Searches & Seizures
This doctrine allows evidence visible to an officer in a legal position to be admissible in court.
What is the plain view doctrine?
This case required that suspects in custody be informed of their rights prior to interrogation.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
Probable cause is required for this type of seizure of a person.
What is an arrest?
The right to counsel is found in this amendment to the Constitution.
What is the 6th Amendment?
This clause of the 2nd Amendment has been subject to varying interpretations regarding the regulation of firearms.
What is the militia clause?
The standard required for an officer to conduct a Terry stop and frisk.
What is reasonable suspicion?
A suspect can invoke this right to stop an interrogation at any time.
What is the right to remain silent?
This term describes a brief detention based on reasonable suspicion, not requiring probable cause.
What is a Terry stop?
This case guaranteed the right to an attorney for felony defendants in state courts.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
The standard of scrutiny often applied to evaluate firearm regulations under the 2nd Amendment.
What is intermediate or strict scrutiny?
A search conducted without a warrant is presumed unreasonable unless it falls under one of these specific exceptions.
What are warrant exceptions (e.g., consent, exigent circumstances, plain view)?
This clause of the 5th Amendment prevents a person from being compelled to testify against themselves.
What is the self-incrimination clause?
These documents, signed by a magistrate or judge, authorize an arrest.
What is an arrest warrant?
This case established the standard for ineffective assistance of counsel claims.
What is Strickland v. Washington?
This decision incorporated the 2nd Amendment to the states through the 14th Amendment.
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
This landmark case established the exclusionary rule, barring illegally obtained evidence from being used in court.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
The legal standard determining whether a suspect's confession was coerced.
What is voluntariness?
The constitutional amendment that protects against excessive bail and unreasonable detention.
What is the 8th Amendment?
This right allows a defendant to confront witnesses against them.
What is the Confrontation Clause?
This case held that the 2nd Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess firearms.
What is District of Columbia v. Heller?
This case ruled that thermal imaging to detect heat patterns in a home constitutes a search under the 4th Amendment.
What is Kyllo v. United States?
This Supreme Court decision held that a suspect’s silence alone cannot be used as evidence of guilt.
What is Doyle v. Ohio?
This case ruled that police cannot extend a traffic stop to conduct a drug dog sniff without reasonable suspicion.
What is Rodriguez v. United States?
This case ruled that pretrial media coverage cannot deny a defendant’s right to a fair trial.
What is Sheppard v. Maxwell?
This federal law prohibits certain individuals, such as felons, from possessing firearms.
What is the Gun Control Act of 1968?