Prosecutor Article Reviews Samples For Students

Article Review: Trying Children as Adults

This 2002 paper by Allen discussed the increasing recent trend by many U.S. states to amend laws so that juvenile offenders can more easily be transferred to adult courts. Allen saw the trend as regrettable, focusing more on punishment and less on rehabilitation, following recent Federal legislation reducing state-level independence in the juvenile justice processes.
In his Introduction, Allen commented that whilst America allegedly holds its children in high regard, it nonetheless increasingly heads towards trying juveniles in adult courts for more and more crimes. He stated the country has gone “full circle”, starting from a justice system with ...

That there was genocide in Rwanda culminating to the death of close to 1 million people is no secret. It has been 19 years since the world watched in disbelief as a nation descended upon itself in a move to exterminate one another. In order to bring justice to the victims, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) was formed to prosecute the core perpetrators. This court was established in November 1994 by the United Nation Security Council to try those responsible for the genocide and other violation of international law in Rwanda. These crimes ranged from planned exterminations of the ...

Law

The public comments by Michael B. Nifong, the Durham district attorney violated the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct when he started to release malicious and false information to the media regarding a pending case. This is the case involving a stripper who filed a complaint against three Duke Lacrosse players and accused them of gang-raping her during one of the team’s parties. Mr. Nifong made statements before news media when he suggested to the reporters that a condom was used during the attack based on the sexual assault examination report that was in his possession (Barstow and Wilson, 2006). The state bar ...