Supreme Court Cases
A Supreme Court case in 1963 involving a judge violating a person's Sixth amendment right. He denied the person's right to an attorney without charge. Supreme Court ruled in the man's favor and required the judge to provide the man with a judge free of charge.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
An unidentified serial killer. He killed five women in 1888. Police suspected that the killer might be a butcher, surgeon, or someone skilled with a scalpel.
What is Jack the Ripper?
Our right of freedom of speech, press, petition, assembly, and religion
What is the 1st amendment?
How many Court of Appeals does the state of Texas have?
14
What job is the hardest to keep in the legal system?
What is a Supreme Court Justice?
A Supreme Court case in 1803 involving the Congress given the ability to "strike down" laws on the grounds that they are unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
A pharmacist who turned a hotel into a murder castle. He built the hotel with gas lines, secret passageways, trapdoors, hallways leading to dead ends, chutes to a basement, soundproof padding, and torture devices. He knocked out his guests with gas, tortured them to death, burned their bodies, sold their bodies to medical schools. He commited 30 murders. He was hung in 1896.
What is H.H. Holmes?
Our right to bear arms
What is the 2nd amendment?
A big crime that is punishable by prison and/or fine
What is a felony?
The 2 types of lawyers
What is Prosecute and defense lawyers?
A Supreme Court case in 1857 involving the result saying Congress could not prohibit slavery in territories and African Americans could not sue in federal court.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
A construction worker during day but a child birthday clown at night. He killed 33 CHILDREN! He was convicted of rape, torture, abduction, and murder. He was given the lethal injection in 1994.
What is John Wayne Gacy?
Our right to refuse the quartering of soldiers in our homes.
What is the 3rd amendment?
A small/minor crime punishable by jail time and/or a fine
What is a misdemeanor?
3 things that a person might object to in court. Object as in "I object!"
A Supreme Court case in 1954 involving the overturning of Plessy v. Ferguson. When this case overturned Plessy, it laid down the ground for the Civil Rights movement and integration across the country.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
A doctor who killed 250 of his patients in the years 1972 through 1998. He wasn't suspected of murder until he tried to put himself in one of his patients wills. He was convicted of murder in 2000 and commited suicide in 2004.
What is Dr. Death (Harold Shipman)?
Our protection against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the 4th amendment?
This court allows the complex cases to be sped up in the system.
What is Multidistrict Litigation Panel?
True or false?
The federal court system is part of the Judicial Branch?
False
It is separate from everything else.
A Supreme Court case in 1973 involving the result that states can ban abortion towards the end of the pregnancy in order to insure the safety of the woman and/or fetus.
What is Roe v. Wade?
18 year old male who killed 17 people. Mostly young men of color. He ate some of his victims hearts. He started killing in 1978 and got arrested in 1991. Served time in prison twice. Once for molestation and once for murder. He was killed by a fellow prison mate.
What is Jeffrey Dahmer?
Rights retained by people
What is the 9th amendment?
A criminalist who is called to give their side of the story during a trial.
What is an expert witness?
Except for the city and Supreme court, name 3 levels of courts.
What is County court, State court, and District court?