CJA 336 Wk 3 – Summative Assessment: Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and a Fair Trial

Research your local district or state attorney’s office to see if there is any demographic information about the number of cases presented to the office and the number of cases in which the office charged someone (e.g., 1,000 cases accusing women of a crime were presented; charges were filed in 100 of those cases).

Write a minimum 1,050-Microsoft® Word Paper in which you:

• Explain the difficulties in determining if bias occurs when the prosecutor determines whether someone will be charged. Support this with the evidence from your research.
• Explore any other unique challenges that a minority defendant may face prior to a trial.
• Examine whether type of counsel (private or public) has an impact on defendants who are women or a racial/ethnic minority.
• Describe challenges in building a jury that is impartial to gender, race, or ethnicity.
• Identify methods for ensuring jury members are unbiased.

• Cite at least 2 sources to support your paper, One Must be the Course Text.
• Format your paper according to APA guidelines.
• Review the Rubric for additional assignment requirements and expectations
• Name Your Submitted Assignment Wk3First&LastName EXAMPLE: Wk3KamaruUsman (NoSpaces)
• Confirm your Assignment was correctly submitted and in the right format.
• NOTE: High Risk Originality Reports will require an automatic revision of your paper