Amendment of the constitution that requires police to attain a warrant (or the equivalent) in order to search a suspect or a suspect's home.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
100
The three branches of government.
What are legislative, judiciary and executive?
100
When a judge or justice disagrees with the majority's judgment and writes separately, he/she writes a ________.
What is a dissent?
100
When a criminal defense attorney files a "motion to suppress evidence," it's usually based on this rule.
What is the exclusionary rule/fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine?
200
Currently considered the "swing justice."
Who is Justice Kennedy?
200
In order to conduct a search, police must have enough information to reach this standard.
What is probably cause.
200
The U.S. Constitution was adopted in this year.
What is 1787?
200
When a judge or justice agrees with the majority's conclusion but writes a separate opinion with different reasoning, that opinion is called ______________.
What is a concurring opinion?
200
Washington's minor in possession statute allows minors to consume alcohol for ____ purposes.
What is religious?
300
The two justices appointed by President Obama.
Who are Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan?
300
Based on this case, police officers can "pat down" a suspect if they have "reasonable suspicion" that the suspect is armed and dangerous.
What is Terry v. Ohio?
300
Name of the first ten amendments to the constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
The "procedural history" in a case brief includes what information from the case?
What are the events at trial and on appeal?
300
A minor violates Washington's minor in possession statute, not just by consuming alcohol but by _________ in a public place.
What is showing effects of alcohol use?
400
Known as an extreme "textualist."
Who is Justice Scalia?
400
This case held that a school administrator may search a student's purse if that search is justified by the need for school safety.
What New Jersey v. T.L.O.?
400
The First Amendment secures this right.
What is freedom of speech?
400
Article III of the Constitution creates this branch of government.
What is the Judiciary?
400
This case incorporated the exclusionary rule against the states in 1961.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
500
The two justices appointed by George W. Bush.
Who are Justices Alito and Roberts?
500
Safford v. Redding, which held that a school administrator may not conduct a strip search to look for evidence of drug use, applied the precedent set in this case.
What is New Jersey v. T.L.O.?
500
Branch of government that has the power to declare war.
What is Legislative/Congress?
500
Two rationales for the exclusionary rule.
What are deterrence and judicial integrity? (Deter police conduct that violates constitutional rights; preventing courts from being party to law-breaking by police.)
500
In Mapp v. Ohio, the officers told Ms. Mapp the officers told Ms. Mapp they had _________ but they actually did not have one.