Case Law Holdings/Analysis
When evaluating the actions of a police officer, don't use this kind of hindsight.
What is 20/20
Men repeatedly walking down the same street, looking into store windows caught the attention of a police officer with 39 years of experience in this landmark Supreme Court case
What is Terry v. Ohio? (the Stop and Frisk case)
Incapacitation, Deterrence, Retribution, Rehabilation
What are the alleged purposes of the criminal legal system?
The lyrics one of our teams sang during their presentation
________is a discipline, a quote by Mariame Kaba
What is hope is a discipline?
Police need to articulate this before they stop and frisk a person.
What is reasonable suspicion? (Terry v. Ohio holding)
In this case, the Maryland Legislature subsituted a right for a crime
What is Bell v. Maryland?
Abolitionists want to change this
What is everything?
The legal theory stating that a person is criminally liable for consequences of any agreed upon criminal act
What is accountability theory?
Several teams propose to abolish this contributor to mass imprisonment
What is truth in sentencing?
An immediate threat to the safety of officers or others
What is the most important legal factor in evaluating the consitutionality of an officer's use of violence? (Graham v Conner)
In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court subsituted a crime for a right.
What is Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
The Courts give police officers leeway because they have to make these kind of judgements
What is split second?
Access to educational programming in custody fulfills this purpose of the criminal legal system
What is rehabilitation?
In your instructor's favorite Supreme Court decision, the concurrence describes this as a relic of slavery.
What are the Black Codes?
Hacking a tree with a large knife vs standing in the yard with a kitchen knife
In Kisela (QI case), how do the majority and dissent describe the facts differently?
Anything that prevents a person from reaching their full potential
What is violence?
Why people were shoplifting in Columbus, what resources did the community need, how much violence would result from stop and frisk policing?
The questions an abolitionist would ask before analyzing this case
Right to control your own future
What is one benefit of providing college access to people in custody?
In order to have a due process right to parole, the right to parole must be ____________ and the release determination cannot be ____________.
What is mandatory and discretionary.
Shoplifting and drunken antics
What did police officers falsely suspect Mr. Graham of?
Abolition seeks to abolish this, not just the the buildings we call prisons
What is the conditions under which prison became the solution to problems
In Terry v. Ohio, Justice Douglas made this water logged analogy to make the point that the majority was wrong.
What are "hydraulic pressures throughout our history that bear heavily on the Court to water down constitutional guarantees and give the police the upper hand."
This issue presents opportunities to build solidarity between people in custody and the communities directly surrounding the prison
Qualified Immunity
What doctrine protects police officers from lawsuits, unless the law is clearly established?
Terry, Graham and Bell have this in common--the answer is not about race or police violence.
What are property rights?
Giving power to those most directly affected by the harm in create and implement systemic changes
What is an abolitionist solution?
Deliberate indifference
The Eighth Amendment standard for evaluating whether a correctional official violated the constitution
This kind of healing recognizes the interconnectedness of trauma, justice, and systemic oppression
What is politicized healing?