Law Systems
The 3 branches of the US Government are?
What is Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.
This type of law identifies behaviors that are deemed unacceptable by society and also sets punishments for those behaviors.
What is Criminal Law?
This refers to the first 10 amendments of the constitution.
What is the bill of rights?
Refers to a breach of law and broadly describes criminal or non criminal acts that are punishable under law.
What is offense?
Anything used to commit a crime.
What is Instrumentalities of a crime?
The legislative branch is responsible for?
What is creating laws.
This type of law is written and enacted by Congress, state legislatures, or local governing authorities in response to a perceived need; it includes criminal, civil, administrative, and regulatory laws.
What is Statutory law?
This protects freedom of speech, of the press, and of religion, and the right to peacefully assemble.
What is the First Amendment?
Is any criminal offense committed where the maximum penalty is death or incarceration in a state correctional facility for more than one year.
What is a felony?
Anything that tends to prove or disprove the existence of a fact.
What is evidence?
The executive branch responsible for?
What is enforcing laws.
These are written laws enacted by a municipal or county government.
What are ordinances?
This is best known for prohibiting self-incrimination, it also requires grand jury indictment for capital crimes; prohibits double jeopardy, which prevents a person from being prosecuted for the same crime twice.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
Is any criminal offense that is punishable by a term of imprisonment in a county correctional facility of up to one year.
What is a misdemeanor?
This is documentation of everyone who handled evidence as well as when, why, and what changes, if any, were made to the evidence.
What is the chain of custody?
The judicial branch responsible for what?
What is interpreting the laws?
This type of law is concerned with the legal action that a person takes to resolve a non-criminal dispute with another person, and the courts provide a forum for people to settle these disputes.
What is civil law?
This guarantees a persons right to a speedy and public trial.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
Any benefits gained or obtained by committing the crime.
What is fruits of a crime?
This occurs when an officer examines an area, person, or property for evidence in a place where a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
What is a search?
This is what all 3 branches of government make up.
What is the Federal Government?
This type of law is the body of law formed by the decisions of the court system, which is part of the judicial branch.
What is case law?
This prohibits excessive bails and fines as well as cruel and unnusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
These are the two basic elements, or components, that are necessary to convict a person of a crime?
What is proof that a crime has been committed and proof that the person being charged committed the crime?
These are the 3 types of evidence.
What is physical evidence, testimonial evidence, and documentary evidence.