DAILY PLAN – Crime Unit
NEXT YEAR – intro “CHOICE” project for either Criminal Performance or Tort Law debate
CRIMINAL LAW MOVIES
1) To Kill A Mockingbird
2) 12 Angry Men
3) My Cousin Vinny
4) Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
5) Inherit the Wind
6) The Verdict (Paul Newman)
7) A Few Good Men
8) The Exonerated
9) Presumed Innocent (Harrison Ford, 1990)
10) Reversal of Fortune (1990; Jeremy Irons kills socialite wife)?
· “Teen as victim” even if convicted, is everything better?
· “Should it be a crime” activity – what is the intent/connection to L.O.’s? Return to goals of Legal system?
· Find some way to create an activity around the “Criminal Justice Timeline” checklist
o ADD TruTV clips (via common folder) in a partner activity format (what’s the GOAL?)
o Dog the Bounty Hunter activity? Ask Pribble
o Create activity surround media clips on Booking/Bail (put on common folder)
Day 1: BLOCK DAY, February 1-2, 2017
1) Read/HL Unit Intro Handout, annotating all key terms with 1 of 3 symbols:
- 1 symbol for a term you know well enough to explain to someone else confidently
b. 1 symbol for a term you kind of know but want to verify
c. 1 symbol for a term you don’t know at all
2) Compare KT’s with your 5 o’clock appointment; we will likely do this again mid-unit; for terms at least one of you are confident about, clarify the definitions.
3) Review Socratic Seminar handout & anticipate challenges
4) Take Q & A on Unit Intro/assignments
5) Criminal Justice Timeline/sequence activity
6) Clarification/discussion of Criminal Justice Timeline/sequence activity
7) Research for Socratic Seminar?
Day 2: Friday
1) News
2) WARM UP: Handout: ACLU suggestions for Police interactions
3) Discuss warm up
4) PPT on Ballistics
5) If time remains, you can do research for your Socratic Seminar
Day 3: Monday, February 6th
1. News
a. Field Trip;
i. $ quota:
ii. forms filled by ____?___
2. Warm up: Answer the questions below
a. Teenagers are twice as likely as adults to be targets of crime, and most frequently the victims of violent crimes (rape, robbery, assault) as well. WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IS THE CASE?
b. Why do you think the poor, minorities, small businesses are more common crime victims than rich, whites or large business?
Think about how the answers to these questions might drive your research for the Socratic Seminar on causes of crime
3. Discuss warm up
4. State of New Jersey v. T.L.O.
Facts of the Case:
T.L.O. was a fourteen-year-old; she was accused of smoking in the girls' bathroom of her high school. A principal at the school questioned her and searched her purse, yielding a bag of marijuana and other drug paraphernalia.
Question:Did the search violate the Fourth and/or Fourteenth Amendments?
Conclusion:No. Citing the peculiarities associated with searches on school grounds, the Court abandoned its requirement that searches be conducted only when a "probable cause" exists that an individual has violated the law. The Court used a less strict standard of "reasonableness" to conclude that the search did not violate the Constitution. The presence of rolling papers in the purse gave rise to a reasonable suspicion in the principal's mind that T.L.O. may have been carrying drugs, thus, justifying a more thorough search of the purse.
5. Toxicology PPT
6. Read Search & Seizure doc and finish scenarios on back
7. Discuss/questions
8. Computer work on Socratic Seminar
Day 4: Tuesday
1) WARM UP: Answer Questions below
a) T/F – You can get a DUI skateboarding
b) T/F – you can get a DUI riding a bike
c) How might a DUI affect insurance rates? Why?
d) Define “Social Host Ordinance” and describe consequences you are aware of.
e) T/F – an adult can be arrested for DUI even with a blood-alcohol level under 0.08 under certain circumstances
f) T/F – the legal age for purchasing all tobacco products is the same (18)
- Social impacts of criminalization and decriminalization (2 parts of the same page) with 8 o’clock appointment
- Why is vandalism much more common among adolescents than adults?
- What – if anything can be done to reduce vandalism?
- Should parents be held liable for willful damage caused by their children? Why or Why not?
- If you saw two 13-14 year old boys throwing rocks through the window of a school at night, would you report them to the police? Why or why not? Would it be different if it were the window of a neighbor’s home? Would it change your answer if they were your friends?
2) Facts of the Case:Sam Wardlow, who was holding an opaque bag, inexplicably fled an area of Chicago known for heavy narcotics trafficking after noticing police officers in the area. When officers caught up with him on the street, one stopped him and conducted a protective pat-down search for weapons because in his experience there were usually weapons in the vicinity of narcotics transactions. The officers arrested Wardlow after discovering that he was carrying handgun. In a trial motion to suppress the gun, Wardlow claimed that in order to stop an individual, short of actually arresting the person, police first had to point to "specific reasonable inferences" why the stop was necessary. The Illinois trial court denied the motion, finding that the gun was recovered during a lawful stop and frisk. Wardlow was convicted of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. In reversing, the Illinois Appellate Court found that the officer did not have reasonable suspicion to make the stop. The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed, determining that sudden flight in a high crime area does not create a reasonable suspicion justifying a stop because flight may simply be an exercise of the right to "go on one's way."
3) Question:Is a person's sudden and unprovoked flight from identifiable police officers, patrolling a high crime area, sufficiently suspicious to justify the officers' stop of that person?
4) Read Draper & discuss WHY it is THE probable cause case
Day 5: BLOCK DAY
1) Warm up: Define “Bail” as it relates to the criminal justice process and describe some variables that would make a suspect’s bail amount bigger or smaller.
1) Discuss activity
2) Show clip from Jump Street (Miranda)
a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRg7kf9ltbw
b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T45aF1NLMyM
3) Read & Highlight Miranda Rights handout. In the space below the text, answer the 2 questions atop the handout
4) Discuss Miranda; where would that fit in our timeline from yesterday?
5) John Oliver Civil Forfeiture clip; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
6) Discuss & offer extra credit
7) Research for Seminar if time remains
8) Ask what do you know about Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut? By now you have all heard about the school shootings in Newtown, Conn. Twenty-eight people, including 20 children, were killed by a man carrying four of his mother’s guns. And President Obama said he was determined to introduce new laws to make sure this cannot happen again. But what exactly does that mean? What changes to the law could prevent such a terrible thing from happening? Any ideas?
9) Show ABC news 15 min. clip & discuss/ask questions
1) ?Rd/Hl/respond to Arrests & Interrogations handout?
Day 6: Friday
1) WARM UP: Arraignment, Grand Jury FITB
2) Discuss warm up
3) Start “My Cousin Vinny”
DAY 7 – MONDAY, February 13th
2) VINNY!!!
DAY 8 – Tuesday
1) News
a. Field trip
b. Review Unit 1 test; discuss test retakes
2) Warm up: Take the packet on pleas. Either read it all on your own or share it with partners of your choosing. Either way after familiarizing with all the pleas, answer these questions
a. What misconceptions were dispelled about pleading insanity?
b. Why might someone find plead guilty the most desirable option?
c. How is “no contest” different than guilty?
3) Discuss pleas, take questions
4) Vinny
Day 9 – BLOCK DAY:
1. News
a. Field Trip Permission Forms & Chaperone
b. QUIZ #1 ON JUSTICE PROCESS ON BLOCK DAY
2. SOCRATIC SEMINAR?
DAY 10: Friday (last day before February break)
1) WARM UP:
a. Silent review Handouts/notes for Quiz Q & A
b. With your 6 o’clock appointment orally review terms in this format
i. Each partner speak in turn for 60 seconds sharing what you know. You may repeat what your partner says, but try not to.
ii. Each partner speak in turn for 40 seconds sharing what you know
iii. Each partner speak in turn for 20 seconds sharing what you know
2) Quiz review Q & A
3) Vinny
Day 11 – Monday, February 27th
1) PPT on Punishment
2) Quiz
3) Assign Criminal Performance project
a. Computers?
DAY 12 – FRIDAY =
1) News
a. Field Trip - We have chaperones! You can still get forms in, but credit for assignment reduces now
b. Quiz retakes
c. Project – E or F is acceptable. A,C,D are in the warm up. You will have ½ of Monday, 1/2 of Tuesday and part of Friday to prepare in class (total ~75-90 minutes)
2) WARM UP: In your group, answer the following questions. Once you show me the answers, you can begin working on your project.
a. Attempt definitions and specific examples of the following preliminary crimes (get my attention with questions):
i. Solicitation
ii. Conspiracy to commit ______
iii. Attempted ______
b. Give an example of someone who is an “accessory before the fact” and another who is an “accessory after the fact”
c. Given that accomplices are punished more severely than accessories, make an educated guess as to the difference between an accomplice to a crime and an accessory to a crime.
3) Work on Project
DAY 14 – MONDAY
1) News
2) WARM UP: Prisoner’s dilemma
3) Discuss warm up & data analytics for future crimes
4) Project work
DAY 15 – TUESDAY
1) WARM UP:
a) Anticipate questions for Officer Barclay
b) Read handout and highlight 1-3 statistics, analyzing “so what?” (a.k.a. why are they significant to you)
2) Mr. Hirsch present on Sexual Assault & Rape
3) Q & A – including “rape culture”
4) Project work – Model presentation Friday (still open for 3rd, 4th)
DAY 16 – BLOCK – Officer Andrew Barclay here
Officer Barclay will be here in a few minutes – he is tending to a very bad car crash at the moment – take a few minutes to check in with your project group
DAY 17 - FRIDAY
1) News
a. Review Officer Barclay presentation
b. Field trip Wednesday
2) WARM UP: Fill in “Should it be a crime” handout in your group and discuss
3) Model presentation
4) Analyze Model – good & improve if given more time
5) Project work (model group preview Mock Trial packet)
6)
DAY 18 – MONDAY
1) News – reminder about Field Trip on BLOCK DAY – check in with your teachers about what you’ll miss.
a. Ferry leaves at 7:45 with or without you
b. Dress for business
i. Boys: collars, pants (not jeans), socks & closed-toed shoes
ii. Ladies – pants or skirt past knees (no shorts/blue jeans), no flip-flops, shoulders covered.
c. Assignment: reflection on what you learned, ~1 page typed due Friday. Points allotted based on depth and ability to connect explicitly to what we’ve been learning. Questions are acceptable.
2) Crime Project presentations
DAY 19 – TUESDAY
1) WARM UP: FIELD TRIP TOMORROW!
a. Ferry leaves at 7:45
i. 5 pts extra credit for arriving at gate before 7:30
b. Dress for business
i. Gentlemen: collars, pants (not jeans), socks & closed-toed shoes
ii. Ladies – pants or skirt past knees (no shorts/blue jeans), no flip-flops, shoulders covered.
c. Assignment: reflection on what you learned, ~ 1 page typed due Friday. Points allotted based on depth and ability to connect explicitly to what we’ve been learning. Questions and OTB thinking are encouraged.
2) Finish CRIME PRESENTATIONS
3) Review for Friday’s term quiz
BLOCK DAY (March 2nd)– FIELD TRIP!
FRIDAY
1) News
a. Reflect on Field Trip
b. Quiz Monday …. Questions? We’ll review more later
2) WARM UP: Finish the matching handout and let me know what questions arise
3) When done, review your notes and let me know what questions arise for the quiz
4) When done with review, check out the case examples for our Mock Trial on the back bookshelf. Return them when you are done. IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A VOTE, you must turn in a short (simple paragraph or other form of notes like bullet points) summary of what you read for your vote to count.
5) List all of the different crimes that fall under the umbrella of homicide and describe as best you and what differentiates one from another.
6) With 9 o’clock appointment, split 2 articles on local homicides
a. Highlight the one you are responsible for
b. Summarize the important facts
c. Explain why the person(s) was/were charged with the type of homicide they were charged with (e.g., if 1st degree murder, WHY?)
7) WHEN YOU FINISH SHARING, obtain the handout from your handout bin on the last remaining type of homicide, highlight it and follow the directions at the bottom of the page
8) Rd/Hl Handout from bin and explain why it is a “classic case of involuntary manslaughter”
9) Discuss warm up
10) Show Conrad Murray video
11) Discuss MJ case
DAY 20 – Monday, March 7th
1) News
2) Quiz #2
3) Preview Mock Trial options & vote on trial
DAY 21 – Tuesday
1) WARM UP: VOTE on Mock Trial. If you turned in summaries, write down your first choice (4 points) and second choice (2 points) on a small piece of paper. If you did NOT, simply raise your hand for your informal request when I call out each case.
a. Shem (art fraud)
b. Bratton (Comedian)
c. Lane (Cult)
d. Concha (student)
2) Outline role options (to be picked tomorrow)
3) Review Mock Trial packet, preview roles