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Court Case Extra Credit Assignment
Court Case Extra Credit Assignment
before and have watched many different crime shows where they film fake
court scenes, but this experience was much different. There were multiple
intimidating. Throughout the case, there were many moments in which there
was a little laughing and I really enjoyed the real people feel to the
courtroom, where as in the past I have always held the opinion that
I took notes on the case and really thought that this experience left a
significant impression on me. I really enjoyed the logic behind the judges
statements and questions, and their use of reasoning when deciphering what
points each party was trying to make. On the other hand, I was not very
parties. I think that both Mr. Rode and Mr. Spencer seemed to be talking in
circles and not getting their points across efficiently and eloquently; in fact I
noticed that Mr. Spencer went over his allotted time when he presented his
argument. I agreed with a lot of the judges confusion when trying to figure
out exactly what Mr. Rode was doing there and also what approach Mr.
Spencer was asking them to take. I felt like both of them did a poor job
getting their points across and I have always felt that out of respect for the
law people shouldnt talk in circles and when asked a question should answer
it point blank.
what was the purpose of being there on that day. When a judge felt
confused and needed to clarify what point was being made, I felt that it
objective and what is being said really does need to be presented clearly in
order for the judges to make their verdict. I thought that it was interesting
that the entire time, the argument seemed to be based around whether or
not you base your verdict on a physical attribute (in this case the weight of
specifics of this kind of decision and when other cases were brought up as
precedent I feel like I was able to make linkages between cases and
the person had on hand, but what I thought was interesting is that regardless
if they used theoretical or potential numbers, both of those are not the real
yield and that I believe is an important fact of evidence in this case. I talked
detail how the theoretical yield is extremely mathematical and would be the
result if everything went perfectly in the experiment (or in this case the
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Court Case Extra Credit Assignment
Mr. Spencer would base a lot of his argument on theory. I dont know a lot
about yields and would not be able to draw a conclusion based on the
numbers that were read off in the case, however I do agree that if Cain had
that does not necessarily mean that its actual yield would come to be more
that 10 grams.
I think this case had a lot to do with drawing lines between different
principles of the case. Where is the line drawn between guilty vs. not guilty?
Attempt vs. intent? Real vs. theoretical? When one of the judges made the
make you step back from the case and see it as the facts. So if I were to
decide to kill someone, and set out to go do that but only end up committing
3rd degree assault, should I be charged with murder? Just like in this case,
should Cain have been convicted of trafficking when there was not physical
All in all, I believe the fact that I enjoyed the case really made this
this was a business law class, even seeing the logic of the law in a non