HW 3: Cole & Cl/Ev/Wa
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THIS
IS ASSIGNMENT 3
Note that students who get a 90/100 or above on this and the previous assignment will NOT have to do the final paper and will also not have to attend class on 5/15 nor will they have to do the otherwise mandatory writing center visit the week of 3/11.
Students who receive less than an 82/100 on this homework will have to do additional exercises until they demonstrate competency. Students who receive less than an 82/100 on this homework will have to do additional exercises until they demonstrate competency.
Answer the following three questions:
1) According to the historian Simon Cole, which had more influence in persuading courts of the reliability of fingerprint evidence: (A) popular culture or (B) empirical, scientific studies? That is, did courts begin to accept fingerprint evidence as reliable because careful scientific studies had demonstrated that fingerprint evidence was reliable or because popular culture embraced the notion of finger print evidence? (Be sure to include evidence from Judge Power's decision)
Your answer should take the form of a cl/ev/wa paragraph with at least two pieces of evidences from the reading.
HINT: It will be much easier to respond to this question if you understand the reference to Pudd'nhead Wilson that appears in the Simon Cole reading; see here.
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Be Sure To:
1) Use evidence in the form of direct quotations.
2) Integrate your direct quotations using either METHOD 3 OR METHOD 4 FROM THE EXPLANATION OF HOW TO INTEGRATE QUOTATIONS (-10% IF YOU DO NOT)
3) Use cl/ev/wa
Note that the necessary evidence to make this argument is scattered across the reading for today (PAGES).
2) According to historian Simon Cole, how and why was it difficult for defense lawyers to find experts who would challenge finger print evidence presented by the prosecution in court?
Be Sure To:
1) Use evidence in the form of direct quotations.
2) Integrate your direct quotations using either METHOD 3 OR METHOD 4 FROM THE EXPLANATION OF HOW TO INTEGRATE QUOTATIONS (-10% IF YOU DO NOT)
3) Use cl/ev/wa
3) How and why did financial interests threaten, according to the IAI, the quality of finger print examinations in the 1920s (hint: think here of the advertisemets of the IAS)? Your answer should take the form of a very brief paragraph with evidence in the form a direct quotation (of no more than 10 words) from the text.
END OF ASSIGNMENT
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