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Assignment
General Information: For your Unit 7 assignment you will prepare a comprehensive analysis paper of at least 1700 words, applying the knowledge gained in CCJ5500, Criminal Law to a landmark Supreme Court case. Your paper must have a title page, an Abstract, appropriate headings, and a Conclusion.
You are to select one landmark United States Supreme Court criminal case for in-depth review and analysis. The case you select cannot be a case discussed in the complete assignments in units one through six. It can be one of the other cases discussed in your text.
After you have selected a landmark Supreme Court case, prepare a comprehensive analysis of the case, including:
Question I. An identification and narrative description of the defendant,
Question II. A complete description of the crime the defendant allegedly committed,
Question III. How the defendant's motive/intent/opportunity (if applicable) were shown in the defendant's criminal trial (refer to unit 2: corpus delecti, elements of offense, and units 5 and 6: elements of crimes)
Question IV. An explanation of the defense used during trial (alibi, excuse, justification, or procedural defense) [refer to units 3 and 4].
Question V. If you had been the defense attorney in this case was there anything you would have done differently?
Question VI. Describe the precedents established by the Court's decision. Have these precedents been modified by lower courts since the original decision was published? (See unit 1: stare decisis and precedent)
Question VII. If you had been on the Supreme Court when the case was decided, how would you have ruled, and why?