Author: Sam Kinch, Jr. Publisher: ISBN: 9781571687609 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
The reality for Texas judges is that in order to be elected or reelected, they must be either rich or really good at begging. Increasingly, they also have to be "pure" supporters of their political party. Texans tell pollsters that the big campaign money needed for elections influences judicial decisions--an opinion with which lawyers agree, as do a surprising number of judges. But most Texans want to keep electing judges [despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of us don't even vote In judicial elections]. The end result is a judicial election system that is merely a crapshoot. Judges and lawyers have talked about the problem for years and can't agree on what should be done. With "Crapshoot Justice, which features interviews with lawyers and former judges, the authors' intent is to keep stirring the pot until the system is changed.
Author: Lorhainne Eckhart Publisher: Lorhainne Eckhart, INC. ISBN: 1989698255 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 102
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What will happen when the secret Marcus has been holding on to begins to unravel, and someone uses it as leverage? One morning, Marcus O’Connell is confronted by his deputy, Harold Waters, about an accusation that he’s hidden evidence of a crime. Harold knows something is going on in the O’Connell family. Even his partner, Suzanne, is acting strangely. Harold has made it clear that he doesn’t do secrets, but Marcus isn’t too inclined to share the details of the O’Connells’ secret, even with Suzanne’s urging. At the same time, he learns that the sentencing for those involved in the recent high school crime has been assigned to an overtly conservative judge who makes no apologies for his bias, letting privileged kids walk while tossing others away all because of who their families are. Marcus soon learns there is much more going on behind the scenes with the judge than he’s comfortable with. Added into the mix is the fact that the adoption for Eva has suddenly taken a turn for the worse. Her grandfather wants to be a part of her life and is questioning Marcus and Charlotte’s fitness as parents. With everything weighing on Marcus, he needs to make some hard choices about coming clean with his family’s secret and taking a stand against the unfairness that has cropped up in a criminal case that should’ve been open and shut. In finding a way to keep Eva in their family and close the adoption, Marcus may need to realize that carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders alone isn’t the answer—and that reaching out, asking for help, and trusting someone could be the only way to resolve everything.
Author: Molly Ivins Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1400095352 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 370
Book Description
A simultaneously rollicking and sobering indictment of the policies of President George W. Bush, Bushwhacked chronicles the destructive impact of the Bush administration on the very people who put him in the White House in the first place. Here are the ties that connected Bush to Enron, yes, but here, too, is the story of the woman who walks six miles to the unemployment office daily, wondering what happened to the economic security Bush promised. Here are reports on failed nation-building missions in Kabul and Baghdad. Here, too, the story of a rancher who has fallen prey to a Bush-Cheney interior department that is perhaps a wee bit too cozy with the oil industry. Bushwhacked is highly original and entirely thought-provoking—essential reading for anyone living in George W. Bush's America.
Author: Norman J. FINKEL Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674036875 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 401
Book Description
Norman J. Finkel explores the relationship between the law on the books, as set down in the Constitution and developed in cases and decisions, and what he calls commonsense justice, the ordinary citizen's notions of what is just and fair.
Author: Theodore L. Kubicek Publisher: Algora Publishing ISBN: 0875865283 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 222
Book Description
Our adversarial legal system is used to evade the truth and makes winning the paramount goal. Here, a law veteran proposes we shift to an inquisitorial system seeking the truth, and recommends changes to evidentiary rules that confuse law enforcement and juries alike.
Author: Franklin Strier Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226777184 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 332
Book Description
In this lively and persuasive critique, Franklin Strier doesn't simply describe problems with the American trial system; he proposes reforms. He offers a detailed blueprint of how to improve our basic adversarial system while blunting its excesses and inequities. Strier points out that the jury system was originally intended to diffuse the power of the government, but criticizes the method by which jurors are selected, patronized, and manipulated. Among his suggestions: eliminate peremptory challenges, give jurors the authority, and judges the responsibility, to ask questions of witnesses, and use neutral expert witnesses.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts Publisher: ISBN: Category : Appellate courts Languages : en Pages : 288
Author: Hugh Gibbons Publisher: Living Control Systems Publ ISBN: 193809008X Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 205
Book Description
For anyone who is contemplating the study of law, or wished they had done so, or is in the midst of such an endeavor, this book will provide rewards of insight into how the lawyer thinks through problems in a legal context. The Death of Jeffrey Stapleton is based on, introduces and illustrates a technically sound, testable and easy to demonstrate explanation of how people think and act that lays a foundation for psychology to become a natural science rather than merely an art. The book shows that an understanding the phenomenon of control provides an explanation for the way people behave, what behavior is, how it works, and what it accomplishes. This has profound implications for litigation where psychology is involved.
Author: Sam Kinch, Jr.
Author: Lorhainne Eckhart
Author: Molly Ivins
Author: Norman J. FINKEL
Author: Theodore L. Kubicek
Author: Franklin Strier
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
Author: Hugh Gibbons
Author: United States. President
Author: Bush, George