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Legal Issues · 505 words
- "GOOD MORNING! My name is investigator Holmes. Do you mind
answering a few simple questions?" If you open your door one day and are
greeted with those words, STOP AND THINK! Whether it is the local police
or the FBI at your door, you have certain legal rights of which you ought
to be aware before...
Legal Issues · 1,214 words
- My essay is on "". In my essay I will tell you the various kinds of , the penalties, and the defences you can make if you are caught drinking and driving.
Let me tell you about the different offences. There are si x offences in drinking and driving. They are "driving while impaired", "Having care...
Legal Issues · 1,960 words
- American Civil Liberties Union Briefing Paper Number 8
Since our nation's founding, the government -- colonial, federal and state --
has punished murder and, until recent years, rape with the ultimate sanction:
death. More than 13,000 people have been legally executed since...
Legal Issues · 2,166 words
- Crime refers to many types of misconduct forbidden by law. include such things as murder, stealing a car, resisting arrest, possessing or selling illegal drugs, appearing nude on a public street, drunken driving, and bank robbery. The list of acts considered is constantly changing. For example,...
Legal Issues · 857 words
- On August 10, 1969 the headline "Actress Is Among 5 Slain at Home in
Beverly Hills" appeared on the front page of the New York Times (Roberts). This
was the beginning of a investigation of police error which prolonged the arrest
of Charles Manson.
There were several people who claimed they...
Legal Issues · 703 words
- Every 16-year-old potential driver cannot wait for the day that their license is placed into their hands. To them, it's the ticket to freedom. What most teens do not think of, however, is that they will then hold their lives and the lives of everyone in their car in their hands. According to...
Legal Issues · 720 words
- December 12, 1984, the first jolt failed to kill Alpha Otis Stephens, he struggled for eight minutes before a second jolt finished the job. The first jolt took two minutes, and then there was a six-minute pause. During this six-minute pause body could cool before physicians could examine him and...
Legal Issues · 470 words
- I strongly feel that is essential in our legal system, as well as everyday life. Just as a toddler needs to be disciplined when he or she has a tantrum, a murderer needs to be punished for his or her actions. The death penalty solves many problems. It is a threat to any conspiring...
Legal Issues · 180 words
- In Japan, the murder rate is almost 1 per 100,000. In the U.S., there are about 3.2 murders per 100,000 people each year by weapons other than firearms. This means that even if firearms in the U.S. could be eliminated, we would still have three times the murder rate of the Japanese. Japan's murder...
Legal Issues · 604 words
- Gun control, as we know it, consists of the government restricting the ability of individual citizens to purchase weapons. The different types of gun control vary from waiting periods between when you purchase the gun and when you actually get it, background checks so that high-risk people...
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Christopher Columbus sailed to America on ships rigged with it. Numerous farmers, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew it extensively in Colonial America. Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag out of it and the Declaration of Independence was written it. Believe it or not,...
Legal Issues · 1,681 words
- The Communication Decency Act is a bill which has insulted our right as
American citizens. It a bill which SHOULD not pass. I'll share with you how
Internet users are reacting to this bill, and why they say it is
unconstitutional.
Some individuals disagree with one part of the bill. According...
Legal Issues · 593 words
- Since the days of the pioneers of the United States, firearms have been part of the American tradition as protection and a means of hunting or sport. As we near the end of the 20th century the use of guns has changed significantly. Because of fast and steady increase in crime and the fight...
Legal Issues · 764 words
- The American public is alarmed about crime, and with good reason. Our crime rate is unacceptably high, and many Americans feel like prisoners in their own homes, afraid to venture out for fear of becoming another statistic. For more than 20 years, state and federal crime control policies have...
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The debate over the legalization of Cannabis sativa, more commonly known
as marijuana, has been one of the most heated controversies ever to occur in the
United States. Its use as a medicine has existed for thousands of years in many
countries world wide and is documented as far back as 2700 BC...
