The Amendments
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100
Guarantees the Freedom of Speech and Religion
What is the First Amendement
100
This requires the police to read you your rights before answering certain questions
What is the Miranda Rights
100
The first Ten Amendments to the Constitution are called this
What are the Bill of Rights
100
The number of Justices that sit on the Supreme Court
What is 9
100
Three Men are stuck on a life boat after a ship wreck, they decide to kill and eat one of them based on a lottery. The man who came up with the plan loses, and withdraws his consent. The two men who survived are found guilty of murder
What is Shipwrecked Sailors (I will also accept Dudley and Stevens or laws conflicting with morality)
200
Protects you from unreasonable search and seizure
What is the Fourth Amendment
200
To be considered this requires a deprivation of liberty (one of the two necessary requirements to trigger Miranda)
What is Custody
200
Under this type of fee, the lawyer only gets paid if he/she wins the case
What is a Contingency Fee
200
This is the highest court in the State of New York
What is the Court of Appeals
200
A young woman is followed by a man to her apartment. She is stabbed multiple times. Neighbors yell to the man to stop. He does so, but only for a brief time. He later returns to the apartment and kills her.
What is Kitty Genovese.
300
Protects you from self-incrimination
What is the Fifth Amendment
300
These two factors trigger the Miranda Rights
What are custody and interrogation. (I will also accept custodial interrogation)
300
The theory why an entire apartment building can hear a woman scream for help while she is being stabbed but not doing anything because they feel someone else will is called this
What is the Apathetic Bystander
300
Courts reliance on previous court decisions in similar cases to make a decision on the current case (or your parents making the same rules for you that they did for your older brother/sister)
What is Precedent
300
This case led to the police being required to give five statements prior to asking a defendant about his/her possible involvement in a crime if they wanted to use those statements at trial.
What is Miranda v. Arizona.
400
Gives the Defendant the right to confront the witnesses against them
What is the 6th Amendment
400
These are the two competing interests in custodial interrogation.
What are the police's need to interrogate and the citizens protection against self-incrimination
400
This type of law would state: A person is immune (not punishable) if without compensation or the expectation of compensation, renders emergency care, advice, or assistance at the scene of an emergency, or during transit to a location where professional medical care can be rendered
What is a Good Samaritan Law
400
Encourages trust between lawyer and client because it bars the attorney from telling others what the client has said to them about their case
What is the Attorney-Client Privilege
400
Two teenagers attempt to steal a truck and end up killing the owner of the vehicle. One of the defendants is a 17-year-old who is questioned by the police for over two hours without his parents present. He ends up making statements that are later used to help convict him of the crime.
What is Yarborough v. Alvarado (will also accept case used to describe custodial interrogation)
500
Provides protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment
500
This type of search allows the police to search the area immediately around the arrested person for hidden weapons or evidence that might be destroyed.
What is a search incident to a lawful arrest.
500
After the original Constitution was adopted in 1787 citizens pressured their leaders to add a Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was adopted in this year.
What is 1791.
500
This is balanced against the student's privacy interest, along with reasonableness, in determining if a search should be allowed in a school setting.
What is the school's legitimate interests
500
Two 13-year-old girls are camping in the backyard. According to the girls, a man entered their tent after they were asleep. He was wearing a stocking over his head and shined a flashlight in their eyes and warned them not to look at him. Neither girl was able to describe his face. Based on a state statute, the court allowed the girls to testify while a large screen was placed between the girls and the alleged assailant while each girl was on the witness stand testifying. Also, certain lighting adjustments were made in the courtroom so the screen would enable the alleged assailant to dimly perceive the witnesses, but the witnesses could not see him at all.
What is Coy v. Iowa (will also accept case we used to discuss the 6th Amendment's Right to Confrontation)
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