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Assignment - Accounting Information & Criminal Justice System Questions
Q1. Identify 4 kinds of external users of financial accounting and describe how they use accounting information. Share a specific example of how an external group from your own organization (or one that you are familiar with) used financial accounting information.
Q2. Respond to the following: How would the criminal justice system be different today if the founding fathers had decided not to create a separate system of federal courts and instead allowed federal laws to be enforced in state courts?
Why the dual court system? What are the benefits? What are the constraints?
Q3. Respond to the following: Place yourself in the position of a felony court prosecutor. In what ways does the cooperation of other members of the courtroom workgroup work to your benefit? How would your answer be different if you approached the question from the vantage point of the judge or the defense attorney?
Q4. Respond to the following: What impact does the jury system have on the rest of the criminal justice system? How would criminal justice function differently if defendants had no right to a trial by a jury of their peers, which is the situation in virtually all the non-common law nations of the world?
Q5. Respond to the following: Should the punishment fit the crime, or should the punishment fit the criminal? Explain why.
Why are most findings of guilt at the trial level not appealed? In what ways are appellate cases unrepresentative of trial court cases?
Q6. Respond to the following: Why are some defendants wrongfully convicted? What methods might be used to avoid wrongful convictions and exonerate those who have been wrongfully convicted?