...Criminal Records in the Digital Age: A Review of Current Practices and Recommendations for Reform in Texas Helen Gaebler, Senior Research Attorney William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law The University of Texas School of law March 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................4 II. THE PROBLEM: CRIMINAL RECORDS AND COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES .........................................5 Collateral Consequences Overview ......................................................................................................... 5 Who’s Affected? A Look at the Numbers in Texas .................................................................................. 8 Disproportionality and the Criminal Justice System .............................................................................. 10 Reaching Across Generations and Communities ................................................................................... 11 III. AN OUTDATED SYSTEM: OPEN ACCESS TO CRIMINAL RECORDS .................................................... 12 The Background Checking Industry........................................................................................................ 12 Common Practices and Pitfalls............................................................................................................... 13 Past Calls for Reform .....................
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...Smith’s lawyer concurred that this report was indeed accurate. Additionally, the sentencing judge said that Smith’s sentence was based on his record that included seven prior felonies and three misdemeanors. The judge found Smith’s sentence to be the appropriate punishment and as a way to not only protect society but to deter others from committing the same crimes. Smith was already serving another sentence, and this case was to run concurrent. Prior to Smith’s sentencing the People v. McFarlin held that a sentencing judge could take into account an adult offender’s juvenile record but could not consider the record as evidence against the offender in any other proceeding but juvenile court. At this time McFarlin did not provide for the expunction of juvenile records. Due to lack of this provision after Smith was sentenced legislature passed subsection 18e of the Juveniles and Juvenile Division Chapter of the probate court, which stipulates that juvenile court judges may not set aside a conviction of a juvenile offense, which if committed by an adult would be considered a felony with a maximum punishment of life in prison or an adjudication for a traffic related offense involving a motor vehicle that may be a felony or misdemeanor. However, a juvenile court judge may set aside other serious juvenile offenses that are not punishable by life imprisonment Furthermore, subsection 18e also made it a misdemeanor to knowingly use a juvenile’s offense that has in fact been set aside except...
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...Prosecuting Argument Paper Team C: CJA/354 August 26, 2013 Prosecuting Argument Paper Enough evidence was obtained to make the arrest of Mr. Dents. The state has now charged Stu Dents with the following: Homicide, assault of a police officer, kidnapping, burglary, and crimes related to drugs. Homicide is “The killing of one human being by the act, procurement, or omission of another human being” (Schmalleger, 2010). Murder is a type of homicide. Below is the Georgia state law on murder. Murder; felony murder: A person commits the offense of murder when he unlawfully and with malice aforethought, either express or implied, causes the death of another human being. Express malice is that deliberate intention unlawfully to take the life of another human being which is manifested by external circumstances capable of proof. Malice shall be implied where no considerable provocation appears and where all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart. A person convicted of the offense of murder shall be punished by death, by imprisonment for life without parole, or by imprisonment for life ("Georgia Code", 2013). On October 18th, two eyewitnesses said the defendant Stu Dents entered into apartment number 156, which was the victim’s apartment. Uma Opee’s body was found October 19th; it was located behind an abandoned building, which is approximately 5 miles from her residence...
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...Manage Operational Plans | BSMMGT515A | TASK ONEDevelop an Operational PlanNKONDE SIMWANZA WAI00002EU | OFFICEMAX OfficeMax is one of the most leading retail shops in Australia. The company has a number of stores in around Australia that mainly specializes in selling office products. The products sold range from various departments but still cater for households and business of every size. We do provide customers with ways to shop in store where customers enjoy friendly expert advice and helpful services as well as online purchases through the company’s website. Figure 1.1 OfficeMax ORGANISATIONAL CHART Table 1.1: OfficeMax Consultation Strategy WHO TO CONSULT | REASON FOR CONSULTING(WHY) | WHAT TO CONSULT | METHORD OF CONSULTATION | Sales Manager | * Acts as the voice of the customer to the rest of the team /company | * Sales assessment * Market recognition to * identify new customers and prospects * Recruiting of new employees | * Meetings * Email conversations | Production Manager | * Give product demonstrations in Trade and analyzing investments in trade * Creates trends and puts value in them more than actual research. * A production manager assesses, oversees and selects projects under quality and specialization. | * Technological diversity * Product control method in order to improve how goods and services are being produced | * Group meetings * Focus groups | Marketing Manager | * Provides advice and strategies...
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...Term Paper On Financial Statements Analysis Between HeidelbergCement Bangladesh Ltd & Lafarge Surma Cement Submitted To Dr. Sujit Saha Former Professor & Director Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management Submitted by SL. No Name ID 1 Md.Rashedul Imam EMBA 2013-2-91-022 2 Md.Monzurul Alam EMBA 2013-2-91-023 3 Md. Kazi Mashiur Rahman EMBA 2013-2-91-038 4 Md. Asaduzzaman EMBA 2013-2-91-019 Course Code : EMBA_561 Course Title : Financial Analysis for Managers Submission Date : June 20, 2014 Semester : Summer 2014 Letter of Transmission Date: June 20, 2014 Prof. Sujit Saha, Ph.D Former Professor & Director Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management Course Code: EMBA_561 East West University Subject: Submitting the report on Financial Analysis on HeidelbergCement Bangladesh Ltd. & Lafarge Surma cement Ltd. of Bangladesh. Dear Sir, We are glad to submit our report on the specific as you have assigned us to prepare a report as a partial requirement of the course. Now we are looking forward to your kind appraisal regarding this report. The report reviews on Current Financial Analysis on HeidelbergCement Bangladesh Ltd. & Lafarge Surma cement Ltd Bangladesh We are very pleased to prepare this report and we expect that it provides us a overall concept on current economic condition. It...
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...Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Bloom's Classic Critical Views alfred, lord Tennyson Benjamin Franklin The Brontës Charles Dickens edgar allan poe Geoffrey Chaucer George eliot George Gordon, lord Byron henry David Thoreau herman melville Jane austen John Donne and the metaphysical poets John milton Jonathan Swift mark Twain mary Shelley Nathaniel hawthorne Oscar Wilde percy Shelley ralph Waldo emerson robert Browning Samuel Taylor Coleridge Stephen Crane Walt Whitman William Blake William Shakespeare William Wordsworth Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Edited and with an Introduction by Sterling professor of the humanities Yale University harold Bloom Bloom’s Classic Critical Views: William Shakespeare Copyright © 2010 Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2010 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data William Shakespeare / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom : Neil Heims, volume editor. p. cm. — (Bloom’s classic critical views) Includes bibliographical references...
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