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Assignment - Criminal Justice Question
Description - First, research a current event from the last month. The article should report on a crime that was committed somewhere in the United States. The event/news story/crime should relate to criminal law.
Read the article and become familiar with the facts of what happened. Then answer the following questions about your current event.
You'll answer these questions as if you are a guest on a newscast and the newscaster is asking you these questions. The person questioning you, the newscaster, is Kimberly Hammon. You're in a special segment about Criminal Law and crimes.
1. Where did you find it? (News website, government website, etc.) What is the date of the article?
2. What make you choose this particular current event? How does this relate to Criminal Law?
3. Describe the facts of the case. What did the suspects do, how did they do it, do we know why they did it, who were the victims, etc.?
4. What laws were broken? Tell us the crimes that were committed.
5. What sentence is the suspect/defendant facing?
6. If you were the detective on this case, what are at least 3 things you would want to do in your follow up investigation and why? Why would this information be important?