having credit card debt is costly. BODY I.
This made it very hard to distinguish whether or not the money was counterfeited. By the time the government took action, sixteen hundred banks had been making their own currencies. There were already over seven thousand different kinds of genuine notes, and over four thousand different kinds of counterfeit notes. Because of this, the
Introduction The Criminal Justice System was designed to maintain order in society, protect an individual’s rights and enforce the law. This system was designed by the government to prevent crime in a fair and just manner. Oftentimes it has been found that the very system that was designed to serve and protect citizens has failed members of the society in the most despairing way possible, by convicting the wrong person of a crime. According to the Criminal Justice Research Centre, as many as 6,000 persons a year are wrongfully convicted of felonies in the United States. Most of these individuals have spent a minimum of 4 years in prison before they were exonerated.
After the investigation, OSHA charged Williams Construction with four violations that all resulted in expensive fines. The violations found from the investigation included; 1. The failure to instruct employees and managers on how to recognize and avoid hazardous work conditions. 2. The failure to ensure that employees did not have to travel more than twenty five feet to a safe zone.