BillofRightsScenarios Ver2.docx

**Bill of Rights Scenarios** **Directions:** Read each scenario. After reading the scenario, specifically describe the amendment and the reasons why the scenario was a violation (or not) of our Bill of Rights. Use complete sentences. **Scenario 1** Sara, an eighteen-year old college student, is a...

**Bill of Rights Scenarios** **Directions:** Read each scenario. After reading the scenario, specifically describe the amendment and the reasons why the scenario was a violation (or not) of our Bill of Rights. Use complete sentences. **Scenario 1** Sara, an eighteen-year old college student, is arrested for stealing a classmate's term paper and selling it on the Internet. When she appears before the judge, she asks for a lawyer to help defend her. The judge tells her if she is smart enough to be in college, she is smart enough to defend herself. Besides, she is not being charged with a felony, so the stakes are not very high. **Scenario 2** Jaxson was playing baseball in his yard and accidently hit a baseball through his neighbor's window. His neighbors, the Wilsons, asked Jaxson's parents to pay for the damages, but they refused. The Wilsons took the case to court, but the judged denied their request for a jury trial, because the damages were only \$350 and said it would be a waste of a jury's time over a "neighborly dispute." Carolyn is arrested for shoplifting a candy bar from a neighborhood convenience store. At trial, she is found guilty. The judge decides that the appropriate punishment is to cut off Carolyn's hands so that she will not be able to shoplift again. James is an avid hunter. However, he recently has been seen associating with known local gang members. Authorities from believe he may have begun the "initiation process" of joining the gang. A team from the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco) stormed his house and confiscated his hunting rifles. Thomas, upset by recent to recent government actions, decided to burn the American flag outside of his state capital. Thomas is arrested and is given a small fine and short jail sentence. Jesse, a fourteen-year old student, decides to protest the war in Iraq. He wears a T-shirt to school with a picture of the White House and the caption "Weapon of Massive Misinformation" His principal pulls Jesse aside and asks him not to wear the shirt again because it is disruptive to the learning environment. Jesse wears it the next week and is suspended from school for three days. Sixteen-year old Ryan is the captain of the football team. Before the Friday night game, he and his teammates are required to submit to a drug test. Ryan's test shows traces of marijuana. He is not allowed to participate in the game and he is suspended from school. A known drug dealer is arrested for suspected connections to an inner city murder. The police do not inform him of his rights and immediately begin to interrogate him. They continue until he admits he knows the victim of the crime and was in the neighborhood where the murder took place. Your parents are very religious people, but you are not. Today, your parents are going to a service at their place of worship and they expect you to come along. You refuse. They make you come anyway and they ground you for the following month. A recent spike in patriotism across the country, has led to the recruitment of thousands of new military recruits. Because of the increased numbers, the provided barracks at military bases cannot house all of the new soldiers. In response Congress passed a law requiring married "empty nesters" (parents whose children have grown and moved out) to house 1-2 soldiers with compensation. To promote and encourage more young Americans to attend college, technical school, or the military, Congress passes a law called "The Marriage Age Act" which states you cannot get married in any state, until the age of 21. The Herman's live in a rapidly developing neighborhood. The city contacts the Herman's to inform them that their home is being taken by the government, with compensation, to build a new shopping center.