LAW AND MOCK TRIAL
Mr. Friedman
Semester 2 Assignments
Due: Monday, January 9:
-Class Topic: Introduction to the Course.
Due: Tuesday, January 10-Thursday, January 12:
-Class Topic: Criminal Law: Basic Concepts and Process.
-Reading Assignment: Outline: Criminal Law Process.
-In-class Movie: American Tragedy (O.J. Simpson case).
Due: Tuesday, January 17-Thursday, January 19:
-Class Topic: Criminal Law: Case Study-The O.J. Simpson case.
-Reading Assignment: browse Article, “The Trial of Orenthal James Simpson”
(from website: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Simpson/simpson.htm)
-In-class Movie: American Tragedy (O.J. Simpson case).
Due: Monday, January 23-Tuesday, January 24:
-Class Topic: Criminal Law: Criminal Justice Rights.
-Reading Assignment: Article, “The Trial of Orenthal James Simpson”
(from website: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Simpson/simpson.htm);
Outline: Criminal Justice Rights.
Due: Wednesday, January 25:
-In-class Assessment: TEST on the O.J. Simpson case and Criminal Law.
Due: Thursday, January 26:
-Class Topic: Civil Rights: Introduction and Origins; From Reconstruction to “Redemption.”
-Movie: Roots: the Next Generations.
Due: Tuesday, January 31:
-Class Topic: Civil Rights: The Brown case and the Onset of the Modern Civil Rights Struggle.
-Movie: Eyes on the Prize (“Massive Resistance,” Little Rock 9).
Due: Wednesday, February 1:
-Class Topic: Civil Rights: “The Battle of Ole Miss.”
-Movie: Eyes on the Prize.
Due: Thursday, February 2:
-Class Topic: The de-segregation of the University of Alabama and the Birmingham crisis.
-Movie: Kennedy vs. Wallace; King.
Due: Monday, February 6:
-Class Topic: The Civil Rights Act of 1964; Mississippi Freedom Summer.
-Movie: Mississippi Burning.
Due: Tuesday, February 7:
-Class Topic: The Mississippi Burning case: the crime.
-Movie: Mississippi Burning.
-Reading Assignment: Famous Trials packet: The Mississippi Burning case.
Due: Wednesday, February 8:
-Class Topic: The Mississippi Burning case: the cover-up.
-Movie: Mississippi Burning.
-Reading Assignment: Famous Trials packet: The Mississippi Burning case.
Due: Thursday, February 9:
-Class Topic: The Mississippi Burning case: the FBI investigation.
-Movie: Mississippi Burning.
-Reading Assignment: Famous Trials packet: The Mississippi Burning case.
Due: Monday, February 13:
-Class Topic: The Mississippi Burning case: outcome.
-Movie: Mississippi Burning
-Reading Assignment: Famous Trials packet: The Mississippi Burning case.
Due: Tuesday, February 14:
-Class Topic: Review of Civil Rights unit.
Due: Wednesday, February 15:
-In-class Assessment: Civil Rights and the Mississippi Burning case.
Due: Thursday, February 16:
-Class Topic: Amanda Knox case
-Movie: NBC News, The Trial of Amanda Knox
Due: Wednesday, February 22:
-Class Topic: Amanda Knox case
-Movie: NBC News, The Trial of Amanda Knox
Due: Thursday, February 23:
-Class Topic: Amanda Knox case
-Movie: NBC News, The Trial of Amanda Knox; other television news reports.
-Reading Assignment: “Amanda Knox Emerges as a Model of Protesting Innocence-and
Italy Sets an Example.
Due: Monday, February 27:
-Class Topic: Amanda Knox case
-Movie: Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy.
Due: Tuesday, February 28:
-Writing Assignment due: Comparing Italian and American criminal justice.
-Class Topic: Amanda Knox case
-Movie: Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy.
Due: Wednesday, February 29:
-Class Topic: Amanda Knox case
-Movie: Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy.
Due: Thursday, March 1:
-In-class Assessment: QUIZ on The Amanda Knox case.
Due: Monday, March 5
-Class Topic: 1st Amendment: Freedom of Speech and Assembly.
-Movie: Skokie.
Due: Tuesday, March 6:
-Class Topic: 1st Amendment: Freedom of Speech and Assembly.
-Movie: Skokie.
Due: Mon., Mar. 12:
-Class Topic: 1st Amendment: Freedom of Speech and Assembly.
-Movie: Skokie.
-Reading Assignment: Article on Skokie case.
Due: Tues., Mar. 13:
-Class Topic: 1st Amendment: Freedom of Speech and Assembly.
-Movie: Skokie.
-Reading Assignment: Article on Skokie case.
Due: Wed., Mar. 14:
-Class Topic: 1st Amendment: Freedom of Speech and Assembly.
-Movie: Skokie.
-Reading Assignment: Article on Skokie case.
Due: Mon., Mar. 19:
-Class Topic: 1st Amendment: Freedom of Speech and Assembly; Review of Skokie.
-Reading Assignment: Article on Skokie case.
Due: Tues., Mar. 20:
-Class Topic: The Assassination of President Kennedy
-In-class Movie: Beyond Conspiracy.
Due: Wed., Mar. 21:
-In-class Assessment: QUIZ on Skokie case.
Due: Thurs., Mar. 22:
-Class Topic: The Assassination of President Kennedy
-In-class Movie: Beyond Conspiracy.
Due: Mon., Mar. 26:
-Class Topic: The Assassination of President Kennedy
-In-class Movie: Beyond Conspiracy.
Due: Tues., Mar. 27:
-Class Topic:
Due: Wed., Mar. 28:
-Class Topic:
Due: Thurs., Mar. 29:
-Class Topic: