Warrants
What amendment discusses warrants?
4th Amendment
How many exceptions to the warrant requirement are there?
Six (6)
The right to remain silent is found in the ________ Amendment. On TV, you will often see it depicted by witnesses on the stand saying “I plead the ______.”
Double Jeopardy, which is unrelated to the hit game show, says that a person cannot be tried more than _______ for the same crime?
Twice
Whose signature needs to be on a warrant?
A Judge
What exception allows police to enter a home without a warrant in situations where there is a risk that someone will be badly injured?
Emergency/Exigent Circumstances
True or False: cops threatening suspects with harsh charges or sentences for remaining silent is constitutional and legal?
False, cops cannot coerce or threaten people to dissuade them from using their right to remain silent.
Due Process states that a the government cannot take away your life, liberty, or property without a _________?
Fair legal proceeding.
Warrants need 3 things,1 is probable cause, what are the other 2?
Specificity & an Oath
The Automobile Exception allows police to search your car if they have _______ _____ that you may have evidence of a crime?
Reasonable Suspicion
The right to remain silent allows a person not to speak, so they do not say anything that may make them look guilty. In other words, it protects agains self __________?
Incrimination
Prosecutors want to increase the sentence that a man in prison received for vehicular manslaughter. The prosecutor begins to prepare to take the man out of prison to stand trial for vehicular manslaughter. This would be __________ under Double Jeopardy rules?
Illegal/not allowed/unconstitutional
What is a short definition of probable cause?
A good reason, evidence, etc.
Police arrest someone and search their person, their backpack, and the desk they were sitting at without a warrant. The evidence was admitted into court. Why was this allowed?
Search Incident to Arrest
________ Warnings are a list of rights, including the right to remain silent, that must be read by cops before questioning someone they have arrested. The reading of these warnings has been popularized on TV in cop shows
Miranda
A woman is tried and found guilty of manslaughter. When her sentencing is held the next day, the judge sentences her to death. She is immediately taken away to death row. This is ______ under Due Process?
Illegal/not allowed/unconstitutional