The purpose of this assignment is to provide greater familiarity with a great, open-access, research tool necessary to complete your final assignment. More importantly this tool is critical to help you empower yourself and exercise your legal and civic rights and responsibilities. You will know you are successful, when after completing this structured learning opportunity, you are able to apply your own critical thinking to an issue of injustice, using research based case law, and relevant primary source argumentation. For a detailed guide to proving ineffective counsel please click the link: (Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual:
http://www3.law.columbia.edu/hrlr/jlm/chapter-12.pdf)