All of the prosecution’s witnesses would have been difficult, if not impossible to track down for the new trial. To allow a retrial, while granting the defendant a legal right, would presumably let a guilty man walk free. Heffernan was struggling between the moral issues he was presented, and maximizing the legal advantages he held. After all a prosecutor’s decision to challenge a defendant’s appeal is usually enough to guarantee that a conviction is upheld. Whether or not this man was punished and remained in jail was up to the prosecution.
After the questioner the police officer will have to build a case with the evidences gathered and send a case with the evidences to CPS (Crown Prosecution Services). Then CPS could state whether it’s enough evidences gathered to take the person to court or it can state that there is not enough evidences. That where it comes to the bail. (www.findlaw.co.uk) The bail can be granted or denied it all depends what is the offence and whether the person can be dangerous if goes back to the society/community. If the person is arrested on suspicious of the murder that would be clearly obvious that the person wouldn’t get the bail, as that person could try to run away also could attempt more murders or even self-harmed.
Another question that I will address will be do convicted felons and recovering addicts actually ever regain or gain credibility that have been diminished due to their past choices? Another central question would be if they do gain or regain credibility how long is this process? Does it vary? Research in this area is very crucial. It is important to our
The only conclusion that was probably running through Johnny’s mind was to do something drastic by using his switchblade, as it was the only thing he could use against the big numbers against him and Ponyboy. This was not the first time Johnny had been assaulted by the Socs; he had been jumped brutally before. It is because of that incident that he carries a switchblade with him. His life had almost been taken before at the hands of the Socs, he wasn’t going to let it happen again, to him or his friend. Haunted by his past, beat and fed up, it is no surprise that Johnny reacted the way he
It was a very unfortunate accident where everything that could go wrong went wrong and it ended up with a dead officer and a criminal that got to walk away with no punishment at all. However, in order to have a solution to this situation the police officers should have in my option the ethics of virtue. Ethics of virtue really focuses on character and doing the right thing. In saying that, if the police officers would have had ethics of virtue and been honest they would have gotten a legitimate warrant and even though it might not of saved the detectives life it would have put the drug dealer and killer in jail for a really long time and off the streets of
Adam Eaton Should victims have the right to influence a convicted person’s release? The purpose of this paper is to show how and why the victim of the convicted person should have some say in the convicted person’s release. Introduction The problem is when a victim awaits to see the verdict on the convicted person, the victim has no say in the punishment. The victim has to live the rest of his or her life with the feeling. The convicted person has potentionaly ruined a victims life by certain things he or she did.
As time passes are prisons are becoming over crowded forcing are government to create new sentencing options to deal with this problem. Instead of sending convicted offenders to straight to prison the government has come up with the following options for judges to choose from that would fit the crime best; they are absolute discharge, conditional discharge, a fine, suspended sentence, probation, conditional sentence, imprisonment, and intermittent sentences. First of all before the judge make a choice on a particular sentencing option they need to consider whether the sentence would be in publics best interest, which is because the main reasons behind corrections and the criminal justice system is public safety, and the second thing they would need to consider is if the offender is given a community sentence is he going to re offend and if he does would it be a violent crime.
The first time offender might get a second chance with a non-conviction program and be scared straight. The benefits of the bargaining system here are obvious. While most prosecutors do consider victims of the crime in bargaining, it is a case by case basis on whether or not the prosecutor will consult the victim before reaching a bargain with the defendant. It is likely that the bargaining system will continue to be practiced within our criminal system for a long time to come. I disagree with plea bargaining for the fact that if they did something once and get a plea bargain many will think of it as they got away with something, also they may think if they do something again they will think they can get another plea bargain deal.
Not in all situations because the body mikes could be detected and then your cover would be blown. It would work for long-term case but not for a deep undercover job. Should undercover officers be allowed to break minor laws to obtain the confidence of the targets? Yes, how crazy this might sound but this is for them to get a case going and catch the criminals. If you want to catch them you must play by their rules considering drugs, alcohol, money etc… It’s all part of the game and your job.
This may be too soon to use but I believe that the events that has transpired since the Boston Marathon Bombing is a great current ethical dilemma. With events like this individual emotions take over and it can be hard to do the ethical things when your personal feelings of hurt, hate and the unknown are present. The nature of a dilemma in the case of the Boston Marathon Bombing is do we kill the suspects out of anger and because we can, or do we capture, arrest and let the arms of the justice system take over and predict the outcome. It would have been just as easy to shot and kill both suspects in this horrible event. And after learning that a law enforcement officer was gunned down is enough for an officer’s personal emotional feelings to take over and