Essays on Government Agent

Section 1983 is a valuable tool to prove right the constitutional rights in the land. This is based on the fact that it is constructed to promote its main remedial purposes. The civil rights lawsuit is very important in the perspective that it is one of the crucial methods that hold people acting in a governmental capacity or the government accountable for their actions in the court of law.

One of the advantages of section 1983 of Title 42 of the U.S Code is that it eliminates favoritism and discrimination regardless of the position held. If the government or government ...

Introduction

Every criminal justice system in the world is characterized by policy and procedure directives that ensures that all the actions and processes in this system are within the constitutional and legal confines. The policy and procedure are enacted to ensure that the constitutional rights of stakeholders are not infringed upon when these individuals are exposed to a particular criminal justice process. Unfortunately, there arises some situations in the course of disseminating justice where some actions cause massive legal disagreements. An individual who has been subjected to a particular process may claim that the process was unconstitutional or that his rights were ...

Lewis v. United States

Facts: An undercover officer in the department of narcotics called Lewis to find out whether he would sell him marijuana. The officer disguised his identity; he identified himself as Jimmy the Pollack. Lewis agreed to the officer’s request and directed him to his residence where the transaction would take place. The officer went to the petitioner’s abode and made his purchase; these transactions happened severally. Lewis was on one occasion arrested and charged with infringing federal drug laws. The District Court convicted Lewis following a denial to pre-trial motion seeking to suppress. The First Circuit affirmed this decision. ...