Chapter 1
You are required to pass this exam after graduation
What is the bar exam?
Requires fundamental fairness in governmental actions and fair procedures during an investigation in court.
What is due process?
Guarantees certain rights to all U.S citizens.
What is the U.S Constitution?
Protects freedom of speech, religion, and press
What is the first amendment?
An agreement between two or more people to commit a crime.
What is conspiracy?
This person prepares the legal documents for an attorney.
What is the job of paralegals?
A less serious crime. It is usually punishable by confinement in a county or city jail for less than one year, by fine, or both.
What is a misdemeanor?
These laws govern day to day life such as leash laws, parking regulations, fence placement, building/zoning codes, noise ordinances, curfews, development restrictions and such.
What is local laws and ordinances/codes?
What is the 26th amendment?
Exists when the accused does not know the difference between right and wrong.
What is the insanity defense?
This is the most severe action of discipline
What is Disbarment?
When an accused person agrees to plead guilty to a less serious crime in exchange for having a more serious charge dropped.
What is a plea bargain?
Expands minimum rights given under the U.S Constitution
What is the New York Constitution?
Established by the Great Compromise of 1787, it is the specific number of senators representing each individual U.S state.
What is two?
Freedom from prosecution, even when one has committed the crime charged.
What is immunity?
This fee is negotiable
What is the retainer agreement?
Offenses in the business world
What is a white-collar crime?
Created to draft and enforce rules that carry out the written laws by the government.
What are federal agencies?
What is the minimum age a person must be in order to be eligible for President.
What is 35?
The wrongful taking of property of money or personal property belonging to someone else with intent to deprive the owner of possession.
What is larceny?
The meaning of contingency fees
What is "You don't pay unless we win"
Obtaining money or property by lying, victim parts with the property voluntarily
What is false pretenses?
Case or issue decided by a court that can be used to help answer future legal questions.
What is a precedent?
The requirement under the 4th amendment that police must meet before they can legally obtain a search warrant from a judge.
What is probable cause?
A defense based on problems with the way evidence is obtained or the way the accused person is arrested, questioned, tried, or punished.
What is procedural defense?