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//**Do Now: 11-08-11 **// //**What are the constitutional rights of thoses accused of committing a crime? **// //**"You have the right to reamin silent, anything you say or do will be held against you in a court of law." **// //**"You have a right to a fair trial." **// //**"You have a right to have a lawyer or have a the state provide one." **// //**"You have the right to confront you accuser." **// //**"You have the right to be free from unreasonable searches." **// //**"You have the right to be free from excessive bail." **// //**"You are innocent until proven guilty." **//
 * Crime: Law enforcement officers observe criminal activity or are notified of criminal activity by an alleged victim and/or a witness or witnesses. Sometimes a suspect is apprehended at the scene of the crime. Other times, the suspect its found after futher investigations. **
 * Investagation: To collect physical evidence, interviewing witnesses, and/or interrogating suspects. **
 * Arrest: This is when law enforcement officers take the suspect into custody. Even though they are a suspect they have a right to a lawyer, fair, speedy trial, etc... **
 * Charges: After an arrest, law enforcement agencies present the infomation about the case to the procecutor. The charges include specific statements of the crimes the suspect is accused of commiting. **
 * Initial Apperance: (Sometimes called a preliminary hearing or bail hearing). A suspect charged with a crime must be brought before a judge without unnecessary delay. They decide if the suspect is granted bail. **
 * Grand Jury: Group of selected people to decide whether criminal cases involving felonies should go to trial. They review the evidence presented by the prosecutor. **
 * Arraigment: This stage of the process, comes after an indictment or infomation has been filed with the court. The accused responds by either pleding guilty or not guilty to the charges. **
 * Plea Negotiations: The prosectutor and defence attorney engage in a negotation in which the government offers to drop some or all of the charges against the defendant in exchange for the defendant's pleading guilty to a lesser charge and/or helping te government build a criminal case against others. **
 * Trial: This is an examination of the facts of a case in court of law. Protects an individual right to a fair and speedy trial. The jury must believe that each element in the criminal charges has been proven by the prosecution. **
 * Verdict: A decition made by a jury or judge after a trial about whether a suspect is guilty or not guilty or criminal charges. After a trail, the jury meets in secret to discuss the case and decide whether to convict or acquit. If the jurors do not all agree, the result is called a hang jury, which results in a mistrial. **
 * Sentancing: This is chosing the fines, restitution, incarceration, or probation, for the accused. If the case is severe, there is also a death sentance, for people who murdered someone. **
 * Appeal: This is the process through which a defendant who is found guilty, can request a higher court to review the lower courts decition. If the defendant is found not guilty, the prosecutor cannot appeal the decition bercause this would place the defendant in double jeopardy, which is not allowed in the constitution. **
 * Parole: Under parole, a person convicted of a crime who is serving time in prison may be released before serving the full sentance as long as the person complies with special conditions. Request dor parole are reviewed by a parole board. **
 * Where there any steps you did not know about? What were they? **
 * Yes. I did not know about Plea Negotiations and I also did not know about Appeal. **
 * Identify on the timeline specific places that focus on 1) protecting the rights of the accused and 2) protecting the rights of victims: **
 * Reflecting on the feildtrip: **
 * I thought that the feildtrip we took, made me expand my thoughts on the criminal proccesing and how it is done. **
 * I thought that the feildtrip we took, made me expand my thoughts on the criminal proccesing and how it is done. **

12.08.11 Objectives:


 * identify arguments for and against capital punishment
 * identify and describe the purpose of capital punishment
 * explain why capital punishment should or should not be banned

‍Do Now:
Are you support or oppose the use of capital punishment? Why or why not? I support the death penalty punishment, at this moment, because I believe that if a crime is so serious, then a person should not be able to do this to anyone else. The family of the victum(s) would want to feel justice, and that person still has to much freedom, in jail. Even if it was a lifetime sentance...

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Lesson:Part 1. Using the following resources on capital punishment, you will identify the arguments presented in favor of and against the death penalty in the chart below.

Pro-Death Penalty Chart


 * Source || What arguments are presented in favor of capital punishment? || What values or beliefs guide these arguments? What evidence is used to support the arguments? || Do you find these arguments persuasive? Why or why not? ||
 * || Wait-And suffer for their crime. || They must be punnished, and this gives them time to think about what they did, and in that time, try to make themselves a better person. || Yes, he makes a good point when he said that people need the fear so they won't commite the crime in the first place. ||
 * || Got what they did to other people. || They are just getting what they did to other people, their victum(s). || Yes, he makes a good point when he said that people need the fear so they won't commite the crime in the first place. ||
 * || Who are they, to decide that the victum should die? || They should be punnished for "deciding" when their victum(s) should die. || Yes, he makes a good point when he said that people need the fear so they won't commite the crime in the first place. ||
 * || If crimanals feel like their life, or lifestyle, cant be stopped, it will become a lawless society. || If people know that their life wont be ended, by ending someone elses' life, more crime will arise. || Yes, he makes a good point when he said that people need the fear so they won't commite the crime in the first place. ||
 * || They have fear of it, they won't commite the crime. || Crime will stay at the same rate, and if not, even ruduce the rate of crime. || Yes, he makes a good point when he said that people need the fear so they won't commite the crime in the first place. ||

Anti-Death Penalty Chart I believe that Death Penalty should be allowed, depending on the crime.
 * Source || What arguments are presented against capital punishment? || What values or beliefs guide these arguments? What evidence is used to support the arguments? || Do you find these arguments persuasive? Why or why not? ||
 * || Abuses-Everyone has the right to live-The right to life is unalianble. || Everyone has the right to live, its a unalianble right that we are born with. || No, this argument is just going back on itself, when they say "It abuses their right to live..." Yet, what about the victums? Who is the crimanal to say weather it's the victums time to die or not? ||
 * || They wait to be killed. || The enxiety is enough about "rotting" in jail, nevermind, waiting to die. || No, this argument is just going back on itself, when they say "It abuses their right to live..." Yet, what about the victums? Who is the crimanal to say weather it's the victums time to die or not? ||
 * || They are humans too. || Criminals made mistakes in their lives, they should also be given another chance. || No, this argument is just going back on itself, when they say "It abuses their right to live..." Yet, what about the victums? Who is the crimanal to say weather it's the victums time to die or not? ||

12.09.11 Op Ed --- Lesson:

Write an Op Ed (Opinion editorial) piece based on capital punishment. Explain how you feel about the death penalty and explain why states should review capital punishment in order to get rid of the death penalty as a sentence OR why states should add capital punishment to the punishments they already use.

When it comes to the death penalty, I am not for it, nor am I against it, I, for one, are on my own side. In some ways, I am all for the death penalty, until I relize, that death, is an easy way out for criminals. If you look at it through my eyes, you would see that sometimes, its better for criminals to go, and suffer in jail for the rest of their lives. Yet, then I take a step back and look at the big picture, and see that, they have no right to play God, by choosing who gets to live, or die.

I believe that people should only be put on death row, if the crime is serious enough. If they had commited many horrible crimes, such as murder, they, in my opinion, should be excicuted. Yet, if the crime is still serious, but not as sickning, they should be put in prison for their lives, so they don't have the, as I say, "easy way out", which is dying and not being able to suffer about their crime. Death penilty, gives thevictum(s) families, peace of mind.

12.13.11 Op Ed --- Extra Credit: Write an Op Ed (Opinion editorial) piece based on capital punishment. Explain how you feel about the death penalty and explain why states should review capital punishment in order to get rid of the death penalty as a sentence OR why states should add capital punishment to the punishments they already use. This time, pick the opposite side than before.

When it comes to the death penalty, I am completly against it. People have made mistakes in their lives, and should be given another chance, besides being put on death row. As it is, they, if they have any since, should all ready be suffering from what they did, nevermind the enxiety they must have, sitting in prison, waiting to die. They are humans, and should not be killed for mistakes in their lives.

Killing someone, is against their human rights. Everyone has the right to live. The right to live and be free, is unalianable. For those people that believe that they must be punnished, death, is the easy way out. In my opinion, people would suffer more from life in prision, knowing that they have nothing to look foward to in life. There, they can think about what the did, whatever it was, and they can just sit there, regretting what they did.

01.06.12 Do Now --- Describe what you already know about Guantanamo Bay. From what I know, Guantanamo Bay is a prision were terriost go. They can stay there up too a couple years without a trial or a hearing. I feel that Guantanamo Bay