Criminal Procedure
Chief Justice Earl Warren had a political background, unlike his counterpart Justice William. He is one of the chief justices in the U.S. who had a significant influence on the criminal procedures offered by the Supreme Court of the United States of America. He brought in the notion of strong belief in the remedial power of the law. He had a pragmatic view of the law, something he used in influencing the Supreme Court. He made the court accept the idea of using the law as a weapon of accessing fairness and equity (Wilson, 2012). The Warren's courts criminal procedures were focused on ethical principles and not interpretive structures that were narrow. He viewed the handling and descriptions of the narrower interpretive structures as patterns of reasoning that were conventional. He made rejections of them as with the case like Brown v. Board of Education, Reynolds v. Sims and Miranda v. Arizona. He used principles that were viewed by many as intuitive, political, and not legal in a conventional and technical sense (Hensley, 2006).
In Warren's case, the court procedures assumed observation of consensus. This was applied when the cases were most controversial. For instance, some of the cases that attracted this point-of-view were the Brown v. Board of Education case. This case, among others of the same nature, had unanimous decisions (Acker & Brody,...
Criminal Law Foundations Evaluation Criminal Law Foundations Paper Constitution signifies different political contexts safeguarding the well-being of the citizens, as well as, the convicts in the state. The constitution gives an integrated model of a republic that dictates the roles, responsibilities of different arms of the legal and criminal justice system that ensure social equity and coercion. It is recognizable that each state has a unique political system characterized by "checks and
Harmonization of International Civil Procedure and International Commercial Arbitration The objective of this study is to address the idea that when all the recently formulated harmonization instruments relating to transnational commercial litigation (including the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements) have been incorporated into national law or international practice, the choice between arbitration and litigation will be put on a level playing field for international commercial contracting parties, with both
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International Peace and Terrorism What changes to existing legal regimes may reduce the incentive and make the law more effective in preserving peace? Terrorist groups can be disrupted and destroyed through continuous and direct legal actions. The focus includes the use of national and international elements of power. Immediate focus should be on the terrorist organizations with global reach as well as terrorists or states sponsoring terrorism activities. There are attempts of
But if Houston insisted that Plessy be enforced that is, if the NAACP sued a state to make its schools for black children equal to those for whites which Plessy did require then he could undermine segregation. (Jomills Henry Braddock. A Long-Term View of School Desegregation: Some Recent Studies of Graduates as Adults. Phi Delta Kappan. 259-61. 1984) He reasoned that states would either have to build new schools for
Safeguarding the criminal justice system from wrongful convictions through an efficient innocence program � policy evaluation proposalExecutive summaryConvicting innocent people is a global concern. The problem has been brought to the fore in the US through DNA tests that have proven the innocence of some of the people already serving jail terms. So far, up to 138 people have been exonerated of the crimes they were accused and convicted of.
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