Unit 2 Criminal Law

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Unit II Essay

In this assignment, you will refer back to the three handouts indicated below and answer the questions associated with them. You will find these handouts linked within the Unit II Study Guide. Both items listed below will be responded to within the same document which you will then submit. The response to each item will consist of at least 200 words each, and any sources used, including your textbook, should be cited and referenced properly at the end of your responses using APA formatting. It is not necessary to copy the items below into your document; however, please compose essays that include a clear introduction, body, and conclusion:

1. After reading “What Constitutes the Corpus Delecti of an Offense,” please answer the following questions. How can the corpus delecti of robbery be demonstrated? Of theft? Why did the court conclude that, “In this case, the evidence does not conclusively establish that Hoke’s purse was taken forcibly from her. The evidence does, however, support an inference that she was robbed”?

2. After reading “For Purposes of Criminal Attempt…,” please answer the following questions. Do you agree that the girls had taken a substantial step toward the commission of a targeted offense? What test does the court establish for Tennessee to determine whether a substantial step has been taken? Would your answer be different if Tennessee used the last-step test or the physical proximity test? If so, how? Do you think that the court, in using common law rules of construction, modifies the legislative enactment? Is the court using its judgment to replace that of the drafters of the statute? Explain your answer.

3. After reading, “Can a Private Corporation be held Liable…,” please answer the following questions. In this case, McIlwain School Bus Lines, Inc. argued that the offense of homicide by vehicle could not be committed by a corporation. On what grounds did the corporation base its arguments? Why did the court conclude that a corporation was a “person” for purposes of the law? How was such a conclusion reached? What are the potential legal ramifications of granting the status of “person” to a corporation?

BCJ 3601, Criminal Law 1

Course Learning Outcomes for Unit II Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. Define terms related to criminal law. 1.1 Define terms related to criminal liability and the elements of crimes 1.2 Explain the concept of an inchoate crime.

3. Analyze legal issues presented in court cases.

3.1 Evaluate whether simple negligence can provide the basis for criminal liability. 3.2 Determine what constitutes the corpus delicti of an offense as well as what constitutes a

“substantial step” toward commission of a target offense.

4. Analyze key concepts related to criminal law. 4.1 Identify the crime of attempt. 4.2 Explain the common law categories used to describe parties to a crime. 4.3 Compare conspiracy and criminal solicitation.

 

Reading Assignment Chapter 2: Criminal Liability and the Essence of Crime Chapter 3: Expanding the Concept of Crime Chapter 4: Extending Criminal Liability: Inchoate Offenses and Parties to Crime Read the following handouts: “What Constitutes the Corpus Delicti of an Offense?” “For Purposes of Criminal Attempt, What Constitutes A ‘Substantial Step’ Toward Commission of the Targeted Offense?” “Can a Private Corporation be Held Liable for the Crime of Homicide?

Unit Lesson Please view the Unit II, Part 1 Presentation and Unit II, Part 2 Presentation located underneath the Unit II Study Guide in your course in Blackboard.

UNIT II STUDY GUIDE

Criminal Liability

 

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Annotated Bibliography

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POSITION PAPER

Course Paper Thesis, Outline, & Annotated Bibliography

Instructions: By develop a thesis statement, outline, and annotated bibliography for your Course Paper based on the guidelines in the Module/Week 3 presentation. Submit the thesis statement, outline, and annotated bibliography in ONE Word document using the template below (including the cover page).

Assignment Goals: Plan your Course Paper by clearly stating your main point, structuring your supporting reasons and evidence, and evaluating your scholarly sources. Doing so will prepare you to draft your Course Paper, which must be submitted by the end of

Specific Requirements: Your thesis statement may not refer to yourself, your paper, or your readers. Simply state the point that your paper will argue or demonstrate. Your outline must either follow points outlined by your assignment instructions from your other course or must follow the sample provided below by brainstorming ideas or points that include your thesis statement, two or more supporting main points with at least two pieces of evidence (statistics, data, or source quotes) for each of those points, and a conclusion that sums up the main supporting points and restates your thesis. Your annotated bibliography must include a citation, a summary, an analysis, and the relevance of at least four scholarly sources.

 

Presentation: Planning Your Paper

Attached Files:

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This presentation provides an overview of the pre writing or planning step of the writing process. This all-important step includes thesis statement development, outlining, and annotating your list of sources. The more thorough and detailed you are in these steps, the easier the drafting process will be.

GRST 501

Course Paper Thesis, Outline, & Annotated Bibliography

Instructions: By the end of Module/Week 3, develop a thesis statement, outline, and annotated bibliography for your Course Paper based on the guidelines in the Module/Week 3 presentation. Submit the thesis statement, outline, and annotated bibliography in ONE Word document using the template below (including the cover page).

 

Assignment Goals: Plan your Course Paper by clearly stating your main point, structuring your supporting reasons and evidence, and evaluating your scholarly sources. Doing so will prepare you to draft your Course Paper, which must be submitted by the end of Module/Week 5 of GRST 501 to your GRST instructor and the Online Writing Center. Next, you must submit a final, improved revision of your Course Paper based on the feedback from these two sources. You will pass the Course Paper Revision assignment if your revised draft earns a 3 or higher in each category of the Course Paper Rubric. Planning out your paper will make the drafting step easier.

 

Specific Requirements: Your thesis statement may not refer to yourself, your paper, or your readers. Simply state the point that your paper will argue or demonstrate. Your outline must either follow points outlined by your assignment instructions from your other course or must follow the sample provided below by brainstorming ideas or points that include your thesis statement, two or more supporting main points with at least two pieces of evidence (statistics, data, or source quotes) for each of those points, and a conclusion that sums up the main supporting points and restates your thesis. Your annotated bibliography must include a citation, a summary, an analysis, and the relevance of at least four scholarly sources. Please scroll down and see the sample thesis/outline below.

*Note: You must submit your completed draft to your GRST instructor and to the Online Writing Center (due Module/Week 5). You must show your GRST instructor that you have received a full OWC review of your paper (due Module/Week 6). Then, you must make a final, improved revision of your paper to pass the course (due Module/Week 7). Your revised draft must earn a 3 or higher in each rubric category to pass the class. You might be pressed for time, so remember that though feedback from the OWC normally takes 48–72 hours, during Week 6, feedback often takes one week. This means that once you successfully submit your paper for a full review, you will receive it back within one week. Feedback from your GRST instructor also takes about a week. Therefore, your completed draft is due at least by Module/Week 5. To pass, plan to submit your draft before or during Module/Week 5 of this course.

 

Submit your thesis/outline/annotated bibliography in ONE Word document by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of Module/Week 3. SCROLL DOWN for assignment cover page & template.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title of the issue investigated:

Thesis Statement, Outline, & Annotated Bibliography

 

Your name here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thesis Statement: Write your working thesis statement here. Follow the guidelines in the Module/Week 3 Presentation for how to write a good thesis statement and what to avoid in doing so.

Outline: If your assignment instructions from your other course do not provide ideas for outline points, please use or rearrange this structure for your outline and add to it or delete as necessary. Regardless of the outline points you create, every main point should have at least two supporting points or evidence (A & B) below it. Consult the presentation in Module/Week 3 for more outlining guidelines.

I. Introduction

A. Attention-grabbing opening sentences that motivate your readers to continue

B. Brief background of issue or controversy

C. Thesis statement

II. First Supporting Reason or Argument (backing up your thesis)

A. Statistic, data, quote or paraphrase from source

B. Statistic, data, quote or paraphrase from source

III. Second Supporting Reason or Argument (backing up your thesis)

A. Statistic, data, quote or paraphrase from source

B. Statistic, data, quote or paraphrase from source

IV. Third Supporting Reason or Argument (backing up your thesis)

A. Statistic, data, quote or paraphrase from source

B. Statistic, data, quote or paraphrase from source

V. Opposing Viewpoints

A. Statistics, data, quotes or paraphrases from sources

B. Acknowledgement of strengths of opposing views

C. Analysis of weaknesses of opposing views

VI. Conclusion

A. Summarize main supporting points

B. Restate thesis in strong and unique way

 

Annotated Bibliography: As mentioned in the Module/Week 3 presentation, a good annotated bibliography should include the citations for each source (at least four) you plan to cite in your paper (all should be credible, scholarly sources), a 1-2 sentence summary of the source, a 1-2 sentence evaluation of the source (accuracy, recency, bias, reliability, etc.), and how the source is relevant to your paper (what point would it help support or opposing views does it reveal?). See pp. 3-4 of the Online Writing Center’s annotated bibliography resource as an example of how to structure your bibliography, though be sure to use your discipline’s own citation style. No abstract needed prior to your annotations.

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Computer-Assisted Legal Research Graded Project

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Graded Project

CALR

 

 

CALR GRADED PROJECT

INTRODUCTION Attorneys delegate legal research assignments to paralegals daily. Paralegals must be able to use CALR systems, such as Lexis Advance, WESTLAW, and the Internet, to quickly and efficiently retrieve legal information. This graded project will test your skills in this critical area. Read the description of each legal research assignment and complete each assignment using the Internet and Lexis Advance.

INTERNET Use the Internet for Sections I, II, and III of this project.

Section I: Build a Judge Profile Your firm has a case coming up for trial. Your supervising attorney needs you to profile the judge using the Internet. The judge’s name is Kathleen O’Malley, a federal district judge in Ohio. Print your research results.

Section II: Perform Company Research Your attorney has signed on a new client, Dell Computer Corporation, and wants to learn more about Dell’s business operations. Print two company profiles from independent sources.

Section III: Evaluate Internet Information Quality Go to http://www.whitehouse.gov and http://www.whitehouse.net and compare and analyze the two websites. Write 2-3 paragraphs evaluating the content of the information of the two sites.

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LEXIS ADVANCE Use Lexis Advance for Sections IV, V, VI, and VII of this project.

Section IV: Formulate a Search Request Your supervising attorney represents a drug manufacturer that developed a new arthritis drug. During clinical trials, volunteers who took the drug experienced heart palpitations and nervousness. The drug manufacturer asked your firm if it must disclose the side effects of the drug to potential patients. The client needs an answer to this question as soon as possible to determine if it should seek FDA approval to release the drug to the public. Formulate two queries for the research assignment using (A) natural language and (B) terms and connectors. Use federal and state case law as your sources. Print just the first page of your research results in the cite list format for each search query. Be sure your search requests are visible.

Section V: Search and Retrieve Primary and Secondary Legal Materials

A. Retrieve and print the first two pages of the following case by citation: 17 Cal. 3d 425.

B. Retrieve and print the first two pages of any case involving the following party name: Trump Wilshire Associates.

C. Retrieve and print the first two pages of the following case by docket number: B018788.

D. Explain how to narrow your results and how to view the results.

E. Describe the types of secondary materials that are available on Lexis Advance, and name five specific sources.

Section VI: Verify the Accuracy of Case Law and Statutes Your supervising attorney gave you the following citations:

QQ 217 B.R. 598

QQ 523 U.S. 574

QQ Fed. R. Civ. P. 26

 

 

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She wants you to validate the legal materials to find out if they’re still good law. Carry out the assignment and print your research results. It’s OK to print only the first few pages if you get a lot of hits. (Note: For the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, select your first hit and print the first page.)

Section VII: Conduct Company and Financial Research Locate the company headquarters, address, and telephone number for eBay, the online auction house. Print samples of your research results.

A. Print the first two pages of the latest quarterly (10Q) report for Dell Computer Corporation.

B. Please note, to ensure that you’ve included all the required assignments, label each assignment with the appropriate roman numeral and letter if applicable. Paper clip the papers for each assignment together.

Expectations for This Project You should be able to perform factual, business, and legal research on the Internet; understand how a paralegal uses the Internet in the legal environment; start a Lexis Advance research session; formulate a search request; search for documents; search and retrieve primary and secondary legal sources; verify the accuracy of citations using Shepard’s citation service; locate, profile, and investigate companies; conduct financial and business research; and find factual resources.

Grading Criteria for This Project

Content 100%

I. Build a judge profile 5%

II. Perform company research 5%

III. Evaluate Internet information quality 10%

IV. Formulate a search request 15%

V. Search and retrieve primary and secondary legal materials 25%

VI. Verify the accuracy of case law and statutes 25%

VII. Conduct company and financial research 15%

 

 

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Exemplary Proficient Fair Not Evident

Build a judge profile

Provides a thorough judge profile

Provides an adequate judge profile

Provides mini- mal evidence of a judge profile

No evidence of a judge profile

Perform compa- ny research

2 thorough company profiles from inde- pendent sources are included.

2 adequate company profiles from independent sources are included.

1 company profile from independent sources is included.

No evidence of company profiles from independent sources is included.

Evaluate Inter- net information quality

Thorough para- graphs evaluating the content of the in- formation in the two sites are provided.

Adequate paragraphs evaluating the content of the information in the two sites are provided.

Minimal evidence is provided of evaluating the content of the information in the two sites.

No evidence of evaluating content of the information in the sites is provided.

Formulate a search request

2 or more queries for the research assignment using (A) natural language and (B) terms and connectors are provided.

2 queries for the research assignment us- ing (A) natural language and (B) terms and connectors are provided.

1 query for the research assignment us- ing (A) natural language and (B) terms and connectors is provided.

No evidence of queries for the research assignment are provided

Search and retrieve primary and secondary legal materials

All 5 materials are provided.

4 materials are provided.

3 or fewer materials are provided.

No evidence of primary or secondary materials is provided.

Verify the accuracy of case law and statutes

Thoroughly validates the legal materials

Adequately val- idates the legal materials

Minimal evidence of val- idating the legal materials

No evidence validating the legal materials

Conduct company and financial research

Locates the compa- ny headquarters, ad- dress, and telephone number for eBay, the online auction house. Provides samples of research results. Provides the first two pages of the latest quarterly (10Q) report for Dell Computer Corpo- ration

Locates most of the company information and provides quar- terly reports

Locates mini- mal company information and provides quar- terly reports

No evidence of company information or quarterly reports

 

 

 

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SUBMITTING YOUR PROJECT 1. Go to http://www.pennfoster.edu and log on as a student. 2. Go to your Student Portal.

3. Click on Take Exam next to the lesson you’re working on.

4. Enter your email address in the box provided. (Note: This information is required for online submission.)

5. Attach your file as follows:

a. Click on the Browse box.

b. Locate the file you wish to attach.

c. Double-click on the file.

d. Click on Upload File.

6. Click on Submit Files.

Be sure to keep a backup copy of your completed work.

 

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Energy And Circular Motion Exercises

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PHY-102: Energy and Circular Motion Exercises

Complete the following exercises.

1. A rifle with a longer barrel can fire bullets with a larger velocity than a rifle with a shorter barrel.

a. Explain this using the impulse-momentum theorem.

b. Explain this using the work-energy theorem

 

2. Use physics terms to explain the benefits of crumple zones in modern cars.

 

3. When a gun is fired at the shooting range, the gun recoils (moves backward). Explain this using the law of conservation of momentum.

 

4. Rank the following in terms of increasing inertia:

A. A 10,000 kg train car at rest

B. A 100 kg person running at 5 m/s

C. A 1200 kg car going 15 m/s

D. A 15 kg meteor going at a speed of 1000 m/s

 

5. Rank the following in terms of increasing momentum:

A. A 10,000 kg train car at rest

B. A 100 kg person running at 5 m/s

C. A 1200 kg car going 15 m/s

D. A 15 kg meteor going at a speed of 1000 m/s

 

6. Rank the following in terms of increasing kinetic energy:

A. A 1200 kg car going 15 m/s

B. A 10,000 kg train car at rest

C. A 15 kg meteor going at a speed of 1000 m/s

D. A 100 kg person running at 5 m/s

 

7. Ben (55 kg) is standing on very slippery ice when Junior (25 kg) bumps into him. Junior was moving at a speed of 8 m/s before the collision and Ben and Junior embrace after the collision. Find the speed of Ben and Junior as they move across the ice after the collision. Give the answer in m/s. Describe the work you did to get the answer.

 

8. Identical marbles are released from the same height on each of the following four frictionless ramps.

Compare the speed of the marbles at the end of each ramp. Explain your reasoning.

 

9. A force of only 150 N can lift a 600 N sack of flour to a height of 0.50 m when using a lever as shown in the diagram below.

 

a. Find the work done on the sack of flour (in J).

b. Find the distance you must push with the 150 N force on the left side (in m).

c. Briefly explain the benefit of using a lever to lift a heavy object.

 

10. Rank the following in terms of increasing power.

A. Doing 100 J of work in 10 seconds.

B. Doing 100 J of work in 5 seconds.

C. Doing 200 J of work in 5 seconds.

D. Doing 400 J of work in 30 seconds.

 

11. A student lifts a 25 kg mass a vertical distance of 1.6 m in a time of 2.0 seconds.

a. Find the force needed to lift the mass (in N).

b. Find the work done by the student (in J).

c. Find the power exerted by the student (in W).

 

12. A satellite is put into an orbit at a distance from the center of the Earth equal to twice the distance from the center of the Earth to the surface. If the satellite had a weight at the surface of 4000 N, what is the force of gravity (weight) of the satellite when it is in its orbit? Give your answer in newtons, N.

 

13. Consider a satellite in a circular orbit around the Earth.

a. Why is it important to give a satellite a horizontal speed when placing it in orbit?

b. What will happen if the horizontal speed is too small?

c. What will happen if the horizontal speed is too large?

 

14. If you drop an object from a distance of 1 meter above the ground, where would it fall to the ground in the shortest time: Atop Mt. Everest or in New York?

 

15. Why do the astronauts aboard the space station appear to be weightless?

 

16. Why do the passengers on a high-flying airplane not appear weightless, similar to the astronauts on the space station?

 

17. A ranger needs to capture a monkey hanging on a tree branch. The ranger aims his dart gun directly at the monkey and fires the tranquilizer dart. However, the monkey lets go of the branch at exactly the same time as the ranger fires the dart. Will the monkey get hit or will it avoid the dart?

 

The remaining questions are multiple-choice questions:

 

18. Compared to its weight on Earth, a 5 kg object on the moon will weigh

A. the same amount.

B. less.

C. more.

 

19. Compared to its mass on Earth, a 5 kg object on the moon will have

A. the same mass.

B. less mass.

C. more mass.

 

20. The reason padded dashboards are used in cars is that they

A. look nice and feel good.

B. decrease the impulse in a collision.

C. increase the force of impact in a collision.

D. decrease the momentum of a collision.

E. increase the time of impact in a collision.

 

21. Suppose you are standing on a frozen lake where there is no friction between your feet and the ice. What can you do to get off the lake?

A. Bend over touching the ice in front of you and then bring you feet to your hands.

B. Walk very slowly on tiptoe.

C. Get on your hands and knees and crawl off the ice.

D. Throw something in the direction opposite to the way you want to go.

 

22. A car travels in a circle with constant speed. Which of the following is true?

A. The net force on the car is zero because the car is not accelerating.

B. The net force on the car is directed forward, in the direction of travel.

C. The net force on the car is directed inward, toward the center of the curve.

D. The net force on the car is directed outward, away from the center of the curve.

 

23. A job is done slowly, and an identical job is done quickly. Which of the following is true?

a. They require the same amount of force, but different amounts of work.

b. They require the same amount of work, but different amounts of power.

c. They require the same amounts of power, but different amounts of work.

d. They require the same amounts of work, but different amounts of energy.

 

24. How many joules of work are done on a box when a force of 60 N pushes it 5 m in 3 seconds?

a. 300 J

b. 12 J

c. 100 J

d. 36 J

e. 4 J

 

25. A 1 kg cart moving with a speed of 3 m/s collides with a 2 kg cart at rest. If the carts stick together after the collision, with what speed will they move after the collision?

a. 3 m/s

b. 1.5 m/s

c. 1 m/s

d. 2 m/s

 

 

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