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Please note that the First Assignment is a requirement to be registered in the course.

Legal last name: / First name:
Other last name: / Home phone#:
Middle name: / Cell Phone #:
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Instructions: This assignment is intended to take approximately 5 - 10 hours to complete. It is worth 10% of your final grade for the course, so complete it carefully:

  1. Read each question carefully before answering
  2. Answer all questions to the best of your ability, and in your own words. Plagiarized assignments will not be accepted, and you will not be registered in the course.
  3. Take your time and explore all of the resources. You will receive a higher mark on your First Assignment if you include your learning from the readings and resources provided.
  4. Contact the Law 12 teacher for help if you need it. Teacher contact information can be found on the Navigate website
  5. When you have completed this assignment, attach it to your registration form or submit it as an attachment to an email to:

Office Use Only Date:
Part 1 /100
Part 2 /100
Total /200
Teacher Feedback:

The following assignment will help to introduce you to this law program, and provide us with some initial information about you, and to, as well, introduce you to some of the concepts in the course. Where you have questions, research some of this information online as there are multiple resources that can be researched via the Internet, although there are some links provided below for your convenience.

Prescribed Learning Outcomes:

  • evaluate principles of criminal law, including elements of a criminal offence, parties to an offence, and types of offences
  • analyse processes of criminal law, including rights of the accused nterests of the state arrest and trial procedure
  • analyse the goals and processes of sentencing

Part One: Instructions

For this project, you will need the following for this assignment:

  • Find a colour photo from a magazine. Select a photo that has a lot of different things going on in it: many objects, an interesting setting, or an interesting activity. There must be at least two people in the photo, with their faces visible. You must submit this photo,(if you can) with your report, so that you make sure that you can cut it out of the magazine. You can also scan it or provide a link to the page.
  • Work with three people who are willing to play the part of being witnesses. Interview each witness separately.

Step: 1

Interviewing each witness separately:

  • Don't tell the witness what you plan to do in the activity.
  • Show the witness the photo for approximately 10 seconds, then put it away.
  • Wait thirty seconds.
  • Say to the witness: "Tell me everything you can remember about the photo you just saw."
  • Take notes on everything the witness tells you. Do not give hints or ask more questions.
  • Then say: "Describe each person's face in as much detail as possible."
  • Takes notes on everything the witness says.
  • Thank the witness.

Step: 2

After you have interviewed the three witnesses, examine your data to see if you can make any generalizations about the human memory. Write a brief report of your results. Make sure your report answers these three questions:

  1. Were there certain things about the photo that everyone noticed? If so, what were they? Were there certain things that everyone failed to remember? If so, what were they?
  2. Was it difficult for your witnesses to describe what the people looked like? Was one characteristic easier than another? (For example, was hair colour recalled more often than eye colour? Did people discuss face shape at all?) Give one or more examples.
  3. How accurate were the results? Did people "remember" things that were not in the photo? Again, give examples.
  4. What implications does type of witness memory variation have for a criminal investigation? Draw some conclusions about this experiment as it pertains to a legal process (one paragraph).

Step: 3

Submit your photo (scan or take a photo of it and attach it as jpeg or gif), and your written report.

Marks

Photo and rough notes /25

Written Report /75

Total /100

INSERT YOUR PHOTO, NOTES AND REPORT HERE

Part Two: Obtain two newspaper stories involving individuals who are charged with a criminal offense in British Columbia or Canada.

You will need one or two credible Canadian media sources (e.g., The Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, CBC News Online, etc.). Your source can be online or paper-based. Save your articles; you will need to submit them with this section assignment. If it is an online source, you will need to copy and paste the article or provide a link. If it's a paper article you will need to scan the article or take a picture of the article, save it as a jpeg and submit it with your assignment:

1. For each article provide the following information.

A. Identify the accused. (1 mark)

B. Describe the charge. (1 mark)

C. Identify and explain two possible specific types of direct and/or circumstantial evidence that could be presented during this trial. (4 marks)

D. Identify and explain two possible defences that could be presented by the defence lawyer (e.g., alibi, self-defence, provocation). (4 marks)

* You must find two stories that, taken together, address at least four different types of direct and circumstantial evidence (two for each story) and four possible defenses (two for each story).

Total of 40 marks for each story

2. Provide a proper bibliography for the news articles. Examples of citation formatting is provided below. (10 marks)

Cite source as follows and attach your news article link or scanned with this section assignment.

Works Cited List

Newspaper Article

Author of Article. "Article Title". Newspaper. (Date), Section/Pages

eg.

Porro, G. "UFO Hoax Uncovered." Vancouver Sun. (2004, August 16), p. A 22.

Internet Article

Author (if known) "Title of Information Quoted." Medium. Source Availability; Address, Date.

______. "NFL teams implement fan code of conduct." Online. NFL Homepage. Available: August 2008.

Assessment Breakdown

Story 1 /40

Story 2 /40

Works Cited /20

TOTAL marks /100

Send your completed First Assignment to or attach it to your registration form