Choose one of the trial cases below.

Write a closing argument built on the facts of the case.

• Follow a deductive pattern (beginning with your thesis and adding to it) or an inductive pattern (leading up to your conclusion).
• Be very audience conscious. Groom your persona, language (connotations), etc. to appeal to the jury.
• Order your arguments from the least effective to the most effective or vice versa.
• Do your best to counter the opposition's points of view as you present your own case.
• Be aware of the underlying assumptions behind your assertions and use assertions which are based on solid assumptions. On the same basis, deal with the opposition's underlying assumptions as well as their assertions.
• Include at least one outside reference as evidence to back up your argument.
• Include bibliographic information at the bottom of the essay.
• Include a copy of your outside source material(s).
• Your argument should approximate speech since your paper will represent a closing argument to be given to a jury (i.e. It should begin with "Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury,"). The facts of the case have already been presented during the trial. (It's okay to use second person pronouns--this time only.