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Sampling issues in the administration of justice
Author(s) -
Aitken Colin
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2005.00080.x
Subject(s) - administration (probate law) , white (mutation) , economic justice , administration of justice , context (archaeology) , sentence , sampling (signal processing) , law , criminology , heroin , political science , psychology , history , psychiatry , philosophy , computer science , drug , archaeology , biology , linguistics , telecommunications , biochemistry , detector , gene
Colin Aitken first became interested in sampling in the context of the administration of justice when the case of US versus Shonubi was brought to his attention. Shonubi was a Nigerian working in New York. He was arrested at Kennedy Airport when seen behaving in a suspicious manner in the baggage hall, having returned on a flight from Nigeria. He was found to have 103 bags of a white substance inside him, four of which were examined. The white substance was identified as heroin. Shonubi was arrested, tried and found guilty of drug smuggling. The question then arose as to the length of sentence he should be given.