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3 #1
Homeroom 8.3
Defense Hearing Presented by: Justin Khouw, Nicholas Johnson in
assosciation with Amanda Teramihardja
Ms Lindsey van der Ark
21-9/15
Transcript of Appeal for Exoneration and Proposal for
Withdrawal of After School Detention
It seems like weve got ourselves mangled in some thick
network here Your Honor. Ive been summoned to represent the
defense in this hearing. Today, I represent 13 of my clients in their
appeal for a lighter sentence or possibly, a settlement deal or offer.
The client list is as follows and the message count throughout the
span of class time (7.20 am-10.25 am-last message):
1. Brigitta: 17 messages overall
2. Natasya: 10 messages
3. Amos (Skype name: PACARNYA DEVIA): 12 messages
4. Nicholas: 27 messages
5. Aurel: 16 messages
6. Cherelle: 16 messages
7. Justin: 3 messages
8. Shereen: 14 messages
9. Alin: 4 messages
10.
Rhayna: 2 messages
11.
Georgie: 3 messages
12.
Stephen: 4 messages
As seen above, throughout 3 periods of school (2 hrs. 45 min.) only
116 messages were conjured throughout that particular span of
time. Below is the full chat throughout the whole 3 periods. No chats
were made until later in the evening at 7 pm.
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According to scientific studies conducted by multiple leading
universities across the globe, it is required for a teenager at the age
of min. 12, to have short breaks in between work to stimulate the
brain and enhance brain activity. If your honor decides to claim into
possesion the chats from this event, I shall gladly hand it over, but
before that, as seen in the chats, at least 65% of the chats occure in
between the time range of 8.20-8.30 am. 8.20-8.25 is the time for
break in between the two periods. The following five minutes were
utilized in a manner in which we were gradually settled down. This
can be seen in the speech patterns in the context provided. For 1012 minutes straight, the topic of conversation was simply .. or
dot dot dot. This shows the incapability of the mind to settle down
all at once which requires some brain activity to push it to rest.
The following point presented by the defense is, we as
humans, according to article 19 of the UDHR maintain the right to
the liberty of speech, thought, and expression, however, any
profanity in the chats are all subject to censorship. In year 4,
particularly 4C, we were taught by Mrs Allison to use substitutes or
implicate censorship into harsh words which would mean the right
to our freedom of expression is not restricted entirely but rather
shrunk down to certain limitations. Some examples she gave use
were: replacing sh*t with shoot, omg replaced with any other
substitute word (i.e. oh my cat, oh my word, oh my gosh), etc. The
point is, our rights to freedom of expression can be limited but not
to an extent where we are restricted from conjuring words and
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putting them down on paper or a laptop screen. We respect the
standards to being integrated in a Christian school community, but
regardless of our beliefs, we still maintain the rights to let out a
string of words both good or bad.
The final point presented before you Your Honor; as previously
stated in my article of defense, I hold steafast to my belief of there
being more than one levels to a crime. As there are more than one
levels to the consequences, I do believe that a mistake that is either
intentionally
or
unintentionally
committed
should
have
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Any other references to the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights or to the Sekolah Pelita Harapan Student handbook can be
found in the defenses personal transcript for appeal for means of
withdrawal or lowering the proximity of charges. To conclude with
one final argument, I believe that the administration is infested with
the power to determine the charges to be brought upon us. It is only
fair to say that, if we are to be found guilty of committing a violation
of the student handbook it is within the jurisdiction of the school to
determine what shall happen to us. That is all Your Honor, the
defense shall present no further arguments.
On Behalf of 8.3:
Justin Khouw in collabortion with Nicholas Johnson and insight from
Amanda Teramihardja