Law School for Journalists: The Life of a Criminal Case and Insanity Defenses and the Death Penalty

This program addresses two subjects:

The Life of a Criminal Case, presented Judge Christina Habas, as a representative of Our Courts Colorado. Materials for this portion of the program are available at http://bit.ly/Nm74i2.

Insanity Defenses and the Death Penalty was presented by Karen Steinhauser. Materials for that portion of the program are available at http://bit.ly/QHCZ35.

The aim of Law School for Journalists is to provide meaningful information on legal topics to journalists. It is sponsored by the Colorado Bar Association and the Colorado Judicial Branch.

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[Kevin DeVore]

The amount of pressure on the jury must be tantamount when they have to weigh all of the evidence and follow the instructions of the court. The life of a person weighs in their hand and they must make sure justice be done.

[piinksugar]

What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? As far as I know James has yet to admit to it nor have there been any DNA tests performed... He deserves a FAIR trial. Insanity plea still isn't right if he didn't do it, or was forced into it.