Memphis
Racial Discrimination
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
1951: Oliver Brown sues Topeka Kansas school board over segregation.
1954: NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall argues Brown v. Board before Supreme Court.
Chief Justice Earl Warren declares segregation “inherently unequal.” -destruction of “separate but equal” principle in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Free speech
Basic principles of liberal ideology
Essential to a modern democratic society
Right to know
The right to a fair trial
Independence of judiciary
The principle of open trial
The right of access to courts
Expansion of the “rights of the accused” in criminal proceedings.
Moral values
Transparency
Honesty
Fairness
Justice
Legislate against abo
Plaintiffs:
People of the state of California
Defendant:
Orenthal James Simpson
Judge: Lance Ito
Place: Los Angeles, California
Dates of Trial: January 24, 1995-
October 3, 1995
Glove evidence
left glove : Bundy , Right Simpson’s (Aris, XL)
Nicole Brown bought pair of Aris Light XL gloves in 1990
Simpson wore Aris Light gloves from 1990 to June, 1994.
Shoe evide
Encoding outcomes:
Encoding outcomes vary interpretations of what we observe because…
People possess different information in the schemata used for interpretation.
2. Our moods and emotions influence our focus of attention and evaluations of others.
3. People tend to apply recently used cognitive categories during encoding.
4. Individual differences influence encoding.
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