... of privacy and surveillance had to be revised. Title III, which requires probable cause, a high level of legal standard to meet, from a judge for real-time interception of the content of voice and data communications, has been altered. No longer are high legal standards necessary to obtain a ... , legislative, and executive. These are the three branches of government originally established by our founding fathers. The judicial branch has the responsibility to judge-make judgements relating to our laws. These decisions are made in courts. They make decisions on the laws that are establis...

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... to trial by jury, in all instances where the government or any of its agencies is an opposing party, includes the right to inform the jurors of their power to judge the law as well as the evidence, and to vote on the verdict according to conscience. This right shall not be infringed by any statute, juror oath, court order, or ... required "to give an instruction [on nullification] to the jury in all cases (civil or criminal) in which the State is the plaintiff. The instruction would tell the jury to judge the law as well as the evidence, and to render a verdict dictated by conscientious...

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... must depend on the relation a particular act bears to the fundamental law that limits legislative power. A specific and well known quote by Judge Thomas Cooley stated that "due process of law in each particular case means such an exertion of the powers of government as the settled ... bank account records, trash barrel or whatever, if the police have probable cause to believe they can find evidence that you committed a crime, and a judge issues a search warrant, or the particular circumstances justify the search without a warrant first being issued. Now, during these circumstances a sear...

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... 1977 made tremendous changes to ensuring individual's due process of law. In the decision, it removed the overpowering abilities of the jury and separated the powers between them and the judge. The bifurcated trial was one of the new requirements. As such, capital cases now are broken down into two parts, the guilt phase (trial) and the sentencing phase. As such ... the judge now has overseeing powers during the trial, however, the jury decides whether the accused is guilty or innocent. After that the jury can make a suggestion as to the possible sentence ... for the crime but they do ...

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... further Nixon's agenda. "In mid-March, investigators into the Watergate break-in got their first big break.One of the Watergate burglars, James W.McCord Jr., wrote a letter to U.S. District Court judge John J. Sirica,leveling charges that eventually implicated the Nixon administration. He said defendants were pressured to remain silent about the burglary and to commit perjury, or lie under oath" "(Hosansky ... used for bettering the society. Mail fraud has come up to the courts a few times such as in the case of when one made it to the appeals court with Judge Easterbrook, "It presented...

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... jury may be called to decide whether there is evidence that a crime has been committed. A petit jury will hear evidence and decide the guilt or innocence of a party. And a lone judge may hear the case without the help of a jury (Greenberg/Page; p.424). Many types of cases are heard in the district courts, including civil law (crimes against an individual) and ... criminal law (crimes against the public or state). All cases are presided over by a single judge. An estimated 300,000 cases are filed each year, with about 80 percent of them being civil cases and 20 percent being criminal (Gr...

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... conduct. As each group was arrested a new one would take its place. There was always a full lunch counter. Prominent black lawyer Z. Alexander Looby defended the protesters. While in court the judge simply turned his back on them. They were found guilty and charged $150 in fines. On Easter weekend Ella Baker of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) helped to organize ... later. These events were considered to be an American tragedy. Lyndon B. Johnson gave a nationwide television address to a joint session of congress requesting a strict voting rights bill. Wednesday, March...

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... likely to buy that cocaine. When it's right there in your face, the chances of buying it are a lot higher. This could be avoided through legalization. Anyway, Francis Young, chief judge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in 1989, concluded that marijuana was "one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man (Hermes 51)." In fact, over the counter drugs, like ... ...

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... possession of marijuana. The conflict arises when in 1998, the Department of Justice obtained a court order forbidding several California medical marijuana clubs from cultivating and distributing marijuana. When the federal judge who issued the preliminary injunction decided to allow one Oakland club to distribute marijuana to patients for whom it is a medical necessity, at the request of the Justice Department, the ... ...

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... to jurisdictional powers involving removal of a child. Aboriginal people want more power to design laws for Aboriginal people and return to self-government. Aboriginal people themselves are their own best judge of character and it is really up to their collective community to come up with a solution for their own people, as in self-government. Despite recent talk self-government, the ... ...

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