Trial by ordeal

written down. As these laws became common-knowledge, it became a lot easier to convict someone of a crime. There were many ways to convict a person of a crime, and have them be punished for it. Sometimes, a person would be forced to pay per body part that was removed, or remove their own. Other times, the convicted would be forced to be put through a test. These tests made up a majority of Medieval Britain’s judicial system, and were called ‘trials by ordeal.’ Depending on the crime and social status of the convicted, their trial would likely be one of the three most common…

of this procedure when Bolingbroke listens to testimony regarding the death of the Duke of Glouster. This trial, like that of treason, was considered a criminal offence and, therefore, scholar J.H. Barker would posit that a petty jury was warranted based upon a breach of the king's peace as he writes, "[t]he classical form of the 'petty jury' appeared first in criminal suits, where its use was warranted by the complaint of a breach of kings peace" (73). During this trial, Bolingbroke hears the…

The grand jury originated in 1166, when King Henry II of England, issued the Assize of Clarendon (McSweeney, 2014). The Assize of Clarendon instructed that twelve “good and lawful” men of the community should be periodically convened, under oath, to act as investigatory agents of the monarch (McSweeney, 2014). These investigatory agents came to be known as jurors. Previous to the enactment of the Assize Clarendon, the Catholic Church and nobility decided criminal cases via “trial by ordeal or…

Queensland Double Jeopardy Provisions Double Jeopardy is a technicality law based upon the assumption that one cannot be repeatedly prosecuted in a criminal trial by either the jury, judge or appeal of court judges ("Questioning Double Jeopardy", 2016). This notion has been in existence for 800 years and originated from English Common Law. The double jeopardy protection averts three scenarios, a retrial for a crime that would attract a 25-year or more sentence if the original acquittal is…

protection against the government. These rights consist of the following; due process, substantive due process, Miranda warning, indictment, self-incrimination, grand jury, jury, double jeopardy, and collateral estoppel, immunity from prosecution, eminent domain, takings, and lastly territorial jurisdiction. Nevertheless, this investigation will cover the basic and many varied interpretations of double jeopardy and how they applied to the local case of Robert Nicholas Angleton. Double…

assumed that he was a suspect due to him wearing a hooded sweater and his hand were in his jacket. Then, he was stopped by the officer and gunned down at gun point; this however, led to the officer shooting him multiple times in the back for no exact reason. Courts didn’t know who or what to believe because no one was coming clean about what happened so, the officer pleaded not guilty due to lack of evidence. Once witnesses saw that the neighborhood patrol officer, George Zimmerman was not…

The idea of a trial is for a victim to get justice and for a criminal to be punished for his or her crime. The way that the punishment is decided depends on the jury and on the judges chosen to listen to the case. The novel The Stranger by Albert Camus is based on a man who is charged with premeditated murder and sentenced to death by guillotine. The book starts off with the death of the central character, Meursault’s, mother. In the very beginning of the book we are introduced to Meursault’s…

is brought (pg. 262), at the hearing there was only a plaintiff, the party who initiates the claim (pg. 265). I did not know that there could be a trial without a defendant there, this was something that surprised me. Going court made me realize that…

Franz Kafka’s the trial is cryptically symbolic piece of existentialist writing. More so than that, the one constant overarching theme that keeps coming up in every review I’ve read is the word parable used over and over again. Despite the general themes of The Trial there are a series of key microcosm issues that come up in almost every chapter. These issue depending on the interpretation of these smaller issues could change the general analysis of the entire book. In my opinion. Nevertheless,…

In the movie M, the criminals themselves captured the culprit for the murder of the children and they are holding a “criminal’s court” or “Kangaroo Court.” In this trial, the audience can see no matter what the circumstances are procedures and trials are important. Despite that these people are criminals; they are still holding a trial to convict the murderer and to punish him for the crimes that he committed. However, they did not employ the full extent of the law (procedures). Criminal law…