1. The Court System
Class 1

2. Administrative
Give Quiz
Return remaining paper proposals

3. Review – Police and Police Work
Police spend small fraction of their time dealing with actual crime
Police are not terribly effective when they do deal with crime, either preventing it or solving it
Most police work is routine, not very exciting and not terribly dangerous

4. Today The Myth of the Courts Courts in U.S. History
Bail and Pre-trial Detention
Race and criminal conviction
Key Ideas from Today’s Class

5. I. The Myth of the Courts What is the Myth of the Court System?
Why Do We Believe this Myth?
What Damage Does this Myth Do?

6. II. Courts in U.S. History Colonial America Early United States
After 1970

7. III. Bail and Pre-trial Detention
The Bail System
Pre-trial Detention
Alternatives to Bail

8. IV. Race and Criminal Convictions
Study by the Urban Institute
When an African-American shoots a European-American
When a European-American shoots an African-American
In the states (20) with “stand your ground” laws

9. V: Key Ideas from Today’s Class
Myth of equal justice and accurate outcomes
Damage done by the bail system
Damage done by pre-trial detention
Racial bias in the court system

10. Next Time Movie – The Plea Snacks?
Come early next class so we can start movie

11. The Court System
Class 3

12. Administrative
Return Quizzes
Collect Journals

13. Review Myth of Equal and Effective Justice in Courts Courts in History
Bail and Pre-trial detention
Race and Criminal Convictions

14. Today The Plea – a review Plea Bargaining Local Examples
The Courtroom Community
Courts and Crime
Key Ideas from Today’s Class

15. I. The Plea – a Review The Texas drug bust people
Charles Gampero, Jr., who took the plea to killing the fellow outside the bowling ally

16. I. The Plea – a Review
Patsy Kelly Jarrett convicted of the murder in Utica
Kerry Max Cook on death row for 22 years

17. II. Plea Bargaining Term Misleading
Vast majority of cases disposed of by plea bargaining

18. II. Plea Bargaining Plea Bargaining and Bail
Eliminating Plea Bargaining

19. III. Local Examples
Christina Gristwood Attack

20. III. Local Examples
Valerie Hill murder

21. IV. The Court Room Community
Nature of Court Room Community
Loyalty within the Community
Consequences

22. V. Courts and Crime
Could we prevent more crime by the courts being tougher on criminals?
Why the demands for tougher sanctions?
Accuracy of verdicts

23. VI: Key Ideas from Today’s Class
Most cases resolved by plea bargains
Importance of the court-room community
Courts getting tougher would not reduce crime
We often convict the innocent

24. Next Time
Discussion of the Prison System