Response to the following questions:
1. About Trial Juries:
a. How are jurors selected?
b. How long do they serve?
c. Could You be selected? If yes, why? If no, why not?
d. What do jurors do during a criminal trial?
e. What choices for a verdict to trial juries have?
2. About Due Process:
a. Explain what that means in general
b. Explain what would be due process at your arrest, booking, arraignment, preliminary hearing(s), and trial.
3. Assume that you are living in these United States before 1960, that is before the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Laws that were passed then and which are still the laws of the land now.
a. What were racially segregated schools?
b. What were some of the other racially based legal or non-legal discriminatory practices you might have faced?
c. What were freedom rides? What were they meant to achieve?
d. In which ways and areas do Civil Rights Laws affect YOUR life today?