- Crime and punishment

- Prisons have been severely overcrowded

- 45 sq foot rooms
- Humane?
- Should we let people go?
- Jail vs prison
- Jail is before trial, minor crimes, etc.
- Posttrial: attorney final arguments and jury discusses
- Pretrial: evidence is presented and diseected
- Prison is after trial
- Amendments
- 4th- search and seizure
- 8th- cruel and unusual punishment
- 14th- equal protection clause, apply to states
- Due process- required legal proceedings, protect rights
- Legal side
- Judge Alarcon
- 400-500 people would be released
- Murder and bad crimes are in this category
- Cant increase bail also, unconstitutional
- Role of judges
- Can judges make decisions like these?
- Just trying to job
- Keep people safe (executive)
- Overcrowding (judicial)
- Are overcrowded prisons constitutional??
- moral/ ethical
- Media and death punishment
- Spark prisoners to riot and whatever
- Why don’t we ant to show the death penalty
- Last act of privacy
- 4th amendment
- Money shouldn’t determine if a person should go to jail
- Societies role
- Lack of money and resources to fix the prison system
- wants/needs
- Scenarios
- Man in jail with a life sentence stomped guard to death
- No parole or death penalty
- Nurse shoots doctor in crime of passion vs premeditated crime (who should be let
go)
- National Security vs Freedom of Press
- National security is the defense of nations people rights from the exterior and interior
threats
- Right of the press to publish vs secrecy of nation (safety)
- Freedom vs safety
- 1st amendment- speech and press cant be restricted
- press
- Spread ideas, warnings, advisories, news
- National security
- Manhattan project had to be kept secret to protect their information
- Safety, innovation, security, economic stability
- Kidnappings: can’t let out who people are, would motivate them to hurry up
- Ethical issues
- Prior restraint
- War tactics
- Freedom of press
- Does it have the right to publish that info
- NY times vs US
- Pentagon papers
- National security vs the right to know
- Security or knowledge be prioritized
- Gov vs press
- Gov keeps people safe
- Press keeps people informed, people have the right to know
- If you are able to get the information, people should be know
- Better for everyone
- Not always inline
- Secrets
- The press shouldn’t be able to spread info if it wasn’t given to you
- Censorship? The gov controls what we consume then
- Liberties vs rights
- Liberties (learn, obtain information publish, etc)
- Can be punished if you don’t do it legally
- Laws- written out on paper
- Rights (know, obtain information, publish)
- We have the liberty to be able to learn but that doesn’t mean we have the right to
know certain things
- Relevance
- Withholding information
- Daily coverage
- Freedom and safety at home and with foreign nations
- Should we question the government or should we trust them and assume that they
have our best interest in mind
- Fairness doctrine
- Honest and equal
- FCC repealed it
- We seek out information that supports what we believe
 - Why would we go to a place that will contradict that
- School Prayer, Gun Control, and Right to Assemble
- School prayer
- Engel vs Vitali
- Gun control
- McDonald v Chicago
- Right to assembly
- Rapist murder kills black teenagers
- Reverend wants to give a prayer at his school
- Legally cant do that, not everyone follows those beliefs
- Voluntary, making an active decision, for a good cause
- Higher sale of guns because of murders
- Should we take them away and restrict sales
- Right to bear arms is different from the ability to keep it
- Gov should be able to make restrictions
- No gov can take away firearms even if for security
- 2nd amendment
- KKK assemble
- They are extremists but you can’t stop them because that
takes away their rights
- Showing intent to commit violent acts, should stop them
now
- morals/ethics
- School prayer
- Agreed is yes because of law
- The town is religious anyway, prayer isn’t for religion its to rally people,
not inherently religious
- Restrict songs in schools
- American pledge references God, so should this also be
restricted??
- Gun control
- Certain groups/certain people
- Everyone has the right to bear arms no matter what
- People are dying with these guns
- Should we take them away to protect people??
- Assembly of KKK
- Balance freedom of assembly with public safety
- Groups can get violent
- Supremacy of constitution
- 14th equal protection clause
- Supreme law
- Power can change the supreme court, recognize minority
- The right to live vs the right to die
- Euthanasia
 - Purposely ending a life to end the pain
- Abortion
- Before brith
- Competency
- Does a patient have the ability or competency to make decisions on their life
- 18yr old boy involved in the accident
- Needs transfusion but religious beliefs is against that
- Let him live but violate beliefs or let him die
- Girl wants an abortion, grandparents don’t want it
- Should she be allowed
- Euthanasia
- Illegal to commit suicide
- Cant receive assistance in suicide
- The doctor took an oath to try their best
- Giving doctors the power to kill means they get to decide if a person gets to live
or die
- In favor
- Unbearable pain
- Going to die anyway
- Family opinions
- Define life
- Choosing death=murder??
- Against
- No one has the right to kill people, even themselves
- Should the doctor decide??
- Right to life more important?
- Trying to play god?
- Hippocratic oath
- Arbotion
- Legal
- Fetus not recognized as human and alive
- Mother has given body to the child
- She has right
- Should the father have right
- Legally no
- Once born, the mother cant control their life
- Incubation??
- morality/ethics
- In favor
- Both parents want it
- The family wants it mother doesn’t
- Only woman wants it
- Whose baby is it? Who gets to decide?
- Against
 - Should fam be able to get baby
- Artificial raising
- Should women be able to decide for everyone
- When is the baby alive??
- Language that they
- Different ways to say right to die
- Assisted suicide
- Death with dignity
- The way we use these words influences how we thing
- Understand other perspectives and how we create our own
- Affirmative action and discrimination
- Ensure everyone is treated equally without regard to race, origin, etc
- The ethnic minority gets priority
- History
- JFK executive order
- Civil rights act
- How we should use it
- incentive
- LBJ executive order
- Secretary of labors revised order
- The University of California vs Bakke
- Increase diversity for diversity environment
- quota
- Richmont vs Croson
- Strict scrutiny
- Bollinger
- Point system
- Diversification
- In jobs and academic setting
- Cultural ideas and morals
- Color blindness and color consciousness
- Equal vs different (positive)
- New views
- Supreme court
- Proportional representation
- Role model
- Minority representation
- Feel represented and can accomplish things
- Affirmative action (ethical)
- Correcting wrings, make up for past
- Better benefits for rough starts
- Maraton analogy
- Advantaged groups cant see the extra effort that other people put in
- Role models
 - Diversify the success that comes out of them
- Gravitate towards people they sympathize with
- Disadvantages
- Micromanagement
- Fill quotas requires someone to do that
- Less qualified
- Ethics
- Discrimination against majority
- Integration causes disparities
- The majority feels repressed and envious of minority
- Merit
- What circumstances shape our merit