In this Legal Aspects of Evidence class we take a critical look at evidence and not only determine what is evidence, but how we legally use it to make arrest and prosecute cases in criminal court. The United States use the American Adversary system in criminal trials. Your task is to write a term paper that deals specifically with the adversary system and demonstrate your knowledge regarding the process and consider if the system is equity based.
In this term paper you should carefully review the chapters and reflect on the contents to assist you with the preparation of your term paper.
Your paper should be authentic and represent college level writing. Your paper is designed to critically reflect on and have scholarly research information that contributes to our American Adversary system. The paper should answer and/ or demonstrate your knowledge of the following information:
A comprehensive definition of the Adversary system here in the United States of America.
Scholarly research that compares our adversary system to other systems in other parts of the world.
The difference between the accusatorial and adversary system.
Do you believe the adversary system based on our accusatory process is fair to those on trial (explain your response).
Examine relevant, reliable and competent evidence and articulate how it plays a role in the adversarial system and give at least two examples.
Conclude your paper with giving an overview on the accusatorial process. Incorporate the rest of your studies from this text book and offer your critical reflection and thoughts regarding this accusatorial style.
The above bullets are offered as a pathway to assist you with the desired contents of your paper. The bullet points are not placed in a chronological format and it is up to you to formulate your paper in a college level format suitable of a term paper. Students are reminded that proper formatting using the APA formatting is required and all students are expected to submit papers which represent their authentic work. Copying and pasting will be closely monitored and must have legitimate citations to support the quote and/or copy and paste. Grammar is essential and all students are encourage to proof their papers several times before submitting the final draft.
Please use the chapters in your textbook as a reference and 6 additional outside sources are required to support your paper. Research shall be conducted through academic website searches. Contra Costa College Library has a great databases available to you as a student and I suggest you start there for your research as you navigate towards other academic journals and scholarly reviews. The citation style for this particular paper shall be completed in APA format.
(Your paper should be double spaced, 12 Font, Times New Roman, and 9-11 pages not counting title and bibliography pages).
