Tag: Juvenile Law
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Probation
Probation in the United States A criminal sentence that allows a person to return to the community under supervised release. Probation is an alternative to imprisonment and is applied to almost two-thirds of sentenced offenders in the United States. Control is maintained over the offender by […]
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School Resource Officers
School Resource Officers (SRO) School resource officers (SROs) have become a permanent presence in many K-12 schools throughout the United States. There has been a growing interest in placing sworn police officers in schools as SROs to improve school safety. School-based policing is the fastest growing area of law enforcement. The primary role of law…
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Transfer
Transfer in United States Transfer Definition (Lat. tra,ns, over, fero, to bear or carry) . The act by which the owner of a thing delivers it to another person, with the intent of passing the rights which he has in it to the latter; 1 Ala. 669; 36 Conn, 426. Transfer in […]
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Transfer
Transfer in United States Transfer Definition (Lat. tra,ns, over, fero, to bear or carry) . The act by which the owner of a thing delivers it to another person, with the intent of passing the rights which he has in it to the latter; 1 Ala. 669; 36 Conn, 426. Transfer in […]
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Certification
Certification in the United States A request to a higher court by a lower court for guidance on a legal question relating to a pending case. Request for certification in the federal courts can come from either the U.S. court of appeals or the U.S. district court. The U.S. court of claims may […]
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Waiver
Waiver in United States Waiver Definition The voluntary surrender and relinquishment of a right. 29 Minn. 191. The intentional relinquishment of a known right. 153 111. 468. It is a somewhat narrower term than abandonment (q. v.) and is applied to rights, not to property. To constitute […]
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Due Process
Due Process in the United States US Main Decisions: 1. Record – Fernandez – Vargas v. Gonzales 2. Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales 3. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld 4. United States v. Noriega 5. Islamic American Relief Agency v. Gonzales 6. Al-Marri v. Wright 7. El-Masri v. United States 8. Brazil […]
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Due Process
Due Process in the United States US Main Decisions: 1. Record – Fernandez – Vargas v. Gonzales 2. Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales 3. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld 4. United States v. Noriega 5. Islamic American Relief Agency v. Gonzales 6. Al-Marri v. Wright 7. El-Masri v. United States 8. Brazil […]
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Res Ipsa Loquitur
Res Ipsa Loquitur in United States Res Ipsa Loquitur Definition The thing speaks for itself. A phrase used in actions for injury by negligence, where no proof of negligence is required beyond the accident itself, which is such as necessarily to involve negligence. Res Ipsa Loquitur in […]
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Res Ipsa Loquitur
Res Ipsa Loquitur in United States Res Ipsa Loquitur Definition The thing speaks for itself. A phrase used in actions for injury by negligence, where no proof of negligence is required beyond the accident itself, which is such as necessarily to involve negligence. Res Ipsa Loquitur in […]
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Fifth Amendment
Fifth Amendment in the United States Fifth Amendment in the context of Juvenile and Family Law Definition ofFifth Amendment, published by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges: The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing that a person cannot be compelled to […]