Meeting Notes
CJS MEETING – January 27, 2009
Notes for those who didn’t attend:
Elections for officers will be held March 9, 2009. An information session for people who are interested in joining CJS will be held on March 2, 2009 from 12:15pm to 12:45pm. The March 9th meeting will allow anyone interested in running to get up and pitch why they should be elected, then paper ballots will be handed out and then collected at the end of the meeting. We should know that day who the new officers are. These officers-elect will contact current officers who will guide them through the CJS processes. If you have any information for the “big red book” located in the CJS desk now would be a good time to put it in there. Future officers will need to know how we did things when we started the club, who we know, what we did, etc.
In March we will start a lecture series called “CJS Presents – Legal Education Certification.” This will be a series of four lectures given around lunchtime (and lasting around a half hour) where students will bring their own lunch and listen to the attorney talk about the subject for that day. The topics will be: motions, statistics for lawyers, the jury (and voir dire), and cross examination. The lecture will be given by a local attorney who has special knowledge in this area. Students who attend will get a certificate of completion they can put on their resume.
Kaylynn has forms for anyone interested in doing a ride along with the police. I thought this would be a great tie in with our gun club idea (which has apparently stalled) and maybe a visit to a forensics lab. There are so many aspects to criminal law, and knowing about how police do their job would be a great thing to know. I’d like to have a public meeting (meaning different than the officer’s meeting today) next week and sort of introduce this idea. I am going to try to get the gun club thing moving today by talking to the deans and finding out exactly what they want and how we can get it for them.
Beverley and I have talked about doing a panel on teen prostitution sometime in early April. I think Professor Ainsworth has some special knowledge about this and we plan to follow up.
Murder 101 is currently working on the Reyes-Brooks case which goes to trial in mid-February. There are still openings if you know anyone who is interested in participating.
Donna