Criminal Judiciary  

Criminal Judiciary #2: Law and Crime Friday, Sep 12 2008 

In this episode of Criminal Judiciary, we get a brief overview of the history of our law and its English roots.  Common law, civil law and criminal law and basic legal concepts are explained and we learn the different between “beyond a reasonable doubt” and “beyond a preponderance of the evidence.”

Just a reminder that in a couple of days, nominations for the 2008 Podcast Awards will be opening, we hope we can count on you to drop up a nomination for the Best Educational Podcast!

 
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Criminal Judiciary #1: House v. Bell Saturday, Aug 30 2008 

With a new semester comes new courses; with new courses comes new content!  Criminal Judiciary is a 200-level undergraduate course offered at Delaware Tech as part of their Criminal Justice program — the course will cover the history, traditions and philosophies of our system of justice in addition to covering many landmark cases and court procedure.

In this episode we give a brief overview of the course, the Shareef Cousin’s murder trial which we’ll be following throughout this course and, finally, cover the procedural history behind House v. Bell.

House v. Bell (Case)

House v. Bell (SCOTUS Decision)

 
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