ASSIGNMENT ON HOW IGNORANCE OF THE LAW CAN BE COSTLY Write a short paper (it can
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ASSIGNMENT ON HOW IGNORANCE OF THE LAW CAN BE COSTLY Write a short paper (it can be as short as two pages) about how you or someone you know got hurt because of ignorance of the law. If you cannot think of someone who got hurt because of ignorance of the law, write about how someone you know got hurt in a law-related way because of poor judgment. Or you can even write about how someone you know had a bad experience with the law through no fault of his or her own. Perhaps, for example, you know someone who was treated unfairly by the legal system after being the victim of a crime or being falsely accused of a crime. If you come from another country, you can write about something that happened there. You might, for example compare how the legal systems of your own country and the United States differed in response to the same sort of event or problem. If you feel that your own country had a better approach. it is perfectly okay to say so and explain why. The only restriction is that your paper must be about something that actually happened. Try to answer this question: What moral or lesson might you draw from the incident you have written about? Also, pay careful attention to your English. Your paper should be grammatical, correctly spelled, divided into paragraphs of proper size, and read as a smoothly flowing, organized whole. Always remember It you want to be taken seriously as a college graduate and an educated person, the first thing you will be judged by will be your command of basic English. People who are put off by your poor grammar and spelling, for instance, will likely not care one bit about what your ideas are.Explanation / Answer
Ignorance of law is no excuse. This is the usual line motorists hear when they say they were not aware of the speed limit, or gun owners hear whenever they say did not know about the gun laws in jurisdiction they happened to get arrested in. Yet that ignorance is understandable where just about everything is being criminalized.As citizens, we are expected to know and obey all of the laws, also the state and the local statutes and also the relevant court opinions that interpret all of those laws.
But what happens when law enforcement officials do not know the law? when they illegally detain, arrest, and charge even though you've done nothing wrong? Unlike citizens, their ignorance does not lead to arrest . And unless the violation is magnificent, they're unlikely to be punished for
This is a case of Brian Kelly. On May 24, 2007, Kelly was riding with a friend in a town of Pennsylvania. Officer David Rogers pulled Kelly's friend over for speeding. Rogers said that the traffic stop was being recorded with a microphone attached to his uniform. Kelly, had a video camera , began recording the stop as well. When Rogers came back from writing a ticket, he saw Kelly's camera. Rogers demanded Kelly switch off the camera and hand it over to him. To this,Kelly complied.
Rogers thereafter returned to his car and called John Birbeck, who was an assistant district attorney . Rogers asked Birbeck if Kelly's recording had violated the wiretapping law. Birbeck incorrectly said that it did. Rogers then placed Kelly under arrest. Later, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that recording on-duty public officials is not a violation of the wiretapping law because public officials have no legitimate expectation of privacy when they're on duty. The order to Kelly to stop videotaping was illegal. and also was Kelly's arrest