The British And Australian Laws The Jury Has No Access To The Past Criminal Record Of The Defendant

It is believed, and rightly so, that a person learns from his past and makes his future bright by correcting the mistakes committed in the past. Due to

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, a person should not be judged, as a whole, by his past deeds only. Due the

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must be accorded to the present circumstances in which the person commits an act, which may either give a positive or a negative result. Different nations across the globe have a different set of rules in respect of criminal cases that come

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nation. The

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under the British and Australian laws has no access as regards the past criminal record of a

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provides an edge to the

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, as the

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comes to a decision in a vacuum.

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, in

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the absence

of previous criminal records the

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does not arrive at a decision due to any

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a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it

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or pre-conceived notion about the character of the

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situation, undoubtedly, favours the

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, another school of thought believes that the

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must be aware of the past criminal records of the

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. According to the believers of

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school, an access to the past criminal records, actually provides a factual, realistic and reasonable platform to the

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to deliver their judgment. The past records, as a matter of fact, provides the insight into

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the nature

, character, upbringing, social level, mental health and numerous other factors of the

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. With the help of these tools, it becomes easy and logical for the

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to read the subconscious mind of

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, it

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facilitates the

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to take a reasoned, well defined, appropriate, conscious, deliberate, judicious and prudent decision. As a matter of fact, in the recent case of a known gangster that made headlines in the criminal magazine, The ABC, it was only due to the knowledge of

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the modus operandi

of the said gangster in past records, that the

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overruled the theory of reasonable doubt that was

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by the advocate of the

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. In short, in my opinion, the

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must be made aware of the past records to provide them the opportunity to have a full 360-degree view of the

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, as a whole.