Law in Contemporary Society

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SummerExperience 32 - 21 Jul 2010 - Main.CeciliaWang
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 I thought I would create this page to allow us to all share our experiences this summer because 1) I'm curious what everyone is up to, 2) I've already had lots of stuff happen which I want to share and 3) I think it could be helpful for us to share what we're learning and perhaps learn more together than any of us is learning individually.

These are just a few of my thoughts and I'm sure I'll be adding more, but I hope people really pick this up.

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 The most exciting case so far was the trial of the rather slick, egomaniacal man who stabbed his girlfriend 13 times and burned her with a crack pipe (yet she survived and was able to testify) and while in prison impregnated a prison guard. We had to listen to his prison conversations with his two other girlfriends for incriminating admissions. Quite entertaining in the way gross, overly sexualized and dumb movies are entertaining. The best part was when the defendant fake sobbed for ten whole very loud minutes about how much he loved the victim, how he’s found God and how Jesus must forgive him, while being cross-examined.

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>		EDIT: I now realize the incredibly slow movement of the court system. Recently I got a stack of cases to be heard on September 22 and it's incredible that so many lives will be in limbo until then (everyone must have an order of protection forbidding him or her from living at home and police officers do random home visits to make sure they're not). It's almost set up so that the best thing a person charged with misdemeanors or violations can do is to take the earliest offered plea and so be rid of the whole process. Every motion filed, every adjournment means a delay of a couple weeks. The goal seems not to be justice when 2009 cases over third degree assault or harassment charges are still being fought over.
 -- CeciliaWang - 08 Jul 2010

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