4th Amendment
A legal document needed for law enforcement to search and seize property.
What is warrant.
The protection that allows the accused to say nothing during the criminal process.
What is self-incrimination?
What is speedy and public?
Homicide that requires premeditation and intent.
What is 1st degree murder?
The most serious level crime in MN.
What is a felony?
Judges require law enforcement to swear this as part of receiving a warrant.
What is swear under oath.
Protection from being tried from the same crime twice.
What is double jeopardy?
Juries must remain this during the trial; no bias or pre-made opinions.
What is impartial?
When a weapon is used in a crime, this classification is added.
What is aggravated?
Laws that are written by the legislative branch and enforced by the executive branch.
What is statutory law?
The likelihood that a crime has taken place, is taking place or will take place.
What is probable cause?
Protection that government must be fair and equal to all citizens.
What is Due Process?
The side that represents the interests of the government in the criminal proceeding.
What is prosecution?
Violent crime where something is taken forcibly off a person?
What is robbery?
Flag burning is an act protected by the 1st Amendment; this type of law was made by the Supreme Court.
What is case law?
Police do not need a warrant when evidence is seen directly by them; also called...
What is plain view?
A type of due process that deals with the way laws are enforced and applied to society.
What is procedural due process?
When a defendant cannot afford an attorney, they may be given this.
What is a public defender?
The legal term for theft.
What is larceny?
This year was the end of capital punishment in MN?
What is capital crime?
Supreme Court case that allows police to conduct "pat/frisks."
What is Terry v. Ohio?
If a grand jury agrees with the prosecution, they will send this back to the prosecutor.
What is a "true bill of indictment?"
The defendant that fought his way to the Supreme Court and won; his case makes sure we all have a right to counsel at any step of the criminal process.
Who is Gideon?
The criminal legal term for sexual assaults in MN.
What is criminal sexual conduct?
The name of the man accused of 1st degree murder in the death of two Little Falls teens in 2012.
Who is Byron Smith?