Advanced Criminal Justice, Class 21, Period 1, 03.28.06

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[OOC: Keeping with the low-impact lectures. Wheee. I may be slow to reply at work today, just FYI. Class Info Post.]

"Hello, class!" Tick said fron his normal position at the front of the room. "Remember, your projects are due next Tuesday. You'll have some time to work on them at the end of class, but today we go back to lecture and discussion as well."

"Today we'll be talking about private investigators. PIs. Private eyes. Private smurfs," Tick said to cover up any potentially dirty interpretation of a popular nickname. "Gumshoes. Among many other names. The profession of Holmes, Spade, Magnum, and Addison. I'm talking about the sometimes noble, sometimes skeezy, always interesting, world of private detecting."

"PIs often work for people in court cases for a number of purposes. Maybe they're checking to make sure a witness or defendant is on the up-and-up. Sometimes they're checking to see if a person with a signifcant other has another other that is in some way significant. And sometimes they're called upon to solve the big crimes that the police just can't figure out."

"In a way, they're almost like superheroes, only without powers, with a salary, and with more frequent trips into the bad parts of town for non-evil-whomping purposes. They outthink evil. And that's keen!"

"For discussion today, please talk aboutyour views on private eyeing. Have any experience with them? Seen them enough on television to know what's up? Are you one. and if so, do you have any stories to share? After this discussion, you can jump into your teams for the project if you need class time to work on them."

"This week's metaphor is umbrellas. And for extra credit, please come up with two more nicknames for private investigators. IF you get suggestive with the private smurves, though, you can only do so for one of the nicknames. So keep it clean!"

[OOC: Veronica has offered to answer questions about PIs.]

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Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

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Logan's here.

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

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"So you come up with any ideas?"

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"None," Logan admitted.

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"Well they say that justice is blind," Marty said grasping for ideas. "Maybe we can put that theory to the test somehow."

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"Hm," Logan said. "What if we set up a mock trial of some kind, using students as jurors?"

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"That would work," Marty said nodding. "Who are we going to put on trial?"

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"We could take one of the case files we've studied in class and ask people to take on roles, such as Mr. Bunny and Mr. Sam, and bring one of these cases to trial," Logan suggested.

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"Actually since this is going to be held in the Danger Shop, we could actually have the bunny or Sam there themselves."

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"Oh, that's even better," Logan said. "So we'd just have to pick out a case and appoint lawyers and jurors."

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"And then we blindfold them all and see how justice is done?" Marty asks. "Would that work as a way to test our theory?"

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

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"Maybe just the jurors should be blindfolded. And the judge. Lawyers and witnesses aren't expected to be blind," Logan said. "Actually, we should probably be the lawyers."

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"I just remembered something. The last time we tested out a theory with the Danger Room, The simulation was entirely run by Professor Tick and the computer equipment," Marty pointed out. "Are we going to be that involved with the testing of the theory?"