The Rule of Law 1
A penal sanction has the goal of changing an offender’s behavior and, perhaps, personality
What is Treatment
The standard of proof that law enforcement officers must have before a magistrate or other specified judicial officer can legally issue a search or an arrest warrant?
What is Probable Cause.
In which case did the Supreme Court first abandon its fixed, historical meaning of the concept of “cruel and unusual punishment” and create a new one?
Weems v. United States
Which amendment protects an offender from compelled self-incrimination?
The Fifth Amendment.
In which law is the term “precedent” used?
What is Case Law.
In which case did the Supreme Court rule that police may search the passenger compartment of a vehicle incident to a recent occupant’s arrest only if it is reasonable to believe that the arrestee might access the vehicle at the time of the search or that the vehicle contains evidence of the offense of arrest?
What is Arizona v. Gant
Which amendment involves the exclusionary rule?
What is the 4th Amendment.
What created the crime of “domestic terrorism”?
What is The USA PATRIOT Act
Law created from discussions made by judges?
What is Common Law.
Case that created an “inevitable discovery” exception to the exclusionary rule?
Nix v. Williams
In the context of the U.S. Constitution, the _____ protects individual privacy against certain types of governmental interference.
What is the 4th Amendment.
The principle of using precedents to guide future decisions in court cases is called _____.
What is Stare Decisis.
Under the leadership of this Chief Justice, the supreme Court selectively incorporated most of the procedural safeguards contained in the Bill of Rights and made them applicable to the states?
Who is Earl Warren.
In which case did the Supreme Court, for the first time, establish standards for what constitutes “ineffective assistance of counsel”?
Strickland v. Washington.
______ means conducting a search for weapons by patting the outside of a suspect’s clothing, feeling for hard objects that might be weapons.
What is Frisking
In the context of the general types of penal sanctions, making it a crime or traffic violation to operate a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol content higher than a specified level is an example of ______.
What is Regulation.
The Bill of Rights guarantee that has not been extended to the states?
What is the right to a grand jury indictment in felony cases
In which case/ was the Eighth Amendment prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment” extended to trials in state courts?
Robinson v. California
In the context of the U.S. Constitution, the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial would be violated only if?
A trial is held in a closed judge’s chambers against a defendant’s wishes.
A violation of the civil law is called a(n) ______.
What is a Tort.