Justice
Curator: Alex HellingDebate ID: 286 Bibliography: <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1979.tb01567.x/abstract"> Baldwin, John and Michael McConville. Jury Trials....
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Curator: Fiona De LondrasDebate ID: 314 Bibliography: <p> </p><p style="margin-left:.5in;">BBC News (2007, September 11). <em>Informants being put off –...
View ArticleThis House would strike out three-strikes laws
Crafted in response to rising crime rates and high rates of recidivism, mandatory sentencing laws targeting repeat offenders began to appear during the early 1990s. In order to ensure that serious...
View ArticleThis house would abolish plea bargaining
A plea bargain is a process in which the defendant arranges a 'deal' with the prosecution. A plea bargain essentially means that a defendant charged with multiple crimes will plead guilty to a certain...
View ArticleThis house would limit the right to trial by jury in some criminal cases.
Trial by jury is a legal process through which a group of lay individuals make a decision about the outcome of a trial, which is then applied by a judge. Usually the jury decides the facts of a case,...
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