... of ten cases in felonies plead guilty; for misdemeanors 99%-plus plead guilty. About the same number in federal systems, 91% of felonies" (http://els41.law.emory.edu/sites/crimpro/notes/ch17notes.html). The fact that so many cases are being resolved through plea bargains shows how heavily the court system relies on plea bargains. Many times criminals, such as abusive ... just a slap on the hand, there becomes a problem. The main problem with this is that the government made strict punishment for crimes and then 90% of the time the punishments do not get enforced. Some people think there...

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... marry or have sex with a "Negro, mulatto or Indian." By 1705 the punishment had been upped to six months imprisonment and a 10-pound fine. By 1750, all southern colonies, plus Massachusetts and Pennsylvania outlawed interracial marriages. For the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay, marriage was strictly a civil and not an ecclesiastical ceremony until 1686. Under English common law, until the middle of ... the first state, in 1978, to outlaw rape in marriage. By 1990, only a total of ten states outlawed rape in marriage. In thirty-six states rape in marriage was a crime only in certain circu...

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... requested them to be tried in open courts, but the court rejected the request: "Lawful combatants are subject to capture and detention as prisoners of war. Unlawful combatants are likewise subject to capture and detention, but in addition they are subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals for acts which render their belligerency unlawful" (Savage, A5). The Nazis were put to death by ... government can monitor conversations between lawyers and their clients, which lawyers hold sacred as a right. Even though tribunals are legal under the constitution, some say these tribunals i...

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