Constitutional Law
This document established the 3 branches of government and protects certain rights of U.S. citizens.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Reasonable grounds to make a search and an arrest.
What is probable cause?
Law enforcement, courts, and corrections.
What is the Criminal Justice System?
The Police Chief of Guam.
Who is Stephen Ignacio?
The permanent laws of Guam relating to and in force in Guam.
What is the Guam Code Annotated?
Legislative, executive, and judicial.
What are the three branches of government?
Is punishable by up to 364 days in jail.
What is a misdemeanor?
The party in a criminal trial who has the obligation to prove its allegations.
Who is the prosecution?
The Director of the Department of Corrections.
Who is Joe Carbullido?
Title 9 of Guam Code Annotated.
What is Crimes and Corrections?
The amendment that ensures equal protection of the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The most serious type of crime that sentences to 1 or more years in prison.
What is a felony?
Violation of a law of a city or a town.
What is ordinance?
The Office that represents the Government of Guam and the people of Guam.
What is the Office of the Attorney General of Guam?
Part of the GCA that outlines the Criminal Procedures followed in Guam.
What is Title 8?
This clause is found in both the 5th and 14th Amendments in the U.S. Constitution.
What is Due Process Clause?
The legal standard of proof needed to affirm a conviction.
What is beyond a reasonable doubt?
A politically defined geographical area where you have the authority to work.
What is Jurisdiction?
Year the Organic Act of Guam was signed into law.
What year is 1950?
The personnel rules and regulations of all Guam governmental agencies.
What is the Guam Administrative Rules and Regulations?
The most recently appointed associate justice in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Amy Coney Barrett?
The standard used to conduct a stop and frisk.
What is reasonable suspicion?
A measure of the incidence of crime expressed as the number of crimes per unit of population or some other base.
What is crime rate?
In the line of succession, the person who assumes power when both the Governor and Lt. Governor are absent?
Who is the Speaker of the Guam Legislature?
The office responsible for the publishing and updating of the Guam Code Annotated.
What is the Compiler of Laws?