POL 374 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hazelwood School District, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Trial
1 Nov 2018
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Mistrial, government can bring person to court again. Required to give information that they had to other defense, but didn"t do. Violated espionage act, could have gotten 117 years in prison. Went on trial in federal court and judge declared a mistrial because federal government did so many things that were unethical legally right before and during the trial. Journalism class, teaching children about divorce, having children outside of marriage, using students and their families as examples. Principle worried about privacy issue for some of the kids. Based on precedent, would have been impossible for stopping school from printing information. Lower court, appellate court looked at precedent and telling school district that they cant do this. School is different, students, not adults under constitution same rights as adults would in same setting rights of other students. School project about education, schools decide what education children should have and what will be taught.
