Due Process Of Law

Series: Bill of Rights in Action Series

Duration: 23

Genre: Educational | Melodrama

Year Published: 1971

Creator: BAILEY FILM ASSOCIATES

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: When should due process of law, which is time consuming, give way to summary punishments in order to avoid the immediate threat of violence and anarchy? This question is argued by lawyers in a hearing to reinstate a student who has been summarily suspended after a campus demonstration. The viewers are asked to decide the issue., Uses the suspension of a college student following a rock-throwing incident during a campus demonstration to present opposing interpretations of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. Suggests that due process is time consuming and is often in conflict with the immediate need to avoid further violence. Concludes open-endedly to allow the viewer to discuss and decide what action should be taken on the student's application for reinstatement.

Complete Record: When should due process of law, which is time consuming, give way to summary punishments in order to avoid the immediate threat of violence and anarchy? This question is argued by lawyers in a hearing to reinstate a student who has been summarily suspended after a campus demonstration. The viewers are asked to decide the issue., Uses the suspension of a college student following a rock-throwing incident during a campus demonstration to present opposing interpretations of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. Suggests that due process is time consuming and is often in conflict with the immediate need to avoid further violence. Concludes open-endedly to allow the viewer to discuss and decide what action should be taken on the student's application for reinstatement., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.