Imagine that you are an on-line law counselor. Answer the questions given below.

1. Is it a crime to try and kill yourself?

2. Is it illegal to help somebody to commit suicide?

3. Why is mercy-killing (euthanasia) against the law if it’s the only way to save a person from sufferings and pangs?

4. Can you be executed for murdering a policeman?

5. If I surprise an intruder in my lounge at night stealing my millions, have I a legal right to assault him with a weapon?

6. If I set a trap – a fifty-kilo weight just above the front door – for any burglars who might try and enter the house, am I breaking the law?

7. After a divorce or legal separation, can a wife be required to pay alimony to her ex-husband?

8. If I promise to marry my girlfriend and then change my mind shortly before the wedding, can she take me to court?

9. Can a person suspected of and charged with rape be allowed bail?

Interview an American prisoner who is a repeater caught red-handed while hi-jacking a limo for his girl-friend. Use the slang given below to understand the answers of the offender.

Choo-choo – a police van

Gray Bar Hotel – a jail. “I just checked the perp into the Gray Bar Hotel. He won’t be leaving for a while.”

Perp – the alleged perpetrator of a criminal offense

Pinch – an arrest.

Rap sheet – the record of a perp’s crimes, convictions, and arrests.

Short – a car.

Smoker – a stolen car.

Flipper–an accused criminal so eager to cooperate with the police that he offers testimony against his pals in exchange for a lighter sentence.

The vic– the victim of a crime.

Bullet – one year in jail. “Can you believe it? I did two bullets for stealing a damn stereo”.

County – jail with free food and a bed that does not resemble a ratty cardboard box.

Fish – new arrivals.

Joint, pen, big house – prison. Universally agreed by all inmates that a prison is much more better than a jail. “County” jail is bad news. The “pen” is where the easy life is (greater access to education, work, weight rooms, and other programs that can take the edge off incarcerated life).

Man, beat walkers, pig, black-and-white – police.

Nabbed – arrested.

20. Do some library research and write an essay of 350-400 words on one of the given topics:

1. The system of punishment in the USA.

2. Death penalty: pros and cons.

3. The most famous trials in the USA.

Part II. Courts and Trials in the UK

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