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Watch the Movie “A Few Good Men”. (138 minutes)

Answer the following questions.

  1. The prosecutor, Captain Jack Ross (Kevin Bacon), initially offered a plea bargain deal. Why? What were some of the political tensions influencing the offer?
  2. Is this an example of substantive or procedural law? Explain.

Lieutenant Kaffee (Tom Cruise) asks how to get counsel reassigned:

Kaffee: “I want to get him a new lawyer. How do I do it?

Weinberg: “Make a motion and request new counsel.”

3. “It doesn’t matter what I know it only matters what I can prove.” What is needed to demonstrate a crime has been committed, to prove “corpus delicti”?

4. Military tribunals have jurisdiction over members of the armed forces. What kind of jurisdiction is that?

5. What defense strategy are Lieutenant Kaffee (Tom Cruise) and Lieutenant Commander Galloway (Demi Moore) planning? What type of defense is it?

6. “It’s the difference between paper law and trial law.” What does this mean?

7. The strategy and direction of the case were readjusted throughout the trial. What were some of the influences that caused these adjustments?

8. Match the following court actors:

_____ Lt. Daniel Kaffee/Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway/Lt. Sam Weinberg

  (Tom Cruise/Demi Moore/Kevin Pollack)

_____ Col. Nathan Jessep (Jack Nicholson)

_____ Honorable Julius Randolph (J.A. Preston)

_____ Capt. Jack Ross (Kevin Bacon)

_____ Cpl. Jeffrey Barnes (Noah Wyle)

a) Judge

b) Prosecuting Attorney(s)

c) Witness

d) Defense Attorney(s)

e) Witness

9. Does Lt. Cdr. Galloway (Demi Moore) a proponent of the crime control model or the due process model of criminal justice?

10. From the textbook: Which specialized federal court is applicable to military justice? Please name the court, authority, level and jurisdiction

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The film “A Few-Good-Men” is an American film that is full of legal drama. The director
of the film is Rob Reiner, while the starring of this movie are Tom Cruise, Demi Moore and
Nicholson Jack. Aaron Sorkin is the one who adopted the movie for screening with a little aid
from William Goldman. This dramatic film circles around the law court of a duo marine and the
problems the lawyers went through while preparing the cases that their clients were facing.
Louden is facing a law court and has to face accusations regarding the killings of a fellow
comrade at the Marine Private in Cuba.
Downey and Dawson are later arrested for the murder at Santiago. The marine
investigator together with the lieutenant commander are suspicious that vicious extrajudicial
castigation was carried out. At the beginning, a lot of friction is witnessed between Galloway
who hates Kaffee's inclination to supplication deal, and Kaffee, who hates Galloway's
obstruction. Kaffee and the prosecutor, his companion Captain Jack Ross, arrange a deal,
however Dawson and Downey decline to come. They demand they were requested by Kendrick
to shave Santiago's head, minutes after Kendrick freely requested the detachment not to touch the
eventual casualty, and did not mean their casualty to bite the dust. Kaffee is at last won over by
Galloway and takes the case to court.
However, the offer is charged with numerous tension. Without Markinson's affirmation,
Kaffee trusts the case as lost and goes back home in a smashed daze, having come to lament he
battled the case as opposed to organizing a request deal. Galloway, be that as it may, persuades
Kaffee to call Jessup as an observer notwithstanding the danger of being court-martialed for
spreading a high-positioning officer. Jessup at first outmaneuvers Kaffee's scrutinizing, however
is terrified...


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