Wk 4 – Sentencing and Post-Conviction

 

Assignment Content

1. Question : Imagine you are a criminal justice professional working for a superior court judge. Your judge has been asked to re-sentence a defendant in a criminal case due to the case being sent back to the trial court after an appeal or post-conviction issue. He would like you to provide him with a memorandum of the history of the case and how the defendant can be re-sentenced.

   Preparation
   Search the University Library or the internet for trials using parameters such as, but not limited to, “watch criminal trials online.” If you cannot locate a video of the trial, you may review court documents for the trial. Note: The trial must be concluded in order to write the paper.

   Choose a criminal trial from within the last 10 years. The trial should be a major felony case such as murder, armed robbery, burglary, aggravated battery, attempted murder, etc. You may choose:

   A trial from the state you currently live in or lived in when you were a child (ATLANTA, GEORGIA)
   A trial from the federal jurisdiction in your current area or where you lived as a child
   Note: If the trial was not sent back to the trial court on appeal or post-conviction, you may assume that it was in order to complete your synopsis.