As I announced in your syllabus, I require each student to submit a practical project that accounts for ten percent (10%) of your testing score for this course.
Each student will work individually.
I want you to write an essay, no more than three pages long, in which you do as follows:
1. Identify a popular movie that you have seen recently either on DVD, video, cable television or at the theater. Provide the full title of the movie and identify the main actors who appear in it and the distributor. (You may not use Anatomy of a Murder or And Justice for All as the basis of this project.)
2. Select one scene from that movie that you believe raises an important evidentiary question and briefly describe it.
3. Explain why the scene you have selected raises an important evidentiary point by including references to the pertinent Federal Rules of Evidence and to the material in your casebook. Explain how you believe the matter should be resolved under the Rules and applicable law.
You are not limited to the material that we have already covered, but you should not make references to material that we will not cover at all. Even though I have varied the order in which I will cover the material, I still expect to cover everything I said I would cover in the Syllabus. Likewise, it is still my intention not cover Chapters 10, 11, and 12.
DUE DATE: Projects are due on or before 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 17, 2001. You may turn them in to me during class, or to my secretary, Ms. Betty Donaldson in the secretarial pool office.