Under British and Australian laws a jury in a criminal case has no access to information about the defendant's past criminal record. This protect the person who is being accused of the crime.
Some lawyers have suggested that this practise should be changed and that a jury should be given all the past facts before they reach their decision about the case.
Do you agree or disagree
In British and Australian, it is required by law that a jury is not allowed to gain access to the past criminal information of the offender because this protects the offender from being mistreated. Some lawyers, however, argue that it is better to provide the juror all culprit’s past criminal record. I am of the opinion that history criminal data of the defendant should be prohibited to the jury members because I believe that this regulation assure the objectiveness of the final judgment and help to protect the innocent citizen.
The first point to note is that making sure the defendant’s previous criminal record is off limit means the jury is likely to make more objective verdicts. This is because criminal background of the offender may possibly influence the bench to make prejudiced decisions. Based on what the culprit did in the past, juries can be a bit more stereotyped and subconsciously come to the conclusion that discriminate against ex-convicts. For instant, if someone is accused of murder and they have history of committing theft, the juror may be bias against the offender and perceive him or her as a criminal although murder and theft are not relevant. This can lead to a wrong accusation.
Another reason why juries are not allowed to have information about the criminals past is because this plays an important role in protecting the innocent defendant. For instant, some people who have been in prison and do regret their wrong doing. After rehabilitating, they become a good human being. However, when their criminal profile is available to a jury, the jury can use it as a backup evidence if that individual accidently commit a crime in the future.
To conclude, the offenders's history criminal information should not be accessible to the bench in order to avoid impartial evaluation and to protect the guiltiness culprit.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 209, Rule ID: MIGHT_PERHAPS[1]
Message: Use simply 'may', 'possibly'.
Suggestion: may; possibly
...use criminal background of the offender may possibly influence the bench to make prejudiced ...
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Line 3, column 209, Rule ID: MAY_COULD_POSSIBLY[1]
Message: Use simply 'may'.
Suggestion: may
...use criminal background of the offender may possibly influence the bench to make prejudiced ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1562.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 309.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05501618123 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87437674335 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 176.041082164 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.540453074434 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 497.7 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.745923804 49.4020404114 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.153846154 106.682146367 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7692307692 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.07692307692 7.06120827912 29% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.424614923474 0.244688304435 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136748701405 0.084324248473 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0864483274343 0.0667982634062 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254570922279 0.151304729494 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0807043725761 0.056905535591 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.