“When the United States was founded, the jury system was made a part of its system of government. This was done for one main reason: because the Founders did not trust judges, prosecutors, investigators, and other officials to administer justice” (Jury Reform, July 12 2005, Para 1). Jury itself acts as the ultimate “shield” against violations of the constitutional. Members of the jury are in placed to protect the constitutional rights of United States, this is because our founding fathers wanted
hotly. Proponents of tort reform simply want to put a stop to lawsuits that are frivolous and ridiculous. They also want the tort system to be inexpensive. The opposition, however, claims that a reform would only give corporations an excuse not to pay just compensations or be held accountable even with a legitimate tort claim. Is a tort reform really good or bad? List of Pros of Tort Reform Reduced court costs By amending the rules on what are considered legitimate torts, the courts would not have to
reduce the strain on the overexerted court system, plea bargains were created. Thus this allowed prosecutors and judges to handle more serious cases. “Plea bargains are agreements between defendants and prosecutors in which defendants agree to plead guilty to some or all of the charges against them in exchange for concessions from the prosecutors” (Cornell Law School,1992). Today plea bargaining is a controversial issue in the United States court system for many years now. Many perceive the plea
organisms. The amount of genetically modified organisms in the human food supply systems is increasing tremendously. Genetic modification has increased steadily since the late 1990s. Commercial production of genetically modified food has also escalated with more than 17 million farmers in 28 countries growing these crops by the year 2012. In terms of land area, this accounted for 170 million hectares of arable land. Pros
from Cicotte, Williams, and Jackson were stolen clearing their names. Conveniently Cicotte, Williams, and Jackson recanted their confessions, clearing the case and the jury decided not guilty on all charges. This upset commissioner Landis who was also a federal judge. Landis felt like the eight players had cheated the legal system and to get back at them he banned them from life. This was unfair and just a reaction from a hardnose judge. Cases like this have a arisen before but many time the lifetime
Standardized testing started in 1845, schools adopted the idea from the military in WWI and used them to measure students ability in the classroom. The last several decades standardized testing has been used to compare states, countries and college bound students. With these tests we can analysis where students are excelling and need improvements. These tests have come across as stressful, unreliable, time consuming and encourage cheating. Those arguments are weak though because they do not apply