4th Amendment
5th Amendment
6th Amendment
Evidence in Court
Forensic Databases
100

What is the 4th Amendment?

This amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.

100

What is the 5th Amendment?

This amendment provides five key protections to citizens.

100

What is the 6th Amendment?

This amendment protects the rights of the accused in criminal prosecutions.

100

This type of evidence directly proves a fact without need for inference.

What is direct evidence?

100

This FBI-run database stores fingerprint information.

What is IAFIS (Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System)?

200

To get a warrant, the government must show this level of suspicion.

What is probable cause?

200

This protection prevents a person from being tried twice for the same crime.

What is double jeopardy?

200

This right ensures that trials are conducted promptly and openly.

What is the right to a speedy and public trial?

200

This type of evidence requires inferences to be made about what occurred at a crime scene.

What is circumstantial or indirect evidence?

200

This database, run by the FBI, stores DNA profiles.

What is CODIS (Combined DNA Index System)?

300

This rule excludes evidence obtained through illegal searches.

What is the exclusionary rule?

300

This right allows a person to refuse to answer questions that might incriminate them.

What is the right against self-incrimination?

300

This right allows the accused to question witnesses against them.

What is the right to confront witnesses?

300

This factor determines the strength of evidence based on its ability to prove something in court.

What is probative value?

300

This network, run by the ATF, stores ballistics information.

What is NIBIN (National Integrated Ballistics Information Network)?

400

This 1928 case involved wiretapping without a warrant.

 What is Olmstead v. United States?

400

These rights inform suspects of their constitutional protections during arrest.

What are Miranda Rights?


400

This right ensures that the accused has legal representation.

What is the right to counsel?

400

This type of witness has special knowledge or skills beyond that of an average person.

What is an expert witness?

400

This database, maintained by the RCMP, stores automotive paint data.

What is PDQ (Paint Data Query)?

500

Under this doctrine, information voluntarily given to third parties isn't protected.

What is the Third Party Doctrine?

500

This process requires the government to follow fair procedures before depriving someone of life, liberty, or property.

What is due process?

500

This right ensures that the jury is unbiased in a criminal trial.

What is the right to an impartial jury?

500

This 1993 ruling made judges "gatekeepers" for admitting scientific evidence.

What is the Daubert ruling?

500

This privately run database is used nationally by law enforcement for shoeprint analysis.

What is SICAR (Shoeprint Image Capture and Retrieval)?

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