PA335 Unit 7

PowerPoint Presentations

Let’s Add it Up

Gary Gipson:

Successful businessman

Quiet family man

At home with family

Billy Huff Jr.

• Desperate over money

• Distraught

• Ex-wife was cheating on him

• Trying to support a house full of relatives

• Angry temperament

Add it up

• Possible bullet strikes on stucco and gutter in front of Gary’s house

• Bullet found in rocks

• Lead found on Cadillac, the getaway car

Add it up

• Gary at home

• At night

• House full of kids

• Billy, big, aggressive, desperate

• Arrives unannounced

• With his accomplice in the car

• Gary scared

Add it up

• Billy shows gun

• Billy threatens Gary

• Gary sees another shooter

• Gary is fearful

• Gary shoots, afraid he will be shot or killed

• Bullet strikes found on gutter and stucco

• Bullet found on walkway not matching casings found in driveway

Add it up

• Billy Sr. drives himself straight home and into his house

• The bullet that went through Billy’s left arm into his left hip

• No bruising on Billy’s face

• Map on this page

Add it up

• Billy bled out

• Guns in the house on Vernon

Verdict and only conclusion

• Gary used self-defense

• Not guilty

ISSUES UNIQUE TO THE DEFENSE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES

Anne Phillips

Maricopa County Office of the Legal Defender

Kristina Bohn

Tucson Public Defender’s Office

WHAT MAKES A DV OFFENSE A FELONY?

• A.R.S. §13-3601

–Lists the definition of what constitutes domestic violence

–Any familial relationship between victim and defendant

Statutory mitigators

• 3. The defendant was under unusual or substantial duress, although not to a degree that would constitute a defense to prosecution.

• 4. The degree of the defendant's participation in the crime was minor, although not so minor as to constitute a defense to prosecution.

HOW TO DEFEND A DV CASE

4. Motion to sever if more than 1 charge or victim

5. Move to preclude state’s “expert” (Rule 702)

JURY INSTRUCTIONS

• Lesser includes:

Misdemeanor assaults under

A.R.S. §13-1203

MITIGATION FOR LAWYERS: HOW TO DEVELOP AND ASSEMBLE A WINNING DEVIATION/MITIGATION PACKET

Anne Phillips

Maricopa County Legal Defender

Matthew MacLeod

Gallagher and Kennedy

Statutory mitigators

1. The age of the defendant.

2. The defendant's capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of the defendant's conduct or to conform the defendant's conduct to the requirements of law was significantly impaired, but not so impaired as to constitute a defense

to prosecution.

AZ CRIME TRIVIA!

• What was the name of the play that TV star Bob Crane was appearing in when he was found murdered in Scottsdale in 1978?

AZ CRIME TRIVIA!

“BEGINNER’S LUCK”

SAMPLE MEMOS

• In your materials on conference disk:

-Lets court know who your client is

-Shows court your client has a life and people who love him

-The good, bad or ugly

POWERPOINT

• State will have most likely have one at sentencing hearing

• Can slip in evidentiary stuff if plea agreement-state may object but court may allow it

• Client will feel good

• May or may not be persuasive

How to add movies or sound

• Click on Insert

• Select Movies and Sound

• Select Movie from File or Sound from File

• You must have your video or sound saved in a File

STATE OF ARIZONA V. WILLIAM VEACH

CR2008-005629

911 Call, 1/18/01

YUMA PD

911

Bill’s interview with police prior to Cassie’s death, 1/22/01

Bill’s History

-No criminal history of any kind

-Honorably-discharged United States Marine

-No history of violence towards Cassie or his own children

Dr. Harry Wilson, pediatric pathologist, State’s listed witness, interview 8/13/09

Bill’s Family

• Father of Morgan, Brody, Shelby, Bailey, Lyncoln and Devin

• Brother to Vickie, Randy, Todd

Unit 7 Assignment

• You are working on a very important trial exhibit. The attorney has asked you to create a PowerPoint presentation to show some background information pertaining to earthquakes. You will use the graphics provided, some bullet point text, and animation to help the jury understand information about the earthquakes.

• For your first project, you will first need to open your version of PowerPoint.

• Begin by opening up a new file.

Unit 7 Assignment

• After opening the new slide, you will need to choose a theme or background for you slide deck. Pick a design which is not too busy with background elements. It should only be one color.

• Now we will choose a title for our first slide. Lets call it, "Earthquakes." In the subtitle, you can put your name.

• Next you will save your presentation as Earthquakes.ppt in your Documents file. Be sure to save your document frequently.

• Now you will insert another slide. This slide will incorporate some bullet points into the slide. This will help the attorney with his opening statement to the jury.

Unit 7 Assignment

• Bulleted Text

• For slides that incorporate text, it is very important to keep the slides free of a lot of wording. For effective slides, the author should only use an outline of what will be presented to the audience. In this case, the attorney would like to discuss the devastation of earthquakes to the jury, but he or she will only follow the bulleted text using it as an outline.

• The attorney has instructed you to include the following text in the first slide.

Unit 7 Assignment

• Title: Earthquakes

• Shaking and Ground ruptures are main effect of earthquake

• Severity depends on the earthquake magnitude

• Distance of epicenter

• Ground shaking is measured by ground acceleration

Unit 7 Assignment

• Let’s first start by inserting another slide into your slide deck. Click on “Insert” new slide.

• Next cut and paste the text into the slide. You will automatically create bulleted text.

• Now let's make it interesting and add some animation. The attorney would like the text to “fly” into the slide as he is talking.

• First you need to highlight the text that you wish to add the animation to on the slide. In this case, you will highlight only the first bulleted item, “Shaking and Ground ruptures are main effect of earthquake”. Then choose the Slide Show → Custom Animation --→ Add Effect -→ Fly In. Set the speed of at medium.

Unit 7 Assignment

• You will do step 4 for all of the bulleted items in the slide.

• Now press play. You should see each line of text “fly in” from the bottom one line at a time.

Unit 7 Assignment

• Adding Graphics and Animation

• Now the attorney would like you to add some graphics. Let's add a new slide.

• Insert a new slide into your slide deck. Click on insert new slide.

• The attorney would like you to title this slide Mt. St. Helens.

• Be sure to delete any other text boxes from the slide.

• Go to Google to search for an image of Mt. St. Helens erupting, and save it on to your computer.

Unit 7 Assignment

• Now you will insert this image of Mt. St. Helens on to the slide.

• The graphic will appear on the slide. You will need to resize it to fit the slide. Just click on the image. You can pull the corner of the image and you can enlarge it that way.

• Now let's add some animation!

• Go to Slide Show.

Unit 7 Assignment

• Click on “Animation Schemes”.

• Click on the picture that you placed on your slide. By clicking on the picture, you have selected the object that you want to apply your animation to on this slide.

• Now select from the Animation Schemes the “Big Title” option.

• You should see the graphic be painted on the slide and the title fly onto the slide.

Unit 7 Assignment

• Now save your Project as Earthquake.ppt and submit it to the Dropbox by the end of Unit 7.

Do you have any questions?