Constitutional Amendments
Crime Control/Due Process
Landmark Court Decisions
Search and Seizure
Legal Terminology
100

This Amendment guarantees the right to free speech.

What is the First Amendment?

100

Follows "assembly line" metaphor

What is the Crime Control Model?

100

This 1966 court decision established rights that suspects have during questioning by law enforcment.

What is Miranda V. Arizona?

100

The document required for the government to look in or take something from a residence or building. 

What is a search warrant?

100

Latin for "the guilty mind"

What is Actus Reus?

200

This Amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizure.

What is the Fourth Amendment?

200

Follows the "Obstacle Course" Metaphor

What is the Due Process Model?


200

The case Silverthorne Lumber Co. V United States created this doctrine.

What is the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree?

200

Exigent Circumstances

What is a search warrant exception?

200

The term for an "arrest warrant" when it is returned by a Grand Jury.

What is a True Bill?

300

This Amendment guarantees the right to a public trial.

What is the Sixth Amendment?

300

Puts emphasis on legal guilt

What is the Due Process Model?

300

This Supreme Court decision created the Exclusionary Rule.

What is Weeks V. United States?

300

The area of land next to or immediately surrounding a residence or building.

What is Curtilage?


300

In the criminal court system, this type of proceeding is held to determine if probable cause for the arrest existed at the time of the arrest. It occurs after the initial appearance and before the trial.

What is a Preliminary Hearing?

400

This Amendment guarantees protection against self incrimination.

What is the Fifth Amendment?

400

Puts emphasis on factual guilt

What is the Crime Control Model?

400

This Supreme Court decision applied the Exclusionary Rule to the States.

What is Mapp V. Ohio?


400

What doctrine states that a search warrant to search a vehicle when probable cause exists.

What is the Carroll Doctrine?

400

When a defendant enters a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to a lesser charge in exchange for a more lenient sentence.

What is a plea bargain?

500

This Amendment guarantees the right to due process.

What is the Fourteenth Amendment?

500

Created the Crime Control Model

Who is Herbert L. Packer?

500

This Supreme Court decision determined that federal standards should be utilized when determining if the Exclusionary Rule applies.

What is Ker V. California?

500

On a scale of 0 to 100, this is the level you could consider 50 percent.

What is Probable Cause?

500
This stage of the jury selection process is when judges and attorneys question potential jurors.
What is Voir Dire?