under British and Australian laws a jury is 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 reason for your answer
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It is debatable whether or not the
jury
has access to the defendant’s past criminal information.While some people may think that the past records may provide additional details, others believe that it is highly harmful to the accused person. Personally speaking, I may not onagree
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with the
afore-mentioned
statement as I tend to believe that old activities have no right to be involved in today’s cases.
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communities still tend to judge people by connecting their past characters easily. Add a comma
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, it is wiser by any chance to weigh only the present facts and pieces of evidence as the former facts have already been passed. By way of illustration is a jury
may have accused the wrong person just because one has a bad criminal report. Thus
, to me
it is only fair to exclude the earlier reports.
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On the other hand
, another opinion to consider is that repeated bad behaviours should be punished harder than the first
one. Consequently
, in this
case, the jury
needs to know if one had made a similar action in the past. However
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belief. Like the previous statement, I am deeply concerned that a decision may not be valid if the jury
had the previous files.
To conclude, what British and Australian laws have done to hide the former facts sound right to me. An accountable judgement can be made if only the jury
excluded past defendants records.Submitted by edobi on
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