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The grave's a fine and private place
\"\"The world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth\" (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes against her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself as Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia's grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia's mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder--although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Tainted witness
In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed by conservatives and Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. The tainting of Hill and her testimony is part of a larger social history in which women find themselves caught up in a system that refuses to believe what they say. Hill's experience shows how a tainted witness is not who someone is, but what someone can become.
Why are women so often considered unreliable witnesses to their own experiences? How are women discredited in legal courts and in courts of public opinion? Why is women's testimony so often mired in controversies fueled by histories of slavery and colonialism? How do new feminist witnesses enter testimonial networks and disrupt doubt?Tainted Witnessexamines how gender, race, and doubt stick to women witnesses as their testimony circulates in search of an adequate witness. Judgment falls unequally upon women who bear witness, as well-known conflicts about testimonial authority in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries reveal. Women's testimonial accounts demonstrate both the symbolic potency of women's bodies and speech in the public sphere and the relative lack of institutional security and control to which they can lay claim. Each testimonial act follows in the wake of a long and invidious association of race and gender with lying that can be found to this day within legal courts and everyday practices of judgment, defining these locations as willfully unknowing and hostile to complex accounts of harm. Bringing together feminist, literary, and legal frameworks, Leigh Gilmore provides provocative readings of what happens when women's testimony is discredited. She demonstrates how testimony crosses jurisdictions, publics, and the unsteady line between truth and fiction in search of justice.
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ISSUES OF CONTROVERSIAL PRACTICE REFERRING TO THE CRIME OF FALSE TESTIMONY
The crime of false testimony is one of the crimes which are traditionally found in our criminal legislation, the judicial practice recording also specific situations which required the application of the incrimination text which defined this crime. It can be considered that we are dealing with a crime which can no longer present any difficulties in relation to the interpretation and application of the incrimination norm with regard to the particular deeds committed. However, many elements are still encountered with respect to the interpretation of the incrimination norm, which generate different solutions of application, a fact which -in accordance with the rigors of the criminal law- is not to be desired. This study approaches two of these issues, namely the juridical significance of the refusal of the person heard as a witness to give any statements in such capacity and, on the other hand, the possibility of the realization of a formal concurrence of crimes when the person summoned as a witness, through his/her false or incomplete statement intends to create a situation more favorable to a person regarded by the factual situation.
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From gossip to conspiracy thinking: Analysis and scriptural evaluations
Gossip is designed to ruin an individual's or a group's reputation. Gossip demonises its victims in private. 'There is no such thing as innocent gossip', says Pope Francis. When gossip moves into the public forum, however, we have witch-hunting or scapegoating, reinforced by conspiracy theorising. The worlds flooded these days with conspiracy theories, the beliefs, contrary to reality, that individuals or groups are secretly acting to accomplish some malevolent purpose. Once COVID-19 was identified, conspiracy theories began to emerge and continue to do so. Some said it was a hoax or a campaign to disrupt the presidential re-election of Donald Trump; others the pharmaceutical industry deliberately spreads the disease.
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Michael Cohen's House Testimony
The full transcript of one of the most shocking testimonies of the Trump Era and in the history of the United States government.\"I am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr.Trump's illicit acts...I am ashamed because I know what Mr.Trump is.He is a racist.He is a conman.
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Prendre la mesure de paroles insaisissables
Le traitement sériel des procès de faux témoignage jugés au parlement de Paris aux xviie et xviiie siècles, croisé avec leur analyse qualitative, révèle les méthodes de travail des greffiers et des conseillers et la façon dont ceux-ci perçoivent le faux témoignage et les faux témoins. La prise en charge des accusés de faux témoignage souligne les enjeux qui entourent le pouvoir conféré aux paroles. Leur falsification est condamnée dès lors qu’elle apparaît à des périodes où l’équilibre social et l’autorité royale paraissent mis en danger ou qu’elle est suspectée chez des accusés dont la faiblesse sociale fragiliserait la droiture de la langue. Mais les conseillers restent souvent hésitants face un crime difficile à prouver.
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Professional misconduct - note taking false and/or misleading
Details the case in which Dr Suresh Kumar Vatsyayann, a General Practitioner of Hamilton, was charged making with false and/or misleading clinical notes asserting that he was consulted by patient Ms Tamara Browning who was actually seen by Dr Gilgen, a (then) suspended medical practitioner. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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The Liar
One witness sends three men to prison after consciously wrongly accusing them. Dan Rather reports.
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