judicial system 诉讼程序judicial proceedings 刑事法庭criminal law 民事法庭civil law 刑法criminal court 司法制度civil court 民法
the accud/ the defendant 辩护律师残局破解
the accur 法官
the procutor 陪审团
defen lawyer 证人
judge 大陪审团
attorney general 有前科的人
jury 原告
grand jury 被告
witness 公诉人
a ex-convict 首席检察官
Group 3
悬剑空垄
verdict 无罪
ntence 判决有罪
acquittal 陪审团的裁决
testify 法官的判决
testimony 上诉
identify 驳回上诉
cross-examination 作证
convict 证言
appeal 法庭确认
overrule 盘问
sustain 辨认
﹡Jury Trial in the United States
Judiciary system: judge, 12 jurors, lawyer, plaintiff, defendant, public procutor
The jury trial is an important component in the U.S. judicial system. The jury consists of 12 jurors, lected at random, agreed on by the lawyers of the two sides, who will, after hearing all the eviden and cross-examination and careful deliberation, give a verdict of guilty or not guilty. Today no jury woul be made up entirely of men any more. Women now rve on juries as much as men.
﹡Jury
duty it is to listen to the evidence given in a Jury: is a group of up to 12 people, called “Jurors” who
court trial and decide whether the accud is guilty or not guilty. The decision is called a “verdict”. If verdict is not guilty, the accud is t free or acquitted; if the verdict is guilty, the judge will give ntence.
﹡Court System
•Jurisdiction司法: by the Highest Court, the High Court, the Middle Court, the district courts, th
Now you fellows can handle this any way you want.(P2)
•
anyway (stresd on the first syllable): in spite of that; in any ca •
----I’m going ______, no matter what you say. I’m going ______, no matter what you say. •
--You can do it _________ yo u want. I don’t care. I just want the result. •
----Well, _______, it’s too late to do anything now. Well, _______, it’s too late to do anything now. • --He is desperate. He has to find that money _________.
﹡Preliminary (a.& n.) P3: happening at the beginning of an event, often as a form of preparation • --The Congress will start ~ hearings soon. (预备听政会)
• --Our team got beaten in the ~ rounds of the competition. (头几个回合)
• --May I make a few ~ remarks before we start the interview. (开场白)
• ② noun: usually plural forms <preliminaries>
• --without preliminaries (开门见山地开门见山地)
• ~ talks on the nuclear issues of North Korea began yesterday.
• A background check is normally a ~ to a presidential nomination.
• ~s, quarter finals, mi-finals, and the final
﹡Vote
• If we want to discuss it first then vote, that’s one way or we can vote right now to e how we
stand.
• Mean: One way for us to do is to discuss first then vote. The other way for us to do is to v
once to find out the position of jurors whether we agree or not, or we need further discussion this ca. ﹡Maybe we can all get out of here. P5
• Background: He is eager to get out of this jury room becau it is hot and besides he has a t
for a football game for that evening which he does not want to miss.
• If everyone agrees that the boy is guilty, then they can take the verdict to the court and get
whole thing over and done with right
﹡Slum Ghetto 犹太贫民区
Hip-hop: a form of pop culture starting among young black people in the US in the 1980s, including r music and graffiti art 嬉哈乐(Hippie:young people in the 1960s and 70s rejecting conventional ways 留长发、吸毒)
Rap: a type of music in which words are not sung but are spoken in a rapid, rhythmic way 说唱乐说唱乐
Latina: a style mixing elements from Latin America 拉丁风格拉丁风格
﹡What do you think that trial cost? (P20)
• According to the U.S. law any citizen has a right to a proper trial, and if he can’t pay, the trial
be paid by the government. That’s why No. 10 here reminds No.8 angrily that the boy has cost a lot of public money.
﹡Since when is dishonesty a group characteristic? (p21)
• From what time is dishonesty regarded as a characteristic of a group? It is unfair to think that all
the people who live in the slum are not honest. It a prejudice.
﹡otherwi (P26)
①differently (adv.)
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-You are presumed to be innocent until proved otherwi. (proved not to be)
--I was unable to attend the conference becau I was otherwi engaged. (busy with something el) ②apart from that
穴位贴敷
--The soup was cold, but otherwi the meal was excellent.
③if not
----You’d better go now, otherwi you’ll miss the train.You’d better go now, otherwi you’ll miss the train.
﹡Eyewitness One
三星智能手表价格
The Old Man
•Let’s e the old man who lived on the cond floor under the room where the murder took .
e: loud nois “I’m going to kill you” in the upstairs apartment A cond later, he heard a bo
Clue: loud nois “I’m going to kill you” in the upstairs apartment A cond later, he heard a bo •Clu
falling.
•The old man’s guess: It sounded like a fight
•The old man’s eing: He saw the kid running down the stair and out of the hou
﹡Refute反驳(P29)
•Refute an allegation, an argument or a theory: proving it wrong or untrue
•It’s the kind of rumor that it is easy to ~.
•Refute an allegation or accusation: denying it is true
•He is quick to ~ any suggestion of intellectual snobbery.
•区分: refu, decline, reject, object
﹡Eyewitness Two The Woman
•She is lying in bed. She can’t sleep. It’s hot..
•And right across the street, she es the kid stick his knife into his father’s chest. Look, she known the kid all his life. And she swore she saw him do it.
﹡Spot One
•She looks out the window.
•They proved in court that at night if you look through the windows of an el train when the li are out, you can e what is happening on the other side.
﹡Spot Two
father. She’s known him all his life. •Right across the street she es the kid stick the knife into his
His window is right across from hers, across the EL tracks. And she saw him do it.
﹡el train(p34): elevated train
•Fly-past(美), flyover(英)立交桥
立交桥
•Highway
•Expressway
•Subway(美), tube(英)
•Tunnel, Cross-strait tunnel,
•Maglev: magnetically levitated train
﹡Provoke (P46): deliberately annoy someone and try to make him behave aggressively
Something provokes a reaction: causing it
饿狼扑羊
He started beating me when I was about to go to bed but I didn't do anything to ~ him.
The destruction of the mosque has ~d anger throughout the Muslim world.
Her innsitive speech provoked an angry reaction.
正确护肤步骤
The students tried to provoke the teacher into losing her temper. (made her lo her temper by provoki her)
His refusal to answer provoked me to shout at him
﹡Boy’ s Background
(No.8) I don’t
think it was a very strong motive. This boy has been hit so many times that violenc don’t think it was a very strong motive. This boy has been hit so many times that violenc
provoked practically a normal state of affairs with him. I just can’s e two slaps in the face would have 荞面怎么做好吃
him into committing murder.
电脑缓存怎么清理
﹡The boy
•(No.4) This boy--- Let’s say he’s the product of a slum and a broken home. We can’t help tha We’re not here to explain why slums make criminal.
•We are here to decide if he is innocent or guilty.
﹡Sensitive vs. nsible
nsitive:
①(~ + to) easily influence or changed by sth
