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There are many ways you can prepare for your role in the project. Our textbook and lectures are a good start. But there are also many resources and experiences that are available to you. You are in charge of preparing yourself for your role, learning about the skills and requirements for your role. You should blog regularly on your project page to show your progress.

If this activity would be helpful for your role for this project, you may want to do this activity and you should blog on your own project page.

If you are choosing this because you are just interested and curious, or as a browse assignment, you can post your comments here.

Project Preparation: Expert Witnesses

Google around and find out what you can about expert witnesses. Who are they? What are they experts in? Where do they work? What is their role in a trial or legal case? What did you find out that was the most interesting? If you had to be an expert, what kind would you want to be? etc.

There are many ways you can prepare for your role in the project. Our textbook and lectures are a good start. But there are also many resources and experiences that are available to you. You are in charge of preparing yourself for your role, learning about the skills and requirements for your role. You should blog regularly on your project page to show your progress.

If this activity would be helpful for your role for this project, you may want to do this activity and you should blog on your own project page.

If you are choosing this because you are just interested and curious, or as a browse assignment, you can post your comments here.

Project Preparation: Lineup Construction and Evaluation

Put together a lineup. Read the eyewitness guide for information on how to put together a lineup.

Go here: http://www.dc.state.fl.us/AppCommon/

Choose a guy (search on some characteristics, or a name).

Then find fillers to match

Copy and paste into a word document

Print.

Show to friends, collect data

Read: http://eyewitness.utep.edu/consult05B.html

Calculate lineup bias: http://eyewitness.utep.edu/documents/bias-calc.xls

The Class Project is a semester-long project designed to engage you in the criminal justice process so that you can effectively apply course principles to the real world situations they relate to. The project is comprised of a mock crime and a mock trial, with all of the necessary preparations in between. 

Each student will choose a role to play and will participate in the criminal justice and legal systems as that role.

Each role is listed with a particular group. You will meet with your groups occasionally outside of class.

Law Enforcement Group:

• Police Officers

• Detectives

• Crime Scene Investigators

• Sketch Artist

• Profiler

• (Bail Bonds)

The Courts Group:

• Bailiff

• Judge

The Jury Group:

• (Jury Commissioner)

• Jurors

The Attorneys Group (each side will typically meet together, with their witnesses):

• Defense Attorneys

• Prosecuting Attorneys

• Expert Witnesses

• Character Witnesses

• Eyewitnesses

The Media Group:

• Camera Person

• TV Correspondent

• Newspaper Reporter

• Newspaper Photographer