Evaluate the rationale of at least 2 classmates James Ridge and Bryan Dodds regarding placing limits on the gathering and admissibility/suppression of evidence used to determine guilt or innocence. Provide the scriptural, constitutional, and scholarly basis for your analysis.
Each reply must be a minimum of 150 words.
Responding to a classmate’s post requires both the addition of new ideas and analysis. A particular point made by the classmate must be addressed and built upon by your analysis in order to move the conversation forward. Thus, the response post is a rigorous assignment that requires you to build upon posts to develop deeper and more thorough discussion of the ideas introduced in them. As such, reply posts must do more than merely affirm, restate or unprofessionally quarrel with the previous post(s). Instead, your responsive posts must make a valuable, substantive contribution to the discussion.
James Ringe
The court system is dependent upon information, in order to make sure that the court system remains a figure of justice and operates in a lawful manner that information must be approved. Not approved in the sense of picking and choosing what is allowed to affect a case, but approved to insure that it was acquired legally, is actually fact and not opinion. If the information passes this screening then the information is allowed in the court proceedings since its purity will not undermine the goal of the search for justice in the court system. This screening also insures that the defendants constitutional rights are not violated, such as the fourth amendment no unreasonable searches or seizures. Outside sources that a juror may gain from media and other sources does not fall under this scrutiny. Much of this information is often opinion and assumptions with little regard for fact and presented in a manner that boosts ratings. “You shall not repeat a false report. Do not join the wicked in putting your hand, as an unjust witness, upon anyone.”(Exodus 23:1 New American Bible). Information that a juror uses that does not flow through the court system is in essence a false report; as such our court system follows this biblical passage to prevent jurors from giving an improper sentence based upon a false report.
New American Bible. (n.d.). New York: Catholic Book Publishing.
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