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In Hong Kong, a wife can legally kill her cheating husband, as long as she does it with her bare hands. In 2008, a Saudi court refused an 8-year-old girl who asked for a divorce from her 58-year-old husband. In Dubai, victims in rape cases can also be charged with a crime. These shocking and obscure laws around the world sparked my interest in international legal systems. English law in particular influences laws all over the world, and studying law in the U.K. will provide insights into other legal systems.
As I watched nonfiction documentaries such as “The Trials of Darryl Hunt” and read countless Jodi Picoult books, my passion for law grew. The story of Darryl Hunt’s wrongful imprisonment opened my eyes to flaws in the U.S. legal system, …show more content…

In writing research papers, l extrapolated information from multiple sources and synthesized arguments based on reliable evidence. Not only will these skills allow me to express my legal opinions intelligibly in a courtroom, they also ensure I will be able to convey arguments concisely while avoiding ambiguity in drafting legal documentation.
I have also taken many higher level social studies courses, including AP Psychology, AP Microeconomics, and AP Macroeconomics. AP Psychology deepened my understanding of human nature and decision making while impressing upon me the importance of ethics and morality. AP Economics showed me the extent of the influence new laws and policies can have on the economy, further developing my interest in international law. Next semester, I will take Advanced Economics: Globalization - an honors course with a focus on international relations and policy-making.
However, my most rewarding course is one I am currently taking: AP U.S. Government & Politics. It taught me that laws must be principles that can adapt to new paradigms rather than an unyielding set of regulations. Next semester, I will take AP Comparative Government & Politics, where I hope to continue studying and comparing international legal systems and the effects they have on different

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“Making a Murderer” tells the compelling legal narrative of Steven Avery, and his nephew Brenden Dassey. Through its eloquent display of their cases, the docuseries makes a phenomenal display of some of the biases and overarching issues in the United States Justice system. With its display of compelling evidence, “Making a Murderer” also shows where improvement in the justice system is desperately needed. Injustice, bias, and conflict of interest, all inhibit individuals' ability to secure a fair trial.

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Walter McMillan was guilty of one thing and one thing only: having an affair with a white woman. At the time, this was seen as very scandalous, the Civil Rights Movement had ended but the deeply ingrained racism in the South had not. Because of this, Walter McMillan, known by many as Johnny D., was shunned and mistreated to the point that when a murder he didn’t commit was pinned on him no one thought twice about whether or not he could have done it. The Justice Department handled the case poorly by not fact checking witness testimonies, illegally moving the prisoner to death row without a conviction, intimidating a witness before a trial to convince him to lie, and so much more. One day Walter McMillan and several other prisoners get a visit from an upstart lawyer named Bryan Stevenson, a man who had just started a federally funded program known as the Equal Justice Initiative to help men like Walter.

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Mayer, Theodoric and Thompson, Christie. “Criminal Injustice: the Best Reporting on Wrongful Convictions (MuckReads).” ProPublica, 26 Mar. 2013.

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In Bryan Stevenson's memoir "Just Mercy," the theme of racial injustice is a pervasive and critical element that underscores the flaws within the American criminal justice system. The section spanning pages 184-207 of the book offers a poignant and illustrative examination of how race and racism perpetuate systemic inequities and miscarriages of justice. This segment of the memoir highlights specific cases and personal anecdotes that reveal the deep-seated racial biases that continue to influence legal outcomes and the treatment of individuals within the system. One of the most striking cases detailed in these pages is that of Walter McMillian, a black man wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Alabama.

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Annotated Bibliography Bower, Alicia. " Constitutionally Crowded: Brown v. Plata and How the Supreme Court Pushed Back to Keep Prison Reform Litigation Alive." Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 45.2 (2012): 555-67. Academic Search Complete. Web.

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The United States of America has been a long-standing symbol of liberty; the pledge of allegiance even states “with liberty, and justice for all.” However, digging not-so-deep into America’s government and justice system reveals anything but liberty or justice. Luckily, there are many people out there willing to push to reform the system and help those who have been treated unfairly. Bryan Stevenson is one of those people, and his anecdote about Walter McMillian intends to show the deep rooted problems in the justice system, as well as the fairly easy solutions to make strides towards repairing it and the people who have been wronged by it. He does this by using a somber tone about the life of McMillian, as well as using a hopeful one when

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In the history of the United States of America, there have been many situations in which a trial was unfair, both in the cases of state and federal indictments. However, none of these have measured up to the outrageous inequity and negligence by the Alabama legal system in 1930. This poses the question: to what extent did the Scottsboro Trial reveal the faults of the U.S. Judicial System? Going so far to tie back to the Constitution, the Scottsboro Trial violated many rights of these boys, regardless of race; even the judges and prosecution put the system to shame. Aside from years of trial, falsely incriminating evidence, and biased courts, the Scottsboro boys faced years of judges, prosecutors, and mobs trespassing on their basic human rights.

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America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System. washington: Cengage Learning. Savage, D. G. (2011, january 15).

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“What is a workday like for a paralegal” My cappuccino spilled the cup while I ran at the speed of light, or at least ran as fast as I could with these black heels I was forced to use at work every day, not to mention the briefcase full of more or less important documents that was about to break and let my work fly down the hall at the entrance to the old building where I worked. I knew I should have bought that new pink leather briefcase when I had the opportunity, but in no way was I going to pay $ 200 for that thing. My beautiful black briefcase that was falling apart was not even real leather, and it only cost me $ 98 and 78 cents, but sadly his life was coming to an end, I even had to paint its corner with a Black nail polish I had at

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(2014). The Trayvon Martin Trial - Two Comments and an Observation. The John Marshall Law Review, 47(4), 11th ser. Retrieved February 21, 2018, from https://repository.jmls.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://scholar.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=2086&context=lawreview.

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This book explains how wrongful convictions and excessive punishments rely more on laissez-faire than on enforceable duties and rules, which can cause many issues in the legal system. It stresses the importance of rule of law. News source: Problem isn’t a Surplus of Hogs; It’s a failure of Policy Leonard, R. E. (1999, Jan 30). Problem isn't a surplus of hogs; it's a failure of policy.

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In past years I have taken web design, intro to java programming, and game design. At first I was planning to take an easier set of classes for my senior year but I looked at the classes from Embry-Riddle and decided to challenge myself. One of the other AP classes I ended up in was government politics. In this class there is a lot of overlapping issues with government and cyber forensics.

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1. A paralegal is “A person who performs certain substantive legal work for and delegated by a lawyer”. Paralegals will assist attorneys with clerical duties along with, meeting clients and keeping in contact with them, assisting in trials, take care of legal documents and proceedings, as well as planning and developing case information. To me they are the lawyers “backbone”.

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Annotated Bibliography #1 Working Research Question:     Should the U.S. Judical branch take action to prevent wrongful convictions and improve police investigations, or should the government spend its time and resources on other things? Bibliographic Entry: Hunt, B. Problems in the Criminal Justice System. Retrieved September 22, 2017, from http://mtabolitionco.org/issues/problems/ Source Summary:     This article is all about the issues in the U.S. criminal, from the outdated technology through racism. Also it talks about the origin of why and how all of these issues came about and potential ways to solve the problems.

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In my undergraduate studies, no course has left a positive impact on me more than creative writing. Most courses I taken revolved on applying and understanding academic knowledge of Political Science, Sociological, and philosophical subjects. While I followed and achieved this criteria, I felt that my writing lacked personal expression that stimulated readers. Not only did this course improved my writing ability, but it imparted additional set of skills and self-knowledge that will help my pursuit in legal studies.

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