Thursday, October 22, 2009

RJA# 10

A.
The celebrity status of professional athletes gives the criminal justice system a needed piece to help promote criminal awareness and ability to give back to the community, however, this also gives the opportunity to promote and balance Constitutional rights during the legal process.

B.
Does this present a problem to our own American rights by not treating everyone as equals, or does this show a criminal justice system that is trying to minimize tax payer's costs and promote crime awareness.

Should criminal cases be made available to the public?

Should Pro contracts and salaries be made public?

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RJA #9

http://www.ussc.gov/
a good source to find and compare public legal sentencing to compare with pro athlete legal sentencing.

http://www.ojp.gov/bjs/sent.htm
Bureau of Justice Statistics- good source for convictions and stats year over year on specific crimes

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,109670,00.html
John Lott Jr., a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of The Bias Against Guns (Regnery 2003).
good opinion on why athletes are pressured to carry guns.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2006-05-04-community-service_x.htm
by Michael McCarthy and Jodi Upton, USA TODAY
View on light punishments and heavy fines for criminal pro athletes
Used for the opinion from writer

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Law
Has listing of Bill of rights and Constitutional and administrative law
used for displaying Facts

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_n26_v96/ai_19437488/
Has the average and minimum salaries for pro athletes in different sports
Used to display facts. would need to follow up on other sources for exact numbers.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009

RJA#8

A.

Supreme court opinion- actual cases in Colorado
DUI manslaughter case in Colorado
Relevance 2 of 5
have to search individual cases- cannot search by crimes

B.
http://deadspin.com/5311758/donte-stallworth-out-of-jail
used from googleblog search
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&topic=s&ie=UTF-8&q=donte+stallworth&btnG=Search+Blogs

posted many opinions on short sentence
relevance 1 of 5

C.
http://www.blinkx.com/videos/donte+stallworth
used from blinkx.com
shows actual footage of Donte Stallworth's accident
relevance 4 of 5

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Monday, October 5, 2009

RJA#7

  • Google.com search is the main search engine i use to conduct internet research. The different types of searching within google are helpful for narrowing down research topics. I frequently use the advance search option to reduce the many search related results. I will also use wikipedia.com to search a relevant topic and review the sources used to create the entry. This helps find sites dedicated to individual topics about an entry. This also requires research on the creditability of a website.

  • Some questions may include:
    1. Should professional athletes get special sentencing due to their status?
    2. Should professional athletes crimes be made public?
    3. Did Donte' Stallworth get off too easy for DUI manslaughter?
    4. Are professional athletes overpaid?
    5. Should professional athletes be allowed to carry weapons or have bodyguards to protect them while out in public?
    6. Was Plaxico Burress' maximum sentence too harsh? Did the case provide awareness to the general public on punishments for gun control?
    7. Should Michael Vick be allowed to comeback to the NFL?
    8. Should professional leagues be more selective on guidelines to play in the league?

  • http://www.exalead.com/search/
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

RJA#6

  • Protopage Link

1. Library of Congress search

  • "DUI court cases"
Relevance= 2 of 5
Results 1 - 20 of 42
Nuts & bolts of criminal practice in Philadelphia Municipal Court
( c2008 ) ( Book, Periodical, Manuscript )
Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog


2. Google Fastflip

  • "DUI court cases"
0 results

  • "Michael Vick"

Relevance= 3 of 5

Articles 1 - 11

http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/search?q=michael+vick
Agent: Michael Vick re-signs with Nike

By RACHEL COHEN (AP)

P Retail Writer Sarah Skidmore in Portland, Ore., contributed to this report.

QB Michael Vick to repay $416,000 to pension plan

By SAM HANANEL



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