1. Why should Judge Rives take the Reynolds brothers into custody? 2. Why shouldn't Judge Rives take the Reynolds brothers into custody?

3. Should Judge Rives indict the state Judges? Why?

4. Why are juries important in a democratic nation?

5. What is Rives argument in the Virginia v. Rives case?

6. What is the argument of the state of Virginia in the Virginia v. Rives

case?

7. What does this murder trial tell us about rebuilding the former

Confederate States after the Civil War? Did Reconstruction succeed

or fail? Why?