Know Your Rights
This amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This 1954 Supreme Court case held that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
A formal request asking a judge to make a decision or issue an order is called this.
What is a motion?
This civil rights leader was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The person accused of committing a crime in a criminal case is called this.
Who is the defendant?
This amendment protects people against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This 1966 case led to the familiar warning that includes the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney during custodial interrogation.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
This is the legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case.
What is jurisdiction?
This 1967 Supreme Court case struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
At this court proceeding, a defendant is formally informed of the charges and enters a plea.
What is an arraignment?
This amendment protects a person from being compelled to incriminate themselves in a criminal case.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This 1963 case established the right of indigent defendants to appointed counsel in state felony prosecutions.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
An attorney asks about information that has little or nothing to do with an issue in the case. Two words from opposing counsel could stop the questioning.
What is “Objection, relevance”?
This organization, founded in 1909, became heavily involved in litigation challenging racial discrimination and segregation.
What is the NAACP?
A defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for some concession from the prosecution. This is known as what?
What is a plea bargain?
Police generally must have this, supported by probable cause, before searching a person's home.
What is a search warrant?
This 1803 case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This objection challenges testimony when a witness does not have firsthand knowledge of what they're describing.
What is lack of personal knowledge?
She became the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
A jury cannot reach the required agreement on a verdict after deliberating. This is commonly called this.
What is a hung jury?
This constitutional protection generally prevents a person from being prosecuted twice for the same offense after jeopardy has attached.
What is double jeopardy?
In this 1969 case involving students wearing black armbands to school, the Supreme Court recognized that students retain First Amendment rights at school.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
After sustaining an objection, a judge may give the jury this instruction regarding testimony it already heard.
What is to disregard the testimony?
This Black woman became the first Black female federal judge in the United States in 1966.
Who is Constance Baker Motley?
A defendant is found not guilty of robbery. The government generally cannot prosecute that defendant again for the same offense because of this constitutional protection.
What is double jeopardy?