Constitutional Issues
Voting Process
Crimes
Criminal Procedure
Miscellaneous
100
OUPD pulls you over for a speeding ticket on OU property, they smell marijuana emanating from your car and demand that you open your trunk.
What is a violation of the 4th amendment?
100
The number of electoral votes Oklahoma has?
What is 7?
100
Name the crime: Mary ran into her friend susan's house through an open back door and ate all of her food.
What is trespass and possibly larceny?
100
Name the process a prosecutor uses when they are uncomfortable declining to file or filing charges?
What is a grand jury?
100
Name the defense: Joe threatens to kill Laura's son if she does not burn down his neighbor's house (no one is inside).
What is Duress? (if Laura had killed someone, duress is no longer a defense)
200
OUPD pulls you over for speeding, smells marijuana and sees a baggy of marijuana in the front seat of your car and searches your vehicle.
What is constitutional as it is in plain view?
200
The number of electoral votes needed to win the presidential election
What is 270?
200
Name the crime: Mary ran into Susan's house through her open back door and set fire to her curtains.
What are burglary and arson?
200
Name the burden of proof in a criminal case.
What is beyond a reasonable doubt?
200
Name the crime: Joe is an accountant for a big firm and learns by overhearing his boss, that Google is about to purchase all the assets of Facebook and Twitter. Joe tells his roommate about it knowing the roommate will trade on the information.
What is insider trading (this is the misappropriation theory-Joe had a fiduciary relationship with his employer not to reveal this info and he knew or should have known his roommate would trade on it.)
300
OUPD stops you as you are walking across campus and asks you what you are up to because you look suspicious. You say you weren't doing anything at all. The officer laughs and says yeah sure---so you tell him you are smuggling some pot back to the dorm. The officer arrests you and you argue the officer failed to .....
What is read you your Miranda rights. (However, the question will be whether the officer was "interrogating" you and whether you were in "custody" at the time. From the facts, it looks like the answer to both of those questions is no so your confession would not be excluded).
300
The total number of electoral votes nationwide?
What is 538?
300
Name the crime: Mary yanks John's cellphone out of his hand while he isnt looking.
What is robbery? She stole it through force, it doesnt matter that he wasnt looking.
300
Name the legal standard a judge uses to issue a search warrant to search someone's home.
What is probable cause? This is lower than a preponderance of the evidence. It is simply evidence that supports a finding that something will be found in furtherance of a crime and why the suspicion is reasonable and its basis.
300
True or false: The US Constitution provides that the popular vote of the nation selects the president.
What is false? (it is all done through the electoral college and theorhetically the electors may become "faithless electors" can be fined or imprisoned according to state law but their vote counts).
400
The name of the rule that precludes a prosecutor from using your confession at trial?
What is the Exclusionary Rule?
400
An event held in June where members of a party (Republican or Democrat) hold a meeting to convince their electoral delegates who the nominee should be for their party.
What is a caucus? (A primary is a secret ballot process similar to a presidential election where ballots are cast for a particular nominee)
400
Name the crime: Mary is working for Home Depot as a Manager and has a company credit card. She uses the company card to make purchases for the store and for each company purchase she makes, she adds one item that she needs for her family.
What is embezzlement?
400
Name the defense: Joe is a convicted felon and unable to possess firearms but is witnessing a robbery in a convenience store and manages to take the gun from the robber's hands.
What is necessity?
400
Identify who selects the president if there is an electoral tie of 269 to 269
What is the House of Representatives? (Each rep gets one vote and it is done by a majority vote in January)
500
OUPD suspects that you are a drug smuggler and places a tracking device on your car without your knowledge. Name the potential constitutional challenge to this...
What is an unreasonable search and seizure without a warrant?
500
Name the term for the day that 14 states hold their primaries on the exact same day.
What is Super Tuesday?
500
Name the crime: Mary hears that her friend John has voted for Trump as is so irrate that she pulls out her handgun she keeps in her purse for protection and shoots him.
What is premeditated murder? Intent can be formed in an instant.
500
Name the defense: Joe is walking out of his house (packing heat) when he encounters someone lunging at him with a knife and screaming he will kill him. Joe shoots the person.
What is justifiable use of force?
500
Name the person who won 20% of the popular vote as an independent in the last 30 years.
Who is Ross Perot? 1992 (ultimately Bill Clinton won beating out George HW Bush)