Legal Research and Writing
Real Stories of the Legal Writing Patrol

The following sentences were written by students in previous classes. Each phrase contains at least one error; many contain much more than one. See if you can improve each phrase.

1. After signing up, the student athletes' names are placed in a "pool".

2. Strict chain of custody in keeping the students identity secret is kept.

3. If the student's first sample tests positive they are given a second test as soon as possible to confirm the result.

4. The Court applied their balancing test to weigh the government's interests in the search against the potential intrusion on an individual's rights to determine if the inspection was reasonable.

5. Before the Acton decision, the cases upholding suspicionless searches did so because drug use by the group to be tested represented a significant danger to the public as well as themselves. Unlike the facts presented in the Acton decision.

6. LaJoe Rivers mother of eight children the oldest LaShawn twenty-one who was a prostitute from time to time to support her drug habit.

7. The fact that the material is obscene the government has no right to invade the privacy of one's home, this is the very intrusions our founding father were escaping when they left England to come here.

8. The fact that at the time the defendant purchased the magazines it was legal to do so and possession was also legal.

9. The petitioner, Keith Jacobson, was indicted and found guilty of knowingly acquiring sexual explicit material depicting minors in the State District Court of Nebraska.

10. The petitioner also ordered a brochure, stating other addresses of adult bookstores promoting sexually explicit materials.

11. The predisposing factors of his entrapment defense was his name being on that list, as well as his purchase of two magazines, Bare Boys I and Bare Boys II.

12. In showing that Jacobson was predisposed, because his name was on the list, which should be clear that he was predisposed to commit this criminal act that he is charged of, where there is predisposition to commit an offense, investigative officers and agents may go to great lengths in concert with the defendant without being deemed to have acted so outrageously as to violate due process laws.

13. Also in discussing Sorrels, government agents were in physical contact with Sorrels.

14. Because of this decision many feel it has caused considerable amount of problems.

15. Another argument that constitutes Double Jeopardy summarizes it all in one statement which prohibits merely punishment twice, or attempting a second time to punish criminally, for the same offense.

16. Also in U.S. v. Ursey, 116 U.S. 2135 (1996) reversed Ursey's conviction and the forfeiture judgment Ursey, holding that the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the government from punishing a defendant for a criminal offense and forfeiting his property for that same offense in a separate civil proceeding.

17. There is a dispute of whether or not the respondent's Constitutional rights were violated. Those being the points of ex post facto, double jeopardy, and substantive due process.

18. Obviously it's safe to say that the state of Kansas intent was never to be punitive, but that there major concern was to keep Hendricks off the street because of his sexual violent nature.

19. After following the defendant for sometime, the defendant turned at a light, without making a complete stop.

20. In Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277; 103 S. Ct. 3001 (1983) came up with three criteria they felt were relevant to determine proportionality.

21. This killing was unlawful, because, as it will be shown latter, it was unlawful.

22. It has been the testimony of doctor's that it would have been very easily to cure her.

23. Freedom to practice one's religion is one of our most sacred rights. One of the main reasons that this country was founded.

24. The use of the strap or cane in regards to punishment has been shown to be constitutional in some cases where the punishment was not ruled unconstitutional because of the factors of the case.



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