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[Blog 3] The spanish me...

Spain


Sabira estudia las ciencias sociales. Ella tiene muchas clases. Su clase de espanol es a los lunes y los miercoles a las diez de la manana. Ella clase de ingles es a los lunes y los miercoles a las cuatro de la tarde. Su clase de psicologia es a los jueves a las once y media de la manana. Su clase de sociologia es a los viernes a las diez de la manana. Durante la semana, Sabira estudios en la bibloteca a las nueve de la manana. Sabira va al gimnasio al mediodia los lunes y  los viernes.  A las nueve de la noche ella mira television de lunes a miercoles. Finalmente, Sabira va a la discoteca las sabados a las nueve de la noche.  

Anilu estudia las artes. Anilu tiene pintura espaneol, escultura, anthropolohea, y aleman. Anilu tiene pintura las lunes y en jueves a las ocho y media de la manana. Ella tinne espaneol los martes al mediodia. Tambien tienne escultura a las cinco menos cuatro de la tarde. Ella tiene anthropolohea los viernes a last tres y cuatro de la tarde. Anilu va la gimnasio a la discoteca, a la libereria a la leer.

 

[Blog-2] My trip to the court...

Accused: Balwinder Badden 

Plaintiff: Wife, Son

Place of Trial or Hearing: Provincial Court of  BC

Date of Trial and Hearing: August 9, 2010

Courtroom number and name of the Judge: 107, Judge Jardine

Level of court: Provincial Court

Summary of Facts

-On the date of December 13,2009 Mr. Balwinder S. Badden was arrested for Assaulting his Son and possibly his wife. [they hadn't clarified that yet because she wasn't cross examined yet].

-Mr. Badden (accused) was heavily intoxicated when he came upstairs to the living room where Mrs. Badden and their son was already present.

-Mr & Mrs. Badden got into an argument, and in that commotion the daughter; Ramandeep Badden came downstairs to hear her father saying "Hit me! Hit me"

-She saw her mother holding a shovel which the father was trying to grab from the mothers hand, and tells her mother to go upstairs. 

-At this point, the son intervened between them, and "fell" on top of the father.

Plaintiff's (or Crown’s) Argument

-Crown was arguing that Mr. Balwinder S. Badden assaulted his son and wife.

Decision and Reasons for Decision

-Court was adjourned to later in the day because there wasn't a second Punjabi interpreter available to help cross examine Mrs. Badden.

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Today, I watched a portion of the trail of R. v. Badden and would like to share my perspective on justice in our courts, and the challenges we face in sometimes carrying out a just trial. The trial started off with defence counsel calling a key witness Ramandeep Badden to the witness box. The defence counsel asked her several questions regarding the police statement she gave, and was cross examining the information she had provided, and what information she claimed had happened later but failed to include it in the police statement after the incident occurred. Most of the trial consisted of Judge Jardine correcting the defence counsels questions. It seemed as if the intention of the Defence Counsel was to confuse the key witness Ramandeep Badden, and asked questions in a form of "did you father think it was snowing outside?" or "was your father trying to grab your mother's hand or the shovel", and the Judge strictly objected to the question format and asked the defence counsel to rephrase his question because a witness can only talk about what occurred in a sense of what she saw and heard and is no authority to talk about what her father was thinking at any given time. I do believe that justice is an ongoing process, and in todays case i do believe that Judge Jardine served justice for Ramandeep Badden because she already appeared to be extremely nervous and the defence counsel was trying to confuse her with asking questions. I believe the length of the long trials is turning into urgent problem because it drags on the suffering of families seeing justice, and at the same time costs them thousands of dollars as well. Just this case against Mr. Balwinder S. Badden has been in trial since December 2009, and even now it doesn't seem to be even close to final decision. It seemed as if the case had already been adjourned to another day over four times already, and the judge mentioned that Ramandeep Badden had to go through pointless questioning almost every single time. The only aspect of the proceedings that disappointed me was the Defence Counsel because he seemed quite nervous even from the start, and he continuously stepped outside his box, only to have the judge correct him in a frustrating manner. I personally believe that he lacked professionalism because it seemed as if he came to the court unprepared which was only wasting courts valuable time but also frustrating the judge but also the witness. Furthermore, i think the effectiveness and efficiency can be obtained if the lawyers are more prepared in court because the court was adjourned till the end of the day because there wasn't a second punjabi interpreter available to interpret for the accused Balwinder S. Badden. OveralI, I was pretty impressed overall with how the judge handled the case even though i had expected the trial to be a lot more smooth (TV effect).

(Blog-1)My journal about the Criminal Justice Administration of Canada

 
One topic I found interesting in this class was the public perception of crime trends. Public opinion surveys have established that the general public constantly believes that crime rate is increasing despite the fact that it could really be stable or possible even declining. Julian V. Roberts mentions in her book “Criminal justice in Canada: an overview” that the reason people believe crime is increasing when in fact it could be decreasing is because police statistics and victimization surveys do not reach the public due to the fact that downward or stable trends are not newsworthy. Misconceptions such as people believing that crime rates are on a constant rise promotes a negative attitude, and has people believing that the justice system is failing to control crime or prevent crime. I personally believe that media is solely responsible for this misinterpretation because shows such as Dexter, CSI: Miami, CSI: Las Vegas, CSI: NY, Law and Order, Special Victims, Bones etc are on constant reply. Watching movies and shows and news which only highlights the negative parts have put in the minds of people that what’s happening on TV, must be happening outside their door as well.  Another misconception that civilians have due to media is the belief that the high rates of crime involve high rates of violence when in reality violence makes up a VERY small number of the cases.

introducing....



"She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know "
— Marilyn Monroe



My introduction to the world of blogging.

Today is another week, another day and another cpsc class, but today i have been introduced to something new-the blogger. And here we are, lets see if i did this right. i start with signing up to the blogger, and tried to be creative. i love the mixture therefore i thought to mix up spanish and french,and the end result was a bit of failure. 1. i dont liek the template that i chose therefore i have to change it, and then "precios" means beautiful in spanish but its suppose to be "preciosa" ..i forgot the "a" at the end, and "amour" means love in spanish.

xoxo
-Sabrah [bibi]