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Learning Objective 1.1 Identify the major stages of the criminal justice system

Web Link: North Carolina Innocence Commission 
Summary: A State agency established in August 2006 by the General Assembly to investigate and evaluate post-conviction claims of factual innocence

Web Link: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Careers
Summary: FBI Career Homepage

Learning Objective 1.2 Explain the importance of discretion and ethics in the criminal justice system

Video Link: Exonerated North Carolina Men Freed
Summary: North Carolina's longest-serving death row inmate and his younger half-brother were exonerated

Learning Objective 1.3  Describe the different tiers of the wedding cake model

Video Link: Oscar Pistorius Found Guilty of Murder
Summary: South Africa's Supreme Court has convicted Oscar Pistorius of murder in the 2013 death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Learning Objective 1.4 Compare and contrast the crime control model with the due process model

Audio Link: Due Process and the Trial of Terrorism Suspects
Summary: The White House and key Senate Republicans finally agree on how to question and prosecute suspected terrorists.

Learning Objective 1.5  Assess how media can impact the criminal justice system

Audio Link: Is The 'CSI Effect' Influencing Courtrooms?
Summary: Television shows like CSI provide an unrealistic view of the technology available to death investigators.