Name ____________________________________________ Date ____________________________ Period __________
Final Draft Julius Caesar Crime Report
Part I: Crime Scene Report and Autopsy
Victim’s Name:
Profession:
Did the victim have any known health conditions prior to the injuries and death? (Answer in a complete sentence and
provide one quotation from the text as evidence for your response.)
Where did the injuries and death take place (i.e., geographical location)? (Answer in a complete sentence.)
When did the injuries and death take place (i.e., date, time)? (Answer in a complete sentence.)
What injuries are present on the victim? Was the death caused by one specific injury, or all of them? (Answer in a
complete sentence and provide one quotation from the text as evidence for your response.)
How were the injuries caused? (Answer in a complete sentence.)
Write a 3-5 sentence narrative describing the sequence of events that resulted in the injuries and death of the victim.
You must use at least one quotation from the text as evidence for your response. (Note: This refers only to what
happened in the Capitol, not the planning.)
Using the evidence you have collected, provide an illustration of the crime scene in the space below.
Provide two quotations from the original Shakespearean text to support the above reconstruction of the crime scene.
Include a picture below of any evidence collected at the crime scene (e.g., murder weapons, clothing, written
documents, etc.). Be sure to carefully label each piece of evidence.
Using the diagram below, mark the location of
each wound with an “X.”
Provide two quotations from the text to support your diagram of
the victim’s injuries.
Part II: Evidence Collected from Witness Interviews
Witness’s Name: Cassius
Profession:
Relationship to Victim:
Is the Witness Reliable (def: believable; trustworthy)? Provide a 2-3 sentence explanation based on the witness’s
reputation and/or manner when being interviewed. You may want to consider what we know about Cassius’s
background, relationships with others, motivations, and ways of speaking. (Hint: Do we have any evidence to suggest
the person may be lying or misrepresenting the facts?)
Picture of Witness
Summary of Information Provided about Motivations (def: reasons) for
Attack (3-5 sentences)
Evidence of Interview (3 quotations supporting information about motivations for attack)
Witness’s Name: Brutus
Profession:
Relationship to Victim:
Is the Witness Reliable (def: believable; trustworthy)? Provide a 2-3 sentence explanation based on the witness’s
reputation and/or manner when being interviewed. You may want to consider what we know about Brutus’s
background, relationships with others, motivations, and ways of speaking. (Hint: Do we have any evidence to suggest
that the person may be lying or misrepresenting the facts?)
Picture of Witness
Summary of Information Provided about Motivations for Attack (3-5
sentences)
Evidence of Interview (3 quotations supporting information about motivations for attack)
Witness’s Name: Mark Antony
Profession:
Relationship to Victim:
Is the Witness Reliable (def: believable; trustworthy)? Provide a 2-3 sentence explanation based on the witness’s
reputation and/or manner when being interviewed. You may want to consider what we know about Antony’s
background, relationships with others, motivations, and ways of speaking. (Hint: Do we have any evidence to suggest
that the person may be lying or misrepresenting the facts?)
Picture of Witness
Summary of Information Provided about the Conspirators’ Motivations for
Attack (3-5 sentences) (Note: While Mark Antony may not have been at the
scene, he has heard the conspirators’ explanations, and certainly has an opinion
about it.)
Evidence of Interview (3 quotations supporting information about motivations for attack)
Part III: Recommendation for the Praetor
Considering all of the information gathered in your investigation, you need to make a recommendation to the praetor
(def: Roman judge) of the punishment you believe should be given to Cassius and Brutus for their participation in the
plot against Caesar. You have three choices:
1. Exile – Murder was considered a serious offense in ancient Rome; however, only lower-class citizens were
usually put to death. Upper-class citizens (like Brutus and Cassius) were usually exiled, which meant they no
longer had the right to be Roman citizens and were sent somewhere else to live, but they were not killed. This
would be the appropriate consequence if the murderer acted for personal, rather than political, reasons.
2. Death – While murder generally only resulted in exile for the upper classes, treason was a different story.
Treason is betrayal of or disloyalty to one’s country or leader, whether for personal or political reasons. In
ancient Rome, the punishment for treason was to be thrown off a steep cliff called the Tarpeian Cliff, which
would result in a violent death.
3. Pardon – No punishment was handed out in times of self-defense. If you believe Cassius or Brutus was acting in
defense of himself or his country, you may determine that he does not deserve to be punished. This would also
mean that his motivations were for the greater good, not personal.
Suspect: Cassius
Punishment:
Explanation of why you have selected this punishment (3-5 sentences):
Suspect: Brutus
Punishment:
Explanation of why you have selected this punishment (3-5 sentences):