1. Courts and Trials Class 1
CJS/SOC 220
Courts and Trials
Class 1

2. Administrative
Mid-term grades
Dolphy Day!!!!!!!

3. Review Right to counsel Effective counsel
Providing attorneys for those who need them
Bail
Diversion programs
Plea bargains and their alternatives

4. Today Kenneth Pavel – Ineffective Counsel Accuracy and Rape Cases
Discovery and Exculpatory Evidence
Prosecution versus Defense
Race, Prosecution, and Sentencing
Key Ideas from Today’s Class

5. I. Kenneth Pavel – Ineffective Counsel
April 1989 arrest
The Trial
The Defense Attorney
The Outcome

6. II. Accuracy and Rape Cases
Rape one type of case especially subject to forensic evidence
The rape kit backlog
Mishandling of forensic evidence

7. II. Accuracy and Rape Cases
The rape kit backlog
The case of Tuscon

8. II. Accuracy and Rape Cases
The case of Dan Lackey
The Incident and Arrest
The Trial
Afterward

9. II. Accuracy and Rape Cases
The case of Steven Barnes
The Incident and Arrest
The Trial
Afterward

10. III. Discovery and Exculpatory Evidence
Nature of discovery
What kinds of exculpatory evidence are often discovered?
Improper convictions

11. III. Discovery and Exculpatory Evidence
The Case of Thomas Bianco
The Crime and arrest
The Trial
Afterward

12. IV. Prosecution versus Defense
Advantages of the Prosecution
Disadvantages of the Prosecution
Advantages of the Defense
Disadvantages of the Defense

13. V. Race, Prosecution, and Sentencing
Remember most cases resolved by plea bargains
The Milwaukee Approach
Property Crime

14. V. Race, Prosecution and Sentencing
Decided to move to a public health model
Other non-traditional approaches in Milwaukee

15. VI: Key Ideas from Today’s Class
Rape cases often not investigated properly and often subject to faulty forensics
Prosecution is obliged to turn over all relevant evidence to the defense, including exculpatory evidence
Prosecution and defense not in parallel positions
Clear evidence that African-Americans receive harsher punishments in plea bargains as well as trial verdicts

16. Next Time
Continue with courts and trials

17. Courts and Trials Class 2
CJS/SOC 220
Courts and Trials
Class 2

18. Administrative Any questions about where we are or what we are doing?
Collect Case Analyses
Make sure you have sent me electronic version

19. Review Accuracy and Rape Cases Discovery and Exculpatory Evidence
Prosecution versus Defense

20. Today Nature of Criminal Punishment Goals of Punishment Sentencing
Alternative Sanctions
Death Penalty
Key Ideas from Today’s Class

21. I. Nature of Criminal Punishment
Must be against actual offenders being punished for a legal offense
Not all government consequences are criminal punishment

22. II. Goals of Punishment Retributive Punishment Utilitarian Punishment
Incapacitation
Mandatory Minimum Sentences

23. III. Sentencing
In most states, juries determine guilt and judges set sentences
Factors that affect sentences

24. III. Sentencing Appeal of sentences
How important is role of judges in determining penalties?

25. III. Sentencing Indeterminate Sentencing Determinate Sentencing
Voluntary Guidelines

26. III. Sentencing
Presumptive Sentencing
Mandatory Minimum Sentences

27. III. Sentencing
Three Strikes Sentencing
Jason Hernandez

28. IV. Alternative Sanctions
Boot Camps
House Arrest

29. IV. Alternative Sanctions
Community Service
Most states now have some form of drug courts

30. V. Death Penalty
Illinois
Trend away from capital punishment

31. V. Death Penalty
New York
Death Penalty and Discrimination

32. VI: Key Ideas from Today’s Class
Goals of criminal punishment may be contradictory and punishment may be ineffective
Research links sentencing to three irrelevant case processing factors as well as other irrelevant factors
Prosecutors more important than judges in determining punishment
Death penalty strongly related to race

33. Next Time
We begin unit on community corrections