The courtroom that I chose to attend for my observation was the Toronto Courthouse located on 2201 Finch Ave. West. Since this was not my first experience at the courthouse I chose to observe plea bargains which addressed traffic and other bylaw matters. The reason for my decision to observe this form of courtroom proceeding was because I was curious what made people accept a plea bargain? The first thing I observed when I arrived at the court room was the structure of the space. The justice at peace…
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Business Law 115 Superior Court Observation The Superior Court session I observed was an alcohol impairment case. The defendant in this case, had been found guilty in District Court, but had filed an appeal to the District Court’s decision. The morning began with the juryselection process. The potential juror pool began with approximately 30 people. The Clerk of Court, Wendy Williams,drew twelve names at random form a bowl to begin the selection process. Once the initial twelve names were…
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On November 5th 2015, I visited Old City Hall and observed it’s mental health court. The hearing’s began around 2:40pm and ended around 3:40pm. The court heard four varying mental health cases addressing; mental health assessments, individualized treatment plans and prescribed further rulings. This report will address each defendant as “W”, “X”, “Y” and “Z”, and will specifically focus on the representation of X, which I believe is a patient being treated for catatonic schizophrenia; a type of of…
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injury when she witnessed her stepdaughter, from fifteen to twenty yards away, get shot twice, once in the head and once in the chest, by Sarah O’Brien (“O’Brien”) as O’Brien negligently shot five shots in Sybil’s direction? 2. Does Crowley’s observation of Sybil’s death constitute the cause of her emotional distress when she had been hospitalized, diagnosed by a psychiatrist as clinically depressed, and had not return to work since the incident involving O’Brien shooting Sybil? 3. Is Crowley considered…
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and after leaving the apartment, the officer arrested them. Carter and Johns argued the officer’s observation through the window was an unreasonable search in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The trial court dismissed the argument, and the Minnesota Court of Appeals held Carter did not have standing because he used the apartment for business purposes when packaging the drugs. The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed, stating Carter and Johns had a right to Fourth Amendment protection because they had…
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Equipment/Resources Needed: Proper stance(s), proper way to hold the racquet, lob & smash hits. Tennis court(s), racquets, tennis balls, Psychomotor Objectives: To effectively defend designated half of court.. Cognitive Objectives: verbally identify the basic techniques learned. Affective: verbally…
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“In fact, it is the concurrence’s insistence on the exclusivity of the Katz test that needlessly leads us into ‘particularly vexing problems’ in the present case. This Court had to date not deviated from the understanding that mere visual observation does not constitute a search … We accordingly held in Knotts that “[a] person traveling in an automobile on public thoroughfares has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his movements from one place to another. Thus, even assuming that the concurrence…
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Covert participant observation has a number of advantages over both more traditional methods of research like interviewing and questionnaires and the related form of overt participant observation. For example, this method makes it possible for the researcher to gain access to groups that would not normally allow them to be studied. In addition, since the group under observation are not aware they are being researched; the problem of an observer effect is avoided. Finally, by becoming a member of…
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framework to check log records, including messages, site visits, and even downloads, that the client may accept to be erased or cleared (Ben-Eid, 2015). Online observation and desktop reconnaissance are the two fundamental sorts of overseer checking. Online observation is the dynamic checking of a client's online action. Also, desktop observation includes the physical checking of a particular PC and each move made by its clients. On time System, analysis and checking give data on network related issues…
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Running head: 21st CENTURY STUDENT 21st Century Student Observation Jordan F. Hollern Grand Canyon University: EDU 527 12/12/2011 21st Century Student Observation While observing middle school, high school and college age students at a local mall, I was taken aback by the differences in styles and attitudes from when I attended those various levels of education. I observed and noted many attributes and behaviors of these various peer groups and notice some similarities and some differences…
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