Thursday Morning Blog

This morning we started off with group work on our Friday presentations and gathered with our groups to finish these up. Groups are dealing with a wide variety of issues including cybercrime, human trafficking, and more. We are using a number of different media forms to display their work. My group is concentrating on human trafficking and has found many fascinating examples as well as the roots and causes of this issue. Today, we finished up our written information, printed out our photos, graphs, and specific writing sections, and organized everything on a trifold. Following a 10 minute break, we listened to the 4th episode of the "In the Dark" podcast pertaining to the Curtis Flowers' case where they discussed false witnesses and the corruption of both the police and prosecutors in convicting Curtis. It was an episode detailing the inaccuracy of many people claiming to see Curtis near the time of the murders or even hear him confess. They also talked about bribery via law enforcement and the lead prosecutor, Doug Evans. I feel like all groups find the podcast super interesting and are making connections across the course information relating to obstruction of evidence, the appellate process, and more. We were instructed to prepare for a seminar in the afternoon on both the podcast and the documentary we would be watching later in the hopes of relating the two cases and making legal connections. 

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