True False

1. Seven banks are robbed every day in LA.

2. Bank robbers frequently injure banks staff or customers.

3. Banks tell their staff not to try and resist robbers.

4. The FBI disapproves of the bank’s advice to staff.

5. The FBI has no idea what the “Yankee Bandit” looks like.

6. There were no bank robberies in LA before 1979.

7. Bank robbers don’t usually need to speak to bank staff.

8. LA banks have a more relaxed atmosphere than banks in other US cities.

Task III. Classify the following cases of homicide into murder and manslaughter. Motivate your choice.

 

1. Bill arrives home to find a stranger attacking his four-year old daughter. He is so furious with rage that he kills the stranger.

2. Sally discovers that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She slowly poisons him to death over the next four weeks.

3. James drives his car so carelessly and at such speed that he cannot stop at a pedestrian crossing and he knocks down and kills him.

4. The accused received a friendly challenge by his step-father to see who was “quicker on the draw” with shotguns. Both men were drunk, but good friends. Moloney shot and killed his step-father, although he claimed he had no intention to do so and did not appreciate that the gun was aimed at the victim.