Compare and contrast the approach to the insanity defence outlined in the Insanity Défense Reform Act of 1984 with the ALI approach followed in a […]
Criminal Law
Criminal law, not criminal procedure
Read the prompt, review the case, and then decide whether you would accept or reject the case if you were the lawyer. You are an expert in criminal law, […]
Criminal law, not civil litigation
Read the prompt, review the case, and then decide whether you would accept or reject the case if you were the lawyer You are an expert in criminal […]
Criminal Law
Cases involving sexual abuse of children pose a special problem for a proportionality analysis under the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause. Such crimes inflict the immediate damage of […]
Criminal Law
You are a 20-year-old college freshman. You just left a party at two o’clock in the morning. At the party, you drank four beers and smoked two […]
Criminal law
After reading this case: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/08/teens.life.sentence/index.html?iref=topnews. Discuss your thoughts in terms of the following: What http://criminal-law.freeadvice.com/criminal-law/parole_probation/parole_board_considerations.htm should a http://pardonandparole.uslegal.com/scope-of-parole-power/factors/ consider when it evaluates a prisoner for release?
Criminal law
Mary lives in Anytown and her family lives in NYC. Mary could not travel to NYC for Thanksgiving. Mary’sfriend, Renee, invited Mary to her home to spend Thanksgiving. Mary had […]
Criminal Law
Based on the textbook, please explain fully when the police may be allowed to use deadly and non-deadlyforce during the arrest of an individual. After fully explaining the law in […]
Criminal Law
Violence in the media: TV, video games, music, and films have an ongoing debate as to its effect on children. Do you believe media violence adversely affects children? Should the […]
Criminal Law
‘The defence of consent to offences against the person does not rely upon particular legal principles or legal notions of acceptable harm. Rather, it has evolved as a matter of […]