Write a 1,250-1,500-word essay that thoroughly explores the following questions:

1. Do you believe that removing firearms from otherwise lawful citizens reduces the opportunity for crime? If so, how? If not, why not?
2. Do you believe that gun laws will remove access to firearms by criminals? Why or why not?

Use the GCU Library to locate four to six peer-reviewed sources in support of your content.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. This style guide is located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This disscusion will be looking at the prospect of peace in the United States’ longest armed conflict, the Afghan war. People in the U.S. and around the world hear less and less about the conflict, despite thousands of U.S. and coalition soldiers remaining in the country. The world remains uncertain of how to approach Kabul and any long-term plans to fix the country are muddled in corruption and political bias.

Student outline for posting:

• Watch – Inside the Taliban’s Takeover of Afghanistan (Links to an external site.)
  • Ignore the Vice News anchor who makes points that are immediately contradicted and focus on the content of the video
• Since we get to learn from our mistakes, provide an exit strategy you would present to President Biden on how to properly exit Afghanistan during his administration (you’re not allowed to assume Biden will be re-elected)

Select two topic from the list below and write a brief research paper, no more than two pages for each topic (excluding cover page and references), double spaced, using APA style. Include references on the topic after finding a minimum of four (4) literature sources. Relate your topic to organizational performance measurement or improvement. prepare an annotated bibliography on your topic of relevance to criminal justice management, leadership, and decision issues.

Topic 1 Organizational Change

Topic 2 Annotated Bibliography Criminal Justice Ethics :

The annotated bibliography must consist of at least three (3) peer reviewed, scholarly articles. Prepare an annotation for each article. Review Briefly explain the findings. Critical analysis Analyze the author’s methodology, findings, and conclusions.

Instructions

PROJECT 2 – Final Project (20 points /20% of final course grade)

Purpose

The purpose of this project is to use Westlaw to research and apply statutory law and interpretive case law relevant to facts.

Course Outcomes Met by Project 2:

• Practice computer-based legal research tools, retrieve, navigate, and update primary legal authority.
• Cite to and explain the relevance of primary authority to a given legal topic or issue.

Background: Chang is working with a LCA consulting client, Attorney Mark Adams, a senior partner in a Baltimore, Maryland law firm. Adams has consulted Chang about a child visitation case. Chang has asked me to assist in the consultation by researching relevant statutory and case law and presenting my findings in a Research Summary Report.

Facts:

Clementine Connor, the Client, reports that her child’s father has physically abused both her and their 7-year old child. The Client provided substantial, credible corroborating evidence of this abuse, including records of the child’s father’s criminal convictions for domestic abuse in Maryland. The child’s father, however, insists that the criminal trial was a fraud and that he was framed. The father has refused to complete the parenting skills and anger-management courses ordered by the judge in the criminal case.

The father now is seeking unsupervised, overnight visitation with the child. The Client fears for her child’s and her own safety if the father is allowed to have the visitation he is seeking. She wants advice regarding whether the father is likely to succeed in obtaining visitation.

Instructions:

Confine your research to the Family Law Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland. Focus on this Research Question:

Whether a Maryland court may reject a request for visitation when the parent seeking visitation has a documented history of child abuse and refuses to complete court-ordered parenting and anger-management classes?

I need help with my research in a Research Summary Report. Attorney Adams is a busy practitioner, so Chang wants explanations that are thorough, but concise. Each explanation should be written in complete sentences that use my own words. Scroll down for the complete Report format.

Part A

1. Using Westlaw, locate a directly relevant statutory provision in the Family Law Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland that addresses the research question. Cite the statutory provision in correct, complete Bluebook format.

2. Explain why the statutory provision is directly relevant to the Research Question.

Part B

Go to the Notes of Decisions tab/column for the statute you identified in Part A. From the list of annotated cases that appear there, select one reported Maryland state court opinion that is relevant to the Research Question.

3. Explain why the selected opinion is relevant to the Research Question.

4. Provide a short quotation (maximum 50 words) from the opinion that supports your response to Question 3. Use quotation marks to show that the text is not your own original work. After the quotation, provide a pinpoint citation to the regional reporter using Bluebook format.

5. Is the selected opinion “on all fours” with the Client’s case? In your answer, remember to compare and contrast the legally significant facts and the controlling law.

6. Is the selected opinion still “good law”? State your conclusion and explain how you made this determination.

Part C

7. Using A > B > C > D format, provide a detailed description of your entire research process. Start your description on the Westlaw launch page and include all steps are taken to locate the cited statute (from Part A) and court opinion (from Part B). A reader unfamiliar with Westlaw and legal research should be able to recreate your entire search process by following the steps of your A > B > C > D description.

Research Summary Report Format

Label and number all parts and responses. Use complete sentences and paragraph format were instructed to do so.

Research Summary Report

To: Alicia Chang, Esq.

From: (Your Name), Paralegal

Date:

Re: Connor Child Visitation Case

Part A

1.

2.

Part B

3.

4.

5.

6.

Part C

7.

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Review the Project

Thoroughly read the presentation to ensure all required elements are present.

Review the grading rubric to ensure that you earn the most points possible for this assignment.

Use Bluebook format for citations.

Proofread for spelling and grammatical issues. Use the spell and grammar check in Word.

Answers that require explanation should be thorough, but concise and clear. On Questions 2, 3, 5, and 6, aim for responses that are between three and eight sentences, and no more than 200 words long. Use complete sentences and write in your own words.