Criminal Courts
Lawyers’ question repetition and children’s responses in Scottish criminal courts.
... question repetition has focused exclusively on children aged 12 years and under, and only one systematic field study, conducted in California (Andrews, Lamb, & Lyon, 2015a), has investigated how lawyers’ repetition ...
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Vulnerable defendants in the criminal courts: a review of provision for adults and children
... the courts to impose custodial sentences on ...of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000, is that the offender must be ‘persistent’; however, as discussed below, there is no clear definition of ...
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Vignettes of the Criminal Courts
... Fortunately for the defendant, the jury did not believe the testimony of the contractor's son as to these quarrels, probably because of his hatred for the man charged with the murder of [r] ...
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Were There no Appeal: The History of Review in American Criminal Courts
... Sir Matthew Hale's History of the Common Law, a basic text found in the library of colonial lawyers, 39 explained one of the advantages of the circuit system: [b]y this means their judgm[r] ...
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Prosecuting Juveniles in Criminal Courts: A Legal and Empirical Analysis
... Advocates of a traditional and separate system of juvenile justice have been sharply critical both of judicial decisions handed down during the past two decades that have granted juvenil[r] ...
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Immigrant in the New York County Criminal Courts
... This very Judge is always crying out at the top of his voice, when a defending attorney does not happen to be present at the call of his case: "Why don't you bring this to the attention [r] ...
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Criminal Courts and Law in Early Upper Canada
... PROVIDED Always that if a case of difficulty upon the determination of any the premises before you or any two or more of you shall happen to arise; then let Judgment in nowise be given t[r] ...
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Inferior Criminal Courts of New York City
... The Probation Department has a separate bureau for this type of cases, which is housed at the Domestic Relations Court, -but the number of probation officers is totally inadequate even w[r] ...
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Cross-examining young alleged complainers in Scottish criminal courts.
... Permission for the research was sought and granted by the head of the Scottish judiciary, the Lord President and Lord Justice General at the time, Lord Gill. In order to attain the sample, the Court Service Team of the ...
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New Courts on the Block: Specialized Criminal Courts for Veterans in the United States
... There are no comprehensive statistics on how often veterans get in trouble with the law, and many will never become entangled with the legal system. But psychiatrists, law enforcement officials, and commentators agree ...
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Sentencing Policy of Criminal Courts in Israel
... Table II below gives an exposition of the some judges in the United States of America: 10 1 Criminal cases are not selected by the judges medians of the methods of punishment of the but [r] ...
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Vignettes of the Criminal Courts
... She admitted saying, "See if you can bring about our escape without shooting him." This was very favorable testimony for Dodd even though she did add, "I did not know, at that time, that[r] ...
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Procedure in Criminal Courts
... England needs some bulwark that will stand between the tradesmen and the courts." In the Westminister Review of October, 1910, an English law writer says: "That criminal trials are often[r] ...
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Vignettes from the Criminal Courts
... The defense then called a South the state asking you to come in and tell what you knew about this af- Park Traffic Officer who was at the fair?" With this foundation, the corner of Jacks[r] ...
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Treatment of Aliens in the Criminal Courts
... In five of the criminal branches of the Municipal Court, court officials usually clerks are used; in eight policemen occasionally interpret, and in two the police do all that is done; fi[r] ...
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The Caseload Controversy and the Study of Criminal Courts
... Those facets of courtroom operations to be examined include the guilty plea decision, the sentence in guilty plea cases, and the decision to pursue a case to trial.'6 '5The data base to [r] ...
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Lower Criminal Courts: The Perils of Procedure
... Even when the defendant is present to hear his rights read, he may not necessarily understand them because 1 rights are read in English to those who do not understand English, 2 rights a[r] ...
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Criminal Courts and Bureaucratic Justice: Concessions and Consensus in the Guilty Plea Process
... Important changes in charges primary charge reductions occurred in only about 15% of the guilty plea cases, and almost 80% of those who pleaded guilty received a sentence that fell withi[r] ...
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Experiences of a Psychiatric Missionary in the Criminal Courts
... Judge Gorter was kind enough to give the news of my appointment himself to the newspapers, and to make it clear, first, that I was the medical officer and consulting alienist of the cour[r] ...
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Organization of Psychopathic Work in the Criminal Courts
... The court work could be reduced to a much simpler routine so that a single worker could pass upon a much larger number of cases during a given time than is possible if his work represent[r] ...
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