You have been asked to draft legislation addressing criminal and civil liability for individuals who fail to act when witnessing a crime such as occurred in Richmond CA. (See video - Richmond CA Rape)
Please address the following question(s):
1. Whether current State of California or Federal law provides any criminal or civil liability for failing to act. Fully describe the current law dealing with a failure to act.
2. What changes to current criminal or civil law do you propose for the failure to act?
3. What are the potential legal, social and other ramifications of your recommendations?
Each student group will provide a paper with appropriate research and recommendations. Recommended length is 4-5 pages. This assignment is due on Wednesday November 4, 2009. No late papers accepted.
I was out sick today due to illness. Were there groups assigned for this project? If so, I need to know my group (or if there is a group I can join) so that I may do my part of the project. I'm part of the 10:10 section.
ReplyDeleteRelating to the Richmond rape incident, there is a movie that tells a similar story of a woman who was gang raped in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The movie is called "The Accused".
ReplyDeletehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094608/