CCJ 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Natural Justice, Insanity Defense, Femininity
7 Mar 2019
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A time to kill: note the judges name, who is the justice figure or the injustice figure. Popular courtroom film narratives: real life cases, military justice, comedy, heroic lawyers. Improper client lawyer relations: unusual judges and/or jurors, civil cases. Natural law vs. man-made law: natural law is justice and man-made law is often fallible. Man-made law may mean that there is no justice: ex. Natural law protect yourself immediate: ex. Man-made law if you feel threated, you can only defend yourself if you are hit first. Hearsay is testimony involving information the witness was told but has no direct knowledge of: circumstantial evidence this is also admissible in court. It is testimony by a witness that requires jurors to draw a reasonable inference: evidence can come from testimonies or expert witness, character attacks in movies we see a lot of character assassinations.
