The Case of the Militant Defenders

Name _______________________________________

You are either a staff attorney for Lawyers for Justice, a Baton Rouge association of public defenders which would like to set up a database similar to the one described in the article attached, or you are a staff attorney for Attorneys for the Rule of Law, a Baton Rouge association of lawyers united to assist the police in enforcing the law, which would like to prevent such a database from being established.  Please identify and sketch out research on any federal and state constitutional issues and public policy questions. Please do manual research only on the federal and state issues. Please do electronic research (including LEXIS and WESTLAW) on the public policy questions in non-legal databases only (i.e. news databases, periodical databases and indexes, online catalogs). Sketch out your research strategies before you begin.

Constitutional Issues (federal and state)

Research strategies for constitutional issues

Public policy questions

Research strategies for public policy questions

Databases used for public policy questions

Why did you choose these databases?

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