US Constitution
The supreme law of the land
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Using such force as reasonably necessary, believing you are in danger of death or great harm.
What is self-defense?
What is stare decisis?
Gave seeping new powers to domestic law enforcement and international intelligence agencies
What is the USA Patriot Act?
A personal injury or wrong for which which an action for damages may be brought.
What is a tort?
Guarantees “equal protection under the laws.”
What is the 14th Amendment?
What is 7 years old?
Embezzlement....it is just bad!
What is mala prohibitum?
The government can monitor phone lines and Internet accounts that a terrorist suspect may be using, but it must first get approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court.
What is roving wiretaps?
What is civil law?
A right against forced self-incrimination. A guarantee that all criminal defendants have a fair trial, and. A guarantee that the government cannot seize private property without making a due compensation at the market value of the property.
What is the 5th Amendment?
Police instigating a crime
What is Entrapment?
Life for a life
What is lex talionis?
Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping
What is the USA Freedom Act?
Declares criminal conduct and the punishment; codified.
What is substantive criminal law?
Protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government.
What is the 4th Amendment?
Willing participants
What is consent?
Pure evil
What is mala in se?
What is Lone Wolf?
What is the Bill of Rights?
Guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury, and the right to know who your accusers are and the nature of the charges and evidence against you.
What is the 6th Amendment?
All 16 survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash admitted to cannibalism.
What is necessity?
It wasn't a crime last year when I did it, but now it is and I am going to jail!
What is ex post facto?
These terrorist acts prompted the US government to enact several laws focused on preventing further acts of violence against the US and creating flexibility in the fight to control terrorist activity.
What is September 11, 2001?
Evidence seized in violation of the 4th Amendment and cannot be used in court.
What is the exclusionary rule?