JURI-2136EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Independent Contractor, Formal System
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More than 90% of people convicted of a crime plead guilty; approx. 70 of civil disputes are resolved without trial. Proceeding are lengthy and subject to interruptions. Financial and emotional costs stresses bank accounts and relationships. Issue: if a child was molested you wouldn"t settle you would go to law: emotion: divorces are prepared but adultery and or cheating, pressure: by others or family members. Non-criminal actions are of two kinds: civil or issue with strangers, family disputes family issues. In civil suits judges do one or more of three things: define a relationship employee or independent contractor, adjust relationships move assets or children, establish a relationship one night stands - dna tests. Civil disputes require courts to allocate or reallocate resources. Judges are also required to define and adjust relationships adjust is usually jail time. In addition to settling civil and criminal disputes judges establish and enforce norms i. e. standards of acceptable conduct.