Street Law Final Exam Take out two sheets

Street Law Final Exam Take out two sheets of binder paper, all class notes and materials, pretest from Friday as well as a pen.

Directions • Provide a ½ -¾ page response to the following short essay questions. Include relevant detail from class discussions/lectures and readings in order to effectively explain/support your answers. • You will have approximately 12 minutes to organize and write each response. • Each response is worth 10 points

Part I- Constitutional Analysis- You are the JUDGE • Read the facts of the following 2 court cases and then provide constitutional analysis and judgement as if you were a supreme court justice in charge of writing the court’s opinion. Factor in the actions of the plaintiff, the reactions of the defendants, and at least one precedent case which should help you make your decision. Be specific to that case when providing your analysis- too general will be bad.

1) School Speech • In April 1983 at Bethel High School in Washington state, a student (Fraser) made a speech at an assembly in support of a candidate for student government. In his speech Fraser used a sexual metaphor which school officials found lewd and vulgar. A teacher observed students hooting and yelling and others simulating sexual intercourse. The assembly concluded as scheduled without further incident. The next day the vice principal suspended Fraser, alleging his speech violated the school's Disruptive Conduct Rule.

2) Speech • Clarence Brandenburg was a leading member of the Ku Klux Klan. His group was located in the woods of Cincinnati. When Brandenburg’s Klan formed a rally, the man contacted a local news station in Cincinnati and invited the organization to cover the Klan’s rally. The news station arrived at the rally and began filming the events. This filming resulted in the broadcast of a very hateful demonstration, filled with hate-speech and racist actions. This filming was broadcasted live to residents of the Ohio city. In reaction to the hateful speech, a number of residents called the news station and complained about the broadcast. • Clarence Brandenburg was arrested forming and participating in the rally and for asking a news station to film the hateful meeting. Brandenburg broke the state’s law which prohibited the publication of any hateful or violent forms of mass media. Mr. Brandenburg appealed the charges against him by claiming his action were not criminal in nature.

Part II-Criminal Processing • For Question 3 - Read the short summaries of each of the following 3 crimes. For each one: • A. discuss the specific point in the criminal process system (ch. 12 figure 12. 1) including all of the parts mentioned up to that point • B. identify and explain the charge(s) that the responsible parties will most likely face.

Question #3 a, b, c • A. The Los Angeles County coroner's office on Sunday identified a 92 year-old woman who was fatally struck by a truck as she crossed a street in Hancock Park. • Alice Talamantes of Azusa was hit shortly before 4 p. m. Friday at the intersection of Third Street and La Brea Avenue, authorities said. • Police said she was in a crosswalk about 10 feet from the curb when a truck making a right turn struck her. She was pronounced dead at 5: 35 p. m. at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. • The driver stopped at the scene and was not arrested or cited, police said.

3)b • Prosecutors charged two Glendale men on Friday for assaulting a homeless man, officials said. • Oganes Manvelyan, 23, and Vahan Kiourktzian, 22, each face one count of assault with a deadly weapon in Wednesday's alleged attack on the homeless man, according to Jane Robison, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney. She said the alleged attack came for no apparent reason. • The pair initially claimed the homeless man began harassing them, but a police investigation revealed that was not true, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.

3)c • C. The death toll rose to seven in what police and witnesses described as a bloody rampage on the streets of Santa Monica that ended with the alleged gunman being killed by police in the library of Santa Monica College. • The alleged gunman has not been identified, and no motive is clear. Police said he might have known some of his victims, but some of the attacks appear random. Witnesses described the suspect firing at vehicles, police officers and even a Santa Monica city bus. • Marta Fagerstroem, 30, was on the No. 7 bus, . . .