The Constitution
This article of the Constitution deals with the executive branch.
What is Article II?
After a president nominates a Supreme Court judge, this group has to vote in favor before the justice is appointed.
Who is the Senate?
Search and seizure cases are based upon this amendment.
What is the 4th Amendment?
These are the facilities where people are held while awaiting trial or for sentences of two years or less.
This is a civil wrongdoing, or the basis of a suit.
This was the first constitution of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Immigration courts do not include a guarantee of this, which is guaranteed in criminal courts by the Sixth Amendment.
What is the right to a lawyer?
Airport screenings are part of this category of searches.
What are suspicionless searches?
This is the term that refers to putting someone in prison to remove them from society and/or protect the public.
What is incapacitation?
This is the process through which appeals courts rule on the constitutionality of legislative or executive actions.
What is judicial review?
An amendment to the Constitution requires a ______ % majority in Congress as well as ratification from ________ of the states.
What is 2/3 and 3/4?
This is the burden of proof for a civil judgment.
What is preponderance of the evidence?
This case established the precedent allowing for patdowns for weapons with reasonable suspicion.
What was Terry v. Ohio?
These often mandate treamtent programs and ongoing testing.
What are drug courts?
This was mandated as part of police practice a 1966 SCOTUS ruling based upon the 5th and 6th Amendments.
What is the Miranda Warning?
Presidents issue an average of 269 of these during their time in office, despite the fact that they are not mentioned explicitly in the Constitution at all.
What are executive orders?
If a Supreme Court decision is not unanimous, a justice from the minority explains their legal rationale in this written document.
What is the dissenting opinion?
This is the location or context where we have the greatest 4th Amendment protection.
What is our home?
In 2010, the Suprme Court said this could not be applied to minors unless convicted of a homicide.
What is a life without parole sentence?
This legal rule is the basis of the motion to suppress we saw part of in court.
What is the exclusionary rule?
This is part of Article 6 of the Constitution and prevents states from passing laws that contraict the Constitution.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This type of court only has jurisdiction over misdemenors lower-level felonies.
What are tribal courts?
These are sometimes issued when police argue that evidence is likely to be destroyed.
What are no-knock warrants?
Vermont is party to a contract that means this group is housed in our prisons.
Who are ICE detainees?
This is a crime that does not require mens rea for conviction.
What is a strict liability offense?