Board game apparatus involving criminal justice

Claim 1

A game for imparting an understanding of criminal justice proceedings and the importance of the selection of jurors to a criminal defendant comprising: a. a game board having an elongate path thereon for movement of game pieces therealong comprising a plurality of spaces, including a start space at one end and a terminal space at the other end, at least some of said spaces including indicia awarding points to or removing points from a player whose game piece lands on one of said spaces, as the game piece is moved in accordance with a chance device, said path further comprising a verdict square and an alternate loop jail path originating at said verdict square to be entered on by a player found guilty, b. a set of people cards each having indicia thereon representing a person having individual socio-economic characteristics from which set the players each randomly select his idenity, and choose the people of his jury, said set of cards having indicia designating a plurality of sub-sets thereof, c. a crime designating card having indicia thereon, i. corresponding to the said indicia designating said sub-sets of said people cards. ii. a plurality of crime designations for each of said sub-set designations, and iii. each crime for each sub-set designation corresponding to an indicia on a chance device, whereby by operation of the chance device a player having a given identity as a member of a socio-economic sub-set is charged with a particular crime, d. a jury selection point card having indicia thereon corresponding to, i. the said indicia indicating said sub-sets of said people cards, ii. the crime indicia of said crime designating card, and iii. indicia for awarding points to or substracting points from the player in accordance with the characteristics of the jury he has selected as related to his own identity, whereby said points are added to the points accumulated by the player during the movement of his game piece along the game board path, a predetermined point total determining whether the player is guilty and enters the alternate loop jail path or is not guilty and proceeds to the terminal space, e. the game pieces each sized to be placed upon and within a space of said path of said game board, and f. a chance device.