The public health officer from long beach complains to you about the dreaded pacific pox. the health officer says, "if people catch the pox, they suddenly get the urge to dance in the sand and fall dead on the beach within the hour." there are no survivors to interview so you deduce:

During the course of a raid, communication between swat team members suffered as excessive static overwhelmed radios. within the communication process, this static can be viewed as it interfered with the communication.

Chris, a master at office gossip and innuendo, says, "we know we have a corporate spy someplace in the organization, probably on the management team itself. there is no evidence that it is audrey. in fact, she's too clean, if you know what i mean. somebody should fire audrey; she's got to be the spy." by making this argument chris is actually engaging in (a) an appeal to emotion fallacy (b) a straw man fallacy (c) an appeal to ignorance fallacy (d) circular reasoning (e) an appeal to the mob fallacy

Pick a famous politician, business leader, or celebrity who has been arrested recently. what crime did he or she allegedly commit? who was the victim? what factors best explain how this person might be punished if convicted? if the person was recently tried in what was the outcome? do you agree or disagree and why?