Each of us makes promises all the time; most we keep, but some we don’t. The question this week focus on when a promise is—or is not—enforceable. Said differently, when will the law make a person keep a promise? Choose one of the scenarios below and explain whether you think that the promise made is enforceable. Be sure to think about the concepts of offer, acceptance, consideration, legality, and capacity.

• Uncle John promises his nephew that he will give the nephew $10,000 on his 18th birthday if the nephew doesn’t drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, do illegal drugs, or engage in any immoral behaviors.
• Bill asks Sally to marry him, and she answers yes. Bill then sells his favorite sports car and pays upfront for a lavish wedding ceremony and a three-week trip to Europe.
• Keith agrees to transport ceramic figurines from Los Angeles to New York City in his moving truck. What he doesn’t know is that each figurine is filled with packets of cocaine.
• Maria and Jennifer are having drinks at a local bar, and both are a bit tipsy. As the night goes on, Maria asks Jennifer to trade Jennifer’s three-carat diamond ring for Maria’s 1978 Ford Duster, and Jennifer agrees to the deal.

Capstone Paper Outline

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapters 2, 7, and 9 from the text. Additionally, watch Bryan Stevenson at TED2012: We Need to Talk About an Injustice. Looking ahead at your Capstone Paper in Week 5, provide an outline highlighting the major points of your paper for review and discussion among your classmates and instructor. In your outline, include all major ideas your Capstone Paper will address, with brief two to three sentence explanations for each.

In your paper, outline the following:

• Revise your thesis statement that you created in Week 1, which identifies your social and criminal justice issue.
  • Incorporate any feedback that you received regarding your thesis statement from your instructor.
• Summarize your chosen social and criminal justice issue.
  • Describe what makes this an issue.
  • Provide data to show how this issue has made an impact on society.
  • Explain which social justice principles need to be addressed and why.
  • List the cultural and diversity issues present in your chosen social and criminal justice problem.
  • Evaluate how addressing your chosen issue contributes to the goal of a more just society.
• Analyze the empirical research on your chosen topic.
  • You may use your Week 1 Annotated Bibliography to complete this section of the paper.
• Propose a possible resolution to your chosen social and criminal justice issue.
  • Evaluate which branches of the criminal justice system are impacted/involved and how they either help or hinder the issue.
  • Analyze how the criminal and social justice theories (in relation to the United States Constitution) and landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions impact your chosen issue and support your resolution.
  • Examine how the judiciary, corrections, and law enforcement systems address social equality, solidarity, human rights, and overall fairness for all and how these essential concepts impact your issue and resolution.
  • Evaluate how poverty, racism, religion and other sociocultural variables may apply to contemporary social and criminal justice by drawing information among the fields of, but not limited to, criminology, law, philosophy, psychology, science, and sociology.

Can you help me understand this Criminal Justice question?

How do an officer’s personal values influence the way he/she enforces the law?

Support your answer/position. In order to receive maximum points you must:

• Provide an opening and concluding argument supported by at least one research source (cited, Wikipedia will count as zero) news, journal, or textbook source A minimum of 100 words

I don’t know how to handle this Law question and need guidance.

Discussion Question 1: Yummy Ice Cream Case: Negligence and Foreseeability

The following discussion question presents a scenario involving negligence and the concept of foreseeability.

Penny Penelope drives an ice-cream truck for Yummy Ice Cream during the summer on a suburban route in Florida. Music plays through a loudspeaker on the truck to draw attention to the truck as it travels through the various subdivisions. On hearing the music, six-year-old twins Joey and Janey run for the truck, darting into the street between two parked cars. Joey is the first one to run out. He does not see a sports car speeding straight toward him. The car hits Joey, knocking him unconscious. The car speeds away without stopping.

Joey’s parents want to sue Yummy Ice Cream for negligence and for liability of the driver of the ice-cream truck. They have come for advice to the law firm where you work. Your lawyer asks you to evaluate the case in terms of:

• Whether Yummy Ice Cream and its driver owed a duty to Joey and Janey.
• Whether Yummy Ice Cream and its driver breached the duty.
• Whether the breach of the duty was the proximate cause of the accident.
• The damages, if any.

Also, analyze the role of the speeding car’s driver and answer:

• Was it foreseeable that a car would come speeding down the road?
• If it was foreseeable, is there anything Yummy Ice Cream could do to lessen the risk?

Include at least one (1) source outside of class materials in your responses, whether a primary or secondary source of law, and provide appropriate citation.

Discussion Question 2: Negligence and the Hasty Musician

A rising classical-music star is running late for a performance. He is carrying his guitar with him. Hailing a cab, he arrives at the Symphonic Hall. Quickly paying the driver, he grabs the strap of the guitar case and starts to exit the cab. The strap catches on the door, which slams shut. The cab immediately moves on to the next fare. The guitarist is yanked off his feet and dragged half a block, still holding the strap of the guitar case. The strap breaks, the cab keeps going, and the guitarist is hit by another car. With two badly broken arms, one broken leg, a few broken ribs and a concussion, he is taken to the hospital. Who is liable for the musician’s injuries? The cab driver, the second driver, both or neither? Discuss your answer, assuming jurisdiction is in Illinois.