A defendant is on trial for violating a statute forbidding possession of a concealed weapon within 100 yards of a government building. The prosecution presents evidence that the defendant was arrested on a street corner with a handgun in his pocket. The building housing the local city hall occupies the entire block on the north and east sides of the two streets where the defendant was apprehended. Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding judicial notice of the location of the city hall?

A The judge may take judicial notice of this fact without resort to a map, and should instruct the jury that it may, but need not, accept this fact as evidence of an element of the offense.
B The judge may take judicial notice of this fact only upon reference to an official street map of the city.
C The judge may not take judicial notice of this type of fact in a criminal case without a request by the prosecution.
D If the judge properly takes judicial notice of this fact, a presumption is created that shifts the burden of persuasion to the defendant to disprove this fact.

The judge may take judicial notice of this fact without resort to a map, and should instruct the jury that it may, but need not, accept this fact as evidence of an element of the offense

Explanation:

Trial courts

This is a type of court where they listen to testimony, put evidence into consideration, and decide the facts in disputed occurrences or situations. There are 2 parties in each case.

Judicial Notice

This is knowing that a fact is true even without the formal presentation of any piece of evidencee

Types of Judicial Notice

1. Legislative Facts: includes legal reasoning and lawmaking, constitutions, statutes etc.

2. Adjudicative Facts: this occurs in specialcase. Either when generally known in the jurisdiction or when capable of ready movement or determination.

answer: john locke, an enlightenment-era philosopher, influenced the american movement for independence. locke believed that all people were entitled

explanation:

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.