This protection is provided by the Fourth Amendment?
What is the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.
100
When an appellate court agrees with a lower court decision they are said to _______ the ruling.
What is affirm
100
This is a “planned intervention that is intended to change offenders for the better”?
What is rehabilitation
100
This is a major government document which announces important limitations on government authority with respect to the investigation and prosecution of crime?
What is The Bill of Rights/ Constitution
100
This protects offenders by ensuring proportionate and non-arbitrary punishment?
What is criminal law/ Due process
200
This promotes argument, debate, and openness within the court system of the United States?
What is adversarialism/Adversarial process
200
The U.S. Constitution divides governmental authority into these three branches?
What is Executive, Legislative, Judicial
200
The First Amendment literally forbids the abridgement only of this action?
What is speech
200
The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits these two types of punishment?
What is cruel and unusual
200
This amendment is designed to ensure that a person who has been convicted or acquitted of a crime is not tried or punished for the same offense twice?
What is the 6th amendment
300
Ex post facto is a term based on laws enacted in order to retroactively punish behavior. This Latin term means this?
What is After the fact
300
This is the Latin expression for criminal intent?
What is mens rea
300
This Latin term means “evil act” or guilty act, and is one of the core requirements of a crime?
What is actus reus
300
This is the term that refers to cases where a person can be held criminally liable in the complete absence of mens rea?
What is strict liability
300
This type of law criminalizes conduct without the benefit of a trial?
What is a bill of attainder
400
In criminal prosecution, this falls first on the government as the responsibility to provide evidence that a person committed a crime?
What is burden of proof
400
This principle holds that crime does exist, only if a law exists to prohibit the activity.
What is legality
400
This term means that ambiguity in a criminal statute must be interpreted to benefit the defendant.
What is principle of lenity.
400
This is an example of a non-exculpatory defense.
What is Statute of limitations, double jeopardy, entrapment etc.
400
The fourteenth amendment is known as this?
What is the equal protection clause
500
In Iowa, the statute of limitations on murder is this many years?
What is there is no limit
500
An affirmative defense is when a person admits to the crime and
What is raises justification/excuse
500
This is Constitutional principle requiring that laws do not infringe on constitutionally protected behavior
What is void for overbreadth
500
This is based on the fifth and fourteenth amendment and requires that laws be written with sufficient clarity and specificity
What is Void for vagueness
500
This is a system in which the only the powers of the federal
government are those explicitly listed, with the rest reserved for the states.