The Judge read over her notes as the crowd took their seats.
"It's the people of Tukistan vs Allison Cameron, Shelly Crane, Michael McCarthy, Emily Moody, Steve Moody, Sarah Rivers, and Melody Song of planet Earth," Judge Justice said. "The prosecutor is Samael Vallard. The defence attorney is Athena Eorum."
The Judge then turned to the teenagers. "Before we begin, I would like to tell these kids how a trial in Oberon works," she said. "When it comes to a federal defense, there is no hearing. Both the defense attorney and the prosecutor will give their opening statements. After that, they will give their opening statements. Finally, they will present their evidence, etc. Our court system is very similar to Earth. Almost identical. Are there
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"Order in the court," Judge Justice said as she banged her gavel. "Mr. Vallard, your opening statement, please."
Vallard got up from his seat and he stood in front of the jury.
"Ladies, gentlemen, non-binary, other kin, and androids of the jury," Vallard said. "These kids left Earth because the Kratos government sent its army to invade. When their ship crash landed, our beloved government granted these kids refugee status. In this country, we educate these refugees about our laws, our history, and our culture. In other words, they have to pass a course before they're considered citizens. But they tried to leave the camp before they've completed it. Therefore, these kids are illegal aliens."
"Thank you, Mr. Vallard," Judge Justice said. "Ms. Eorum, your opening statement, please."
Eorum got up from her seat, and she approached the jury.
"People of the jury, these teenagers didn't come here by choice," Eorum said. "They didn't seek refugee status, and yet, our government gave these teenagers and two adults refugee status anyway. My clients were officially charged with breaking refugee status. However, they were not charged with entering our country illegally. Breaking your refugee status is not an actual law. You break your refugee status by committing a federal offense. But they were not charged with a federal
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"Excuse me, Ms. Eorum," Shelly said. "What do you mean by 'let us go?' We're stranded on this planet."
"Call me Athena," she said. "To answer your question, most likely, if you're found not guilty, the government will deport you back to Earth."
"We still need to look for that reality engine," Shelly thought.
"But, Athena," Shelly said. "We've completed the course. Plus, we're not safe on Earth. Can't we gain refugee status?"
"Yes," Athena said. "However, this is a convoluted case that doesn't make much sense. Because of that, there's a lot of red tape to cut through."
The Judge and the jury returned to the courtroom ten minutes later.
"I've done some research," Judge Justice said. "When you step outside a refugee camp before you complete your course, you are an illegal immigrant. Technically, you teenagers are not refugees, since you did not come here willingly. Also, since you were technically charged with a crime that doesn't exist, I have no choice but to deport you teenagers, as the two adults who've crash landed here, back to Earth. Case
The United States Criminal Justice system has a unique way of approaching and handling criminal trials. In criminal trials there are important court room members with specific roles and certain court room procedures that must be followed. The court room members include the jury, the judge, the prosecution, and the defense. Some of the procedures of a criminal trial are arraignment, preliminary hearing, the trial itself, opening statements, direct examination, cross examination, closing arguments and the verdict. Each court room member’s goal is to fulfill their responsibility and to help justice be served.
After listening to both sides present their case the judge will issue a ruling on the defendant’s
Apart from the TVPRA, a longstanding court injunction in Perez-Funez v. District Director, 619 F. Supp. 656 (C.D. Cal. 1985), grants another layer of protection to unaccompanied immigrant children. The Perez-Funez litigation alleged that then-INS had a policy and practice of coercing children into accepting voluntary departure from the United States, thereby waiving their rights to a hearing and an opportunity to apply for relief. After trial, the court held that the government’s existing voluntary departure procedures violated the children’s due process rights, and interposed critical safeguards designed to minimize the risk of coercion. Id. at 669-70.
The JUDGE raps for order)” (Lawrence and Lee, 84). Because there is “an uproar in the courtroom”, the jury are clearly also shocked by Drummond’s nerve to call up Brady. Many of the jury will go back to their town
She mentioned that there was a lot of talk going around in the city of Okeechobee, and that there were comments made by prosecutors prior to the jury selection that adversely impacted results. “Everyone knows everyone in this small town, it is not absurd to think that word of mouth spread rapidly.” The justices did not seem entirely satisfied with this statement, but they continued arguing in legal jargon that I could not for the life of me understand. The trial was quickly wrapped up after this, with no real solution as to how to move forward. The entire ordeal lasted around 35 minutes, and the next hearing was set about a month from this one.
They are also given training to learn the English language and get a job” (Phillips). This means that every single person that steps onto our soil is being almost immediately taken care of. Refugees should not be a primary concern for our country and until our government officials realize that, then we will continue to struggle with national debt and problems funding other parts of our country. Money can only be stretched so far in the real
Basically, because a refugee/asylee intends to stay here for the foreseeable future, they must establish that his/her return to their country of origin may lead to further persecution. Pursuant to INA § 101(a)(42), acts of persecution must be connected to a refugee ground. Here Kamau “must provide some direct or circumstantial evidence of his persecutor’s [Toroitich’s] motive in order to successfully establish nexus between the persecution and one of the enumerated grounds. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S 478 (1992).
A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family. In the name of God, do your duty." Juror 8 is very outspoken because he is the only one in the beginning that think the boy is not guilty. This leads him to stand up against all of the other jurors so that he can clearly get his point across.
http://vimeo.com/74987092 8. The 1951 Convention relating to the Status on Refugees and its 1967 Protocol defines a refugee by: a. A person who is not in the country of their origin or their
The script introduces the viewers to the typical behavior and the state of mind of these jurors, who surprisingly turn out to be the last to change their opinions from “guilty” to “not guilty”. Juror#3 the frustrated father whose personal conflicts and experiences influence his view of the accused’s crime is very desperate to make it clear that his mind is already made up before the deliberations even start. Similar
The jury selection process is very important because of the specific allowances, which are given to each courtroom. One of the permissions is the right of peremptory challenges, which allows defense attorneys
This essay will briefly discuss the role of the jury and how it works, from the principle behind it, to the method with which members are selected, and to the powers available to jurors. Moreover, it will outline advantages and disadvantages of trial by jury, and it will point out a couple of ways which could ameliorate this type of trial. Trial by jury has been a part of the criminal justice system since the 12th century (Davies, 2015), it is considered an ancient right and a symbol of liberty (Hostettler, 2004). It creates no precedent and it can decide challenging cases equitably without making bad law, it also brings members of the public into the administration of justice and into an understanding of legal and human rights (Hostettler,
There are many different types of war that could cause a person to become a refugee these include
In case of diplomatic asylum, the refugee is within the territory of the state where the offense was committed. A decision to grant diplomatic asylum involves derogation from the sovereignty of that state. It withdraws the offender from the jurisdiction of the territorial state and constitutes an intervention in matters which are exclusively within the competence of that
According to the United Nations Convention associated to the status of refugees of 1951, a refugee is someone who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country" In accordance with