Explore relevant interview topics and generate a list of questions to use in your interviews. 20 pts. First set of interviews: Locate at least one person who has been arrested for DUI, even if not for homicide, while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Students, having seen the 60 Minutes video should thoroughly consider your position on the issue of homicidal DUI as murder. But for this project, you must first set aside your own individual opinion on this matter. This project involves interviewing people for whom this issue is much more than a textbook’s abstraction. So you need to focus on what you hear in the interviews without letting your personal opinions get in the way.
You will conduct four sets of interviews.
Explore relevant interview topics and generate a list of questions to use in your interviews. 20 pts.
First set of interviews: Locate at least one person who has been arrested for DUI, even if not for homicide, while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Find out what that person or those people think. Listen to their arguments, and then write them down and evaluate those arguments. Be objective and fair-minded in your evaluation, regardless of whether you agree or disagree with the person’s position. 10 pts.
Second set of interviews: Locate at least one person who is a former drinker but who no longer drinks. Perhaps you can find someone who will talk with you by contacting AA. Interview that person the same way. Get his or her views on the matter; write down the person’s arguments, and evaluate those arguments objectively and fair-mindedly. 10 pts.
Next, contact MADD or some other volunteer organization that is known for its stance on issues relating to drunk driving. Follow the same drill. Get that organization’s arguments down and evaluate them. 10 pts.
Finally, contact the office of your local prosecuting attorney, or member of the police or some other authority and, again, conduct your interview and evaluate the arguments you hear. 10 pts.
Having talked directly with people who are close to this issue, you must now assemble all the arguments that came forward in the various interviews. In light of these perspectives, take a stance individually on whether or not homicide by DUI should be prosecuted as murder. Write out your opinion and give the reasons. 20 pts.
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