Freedom of Speech
Punishing citizens for what they say almost always is
What is unconstitutional?
This Amendment of the U.S. Constitution deals with the category of "searches and seizures".
What is the 4th Amendment?
The Fourth Amendment guarantees citizens the right to go about their business free of __________ interference by the police.
What is unreasonable?
______ statements are considered unreliable because even an innocent person may confess when the pressures become unbearable.
What are coerced?
This Amendment deals with United States citizens' right to counsel.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
Mute conduct intended to communicate a message that is likely to be understood by those who view it is called
What is symbolic speech?
The 4th Amendment language regulates _________ detentions and arrests.
What is investigatory?
The Fourth Amendment recognizes two classes of seizures: _________ _____ and arrests.
What is investigatory stops?
Constitutional restrictions on the admission of confessions are designed to ensure that confessions are _______ and _________.
What is voluntary and trustworthy?
Counsel is necessary to avoid ____ convictions.
What is unjust?
Police are free to apply the general laws of the community (i.e., noise, traffic, trespass, disorderly conduct, breach of the peace, etc.) to persons engaged in speech because these laws advance important community interests that are unrelated to
What is suppressing the content of the speech?
A search occurs when police intrude on a suspect's _________ __________ __ _________.
What is reasonable expectation of privacy?
There are three categories of police-individual interactions: ________ ________, investigatory stops, and arrests.
What is voluntary encounters?
This interrogation phase begins when police officers place a suspect under formal arrest or take a suspect into custody
What is custodial?
This amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees a fair trial.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Material whose "dominant theme taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest" of the "average person, applying contemporary community standards."
What is obscene speech?
A seizure occurs when police interfere with a suspect's possessory _____ in _______.
What is rights in property?
The purpose of a ____ ____ is to enable the police to investigate the underlying suspicion as quickly as possible.
What is a Terry stop?
Two factors combine to determine when Miranda warnings are necessary. These factors are ________ and ___________.
What is custody and interrogation?
During this year the Sixth Amendment was ratified
What is 1791?
The First Amendment protects speech advocating violence or other unlawful actions unless that speech is: (name one of the three)
What is:
1. directed towards inciting unlawful actions;
2. the unlawful action is likely to occur; and
3. such action is imminent?
Name one of the four categories of objects police may use as evidence
What is: fruits of a crime, instrumentalities of its commission, contraband, or other evidence of its commission?
When an officer activates lights and siren and stops a vehicle, the motorist has been seized through submission to the officer's show of _____ _________.
What is legal authority?
Where life may hang in the balance or the safety of police officers or the public may be in jeopardy, no Miranda warning need be given until the emergency circumstances have been resolved. This is known as the _____ ______ _________.
What is the "public safety" exception?
There is no Sixth Amendment right to appointed counsel in subsequent appeals or _____ _____ proceedings, but defendants have a due process right to an attorney if they can afford to hire one. (Hint: the term derives from Medieval Latin, literally meaning "let you have the body", and in context meaning "[we, a Court, command] that you have the body [of the detainee brought before us].")
What is habeas corpus?