Understanding sexual violence:
Prosecuting adult rape and sexual assault cases
Tab 9: Offenders: What Prosecutors Need to Know
Offenders: Myths and Realities - Overview Slides can be seen in .html or Power Point.
Offenders: Serial Offending and Prior Bad Acts Slides can be seen in .html or Power Point.
Directions: Take five minutes to write down the answers to the questions below, and then ten minutes to discuss your responses to the assigned question below with your tablemates. After the discussion, a reporter from each table will report on these responses to the full group for an additional fifteen minutes. The reporter will be the participant whose last name is closest to the letter I, who was not a reporter for an earlier exercise. If under your state law you may be able to admit some or all of these prior bad acts, be prepared to explain which incident(s) you would seek to introduce at trial and why.
During trial preparation you discover several other women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by Michael Cates.
1. Which of these witnesses would you want to testify?
2. What specific arguments would you make to persuade the judge to admit this evidence?
The Resource Book materials relevant to this section are listed below:
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