Famous Cases
This court case overturned the separate but equal doctrine and desegregated public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This is who appoints members to the supreme court.
Who is the President of the United States?
These are the two types of cases in the justice system.
What are criminal and civil?
There are 12 of these people during a court case.
What are jury members?
Named after the mallow flower, mauve is a shade of this.
What is purple?
This case created the basis for judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This Latin phrase, meaning to present the body, is a writ required by authorities to justify detaining a person.
What is Habeas Corpus?
What is original jurisdiction?
Police must have this to search private property or persons.
What is a search warrant or probable cause?
He was the lead singer of the band "The Police" and then starred in the 1984 version of the film Dune.
Who is Sting?
This Amendment grants broad protections to citizens by disallowing state or federal laws the infringe on individual rights.
What is the 14th amendment?
What is Libel and Slander?
There are nine of these members.
What is the Supreme Court?
Ex post facto is a latin phrase that means this for the justice system.
What is "you cannot be charge retroactively for a doing something that wasn't a crime when you did it."
Also known as Hansen's disease, this long term infection has been feared since biblical times for its ability to cause the afflicted to lose sensation and the slow decay of the body.
What is leprosy?
The 7th amendment protects your right to what in a criminal trial?
What is a jury?
This is the power held by the court to determine if something is allowed by the constitution.
What is judicial review?
This person is the law enforcement officer in the court room.
What is a bailiff?
These are the qualifications needed to become a Supreme Court Justice.
What is none?
This verb refers to pressing wheels of cheese on top of each other to get rid of excess liquid and make the cheese more durable AND taste better.
What is cheddaring?
The fifth amendment gives these rights. name 2
What is: right to due process, self-incrimination, private property, grand jury trial, and double jeopardy?
this means returning a criminal suspect back to the state/country in which the crime was committed.
What is extradition?
Appellate Courts deal with these.
What are appeals?
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
The Winter's tale by William Shakespeare feature an infamous stage direction that requires what animal to cross the stage and pursue the actors.
What is a bear?