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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"indictment"”.
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A Historic Acquittal Re Examined: Would the Earps and Doc Holliday Escape Indictment Under The Modern Grand Jury System
This thesis examines the court proceeding that followed the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona on October 26, 1881, and its likely outcome if prosecuted under modern jurisprudence. During a month-long proceeding, Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp, along with Wyatt's close …
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Newspaper framing of indicted U.S. athletes: Evaluating orientation, prominence and proximity
… violence.This case examines the 2000 murder indictment of professional football player Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens, the 2006 rape indictment of three members of the Duke University lacrosse team, and the 2004 assault indictment of professional basketball player Ron Artest, who …
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An analysis of the fourth voyage of Gulliver's travels and its relevance to the twentieth century
… “controversies,” particularly his famous indictment of men, have neve lapsed into memories, for the assertions Johnathan Swift makes about man in Gulliver’s fourth voyage are incontrovertible. And were it not so, his indictment of man is a valid one. Hopefully, however -- and Swift held …
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Many bloody hands : responsibility for genocide in Rwanda
… responsible for the genocide. This thesis is an indictment of the guilty.
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The development and persistence of normative standards in group performance
"Mock grand juries and individual jurors made indictment decisions for four separate cases, each composed of a single ""prosecutor's summary"" of the evidence, and 11 additional items of evidence. Juries could either examine all or just a few of the additional items on the first two cases …
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A critical exposition of historicism and implicit activism in Elundini Lothukela
… in Xhosa literature, the kind of resistance and indictment literature where the message on national liberation lies embedded in its and groundwork; in it we see graphic reflections of the pre-colonial Nguni Indigenes in South Africa, their admirable and glorious which manifested itself in a …
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Protecting the Majority: A Study into the Difference in State Response to Militant Extremists
… and Education; Dependent Variables: Outcome of Indictment, Sentence, Time Sentenced, Fine Sentenced, Restitution Sentenced, and Combined Fine/Restitution Amount) it was discovered that there is no tendency for militant extremists targeting Majority facilities or personnel to receive more severe …
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From ‘sacred and undeniable’ to ‘self-evident’: a rhetorical analysis of Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence
… The study then explores how the removal of his indictment of the slave trade weakened its ideological integrity and corrupted its popular impact.</p>
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IL CONTROLLO GIURISDIZIONALE SULL¿ACCUSA: GLI SVILUPPI DELL¿UDIENZA PRELIMINARE E DEI MODELLI DI COMMON LAW
… basis of the decision, the control over the indictment, and the applicable standard. The analysis then focuses on England and the United States, where preliminary proceedings originated and came to characterize the adversarial system, albeit undergoing radical transformations over the …
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Buried Alive: Gothic Oppression in the Novels of Edith Wharton'
… domesticity. Instead, Wharton's Gothic is an indictment of an entire system and the mindless following of such. In this work I will examine two of Wharton's texts that, to me, most fully illustrate her Gothic. First, I will discuss the short novel Summer to examine the ambiguously mutual …
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Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Prosecutor’s Bail Requests and Downstream Decision Making
… higher bail requests and increased likelihood of indictment, but along with Latino defendants, were found to be less likely to be detained prior to trial as compared to White defendants. The findings for Asian defendants were consistent throughout the decision points studied: they had lower bail …
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Mitigating foreign social media influence campaigns in U.S. elections
… of Justice exposed in detail in a 2018 indictment that charged a shadowy Russian organization known as the Internet Research Agency (IRA) with organizing thousands of fictitious individuals and organizations across virtually every social media platform to manipulate the beliefs of real …
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Managing Prosecutorial Discretion Through Victim Participation in Prosecutions – a Comparative Study of the United States, Japan and Taiwan
… in the United States. Several high-profile non-indictment decisions sparked mass protests and severely damaged the reputation of the nation’s criminal justice system. Although police officers are often implicated in fatal shooting of civilians while in the investigation, they are almost never …
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Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
… to see their resistance of slavery as an indictment of human-made or positive law that allowed government to violate individuals’ natural rights that were sanctioned by natural and divine law. Selected writers, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria …
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Women on Kazantzakis: biography and fiction
… as to how justified it is to attach the indictment of misogyny to Kazantzakis.
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Michael Wyschogrod and Jewish Existentialism
… in Wyschogrod’s philosophy of Judaism: his indictment of the inauthenticity Modern Orthodox community in the United States; his critique of halakhah (Jewish law) as a spiritual deadening agent which tends to rob the individual of her responsibility before God; his attempt to make Judaism …
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Consumer redress; an enquiry into individual mechanisms providing access to justice for consumers
… of their rights. Since the Consumer Council's indictment of the County Court process in 1970 and the subsequent creation of the Small Claims Court, attempts have been made to tinker with the system, the latest being the changes made under the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990. The study makes …
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Perquisites And Pilfering In The London Docks, 1700-1795
… to see as more serious, were prosecuted by indictment and therefore came before the Court of the Old Bailey. Furthermore, Dockside Constables also had a special part to play in detecting and apprehending suspects. Their role in the chain of decision-making constituted another variable in the …
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Covenant loyalty and the goodness of God: a study in the theology of James
… Old Testament and other Jewish sources. Then the indictment of the implied audience, found in Jas 4:1-6, is considered in order to establish whether or not covenant thought is a significant factor in James' theology. This consideration establishes that James employs and develops covenant thought, …
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Spectacular Subjects: Embodiment, Abjection & Imagined Community in Contemporary South Asian Fiction
… the abject female body facilitate her critical indictment of those constructions of embodied womanhood that result in the effacement and internal exile of women as subjects. Chapter two addresses Mahasweta Devi's politically interventionist short fiction, which deploys images of the abject body …
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