Under British and Australian laws a jury in a criminal case has no access to information about
the defendant’s criminal record. This protects the person who is being accused of the crime.
Some lawyers have suggested that this practice 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? Give reasons for your answers.
There is a discussion about a change in the law. Some people consider that there would be useful to know about the past committed crimes of an offender, on the other hand, the law is based on hiding the previous offends of the criminal. In my point of view, although it would be more facilitate to judge by having further information about the person, the court should judge based on the recent crime and should not be influenced by the past information intangibly.
In one hand, if the jury has any kind of document about the past it would be somehow useful for the judge. Actually, some lawyers try to reduce the level of the crime by talking about the accused personality and his/her past which indicate he/she obey the law. Therefore know the other crimes of the specific criminal would help to more accurate judge and prevent the misunderstandings. For Example in the year 1993, a court did not punish a woman who killed her husband accurately, because based on her lawyer's presentation she could not be a murder based on her personality and kindness which the neighbours and witnesses confess, thus she was.
On the other hand, know about the past might affect the judges view unconsciously. If the guilty person really does not commit the crime the negative influence of his/her past might define him/her as a criminal. Sometimes after a punishment a rehabilitate occurs and criminals absolutely obey the law after all, but accidentally they engaged a crime by mistake and actually they are innocent, in that case, the information about their past might cause the jury make an inaccurate decision and punish them. Moreover, the court is for a recent crime not for the crimes is committed in the past and the person has been punished before.
In conclusion, there are different ideas about jury should know the offended records or not and in my view, it depends on the situation, however sometimes it would assist the court for a better judge, in some cases in would have harmful effects on jury's view.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 248, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'obeys'.
Suggestion: obeys
... and his/her past which indicate he/she obey the law. Therefore know the other crime...
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Line 3, column 262, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...ast which indicate he/she obey the law. Therefore know the other crimes of the specific c...
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Line 5, column 242, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... criminal. Sometimes after a punishment a rehabilitate occurs and criminals absolutely obey th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, moreover, really, so, therefore, thus, after all, for example, in conclusion, kind of, talking about, in my view, in some cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1672.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 348.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80459770115 5.12529762239 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61003708132 2.80592935109 93% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.477011494253 0.561755894193 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 531.9 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 29.0 20.2975951904 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 74.8251665922 49.4020404114 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.333333333 106.682146367 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.0 20.7667163134 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 14.5 7.06120827912 205% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208338478591 0.244688304435 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0841052762054 0.084324248473 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0430553381187 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135435936889 0.151304729494 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.041106282233 0.056905535591 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 50.2224549098 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.4159519038 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.1190380762 134% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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