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Legal Intern, Federal Defender for the Northern District of Alabama; Birmingham, Alabama.
Legal Intern, Federal Defender for the Middle District of Alabama; Montgomery, Alabama.
Judicial Intern, United States Chief Magistrate Judge Paul Greene (Retired), United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama; Birmingham, Alabama.
Judicial Intern, Alabama Circuit Court Judge Alfred Bahakel (Retired), Alabama’s 10th Judicial Circuit Court – Criminal Division; Birmingham, Alabama.
Parole and Probation Officer, Birmingham Division of Jefferson County, State of Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles; Birmingham,
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The one beacon of hope the juvenile court has is Judge Roosevelt Dorn. Judge Dorn is known in the court systems as one of the toughest judges. He was known for harsh sentences and often trying children in the adult courts. However, Judge Dorn may seem cruel he is merely doing what he feels is best for the child. He sees the same cases and scenarios day in and day out. He knows that stability is the thing these kids need most.
After analyzing the discourse community of law and the detailed process lawyers take in order to write an effective appeals brief, one can see that lawyers have a very specific and unique way of communicating that includes certain jargon unfamiliar and possibly incomprehensible to the general public. Although writing an appeal brief is only one aspect of many that government prosecuting attorneys such as Kenny Elser face in their jobs on a daily basis, it is also a very necessary job because not only is it used by a single discourse community in the law profession but utilized by the discourse community of law as a whole.
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This new trend is giving the consumer control over the decisions that until now, the corporations made for them. This impacts many aspects of business- from the items the retailers decide to stock, how the merchandise is categorized, the delivery, and the consumers even have more control over the development of new products. Putting the consumer in control could save a company a lot of money, while keeping the consumer satisfied with the product.
According to Pollock, (2017) a prosecutor’s duties are to a system, or society and not an individual. In this incident, a prosecutor has the responsibility to represent the system and review the evidence that a crime has been committed. The media is the problem in this incident. As we all know the media is always in a hurry to break a story that they commonly get their facts incorrect. Or they speculate on what little information they have. In this incident, as a prosecutor I would not arrest the individual on probable cause, but instead I would refer this incident to the grand jury. This would take several months and by that time the media story would have quietly disappeared from the public. Then I would proceed with criminal charges
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