Paul Gingerich, Paul is the youngest person to tried, convicted and sentenced as an Adult. ... Paul was improperly questioned by investigators on April 30, 2010, a rushed waiver hearing was held in Kosciusko County and the Judge Duane Huffer who presided over the case denied Paul's attorney any time to prepare the case. ... Paul was evaluated by a psychiatrist and he ruled that Paul he did have the understanding to comprehend proper court proceedings, and he was not fit stand trial. ...

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Homolka and her husband at the time, Paul Bernardo, was a couple of serial killers who filmed themselves raping their victims before slaughtering them. In this particular case, Karla who was a suspected accomplice of Paul Bernardo had done a deal with the authorities. ... She took this opportunity to smother her actions in order to have a close-to-nothing jail time compared to her partner Paul. ... She started a new life elsewhere while Paul is still incarcerated in his cell, serving time for what he has done. ...

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As the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice said earlier in the session o parliament, David Milgaard, Donald Marshall and Guy Paul Morin are three names we too often forget. ... Thirty-five years old today, Guy Paul Morin paid a high price for a judicial error. ... For all the Clifford Olsons and Paul Bernardos that roam our streets, there will be innocent people convicted of crimes they did not commit." ...

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In an interview with Paul Hersey, the originator of Situational Leadership, he further describes the components of Situational Leadership: "Readiness" is a function of two interacting variables: ability and willingness. ...

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Capital Punishment There have been many controversies in the history of the United States. Ranging from abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most widely contested issues in recent decades. The questions of fact concerning capital punishment fall into three general a...

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Assignment Critically evaluate the usefulness of contemporary criminological theory for an understanding of crimes of violence. Response This paper will look at some crimes of violence, and it will evaluate how contemporary criminological theory is useful or how in some cases it is not useful towa...

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Paul Butler, a professor at George Washington University Law School, believes that "when an incident is designed to send a message to a whole group, then the punishment ought to reflect that intent" ("Are Hate Crime Laws Necessary [Interview]", 2012). ...

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Plea bargaining is a benefit to our criminal justice system. Plea Bargaining Have you ever thought about where all your taxes go? A lot of your taxes go to the state, county, and city government to help with convicting and housing criminals. If it wasn't for plea bargaining, yo...

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Eliminating crime is a part of our duty as humans. Criminals have become part of our daily lives. Ensuring a just punishment for the rightly convicted is very important. Not everyone who commits a crime should be sentenced to death. For example, a petty thief should not be executed. However, a ...

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Professor of Mass Communication, Paul Van Slambrouck, reporter at Christian Science Monitor; agrees stating, "Assaults in prisons across the U.S., both against fellow inmates and staff, have more than doubled in the past decade....

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"Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes," stated Abraham Lincoln in a speech addressed to the Illinois House of Representatives. It is unlawful to prohibit the use of marijuana ...

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All recreational drugs should be legalized. There are many reasons to support this statement. The arguments for legalizing drugs are: it is a person's right to use drugs, most recreational drugs are safer than tobacco products and alcohol, drugs are needed for medical usage, the money used to keep drugs illegal could be used on more important things, it will end violence, people not using drugs now would not use them if they became legal, the government will be able to tax drugs, there are too many prisoners in jail for using or selling drugs, there is a discrimination to minority groups,...

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I was shocked when I read Paul Cassell's article and he reported that, "of the roughly 52,000 state prison inmates serving time for murder, an estimated 810 had previously been convicted of murder and had killed 821 persons following those convictions....

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In 1996, Justice John Paul Stevens of the US Supreme Court states, "Recent development of reliable scientific evidentiary methods has made it possible to establish conclusively that a disturbing number of persons who had been sentenced to death were actually innocent (pg 187)." ...

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Twenty states and the District of Columbia have passed laws that allow individuals to use marijuana for medical purposes, including legalization of recreational use for adults over 21 in Colorado, Alaska and Washington. With progressive marijuana trends and nearly one-third of the American populatio...

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The Controversial Issue of the Death Penalty and Why It Should be Upheld Introduction Throughout history, capital punishment has been viewed as a highly controversial and emotional subject and almost everyone has his or her own opinions about it and I am no exception. However, current re...

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History of Capital Punishment in Canada "In Canada, the death penalty has been rejected as an acceptable element of criminal justice. Capital punishment engages the underlying values of the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. It is final and irreversible. Its imposition has been de...

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The death penalty or capital punishment as it is commonly referred to has been at the core of many heated debates in recent years. Capital punishment has been used by almost every culture in the world. Execution has been in existence almost as long as people have populated the earth and has been a ...

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To sell the Probation service to a very punitive minded member of the public, it is necessary to explain how probation has developed over time from a social work attitude, to the modern day National Probation Service with a law enforcement remit, and its aims and objectives as such. The possible re...

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