Justice System Archive

How Social Media Affects High Profile Cases

In what is shaping up as a collision between the First and Sixth Amendments, the widespread use of social media is coming under scrutiny for the way it can influence legal proceedings. Ubiquitous access to …

Three Strikes Law Justified or Draconian

People who repeatedly commit crimes show that they did not reform the first two times they were convicted. Thus it seems logical to give them a longer sentence after the third time. If a person …

Jury Duty

Going through the mail, you see an official-looking envelope. Curious, you open it, and find out that you’ve just been called for jury duty. Wait a minute! Why did you get this? What is the …

Pedophiles and the Death Penalty

In the vast spectrum of human behavior, few acts are as universally reviled and reprehensible as pedophilia.  Pedophiles are thought to be so sub-human that even inside the cold concrete walls of prisons, they are …

Assessing the Death Penalty

The death penalty is a truly final solution to the problem of a violent criminal. Some people feel it is justified in order to prevent future murderers by the same criminal, while others feel that …

The Case against the Death Penalty

‘An eye for an eye will only lead the world to blindness’, as Gandhi said – and I believe that we should apply this to the death penalty in all cases. Capital punishment has not …

Three Strikes Law Justified or Draconian

When we passed the “Three-Strikes” initiative in California during 1994, overall crime in the state went down by about 26% (over 800,000 fewer crimes). Also, paroled felons from other states moved out at the rate …

Legalization of Prostitution

Hmmm, The Legalization of Prostitution and you might as well throw in the legalization of Pot too, these are interesting premises that we won’t see in our lifetime approved. Our culture in the United States …

Assessing the Death Penalty

I am a Non Believer in the death penalty and abortion since I am a believer in the sanctity of life from womb to tomb. I was once in favor of the Death Penalty but …

Stand your Ground in Florida – Yes

On the 911 call made by Zimmerman on February 26, 2012 at 7:09:34PM, you can hear Zimmerman continue to chase after Trayvon Martin even after the 911 operating told him, “We don’t need you to …

Legalization of Prostitution

Right off the bat for anyone against the legalization of prostitution I recommend watching Season 4 episode 2 of Penn and Teller’s show called BULLSH*T. Just like with many of their shows a lot of …