United States Constitution and Constitutional Officers, State of California and
local.
Preamble,
Articles 1, 2 and 3, Bill of Rights -
Amendments 1-10, and 14
Constitutional Officers:
FEDERAL
President George W. Bush
Vice President Dick Cheney
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
STATE,
TERM LIMITS
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, recall
Lt.
Governor John Garamendi
California Attorney General, Chief Law Officer, Edmund G. Brown
Jr., Mayor, Oakland
California
LOCAL,
COUNTY GOVERNMENT
District Attorney, Chief Law Officer, Rod Pacheco, Riverside County
District Attorney, Chief Law Officer, Michael Ramos, San Bernardino County
Sheriff - Coroner Bob Doyle, Chief Law Enforcement Officer, Riverside County
Sheriff - Coroner Gary Penrod, Chief Law Enforcement Officer, San Bernardino
County
US
constitution and constitutional officers
Preamble, articles 1-3, amendments 1-10, 14.
Go to your specific search engine for more clarification - see below
http://www.usconstitution.net/
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
State of California Constitution
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/const-toc.html
http://www.lsnc.net/cal_constitution.html
http://www.50states.com/californ.htm
The
following
component is not operational as a part of your
formalized on line testing process. However,
I will choose questions from
these component parts to ask questions throughout the semester to insure your
assigned readings are being followed.
Criminal
Law Essay Questions SAMAHA 0‑10
POINTS EACH
1. Why do we have Criminal
Law?
2. What is the general part of
criminal law?
3. What is the special part of
criminal law?
4. Define the difference between Mala in Se and Mala Prohibita?
5. How do we classify
criminal law according to subject?
6. What are the four
conditions of punishment?
7. What are the four (4)
forms of punishment? Please
explain in
your own words?
8. Define the difference between common law
and criminal law?
9. Define
irrationality and give an
example?
10. Outline limits
imposed on the
U.S. and state
constitutions?
11. Define rule of law;
principle of legality?
12. Define the concept of
ex post facto
laws?
13. Define void for
vagueness?
14. Define overbreadth?
15. Define the appeals court
process ‑ State of
California, Federal.
16. Define
equal protection under the Law ‑
14
th amendment?
17. Explain right of privacy?
18. Explain actus
reus?
19. Explain
mens rea?
20. Explain strict liability?
21. Explain the grading of
offenses?
22. Explain vicarious liability?
23. Explain the doctrine of inchoate crimes? Give
examples?
Legal Aspects of Evidence
Essay Questions
HAILS 0‑10
POINTS EACH
1. Explain the roles of "trier of fact" and "trier of
law" in a jury trial.
2. Describe the appellate process for a felony case ‑
State of
California, Federal level.
3. Give five (5)
examples of
circumstantial
evidences and
explain the inferences that
should be drawn
from
each
example.
4. Explain the difference between conclusive and rebuttable
assumptions. Insure you use the age
clarifications
in defining
each.
5. Explain the difference between lay and
expert witnesses.
6. Explain the significant
areas of
evidence in the video(s)
a. Luis Rojas ‑ NY subway, street murder case and any other videos we may view before midterm
Law
in American Society Essay Questions 0‑10
POINTS EACH
1. What is the foreseeable outlook for
the American Legal System in the 21st century? What
are some of the component areas that must
be taken into account?
2. Various roles are being assumed in the continual
implementation of
the American Legal System. What are they and how
can they be explained?
3. Outline areas of greatest change in the American Legal System? Why are they considered to be of greatest change?
4. Outline and
explain a
Litmus Test issue?
5. In your own words,
explain Bush
v Gore?
6. Associate Supreme Court
Justice Hugo Black said ‑
The layman's
constitutional view is that
what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is
unconstitutional. That about measures up the
constitutional acumen of the average person. In your own words, define his meaning
7. What are the most
fundamental rights under the
U.S. Constitution?
8. Explain separation of
powers?
9. What is the office of special prosecutor?
Outline a current or most recent
example of this
office usage?
10. What is a primary right of American citizens and how
can it be implemented?
11. What is Proposition 21? How and who
does it affect in
California?
12. Explain and give
examples of Police Power?
13. Give five
examples of lst amendment usage of freedom of religion as
adjudicated by SCOTUS?
14. Explain the video OPERATION
STRIVE as it relates to Equal
Protection of the Law in
Education?
15. Explain the court decision ‑
Veronia
School District v. Acton and the Board of
Education of Independent
School District #92 of
Pottawatomie
County v. Earls?
16. Explain the appeals court
system ‑ State of
California, Federal courts.
17. Explain Voir
Dire and give FIVE
examples?
18. Explain the legal concept of Use of Force?
19. Have the U.S. Courts
‑ succeeded or failed? Please give at least FIVE
examples?
20. List five (5) primary
court decisions from SCOTUS?
21. Explain the concept of the ALS as an
adversary system?
Law American Society. 0‑10
POINTS
1.
Chapter 1 - Introduction to Law
a.
explain five areas of
significance ‑ what is the primary
application to American society?
2.
Chapter 2 - Our Constitution
a.
explain five areas of
significance ‑ what is the primary
application to American society?
3.
Chapter 3 - The Court System
a.
explain five areas of
significance ‑ what is the primary
application to American society?
4.
Chapter 4 - Attorney-Client Relationship and Settling Disputes
a.
explain five areas of
significance ‑ what is the primary
application to American society?
5. Chapter 5 ‑
Administrative Law
a.
explain five areas of
significance ‑ what is the primary
application to American society?
6.. Chapter 6 ‑
Crimes: Public Wrongs
a.
explain five areas of
significance – what is the primary
application to American society?
7.
Chapter 7 ‑
Torts: Private Wrongs
a.
explain five areas of
significance ‑ what is the primary
application to American society?
8.
Chapter 8 ‑
Contracts:
enforceable agreements
a.
explain five areas of
significance ‑ what is the primary
application to American society?
9.
Chapter 9 ‑
Family Law
a.
explain five areas of
significance ‑ what is the primary
application to American society?
10.
Chapter 10 ‑
Owning and Operating Motor Vehicles
a.
explain five areas of
significance ‑ what is the primary
application to American society?
11.
Chapter 11 ‑
Renters and
Landlords
a.
explain five areas of
significance ‑ what is the primary
application to American society?
12.
Chapter 12 ‑
Home Ownership
a.
explain five areas of
significance ‑ what is the primary
application to American society?
13.
Chapter 13 ‑
Employee and
employer rights and
duties
a.
explain five areas of
significance ‑ what is the primary
application to American society?
14. Chapter 14 ‑
Wills, Trusts and Probate
a.
explain five areas of
significance ‑ what is the primary
application to American society?
15.
How will you take the knowledge from this
class and use it to better society?
Legal Aspects of Evidence.
0‑10
points
1. Outline five (5)
significant areas of
evidentiary matter from the
David Westerfield trial?
2. From the lecture presentation at
the Regional Crime Lab, outline areas of significance and
importance pertaining to
Legal Aspects of Evidence. For
example, what is a criminalist,
the difference between a scientist/criminalist and a forensic technician,
what is quality control how is it maintained, what is
chain of custody, define the principle of
evidence transfer, what is
associative
evidence, primary
and secondary transfer, what
might be located at the scene of a vehicle manslaughter and on the victim, at a homicide scene and on the victim,
what is a data base in
evidence terms please give
examples, what are
exemplars, what
is blood alcohol toxicology ‑ the average for Riverside County,
evidence from guns ‑
ballistic
examination, bullet
trajectory, sources of DNA,
contamination prevention, and
differentiating between the Frye standard
and the
Daubert standard as
to outlined principles. 25 points
3. From the handout on
fingerprints, outline from a lay
person perspective, unless you are
employed in the Criminal
Justice system, the methodology
and use of fingerprints in
the Legal Aspects of Evidence. What can be found if
you
examine the four websites, located at the
end of the handout? 25
points
4. What have you learned from this
class and how will you put it into practice in your
daily life?