Under British and Australian laws a jury in a criminal case has no access to information about the defendant's past 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 answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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some expert opinions support the availability of past criminal

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to the jury, as far as I am concerned,

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policy should not be realized. Past criminal

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would likely bias the judgment of the judge.

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, these documents would add to the workload of legal workers,

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preventing them from giving a fair sentence. Being given that juries are

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humans, the past criminal transcript of a defendant would likely prompt them to form opinions that are not necessarily objective.

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, suppose that a woman stabbed her husband with a knife on grounds of self-defence without any witnesses, if she had been charged with violent crime beforehand, the tribunal would be inclined to give a sentence for murder

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of manslaughter or self-defence.

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, British and Australian laws are both wise to withhold the criminal report of a defendant. Biased judgment might

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arise from the fatigue of the board caused by the overwhelming amount of document related to a criminal case which requires consideration. Without past criminal

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, according to a friend of mine who study laws in the UK, legal workers already have a heavy volume of work. If past police

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are included, the jury’s judgment would be

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impaired due to boredom and exhaustion.

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, the defendant’s previous convictions should not be presented to the tribunal. One reason some lawyers might want to change traditional practices is that the history of crime provides insights as to how the convict should be punished: repeated offences should be more severely penalized.

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,

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argument is no more than an assumption supported only by the cowardice and/or laziness of certain legal workers towards considering relevant evidence at the expense of time and efforts.

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resources should be contemplated when policies are concerned, but I am focusing on the technicality of the issue in

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essay. And technically, as stated earlier in the essay, past criminal

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should not be released to the jury. In conclusion, regardless of some points of view favouring the accessibility of past convictions to the jury, the traditional practice of concealing it should be maintained to ensure the objectivity of the sentence. More resources might be required without past

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, and resource analysis might reach a different conclusion.

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technicality is concerned, traditional practices is the best option.