首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Citing Ohio ordinances that allow individuals to seek charges against someone they’ve seen commit a crime, seven Euclid resident
Citing Ohio ordinances that allow individuals to seek charges against someone they’ve seen commit a crime, seven Euclid resident
admin
2020-12-01
37
问题
Citing Ohio ordinances that allow individuals to seek charges against someone they’ve seen commit a crime, seven Euclid residents claim to have "witnessed" the encounter between Officer Michael Amiott and driver Richard Hubbard III by virtue of viewing a four-minute video on Facebook. Their unique argument has triggered discussion in the legal community about the role that "social media witnesses" could play in such cases.
"It used to just be the police officer’s word against the victim’s word," notes lead petitioner Richard T. Montgomery II. "Now, in the age of cellphone videos and social media, we as a community have the opportunity to participate in ensuring police accountability."
The racially and economically diverse group scored its first victory in late December when a municipal judge responded to its request by requiring the Cuyahoga County prosecutor to investigate Amiott for felonious assault during the August 2017 traffic stop.
The cellphone video, which has more than 11 million views on Facebook, shows the officer repeatedly punching Hubbard’s head as the 25-year-old man lay in the street. Separate video from a police cruiser’s dash cam shows Amiott wrestling Hubbard to the ground moments after he was ordered out of his car for a suspended driver’s license.
Amiott was fired two months later for excessive force. But in the majority-black city, emotions flared anew this October when he was rehired following an arbitrator’s ruling in his favor. The ensuing outcry included the NAACP announcing a travel advisory to people of color who might be driving through Euclid.
The legal issues raised by the citizens’ petition and the prospect of witnesses via social media are largely untested.
Cleveland attorney Rebecca Maurer, who wrote a popular blog about the "Serial" podcast’s recent focus on Cuyahoga County’s criminal justice system, expects such witnesses might have to first establish that they were somehow personally affected before being allowed to initiate charges.
"The judicial system relies on the idea of ’standing’ to regulate the type of cases that go to court," she said. "A judge who borrows from standing theory will want to know exactly why social media witnesses should initiate the case. Perhaps it’s enough if the petitioners are local residents claiming a personal stake in the security of their community."
In his ruling referring the matter to the county prosecutor, Euclid Municipal Judge Patrick Gallagher did point out that the petitioners fail to claim any "personal knowledge of Mr. Hubbard’s injuries." Had they done so, he could have taken more
drastic
action, the judge seemed to imply. Under Ohio law, Gallagher also could have used the citizens’ petition to circumvent the prosecutor’s office and issue an arrest warrant for Amiott.
Nearly a dozen other states also allow private citizens to initiate criminal charges — including Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas and Idaho.
In all but one, however, the decision to actually file criminal charges is left to a prosecutor or grand jury. The exception is South Carolina, where police also have that power.
Testimony from people claiming to have witnessed something via social media can be problematic, cautions Seth Stoughton, a University of South Carolina law professor and former officer, since video posted online, even unedited, often provides limited information about an event.
"Beyond what they see directly in front of them, officers also rely on peripheral, aural and tactile information ... That doesn’t always come across accurately, or at all, on video," said Stoughton, who writes extensively about police regulation and use of force. By definition, he added, social media witnesses will always have such limitations.
Some attorneys worry that the very community such individuals hope to protect could instead be negatively affected. Civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley, a former board chair of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent police oversight agency, warns of implicit bias in the criminal justice system that could favor a white social media witness over one of color.
What’s Maya Wiley’s worry, according to Paragraph 14?
选项
A、The judicial system tends to believe the white social media witness more.
B、The judicial system tends to believe the social media witness of color more.
C、The society has a bias toward the criminal justice system.
D、Some people may cause negative impact on the community deliberately.
答案
A
解析
细节题。第14段最后一句指出,Maya Wiley警告称刑事司法体系存在隐形的偏见,他们可能会认为白人社交媒体证人的证词更可信,故正确答案为A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/WMMO777K
本试题收录于:
CATTI二级笔译综合能力题库翻译专业资格(CATTI)分类
0
CATTI二级笔译综合能力
翻译专业资格(CATTI)
相关试题推荐
A、Growthinheightofabodyisanexampleofmaturation.B、Maturationisthedevelopmentoforganizationasafunctionoftime
StreetArtinLA.InLosAngeles,artistsareuncoveringsomeofthecity’shiddenculture.Severalphotographersare【L1】_
Whatcausedgreatmigrationsofanimalsandplants?
WhatwillbethepopulationofTianjinaccordingtotheU.N.estimates?
GirlShootsInstructor,FuelingGunDebateOnAugust25,anAmericanfamily’svacationwentterriblywrong.Aman,hiswif
LightningCloud-to-groundlightningboltsareacommonphenomenon,about100strikeEarth’ssurfaceeverysinglesecond,yet
LightningCloud-to-groundlightningboltsareacommonphenomenon,about100strikeEarth’ssurfaceeverysinglesecond,yet
Menaremorelikelythanwomentofakeexpertisetheydon’thave—andrichmenaretheworstculpritswhenit【C1】________tospeak
Theexpertsays______inperformancecanbeappliedsuccessfullytoapoliticalcareer.
Parentsareoftenupsetwhentheirchildrenpraisethehomesoftheirfriendsandregarditasasluragainsttheirownthings,
随机试题
关于复制与转录的相似点,正确的是()。
求由曲线y=χcos2χ和直线y=0,χ=0及围成的平面图形的面积.
某农村妇女,31岁,在城里打工,因婚后8年不能生育就诊。患者婚前曾有2次人工流产,婚后一直未孕。2年前因不堪忍受家里及周围人的嘲讽进城打工,每次回家都十分紧张、恐惧,尤其是性生活时。此次就诊下列哪项处理不恰当
功能收敛止血的药物有
海关对申请注册登记许可的审查时限:受理海关应自受理之日起______日内;直属海关应自收到受理海关审查意见之日起______日内。
商品保本库存期,简单来说是指不发生亏损的()
我国刑法将犯罪的同类客体分为10大类。()
在除臭剂中.只有白猫牌能提供一次性全天除臭效果和雨林檀香味。如果上述广告是真实的,那么以下哪项不可能是真实的?Ⅰ.红旗牌除臭剂能提供一次性全天除臭效果。Ⅱ.北海牌除臭剂比白猫牌在市场上更受欢迎。Ⅲ.红波浴液能提供雨林
结合材料回答问题:材料1突如其来的新冠肺炎疫情,形成了百年来全球最严重的传染病大流行和新中国成立以来传播速度最快、感染范围最广、防控难度最大的重大突发公共卫生事件。面对疫情,习近平总书记亲自指挥、亲自部署,统揽全局、果断决策,为中国人民抗击疫情
有以下程序段:inta[10]={1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10},*p=&a[3],b;b=p[5];b中的值是()。
最新回复
(
0
)