New OC Reality TV - Celebrity Cheating!
Posted by: CotoBlogzz | 07/18/2008 10:54 PM
A couple of weeks ago, the Orange County DA charged two Tesoro High School students with cheating.
On June 17, 2008, the Orange County DA announced that it had charged Coto de Caza's Omar Khan, 18, with 34 felony counts of altering a public record, 11 felony counts of stealing and secreting a public record, seven felony counts of computer access and fraud, six felony counts of burglary, four felony counts of identity theft, three felony counts of altering a book of records, two felony counts of receiving stolen property, one felony count of conspiracy, and one felony count of attempted altering of a public record. He faces a maximum sentence of 38 years and four months in prison if convicted.
Co-defendant Tanvir Singh, 18, Ladera Ranch, is charged with one felony count each of conspiracy, burglary, computer access and fraud, and attempted altering of a public record. He faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison if convicted.
In the case of the Tesoro High School students, Celebrity lawyer and television legal analyst Mark Geragos has been hired to defend the students.
More recently Trabuco High School students and parents, have organized a coalition called Justice for 375 Trabuco Scholars and staged a rally Wednesday, at Trabuco Hills High, featuring Assemblyman Todd Spitzer. The premise being that only ten admitted AP Test cheaters should be held accountable, not 690 - the Educational Testing Service (ETS) invalidated 690 exams earlier this month.
According to a July 17 letter from the Educational Testing Service's attorney, an investigator for the national administrator of the college-level Advanced Placement exams found evidence that more than 10 Trabuco Hills High School students cheated on their tests in May, 2008. The letter does not support the "only ten cheated" premise.
Consider that according to Stephen Davis, a psychology professor at Emporia State University in Kansas, surveys of college students in the 1940s showed that 20 percent of them admitted to having cheated in high school, whereas according to a 1998 survey by the Josepheson Institute of Ethics in Marina del Rey, 70 percent of high-school students (and 54 percent of middleschool students) said they'd cheated on an exam.
The story is not only an apparent trend, consistent with the Josepheson Institute of Ethics study cited above, but has all the trappings of a potentially popular reality TV show: Celebrity Cheating, where kids attempt to get away with egregious activity, and if caught, a celebrity defendant is standing by to represent them!
On June 17, 2008, the Orange County DA announced that it had charged Coto de Caza's Omar Khan, 18, with 34 felony counts of altering a public record, 11 felony counts of stealing and secreting a public record, seven felony counts of computer access and fraud, six felony counts of burglary, four felony counts of identity theft, three felony counts of altering a book of records, two felony counts of receiving stolen property, one felony count of conspiracy, and one felony count of attempted altering of a public record. He faces a maximum sentence of 38 years and four months in prison if convicted.
Co-defendant Tanvir Singh, 18, Ladera Ranch, is charged with one felony count each of conspiracy, burglary, computer access and fraud, and attempted altering of a public record. He faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison if convicted.
In the case of the Tesoro High School students, Celebrity lawyer and television legal analyst Mark Geragos has been hired to defend the students.
More recently Trabuco High School students and parents, have organized a coalition called Justice for 375 Trabuco Scholars and staged a rally Wednesday, at Trabuco Hills High, featuring Assemblyman Todd Spitzer. The premise being that only ten admitted AP Test cheaters should be held accountable, not 690 - the Educational Testing Service (ETS) invalidated 690 exams earlier this month.
According to a July 17 letter from the Educational Testing Service's attorney, an investigator for the national administrator of the college-level Advanced Placement exams found evidence that more than 10 Trabuco Hills High School students cheated on their tests in May, 2008. The letter does not support the "only ten cheated" premise.
Consider that according to Stephen Davis, a psychology professor at Emporia State University in Kansas, surveys of college students in the 1940s showed that 20 percent of them admitted to having cheated in high school, whereas according to a 1998 survey by the Josepheson Institute of Ethics in Marina del Rey, 70 percent of high-school students (and 54 percent of middleschool students) said they'd cheated on an exam.
The story is not only an apparent trend, consistent with the Josepheson Institute of Ethics study cited above, but has all the trappings of a potentially popular reality TV show: Celebrity Cheating, where kids attempt to get away with egregious activity, and if caught, a celebrity defendant is standing by to represent them!
Mr. Ayer registered as a Republican to be electable in an interim election with no incumbents. He did...
Looks like Omar is getting grilled in typical OC DA "rack and stack" style with 69 felonies.
Isn't this extreme? Why does this 18 year old kid need to be charged with that many felonies? When is somebody going to question these DAs and their abuse of power?
Rich:
While it is fair to debate the merits of the OCDA’s motivations, the dominant notion here is that in California, a defendant represented by a celebrity attorney can walk away with murder. That is, it is not in the charges levied but on the charges that stick.
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Apparently Orange County Superior Court Judge Jamoa Moberly did not read the Celebrity Cheating Reality TV script, as she ruled against Trabuco HS Students yesterday and ordered that
“testing should go forward. It's in the best interest of everyone."
The lawsuit with a price tag of roughly $15,000, targeted the Princeton, N.J.-based Educational Testing Service (ETS) over the ETS’ decision to invalidate 690 AP exams at Trabuco Hills High School and accused the company of not adequately investigating allegations of cheating and improper proctoring on the May exams.
Bill Mitchell, Chris Battersby Assemblyman and Todd Spitzer, R-Orange composed the legal team recruited to fight ETS's decision
Marc B. Victor, with a law degree from Stanford, while working for a high-tech firm that was suing IBM for monopoly, was asked to help the legal team arrive at a reasonable settlement figure. What amount should the firm be advised to settle for, and how could the company feel confident that the figure represented a good deal? Using his legal training and knowledge of decision analysis, Victor helped the firm and its outside counsel develop a decision model – a novel approach that provided a rigorous quantitative assessment of the lawsuit’s value
Wondering if Victor’s algorithm could have been used by the students to figure probability of success in fighting ETS taking into account cheating trends – for example:
1. MIT admissions dean resigns over fake resume
reads a recent USATODAY.COM headline
2. In the 8-15-2006 issue of the Wall Street Journal there is an article with the following headlines: "Student Plagiarism Stirs Controversy at Ohio University", and goes on to detail how certain professors in preparing their thesis, used someone else's work, without properly acknowledging the source! Of course, penalties are being doled out in this matter! Seems like certain degrees already conferred will be revoked
3. Consider that according to Stephen Davis, a psychology professor at Emporia State University in Kansas, surveys of college students in the 1940s showed that 20 percent of them admitted to having cheated in high school,
4. According to a 1998 survey by the Josepheson Institute of Ethics in Marina del Rey, 70 percent of high-school students (and 54 percent of middleschool students) said they'd cheated on an exam.