The logic is simple: the judges here are fakes but the judges in the afterlife are real; and moreover, the one truth he asks the jury to keep in mind is that "…a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death" (41-c). After all, Socrates will find joy in questioning and having discussions with iconic persons like Homer or Orpheus: "I could spend my time testing and examining people there, as I do here, as to who among them is wise, and who thinks he is, but is not" (41-b).
TO: hy would Socrates think that it is logical for a vicious person to fear death?
Using Socratic logic, one could comfortably suggest that while it is not logical for a virtuous person to fear death is must then be logical for a person that is not virtuous to fear death. Otherwise, why would Socrates, a man whose…...
mlaWorks Cited
Melchert, Norman. The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy (Sixth
Edition). New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education (2002): 87-100 / 115-118.
Trial by Jury
One of the most controversial issues today in the area of criminal justice is that of the right of all defendants to a trial by jury their peers. While most arguments are for or against this right, careful consideration of specific issues and kinds of cases suggests that trial by jury should not be abolished entirely, but should not be an absolute right. The idea of trial by jury can be retained in the American legal system through compromise and by limiting trial by jury to specific cases and courts. Having specialized courts for particular legal issues such as medical malpractice or other highly technical issues would remedy many of the problems that critics of the current system grapple with as legal scholars and moral individuals.
Often, as seen in the pairing of the essays of the noted defense attorney, media personality, and Harvard legal scholar Alan Dershowitz against…...
mlaReality dictates that not all cases are appropriate for jury trials, given the complexity of the law at stake and the potential for bias against certain groups in the majority of the population, such as landlords. Special courts for medical malpractice and complex fraud cases, for example, could be heard by judges so that inexperienced juries would not have to give up years of their life to hear about cases difficult for individuals unfamilar with medical minutiae in drug trials, or technical jargon in the case of some patent law. "Trial lawyers love drug companies: With deep pockets, poor reputations, and a customer base composed largely of people who are already sick and dying, they make the perfect targets for big-money lawsuits," wrote The National Review in an editorial about the recent conflicting verdicts received by the medical company Merck about its pain killer Vioxx. (The National Review, 2005)
However, to do away with all juries suggests that the American system of justice does not trust the decency and morality of the common individual. Barbara Gunnell offers an alternate, interesting perspective about the jury system from the point-of-view, not of an attorney or client, but a juror. "Being on a jury is many people's only experience of active citizenship, and of having a genuinely important role to play in society. Increasingly accustomed to being dispensable at work and exercising no power at all as voters, few of us have much experience outside family life of being asked our views on matters of importance." (Gunnell, 2000)
The jury system thus has a larger role in encouraging an active and engaged form of citizenship that is the glue that keeps America together. True, France, Germany and many other democratic European countries have an entirely different legal system that only occasionally uses juries. (Grenier, 1994) But, America has always had an especially inclusive tradition of democratic opinion. For this reason, trial by jury should be applied when fitting. In cases where some emotion should come into play, such as allocating the death penalty, including the voices of one's peers in the debate seems appropriate to add an additional and more expansive note of emotional understanding to the legal proceedings. Likewise, in a rape case, several opinions rather than a single judge's opinion might be a better way of determining a victim's credibility on the stand. However, in other cases, where the facts must hold sway yet the defendants are unsympathetic -- look to a judge.
[footnoteRef:24] the act required, according to Hausner, detached, painstaking planning and the cooperation of thousands in order to destroy six million Jews and an untold number of others. Over 1,500 Jewish centers and thousands of communities had been erased. Of the 9.8 million Jews that were living in areas of Europe that would later be annexed by the Nazis, over half were dead by the end of the war.[footnoteRef:25] for example, Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia lost 96%, 98%, and 96% of their Jewish populations, respectively. The indictment was in fact stating that Eichmann was both the architect and executioner for the elimination of the Jewish populations in much of Western Europe. [24: Ibid.] [25: Moshe Pearlman, the Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963), 229.]
The first witnesses for the prosecution related their personal experiences during the period before the Final Solution was begun.[footnoteRef:26] "… it…...
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Trial by Jury -- a right that must be upheld, in part
One of the most controversial issues today in the area of criminal justice is that of the right of all defendants to a trial by jury of his or her peers. Often, as seen in the pairing of the essays of the noted defense attorney, media personality, and Harvard Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz against the words of Christie Davies, the debate can be very polarized. Dershowitz calls juries "Unsung Heroes," stating that "Juries Offer True Justice" in the populist and democratic spirit of America, while Christie Davies's "Trial by Jury Should Be Abolished" takes the contrary view, calling the right to trial by jury an outdated system that was viable only in eras of less complicated legal and technical questions, and in a more homogeneous America.
However, the polarized views of Dershowitz and Davies must be given more nuance with…...
mlaWorks Cited
Grenier, Richard. "Trial by Jury is a Scourge on U.S. Courts." Insight on the News. 14 Dec 1994. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n50_v10/ai_15981086
Gunnell, Barbara. "A tale of the power of ordinary folk -- trial by jury." The New Statesman. 2000. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4474_129/ai_60136934
Potch, Howard & Jacqueline Doyle. "Trial by jury -- a rarity that can take you by surprise." Real Estate Weekly. March 15, 1995.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3601/is_n34_v41/ai_16999304
Trial Preparation
The Best Evidence ule and Why it Was Implemented into the Court System
The best evidence rule in basic terms is an ancient legal rule that requires the originals, rather than copies, of documents to be presented as evidence during trial. Nevertheless, copies can in this case be accepted as evidence if the originals are not available, and the concerned party gives a conclusive excuse for their absence. For instance, if the original document is destroyed, lost, or is in the opponent's possession, the concerned party may not be required to produce the same. The rule is, however, only applicable "when a party seeks to prove the contents of the document sought to be admitted as evidence" (Cornell University Law School, 2010). Traditionally, a document only implied an inscription, or writing. Modern times have, however, seen the courts appreciate technological advancement, and accept as documentary evidence, information stored in the…...
mlaReferences
Cornell University Law School. (2010). Best Evidence Rule. Retrieved from http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/best_evidence_rule
Federal Evidence Review. (2010). Authenticating Wiretap Recordings. Retrieved from http://federalevidence.com/blog/2010/june/authenticating-wiretap-recordings
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Maschke, K.J. (2013). DNA and Law Enforcement. Retrieved from http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/BriefingBook/Detail.aspx?id=2168
Trial and Death of Socrates
Several of Plato's works explicate the details of Socrates life, especially his trial, sentence and execution. The novel, Trial and Death of Socrates too work around the same ideals, and present to the audience a man of great integrity and honor. Socrates was a man who valued his decisions and had great regards for self-respect, as well as respect for others. He was a man who preferred death to a life of debasement. Plato's Trial and Death of Socrates remains a powerful archive even today partly because it is true and partly because it illustrates the tale of one of the greatest men in history. The book represents to its audience four dialogues namely, The Euthyphro, The Apology, The Crito and The Phaedo. In Apology, Socrates dauntlessly guards the probity of his teachings and in the Crito, he demonstrates his respect for the law while denying…...
mlaWorks Cited
Benjamin J. The Trial And Death Of Socrates. Dover Publications, Incorporated. Feb.
Furthermore, all three groups believed that the Old Testament prophecies regarding the Messiah would be fulfilled. (Aiuto). In fact, Jesus was not the first person to be proclaimed the Messiah. Understanding that there was a tremendous amount of strife and competition in the Jewish community is important, because it makes it clear that while some Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus, it can hardly be suggested that all Jews were responsible for Jesus' death. Instead, Jewish involvement in Jesus' death seems explainable by one of the truisms of murder investigation: murders are generally committed by same-sex members of the victims' racial group. Because Jesus was a Jewish male, it should come as no surprise that some Jewish males played a central role in his trial and execution. However, that statement should not be viewed as either anti-Semitic or as an excuse for anti-Semitism. While some Jews played…...
Trial" by Franz Kafka
The human sense of justice in "The Trial" by Franz Kafka
The field of literature is filled with stories depicting human suffering in both explicit and implicit forms, which made the readers empathize or react to the horrors depicted in these illustrations of suffering. However, there is a far more horrific portrayal of human suffering, and this is the experience of injustice in one's life. In the novel "The Trial," which was published in 1925, Franz Kafka provides effective description of a man's life driven by injustice, having been arrested for an accusation that he knew he had not committed.
The novel chronicles Josef K.'s struggle to prove his innocence throughout the novel. He had met with people who represent, in one or the other, parts of a clearly corrupt and unjust justice system. Upon reading the novel, one is clearly reminded of societies wherein justice is denied…...
A family had been walking along the water front when the mother noticed some animals running away from a brush pile next to the water. Upon further investigation, they saw what appeared to be a human hand sticking out of the pile. The family ran away and phoned the police.
It had been months since the wife, mother and teacher had disappeared and it looked like she had been dead since the night she first went missing. Since she had disappeared last winter, it looked like someone may have stored her body in some type of freezer and had then moved her to the water hore in the hopes that no one would discover her body until spring. This was one idea that the police had, at least.
Her body was remarkably intact, but it was clear that she had been murdered. The evidence showed that sexual intercourse had recently taken…...
In 2005, a Federal Judge in Georgia ruled that any sticker or notice violated the separation of Church and state, "Due to the manner in which the sticker refers to evolution as a theory, the sticker also has the effect of undermining evolution eduction. . . The distinction of evolution as a theory rather than a fact is the distinction that religiously motivated individuals have specifically asked school boards to make…. And in doing so improperly entagles religion and education" (Larson, 318).
Creation science now had to change, and now became intelligent design. Numerous districts either required it to be taught, or required statements about it be read at the same time as the teaching of any Darwinian theory. The first case, however, to test an individual district's policy to teach intelligent design. The plaintiffs argued that intelligent design was, in fact, creationism as an alternative to evolution. This, they…...
mlaPrimary Source and Template:
Larson, E. (2006). Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate
Over Science And Religion. Basic Books.
..from the commencement of litigation to its resolution, whether by trial or settlement, any elapsed time other than reasonably required for pleadings, discovery and court events is unacceptable and should be eliminated" (as cited in Fairfax Circuit Court Civil Case Management: Executive Summary of DCTP, 2008) any civil court would be well served and would better serve the citizens of that county or federal court by implementing such a system in order to better regulate the flow of civil cases through the court system.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Recommendations of this memorandum on the 'time to trial' differences in criminal and civil court cases are that some type of system such as the one implemented in Fairfax County Virginia Circuit Civil Court System be implemented in the present court in the state of Confusion in order to clear up the backlog of civil cases and better serve the citizens of this fine state.
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Ayscue, E. Osborne Jr. (1999) Key Distinctions in the U.S. Court System. September 1999. USIS Issues of Democracy. Online available:
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Memorandum
He is taken outside, where the fresh air revives him. n this Chapter, K. suffers two types of defeat; first the defeat of his aborted sexual conquest that would ultimately be a victory over the Magistrate, and secondly the defeat of the air making him unable to go the Court offices. He is physically unable to be in the vicinity of the Court, and therefore unable to attempt to resolve his legal problems.
Chapter 4 is another abortive attempt to reestablish his ties with a lady. Fraulein Burstner lets K. know via Fraulein Montag that she does not wish to see him, and subsequently leaves, to make only one more appearance in the novel. When K. enters her empty apartment to look for her, he feels that he is doing something not only wrong, but also pointless. This pointlessness emphasizes the lack of meaning mentioned above.
Chapter 5 returns to the…...
mlaIn a more general sense, the book can be related to life in general. Many experience life as surreal and unfair, particularly in a materialistic age where religion has an increasingly weak influence on the human mind. Life itself is oppressive, because at the end of life lies the inevitability of death. In this sense, Kafka's novel can be seen to indicate the dichotomy of attempting to make meaning in conditions that are almost impossibly meaningless. Death negates the importance of all we do during life.
Source
Kafka, Franz. The Trial. Transl. David Wyllie. Project Gutenberg: 2003. Available online: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile-fk_files=23128&pageno=1
Sacco and Vanzetti Murder Trial
Throughout the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti until decades after their deaths, there was two different of thought and stand: The first group believed that the trial was fair and that the two murders got what they deserved while the other group held the view that these two Italians anarchists were the innocent victims of political and economic interests with the intention of passing a message about the rising tide of anarchist, (Katherine amsland, 2014). Little attention was given to the idea that maybe there was guilty one and innocent one, not until the strong evidence from ballistics test in 1961 was provided indicating that indeed Sacco fired a fatal bullet on that April day in South Braintree, Massachusetts.
There were all the reasons to believe that the prosecution team got it right about the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial. The finding of the investigation assisted the…...
mlaReferences
Fisher, Barry. (2000) Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation, 6th Edition, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Katherine Ramsland (2014) Ballistics: The Science of Guns. http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/forensics/ballistics/6.html
The Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company are perfect examples of how economics, politics, and military intervention are all interconnected. Easily referred to as “company-states,” and “the world’s first multi-national” corporations,” these companies effectively served as multifaceted arms of their respective regimes, allowing both the British and the Dutch to expand their trading options abroad, secure new markets and gain market dominance, and also to establish fierce colonial presence in areas where they needed access to resources (“The Amboyna Conspiracy Trial”). While they were motivated by competition between each other, the British and Dutch East India Companies also served as extensions of European geo-political conflicts. This website on the Amboyna Conspiracy Trial shows the extent of oligarchic, capitalist power as it spread from Europe to Asia. The Amboyna Conspiracy Trial also shows how both the Dutch and the British used their political and judicial authority as business…...
mlaReferences
“The Amboyna Conspiracy Trial.” https://amboyna.org/
Constitutional Rights – The Trial by Franz Kafka
Introduction
The Trial by Franz Kafka is considered to be a narrative that details the arrest, trial and execution of Joseph K, the protagonist of the novel, who plays the role of the chief clerk of a major bank. The novel prompts contemplation on the correlation between law and justice. Imperatively, laws ought to be equitable and just. In the event that there is an unfair regulation or rule, it is expected that measures will be undertaken to ensure that this is upturned by entreating to higher principles of justice. For instance, inequitable laws such as discrimination and racial exclusion and apartheid were appealed against to greater principles of justice to eradicate such practices, which was attained. In the book, Kafka lays emphasis on the significance of distinctive right when an individual is accused of a trial. The main objective of this research paper…...
mlaReferences
Cornell Law School. (2018). U.S Constitution. New York: Legal Information Institute.Kafka, F. (2005). The Trial. US: Vintage Books.
As health care’s share of gross domestic product (GDP) grows, people are struggling with how to estimate the value of the health care industry in the economy. While it might seem like a straightforward answer, simply looking at the total amount paid for healthcare in proportion to the total GDP, that valuation would be a gross oversimplification. Generally, GDP is viewed as a proxy for standard of living, but in the United States standard of living might actually drop for many people as the percentage of GDP attributable to healthcare grows. It is important to keep in....
Looking for the best practices on endotracheal suctioning often involves determining whether open or closed suctioning is better. Open suctioning requires disconnecting the patient from the ventilator, while closed suctioning allows the patient to remain connected to the ventilator. While closed suctioning is generally preferred, it is not always the best practice, but the research investigated looked specifically at closed suctioning because of the research question presented.
In 1999, Kinloch ran an observational study that compared oxygenation in patients that either had normal saline instilled at the start of endotracheal tube suctioning or did not have saline instilled. Until....
To write a good thesis about this, you have to first put together what you know about early America and its approach to religion. Obviously, the American colonies were initially established, in part, as a way for people to freely practice certain religions. That said, they were extremely restrictive, with punishments for people who did not adhere to societal norms. Many undesirable behaviors were not just considered undesirable, but labeled as sin. The most dramatic example of this could be found in the witch hysteria that overtook some of the colonies and the executions and general destruction that happened surrounding....
The term global perspective actually has a few different meanings, depending on the discipline. It can refer to an individual’s personal lens and how they view the globe; to various perspectives about an issue from around the globe; and to views linked to globalization and the impact of individual or nation-wide actions on the world and its inhabitants. We are going to provide a range of topic suggestions that incorporate all of these different definitions of global perspectives, with the most suggestions coming from the last topic, as it is the most commonly used across academic disciplines.
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