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Computer Generated Evidence In Court
<view this essay>.... as cheque card frauds, unless it is possible for this to be done
from computers' (CLRC 1972, para 259).
Admissibility
The law of evidence is concerned with the means of proving the facts which are
in issue and this necessarily involves the adduction of evidence which is then
presented to the court. The law admits evidence only if it complies with the
rules governing admissibility. Computer output is only admissible in evidence
where special conditions are satisfied. These conditions are set out in detail
in section 69 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984 (see further
Nyssens 1993, Reed 1993 and Tapper 1993).
In general the principles of ad .....
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The Death Penalty: The Deterrent
<view this essay>.... died...Consider the tragic death of Rosa Velez, who happened to be home when a man named Luis Vera burglarized her apartment in Brooklyn. "Yeah, I shot her," Vera admitted...And I knew I wouldn't go to the chair." (Lowe 3)
As the above passage reads, why should we waste our time with these heartless and arrogant people?
Murderers should not be allowed to walk the streets after being found guilty of such violent crimes. "To protect the innocent and transfer the fear and burden of crime to the criminal element where it belongs, we must demand that capital punishment be imposed when justified and expanded to cover terrible crimes in addition to murder" (Lee 1 .....
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Is The Death Penalty Just?
<view this essay>.... But the fact of the
matter is seven out of ten Americans have evaluated the dilemma of capital
punishment according to their own values and beliefs. Their conclusion was
favorable to the death penalty. At this juncture of time, the question of it
being just was answered by the majority - and the majority rules.
Many experts who speak against the death penalty cite it as barbaric.
The definition of murder, according to Webster, is "the unlawful killing of a
human being with malice aforethought." Therefore an uneducated person would
classify murder as equally barbaric. The mitigating factor of the death penalty
is, or should be, an already establ .....
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Marijuana
<view this essay>.... years ago in ancient china. Many
(*) ancient cultures such as the persians, Greeks, East Indians, Romans, and the
Assyrians for many things. These were what they used it for: the control of
muscle spasms, reduction of pain, and for indegestion. Imagine that if they
still practiced this, instead of taking an Alka Seltzer after you had mom's
Chili or Tacos, you might be sitting in the living room on the LAY-Z Boy,
smoking a joint or however they would take it. The folk medicine of Africa and
Asia have used it as an herbal preparation. A "mythical" and "legendary"
pharmacist and emperor Shen Nung thought using it as a seditive was all right.
In 2,700 B.C. that .....
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Death Penalty And The Eighth Amendment
<view this essay>.... Supreme Court made this ruling, states reviewed their
death penalty laws. In 1976, in the case of “Gregg versus Georgia” the Supreme
Court ruled state death penalty laws were not unconstitutional. Presently in
the United States the death penalty can only be used as punishment for
intentional killing. Still, the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment and
should be outlawed in the United States.
Currently in the United States there are five methods used for executing
criminals: the electric chair, gas chamber, lethal injection, hanging, and
firing squad, each of them equally cruel and unusual in there own ways.
When a person is sentenced to death by .....
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Affirmative Action
<view this essay>.... qualifications can be given a job instead of an eqaully or more deserving white male, for instance, is highly questionably. If the point of all this is to help members of minority groups get past the barriers that are present in our society there are other things that we can do. There may be possibility to seek federal funding to improve the education systems in minority communities, but don't give jobs of deserving people to minorities to eliminate discrimination. does not eliminate discrimination. By highlighting the fact that some groups of people because of their sex, color, or origin, need special rules to advance in our society, only increases discrimi .....
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The Drinking Age Should Be Lowered To Eighteen
<view this essay>.... lowering the drinking age will be more deadly on the highways. However, if young adults were more informed about the importance of a designated driver when intoxicated, for example, perhaps the outcome would be more positive.
Stricter law enforcement would also aid in the prevention of alcohol-related accidents. They could enact a zero tolerance policy, which would punish anyone who is caught in the act of an alcohol-related crime on the first offense, such as drunk driving.
Raising the driving age to eighteen instead of sixteen could also reduce traffic accidents in general. I think that sixteen is too young to be given power over a weapon as deadly a .....
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Marijuana Should Be Legal For Medicinal Reasons Only
<view this essay>.... fighting many life-threatening diseases. Therefore, .
Even though marijuana has been used for medical purposes for thousands of years, interest in using it as treatment sparked in the late 1970’s (14, p.2). Today, marijuana has a positive reputation for helping cancer patients overcome the nausea associated with chemotherapy, treating glaucoma, and in stimulating the appetite of AIDS patients (14, p.3). Studies have shown that marijuana clearly controls nausea and vomiting in many chemotherapy patients, helps AIDS patients gain weight, and greatly reduces damaging pressure in the eye caused by glaucoma (4, p.1). The fact that smoking marijuana to r .....
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