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Here is a file with our mock trial! You can open it with final media player or VLC player which are both free downloads. The wav file was too large to upload. You can bring in a cd or usb drive and I can copy the file for you to play in real player. Enjoy! You all did a great job!



//Insanity Defense - Brief history// Andrea Yates Found not guilty //Pro/Con Website - Concealed Weapons// idebate.org; gun control //[|Awesome Library article on gun control]// Brady Campaign //NRA Website// 60 Minutes //interview with John Paul Stevens - lots of good stuff about the Court and the significant rulings of the Court during Stevens' tenure.// media type="custom" key="7679959"Here is the "60 Minutes" segment on natural gas drilling:media type="custom" key="7606959" //Bates v State Bar of Arizona// media type="youtube" key="ROdq1eNCZfQ?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

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//How a Bill Becomes a Law//

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//Case of the Shipwrecked Sailors// //Real Case of the Shipwrecked Sailors//

Board of Education v Earls

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Dr Charles Haynes Interview - First Amendment Center

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Veronica Burchard Interview - Bill of Rights Institute

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Dan Gillmor Interview - Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship

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[|Local First Amendment Story] //Definition of Criminal Law from Cornell Law School's Website:// //[]// //Here is a free legal definitions site's criminal law section that we will refer to during this unit:// //[]//

//Here is a link to our guide for the summit-- We will start with lesson two.//

[|2010NOYSCurriculumGuide.pdf] //Here is the software guide to the summit://

[|AppendixCFuseTalkGuide.ppt] //Okay Lawsters! Here is the pre-survey for the online summit:// //[]// media type="googlespreadsheet" key="t3uigt2uxqHINX_7NTprCLw" height="750" width="800" //Read one of the following articles:// //[]// //[]// //You will meet with other students assigned the same article. Put together a summary together to share with students who did not read your article. Be sure to highlight what you found interesting and relevant to our class discussions.//

D.C. v Heller// Case Resources on oyez.org [] Gun Control websites: [] [] [] Here is an interesting article regarding our class discussion on gangs: [] Go to the following link to look at the 2008 crime reports from the FBI. Try to find the answers to the questions your text had you answer about the year 2001. []

Here is a link to one of the health care bills that has been introduced in the Senate. [|http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:1:./temp/~c1115FHSGn]::

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