Archive for the ‘criminal’ Category

Court: Defendant can claim innocence, entrapment simultaneously …

arkansasnews.com12/17/11

Under Arkansas law, entrapment occurs “when a law enforcement officer or any person acting in cooperation with a law enforcement officer induces the commission of an offense by using persuasion or any other means likely to cause a normally law-abiding person to commit the offense.” … Arkansas, Newbern said a defendant who may have been entrapped should not be forced to admit guilt and so be prevented from requiring the state to prove its case against him. …

ReggaeHolland » Will the speedy trial act help Buju?

www.reggaeholland.com12/20/11

The Speedy Trial Act refers to one of the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution to defendants in criminal proceedings. The right to a speedy trial, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, is intended to make sure that …

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I’d like to understand why entrapment is wrong.

We read so often that the police put out some bait, which a suspected criminal then goes for, after which a judge then releases him or her because some shyster lawyer claims that his or her client was “entrapped”.

I don’t see anything wrong with the police doing this, so please tell me why the courts are against it.

What’s the difference between somebody committing a crime on the street, or agreeing to doing the same thing with the police?

Surely they’re guilty either way?

And how does entrapment differ from framing somebody?

Reasons for gun control | 6o8

6o8.org11/21/11

This matter has raised many questions like those involving the required restrictions and by the constitutions, the connection about the crime control and gun control as well as the rates at which the gun control have on vices …

PERSPECTIVE: More guns does not mean more crime | Star-Exponent

www2.starexponent.com8/18/11

PERSPECTIVE: More guns does not mean more crime. By: Richmond … More guns might not lead to less crime; deterrence is a very hard thing to prove. But this much is clear: More guns do not lead to more crime. Virginia's …

Do more handguns equal more or less violent crime?

I was recently surprised to read that,

"States with Higher Percentages of Gun Owners Have Less Violent Crime".

And even more surprised to read that …

"Most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws, States reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%.

And if those states that did not permit concealed handgun in 1992 had permitted them back then, citizens might have been spared approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, 60,000 aggravated assaults and 12,000 robberies.

To put it even more simply: Criminals, we found, respond rationally to deterrence threats!".

I’d always been against people having guns, but if the above is true then I was wrong.

So would it really be better if our civilan societies were armed with guns?