Know Your Rights
Which amendment protects freedom of speech?
What is the First Amendment.
Which New England state is it illegal to drive with a gorilla in the back seat?
A. Massachusetts
B. Vermont
C. Rhode Island
What is Massachusetts
Whjat state first created a public registry for certain repeat domestic violence offenders?
A. Tennessee
B. Maine
C.Montana
Tennessee
The registry, created under Savanna’s Law, takes effect Jan. 1 and applies to people convicted of domestic violence offenses at least twice. It is named after Savanna Puckett, a Robertson County sheriff’s deputy who was found shot to death inside her burning home in 2022.
Puckett, 22, died at the hands of her ex-boyfriend James Jackson Conn, who pleaded guilty to first-degree premeditated murder, among other charges, and is serving a life sentence.
Driving is a privilege, not a right in the United States.
True.
Someone slips on a wet floor at Target.
Civil
Which amendment gives Americans the right to bear arms?
What is the Second (2nd) Amendment.
Which State has no Statewide sales tax?
A. Virgina
B. Delaware
C. New York
What is Delaware.
What do you call AI-generated videos that make people appear to say or do things they never did?
What is Deepfakes
Most criminal cases end with a jury trial.
False.
Some end with the judge making the decision (Bench Trial) or ends in a plea bargain.
Someone steals a car.
Criminal
Which amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures?
What is the Fourth (4th) Amendment.
Which State requires nearly all motorcycle riders to wear a helmet?
A. Florida
B. Texas
C. New York
What is New York
The current trial of Lindsay Clancy in Mass. case has raised questions about what legal issue? (Hint she also used this as her defense)
What is Mental Illness and Criminal Responsiblity.
Clancy is not disputing that she carried out the killings, but has pleaded not guilty to murder charges. Her defence argues that Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she took her children's lives.Her symptoms included hallucinations and delusions that began after the birth of her third child.
Prosecutors, meanwhile, alleged she made a calculated decision to intentionally kill her children - Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, who was eight months.
Deleting stuff (like photos, text, etc) means police can never recover it.
False
A drunk driver crashes into another vehicle injuring someone.
Both - Civil and Criminal
Which amendment gives you the right to remain silent?
What is the Fifth (5th) Amendment.
It is illegal to kill Big Foot if found and caught. The person will go to jail with a charge of murder.
A. Washington
B. Colorado
C. Oregon
What is Colorado
In Albany, a man plead guilty to identity theft and another crime for stealing over $4 million from his employer. What is the crime?
A. Theft
B. Burglary
C. Grand Larceny
What is Grand Larceny.
He began using the company’s fuel/fleet cards for unauthorized purchases of gift cards and exchanging the cards for crack cocaine. He also issued checks to himself from the company’s accounts to acquire money he was not authorized or entitled to have.
You can sue someone even if they were never arrested.
True.
A company selling dangerous productg that injures customers.
What amendment guarantees a lawyer in criminal prosecutions.
What is the Sixth (6th) Amendment.
In what state can you not take pictures of rabbits in the month of June?
A. West Virgina
B. Wyoming
C. Wisconsin
What is Wyoming.
The death of Nolan Wells who went missing July 4th and body wasn't found until July 6th. The group of 4 other boys that was with Nolan and with seen alive will be charged with murder. But what degree of murder?
A. First Degree
B. Second Degree
C. Third Degree/ Manslaughter
If charged... Second Degree Murder
On 4 July, Wells, an 18-year-old Mississippi college freshman, and a group of friends took a boat out to Horn Island, a barrier island a few miles off the Mississippi Gulf coast.
Wells’s friends, his phone and his keys returned that day; he did not. Instead, after a missing person search that received national attention, his body was found on the island on 6 July.
Prosecutors wait months before making an arrest in a major case because they only have one shot of charging the person.
True - prosecutors want to make sure they have all their evidence, waiting for forensic results, witnesses because once they are found guilty or not...you cant change them again due to DOUBLE JEOPODY.
Not doing your civic duty to serve on a jury when called.
Criminal - You can serve up to 2 years in jail.