October 25, 2016

POS 282 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW
In class today, Tuesday 10/25, I distributed one handout, the Maine statutes regarding hindering apprehension, common law crimes, and mandated reporting. We went over Gregg v. Georgia, including the three handouts from last week. We discussed the plurality opinion, as well as the two dissents. We then went over State v. Mobbley, and discussed statutory interpretation. We also looked at the concept of dictum, meaning the statements made by a court that go beyond that which is required to decide a case. We looked at both the Mobbley majority and the dissent. Finally we looked at the Maine statute regarding hindering apprehension. We were deciding what specific paragraph of that law might be involved if we took the Mobbley situation and placed it in Maine. That's where we'll pick up on Thursday. The assignment for Thursday 10/27 is to figure out what specific section of the Maine statute would apply to the Mobbley scenario. Then review Holland (previously assigned) and look at the Maine statutes distributed today about common law crimes in Maine, and mandated reporting. The additional assignment for Thursday is to read in the text and prepare to discuss through p. 77 (Glassford v. BrickKicker).