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Vescovi, Jim. "Print Careers in Prosecution: 'Not About Catching the Bad Guys'" Www.law.columbia.edu. N.p., Dec. 2007. Web. 27 Feb. 2014.
The source is from a prosecutor’s viewpoint on why choosing to be a prosecutor as opposed to a “big time” private lawyer. The author sees the prosecution side of law as the truthful side and finds it honorable to be able to represent the “federal government” in big cases that are not only for money but for the truth and justice. “’We get to pick and choose our cases so they tend to be more complicated’” (line 14) “what a neat feeling it was to stand up in court and say, ‘I represent the federal government.’” (line 30) “’the luxury of seeking the truth’ as opposed to the private lawyer’s credo to serve a client” (line 35) This source is credible because it is from the Columbia University Law School website. Also, there are many other archives of articles on the website on this topic. Lastly, the domain is an “edu”, indicating it is credible for educational uses. There are many useful viewpoints in this article that I will take in consideration for my overall project. There are also very many useful quotes that are applicable to my essential question.
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Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice. Winter2012, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p64-112. 49p
This article explains how the medieval concept of “chivalry” (82) can be found in our legal system as reasoning for the use or lack of use of the death penalty for different gender crimes. It uses statistics about various death penalty sentences to support the claim of the article that chivalry is in fact not dead and that women are less likely to be sentenced to death than men. The article also takes on the claim that the type of crime committed also has a strong deciding factor. Crimes such as rape, gang crimes, domestic violence, etc. lead to the death penalty more often than other crimes. “Studies of gender and the death penalty have, for the most part, focused on the gender of the defendant and have consistently found that women are sentenced to death and executed at significantly lower rates than men.” (84) “The feminist critique of the death penalty as a punishment for rape begins with the epidemic of lynchings…” (81) This source is credible because of the publisher and the contributing authors. The publisher of this article was the Berkley Journal of Gender, Law, and Justice. The website for the Berkley Journal of Gender, Law, and Justice ends in (.edu), therefore indicating that is educational and a reliable source and was published in 2012. The author is a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, which is credible to the facts regarding the legality of the cases. The author, Steven Shatz, received his JD at Harvard University and has prior experience in the law field by being the former Directing Attorney, Farm Worker Division, Evergreen Legal Services. Although the author’s claim may seem biased, his statistics effectively support his claim. I will use these quotes to help explain and support the claim in the article that chivalry in history and feminism plays a part in death penalty cases and federal punishments. This article will help my paper in analyzing the differences in defense and prosecution.