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Research and Read about Michael King who kidnapped, raped, and killed Denise Amber Lee and later claimed that his actions were caused by a brain abnormality. Do you think he should have received the death penalty or whether a different punishment would have been more appropriate?

Tragedy in the bathroom
Monique Vertermockle called the doctor and said, “My husband had a fall and he is lying on the bathroom floor. I think he must have been taking a shower and slipped on a cake of soap. I did not move him. I threw a blanket over him and called you immediately.”
When the doctor arrived he saw the scene as depicted and pronounced Horace Vertermockle dead as the result of a fracture at the rear of his skull. Can you tell what happened?
Questions:
Were the Vertermockles’ compatible? Yes_______ No______
Had Horace finished brushing his teeth? Yes ________ No ______
Had the shower been running? Yes _________ No _______
Had Horace just taken a shower? Yes _______ No______
Had Minnie been in the shower? Yes _____ No _______
Did Horace been in the shower? Yes _____ No _____
Had the soap fallen out of the soap holder? Yes____ No _____
Did the soap puddle come from either the dripping shower or the washstand? _________
Had the bottle been knocked over before Horace allegedly fell? _______
Is there a possible murder weapon in the bathroom? Yes ____ No _____
Has evidence been planted to give a false impression of what happened? Yes ____ No ____
On the basis of the evidence you have developed, reconstruct what happened?

Boudoir
Amy LaTour’s body was found in her bedroom last as shown with her pet canary strangled in hits cage. Henry Willy and Joe Wonty, her boyfriends; Louis Spanker, a burglar known to have been in the vicinity and Celeste, her maid were questioned by the police.
Wilber Uniy, who happened to be in the area pursuing the Heliconius Charitonius put down his butterfly net and solved the case. Can you??????
Questions:
1.  How was Amy apparently killed?  Shot _____ Stabbed ________ Strangled _______ Beaten ______
2.  Is there evidence of a violent struggle?   Yes __________ No __________
3. Was her murderer strong   Yes __________ No ________
4.  Was Amy fond of jewelry?  Yes ___________ No ________
5.  Was she robbed? Yes _____ No _________
6.  Do you think she had been on friendly terms with her killer?  Yes ______ No _______
7.  Was the canary strangled before Amy’s death? Yes ______ No ________  If yes state your reason
8.   Was this crime a crime of passion?  Yes __________ No __________
9.   Did Willy have a motive? Yes __________ No __________
10. Who killed Amy?   Henry Willy _______  Joe Wonty _______  Louis Spanker _____  Celeste  ______
11. Reconstruct what probably happened and with WHO.

Define the “Last Act” test, the “Physical Proximity” test, the “Dangerous Proximity” test, the “Indispensable Element” test, the “Probable Desistance” test, the “Unequivocality” test, and The Model Penal Code’s “Substantial Step” test.
Discuss which of these tests you believe offers the best approach. Support your argument with examples that include case law or examples from the readings, which of these tests seems to be the best approach. Support your argument with examples.

What is parens patriae? Give a detailed discussion of this concept. Discuss at least three landmark United States Supreme Court cases related to juvenile justice to either exhibit that the concept of parens patriae has strengthened or eroded over the years. Please build your argument that shows either a strengthening or erosion of the concept by discussing the cases in detail and demonstrate how each case supports your point of view. Next, please point to one aspect of the assigned readings that you found to be of particular interest. Be sure to explain why you found the point to be salient to the topic at hand. Finally, please come up with one original critical thinking question for your classmates. It should be evident from reading the question that you have a solid understanding of the course material for this week.

Please read the following:
While monitoring a group chat on Kik on September 17, 2021, an online covert FBI employee engaged with a participant using the name “Jerry G.” This “Jerry G” individual, later identified as Nordmann, sent the agent three videos showing minors engaging in sexually explicit content on Kik, a social media platform. During a subsequent search of Nordmann’s home, electronic devices were seized. Nordmann, then, admitted to having additional child pornography videos and images on his cell phone. Several of the videos contained images of children younger than 12 years old. Nordmann later pleaded guilty in March 2021. Subsequently, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia sentenced Trevan Nordmann, 31, on September 13, 2022, to six years in prison and five years of supervised release for possessing and transporting child sexual abuse materials.
How can social learning theory explain Nordmann’s behavior?

What three things do the witches predict for Macbeth and Banquo?
What does Lady Macbeth fear her husband will not do?
Confirm your understanding of the text by writing a summary of Act I.
Cite one adjustment you needed to make as you read Act I. What questions were answered or clarified by annotating or using outside resources?
Compare and Contrast. In Scene ii, how are Macbeth’s and Banquo’s reactions to the witches’ prophesies similar and different? What do their reactions suggest about their individual characters?
What announcement does King Duncan make at the end of his conversation with Macbeth and Banquo? What effect does that announcement have on Macbeth?
In Scene vi, what does the audience know that the king doesn’t know? How does the use of dramatic irony create both humor and suspense?
What do Lady Macbeth and Macbeth argue about in Scene vii? What does the outcome of the argument suggest about who holds the power in their relationship?

chapter 5 just mercy questions
1. How does Walter’s family show pride? Use evidence to support your answer.
2. How does Walter’s family show the importance of family? Use evidence to support your answer.
Directions: Use chapter five to answer the following questions.
1.How is the Black community of Monroe County faring after Walter’s conviction? How is his family faring? Despite everything, what it their attitude?
2. “‘Well, I’ve decided I ain’t going to let them string him up. I’ll get some boys, and we’ll go cut him down before we let them take him. I’m just not going to stand for them putting a good man down for something I know he didn’t do.’”
The above statement is made by Sam Crook, one of the few white people who call Bryan in support of Walter. Determine the meaning of the words and explain what is  incredibly disturbing about this statement?
3. As a lawyer, what has Bryan learned about having discussions with clients? Why do you think this is important?
4. What does Darnell Houston reveal about statements made by Bill Hooks during Walter’s trial?
5. How is Darnell treated after his phone call with Bryan? What is the prosecution doing when they treat Darnell this way?
6. What does the conversation between Bryan Stevenson and Tom Chapman prove or imply about the prosecution
7. Make an Inference: What is going to happen in Walter McMillian’s case? Why? Is it fair?

Fredrick Douglass on the Declaration of Independence
Fredrick Douglass
1 On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester’s Corinthian Hall. It was biting oratory, in which the speaker told his audience, “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” And he asked them, “Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?”
2 Within the now-famous address is what historian Philip S. Foner has called “probably the most moving passage in all of Douglass’ speeches.”
3 What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.
What is the author’s purpose in the passage? to entertain to convince to repel to describe
Question 2 (1 point)
Fredrick Douglass on the Declaration of Independence
Fredrick Douglass
1 On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester’s Corinthian Hall. It was biting oratory, in which the speaker told his audience, “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” And he asked them, “Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?”
2 Within the now-famous address is what historian Philip S. Foner has called “probably the most moving passage in all of Douglass’ speeches.”
3 What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.
What is the effect of the word swelling in Douglass’s phrase, swelling vanity? A. It praises America for being rightfully proud of itself on this important day of celebration. B. It makes America’s vanity seem bloated, pompous, and filled with an overweening pride. C. It makes for a very humorous image that adds to the comedy of Douglass’s entire speech. D. It has no effect whatsoever.
Question 3 (1 point)
I Have A Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1 I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. 2 Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
3 But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
4 In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
5 It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.
Find 3 rhetorical devices in this portion of the speech. Give the direct quote from the speech and identify which rhetorical device is being used.

Why does the author include the scene of Osvaldo Cruz claiming that Steve goes to a “faggot school “?
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FREDDY (to STEVE) What school you go to? OSVALDO He goes to that faggot school downtown. All they learn there is how to be a faggot FREDDY You let him dis you like that, man? OSVALDO He don’t have no choice. He mess with me and the Diablos will burn him up Ain’t that right, faggot? STEVE can kick your narrow butt any day in the week. OSVALDO Well, here it is, so why don’t you come and kick it? FREDDY You better chill; he hangs with some bad dudes. hp
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r by Myers Walter Dean Complete Novel.pdf OSVALDO He don’t hang with nobody. He’s just a lame looking for a name. Ain’t that right, Steve? Ain’t that right? STEVE Why don’t you shut up? OSVALDO You ain’t got the heart to be nothing but a lame. Everybody knows that. You might be hanging out with some people, but when the deal goes down, you won’t be around. STEVE Yeah, and you will be, huh? CUT TO: INTERIOR: COURTROOM. OSVALDO is on the stand. OSVALDO (softly, timidly) So Bobo said to me if I didn’t help him, he’d cut me up. CUT TO: STEVE writing on pad. CU: OSVALDO. OSVALDO hp
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Bullying: Discover G.. Q Discoverer – ProQue.. Untitled – Noteflight.. Classes by Myers Walter Dean Complete Novel.pdf He said he would cut me up and get my moms, too. I was, like, really scared of him. PETROCELLI Have you ever seen Bobo hurt anyone? OSVALDO I heard he messed up a dude in the projects. BRIGGS Objection. JUDGE Sustained. PETROCELLI Do you know as a matter of fact if Bobo has hurt anyone in the hood? BRIGGS Objection! Unless the prosecutor is going to pass out glossaries to the jury, I want her to use standard English. JUDGE Overruled.
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Bullying: Discover G. Discoverer – ProQue. Untitled – Noteflight.. Classes D by Myers Walter Dean Complete Novel.pdf You live on 144th Street; is that correct? OSVALDO Yeah, across from the school. PETROCELLI I’m going to give you a series of names, and you will tell me if you know any of them. James King? OSVALDO Yeah, that’s him at that table in the blue suit. PETROCELLI Let the record indicate that Mr. Cruz has identified Mr. King. Steve Harmon? OSVALDO He’s the Black guy sitting at the other table. PETROCELLI Let the record show that Mr. Cruz has identified Steve Harmon. (Turning back to Osvaldo) All right. Did Mr. Evans, or Bobo, make a proposition to you? BRIGGS hp
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