Rights that are similar to the constitutional rights, but are offered by the states?
What are parallel rights?
100
This means that the grounds imeediately surrounding a home are not considered open fields
What is curtilage?
100
A constitutional command since 1868 that protects people from being investigated, apprehended, convicted, and punished unreasonably.
What is equal protection?
100
A doctrine that was in place until 1967, that meant officers had to physically invade a constitutionally protected area.
What is the tresspass doctrine?
100
Washington, Madison, Hancock
Who were three key members of the constitutional convention?
200
A decision by the Supreme Court to hear an appeal from a lower court.
What is certiorari?
200
One of the three questions for analyzing the 4th amendment.
Was the law enforcement a search or seizure?
200
the supreme law of the land.
What is the constitution?
200
First ten amendments
What is the bill of rights?
200
the idea that constitutions adeopted by the people are the highest form of law.
What is constitutionalism?
300
This forces courts to throw out good evidence that was obtained with bad methods.
What is the exclusionary rule?
300
Popular Sovereignty, Limited Government, Judicial Review, Federalism, Checks and Balances, Separation of Powers
What are the six major principles of the constitution?
300
Pre-dated the constitution and resulted in a weak federal government.
What are the articles of confederation?
300
Based on the Bill of Rights and provides rules the government must follow to:Detect and investigate crimes, Apprehend suspects, Prosecute and convict defendants, Punish criminals
What is the law of criminal procedure?
300
Defined 14th Amendment due process as applying specific provisions of the Bill of Rights to state criminal procedures.
What is the incorporation doctrine?
400
In the 1960s, the Warren Court tilted the balance toward process and individual rights
What is the due process revolution?
400
27
What is the number of amendments to the constitution?
400
a United States Supreme Court decision which held that recording conversations using concealed radio transmitters worn by informants does not violate the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and thus does not require a warrant.
What is US v White?
400
a United States Supreme Court case that ruled that a defendant's involuntary confession that is extracted by police violence cannot be entered as evidence and violates the Due Process Clause.
What is Brown v Mississippi?
400
a United States Supreme Court decision which determined that in a capital trial, the defendant must be given access to counsel upon his or her own request as part of due process.
What is Powell v Alabama?
500
a landmark case in criminal procedure, in which the United States Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures," may not be used in criminal prosecutions in state courts, as well as federal courts.
What is Mapp v Ohio?
500
a 2010 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals case regarding the use of GPS devices. The court ruled that a placing a GPS tracking device a personal vehicle without a warrant did not violate a suspect's Fourth Amendment rights, even if the vehicle was parked in the defendant's driveway at the time the device was placed.