Bill of Rights
Which amendment guarantees protections against self-incrimination?
What is Amendment V
Murder, rape, and robbery all fall under what branch of modern law?
What is Substantive Law
_____________, are serious crimes (e.g., rape, murder, burglary, kidnapping) where the punishment can be death or a long period (at least a year) of incarceration in a state-run prison.
What are Felonies
This type of offense is evil or wrong in itself
What is Mala in se offense
This landmark SCOTUS case addressed illegal searches and seizures.
What is Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
What Amendment guarantees protections from Illegal Searches and Seizures?
What is the 4th Amendment?
American Substantive Criminal Law can trace its roots back to the Common Law of this country:
What is England
Crimes that are motivated by bias toward a particular race, religion, ethnicity, or sexuality are known as ___________________.
What are Hate Crimes
This is the legal element that the prosecution must prove that the guilty act has caused.
What is Harm
The reading of a suspects Constitutional rights, prior to a custodial interrogation comes from this landmark case in 1966?
What is Miranda v. Arizona
Which Amendment provides the right to a speedy trial?
What is the 6th Amendment
The Supremacy Clause can be found in this Article of the Constitution:
What is Article VI
If the act is “wrong in itself,” it is considered a ___________ offense.
What is a Mala in se Offense
What is the Latin term for the guilty act?
What is Actus reus
Which U.S. Supreme Court case was responsible for the creation of the exclusionary rule?
What is Weeks v. US (1914)
This Amendment provides protection against excessive bail?
What is the 8th Amendment
A substantive criminal law that is vague or arbitrary can be deemed void by which branch of government?
What is the Judicial Branch
Most so-called “victimless crimes” are ____________________ offenses.
What are Mala Prohibita Offenses
These offenses are only illegal because the government says that they are.
What are Mala Prohibita offenses.
The 1984 U.S. Supreme Court case U.S. v. Leon established ________.
What is the Good Faith exception
This Amendment restates the Due Process Clause as well as makes the Constitution and Bill of rights applicable to the states:
What is the 14th Amendment
Which part of the law specifies the methods to be used in enforcing substantive law?
What is Procedural Law
Things like petty thefts, simple assault, disorderly conduct, and public drunkenness are relatively non-serious crimes classified as _______________, which are usually only punishable by fine and imprisonment in a local jail for a period of less than a year.
What are Misdemeanors
This crime element connects the criminal intent (Mens Re) with the guilty act ( Actus Reus)?
What is Concurrence
This landmark case established that the police could stop, frisk, and question a person on the grounds of a reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity
What is Terry v. Ohio