WebQuest

Introduction

Performance Task #1

Amendment #8: You cannot be unusually punished, or excessively fined or given excessive bail

Overarching Themes:

  • Police Cruelty
  • Stop and Frisk
  • Innocent/Guilty
Task

 

Francis Rosario

Technology/Design

Performance Task #2

 

 

8Th Amendment

Big Ideas

 

Police Brutality:

http://goodmanlawgroup.com/criminal-defense-blog/8th-amendment-rights/

This tells you how the 8th amendment protects you against police brutality what you will receive if you are ignored by the government

http://www.yeptoday.com/Education/Rodney_King_Could_Have_Used_This__Police_Brutality_Overview_2301.html

This expresses how the 8th amendment could have affected a real life situation

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_19458854

Explains how police brutality affects society

http://www.peoplestribune.org/PT.2007.11/PT.2007.11.7.html

Family talks about experience of police brutality

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU5fAGOVvEM

Police attacks disabled boy

 

 

Stop & Frisk:

http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000001601732/the-scars-of-stop-and-frisk.html

Teen talks about his life when he is discriminated by police

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/6/nypd_officer_risks_his_job_to

Police goes against the Government

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aLVahVpv80

Racist Cop

http://video.foxnews.com/v/2617187962001/stop-and-frisk-good-police-work-or-racial-profiling/#sp=show-clips

Stop and frisk good or bad

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/8/new_york_police_ends_practice_of

Stop and frisk stops

 

Innocent/Guilty:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB2xwhLMT1Q‎

Zimmerman Free

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/features/2011/getting_it_wrong_convicting_the_innocent/who_confesses_to_a_crime_they_didnt_commit.html

Innocent convicted Guilty

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/30/22507219-amanda-knox-convicted-of-murder-in-italian-retrial

Murder Suspect

 

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/family_court_judge_finds_juvenile_guilty_of_manslaughter_in_knockout_case.html

Teen is tried for manslaughter

http://www.wctv.tv/news/courtcases/headlines/Retired-Cop-Fatally-Shoots-Man-At-Fla-Theater-Over-Texting-240108301.html

Denied Bail?

Process

Performance Task #3

Police Cruelty:

http://goodmanlawgroup.com/criminal-defense-blog/8th-amendment-rights/

What is the cost of the fine dependent on?

The cost of the fine is dependent on the extremity of the crime

 

Stop and Frisk:

http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000001601732/the-scars-of-stop-and-frisk.html

Why was it wrong for the police to arrest Tyquan?

It was wrong for the police to arrest Tyquan because he had a pink highlighter and the graffiti was black

 

 

Innocent/Guilty:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB2xwhLMT1Q‎Do you think

Zimmerman deserves to be free?

No because he made an assumption that Trevon was going to cause harm to him because he was walking in his direction and shot him with an unlicensed weapon

 

Conclusion

Francis Rosario                                                                                               March 12, 2014

                   

http://content.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1026395306001_2080302,00.html

1. What did the Supreme Court say about minors?

2. What was said about unusual punishment?

3. What was the article shown about/ Why do you think this happened?